Man Utd vs Galatasary 7:45 Sky Sports 4/RTE 2

cgpg5

kryogen wrote: »

From my first look I think Val is lucky not to be booked?

Will have to watch again

No it looked a defo pen.

But if ref ain't gonna give it surely he should book for (apparent) simulation? Good to see assistants behind goal doing their job as ever

Guy:Incognito

Maybe if Valencia wasnt trying to do his best starfish by spreading his legs as much as possible it might actually look like he is caught to the ref.

Lord TSC

I hope the "United get all the decisions at OT" brigade are watching tonight...

IvySlayer

It didn't even make sense for someone to dive there.

cgpg5

What the hell was that though? He just dived straight in!

Mikeyt086

How is that a pen? Did he untie his laces?

It's another dive and quite frankly I am absolute sick of seeing them.

Kylo Ren

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Maybe if Valencia wasnt trying to do his best starfish by spreading his legs as much as possible it might actually look like he is caught to the ref.

Yeah it was Vals fault there. Yeah.

kryogen

Great ball from Nani

Chancer3001

not a pen or a dive. ref just thinks it was a great tackle despite not getting the ball.

IvySlayer

Keno 92 wrote: »

Yeah it was Vals fault there. Yeah.

Leave me alone :mad:

Lord TSC

Nice pass from Nani.

PhlegmyMoses

Nani has been miles better since the penalty miss. Keep it up.

cgpg5

Chico, if that was two seasons ago!!

Great pass by Nani, credit where its due!

Manc-Red

Oh Unlucky Chico, done everything right there

GreeBo

kryogen wrote: »

Unexpected? He is a striker, its his job to expect it

The ball was played to where he could very easily have hit it first time with his left foot, which is his strongest foot. It would have been a poorer ball for a right footed player but cant see what was wrong with it for RVP.

well as you said yourself at the time

kryogen wrote: »

Played in by an unselfish Nani (who I thought was gonna shoot actually)

no one expects Nani to pass.

Another cast iron peno decision muffed...thank god for those goal line statues.

Giggsy11

Nani has created around 3-4 clear goal scoring chances and still people abuse him for mispasses or losing possession.

Drumpot

The Little Fella wrote: »

All fine and well saying that but that sort of attitude is what left us in the Europa League last season, should be at least competent at retaining the ball and controlling the game.

That sort of attitude got us through many groups and into 3 finals while being able to rest players early season . .

I think every top team aims to peak end of feb - march for the CL . . For big clubs the groups are about nothing more then qualifying, performances count for little . .

How many times have we listened to RTE pundits hammer English clubs early season (United, chelsea, even Arsenal), only for them to get to finals and in some cases win them ?

I wouldnt say Barca fans are ruling out their chances in the CL because they are having trouble finishing off Spartak at home . .

Lord TSC

XD this is comical now. This ref is dreadful.

kryogen

Evans messing about, ****ing tit

Chancer3001

another pen for Gala

IvySlayer

Not a peno, dived into it ffs.

Lord TSC

Chico -_-

Manc-Red

Johnny Evans..... Jesus we got lucky again.

cgpg5

Not Chico's day is an understatement. That is poor

Kylo Ren

This game should of been about 9-6

Donnielighto

Nani been very tidy since the miss, responding very well.

DDC1990

1000 penalties! :P Don't think i've ever see so many fouls in the box!

That was another one. Evans didn't get the ball.

Its fairly evened itself out though.

PhlegmyMoses

Chancer3001 wrote: »

another pen for Gala

Evans clearly got the ball, no?

MagicMarker

Could have been about 6 penos today!

kryogen

GreeBo wrote: »

well as you said yourself at the time


no one expects Nani to pass.

Another cast iron peno decision muffed...thank god for those goal line statues.

Ah, but you see, I am sitting on my couch watching the game

Van Persie is standing in the box playing the game, why bother getting into position if you dont expect the ball to maybe come your way

Drumpot

No mention of fergie time for some reason . .

ankles

Just like last season. A bright ten minutes followed by retreating into the shell, losing midfield and hoping to hang on. Braga will beat us at OT on this performance

DDC1990

Keno 92 wrote: »

This game should of been about 9-6

Nah 9-1... United don't have a penalty taker :P

Manc-Red

Vidic....tonight, has been an absolute colossus.

Nemanja91

Thank god that's over, was horrible to watch.

kryogen

Dire

Absolutely dire performance.

3 points, clean sheet and more game time for people who need it, the return of Fletch etc, draw a line and move on I think

Kerrydude1981

MagicMarker wrote: »

Could have been about 6 penos today!

Been a while since I watched a game with so many penalty incidents
Three points in the bag,piss poor performance.

GreeBo

kryogen wrote: »

Ah, but you see, I am sitting on my couch watching the game

Van Persie is standing in the box playing the game, why bother getting into position if you dont expect the ball to maybe come your way

Ah so you want to have your cake and eat it too. Fair enough.
Why did Nani bother to take the peno if was going to do *whatever that was*.

Over to RTE now...cant take Quinn anymore.

Quandary

Phew!

Even though he was very understandably rusty, I thought Fletcher made us look more solid in the middle.

Poor enough performance for large portions of the match but still, 3 points

NinjaK

Nemanja91 wrote: »

Thank god that's over, was horrible to watch.

thank god for the ol laptop!

Lord TSC

Thank god we won that.

RVP was anonymous. Nani had a good moment or but had a very bad game over all, and the penalty miss was atrocious. Our midfield wasn't supplying the wings, meaning Kagawa and Valencia were having to do too much themselves.

I fear for the Liverpool game at the weekend.

PhlegmyMoses

GreeBo wrote: »

Over to RTE now...cant take Quinn anymore.

Don't bother. Giles just said that he "can't remember Nani doing anything of note" in all of the time he has been at United.

jaykay74

Quandary wrote: »

Phew!

Even though he was very understandably rusty, I thought Fletcher made us look more solid in the middle.

Poor enough performance for large portions of the match but still, 3 points

I thought Fletch was poor tbh.

kryogen

GreeBo wrote: »

Ah so you want to have your cake and eat it too. Fair enough.
Why did Nani bother to take the peno if was going to do *whatever that was*.

Over to RTE now...cant take Quinn anymore.

You genuinely dont get the concept of what a striker is supposed to do on the pitch? Fair enough

Im out

Mikeyt086

Right, summary time.

That was bollox. How rusty can a team look 4 weeks into a season? Van Persie, Valencia, Hernandez all look like they have come back after 6 months out. Nani was woeful until he missed the pen ironically, was good after. Evra was much better. Delighted to see Fletch back.

Michael Carrick was brilliant and by far the man of the match. Shinji played some beautiful stuff also. David De Gea gives another example of why he needs to be #1 end of, he makes saves he has absolutely no right to make, and almost always with the game teetering in the balance.

If we play like that on Sunday the Scoucers will be more than happy to give us a wake up call.

Honestly, we just look so... Sh!t, for lack of a better word. We're getting wins but there is so little consistency and absolutely no cohesion. Worrying.

kryogen

48% possession at home to Galatasaray

jebus

Donnielighto

Teamshadowclan wrote: »

Thank god we won that.

RVP was anonymous. Nani had a good moment or but had a very bad game over all, and the penalty miss was atrocious. Our midfield wasn't supplying the wings, meaning Kagawa and Valencia were having to do too much themselves.

I fear for the Liverpool game at the weekend.

I'd say it was the other way. Nani had two particularly bad moments but was generally good throughout the game.

kryogen

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

Don't bother. Giles just said that he "can't remember Nani doing anything of note" in all of the time he has been at United.

That was the moment I turned off Rte

Drumpot

kryogen wrote: »

Dire

Absolutely dire performance.

3 points, clean sheet and more game time for people who need it, the return of Fletch etc, draw a line and move on I think

Was just about to post the same thing . .

Wonder if Barca looked like CL winners in their 3-2 win tonight ? If Rooney bails United out like Messi did for Barca tonight, people would be going on how much United are useless without Rooney , blah blah blah . .

Not defending Uniteds performance, just putting it into context in comparison with other rivals, none of whom have looked like world beaters on opening day . . (Bayern, Chelsea, Barca, Madrid) .

Felexicon

Jesus the pundits on RTE are dire. Saddlier is the only one with a bit of sense