Manchester United vs Reading Match thread. 16/3/2013 K.O 17.30 ESPN.

CSF

United have been awful

JaMarcus Hustle

This is one of the worst matches I've seen in a long, long time.

Mars Bar

Great stuff from Vida there.
There's no excuse for us being camped in our own half though. We're not in control at all.

Nailz

Man this is one boring game of football, which I suppose is to the credit of Reading. Might hit the sack at this rate.

Cantona's Collars

JaMarcus Hustle wrote: »

This is one of the worst matches I've seen in a long, long time.

It's the 5.30 effect,we never seem to play well when we are on ESPN.

double GG

Finally Buttner injecting a bit of pace.

Rayne Wooney

zerks wrote: »

It's the 5.30 effect,we never seem to play well when we are on ESPN.

It's because of daylight savings time, the players internal clocks are getting ready for the hour lost and that's the reason they look a bit jet lagged. It's fascinating stuff.

Your Airbag

mrkiscool2 wrote: »

Can we all just calm the fcuk down?? United are the better team, and are taking it easy. They don't have to do anything special, they are winning and thats the point. They don't have to sprint to the finish, just remain calm and get the 3 points.

Wtf? Nobody is getting worked up but you. As for UTD taking it easy and not needing to do anything special I disagree. What about professionalisim. Reading could easily nick a goal and shut up shop. We should have come racing out of the blocks and killed the game off in the first twenty mins. Instead we looked jaded and disinterested. The work rate is poor also.

If I was a paying customer I would be expecting this to be one of the games where the UTD forwards can fill their boots against a poor side and get a four or five goal haul. I would at least expect desire and hard work. Right now we are getting neither.

Mars Bar

Noel Hunt loves to get injured so he can strip off in front of the crowd!

Kylo Ren

I'll with the 'they're just playing shit' theory.

Professional Griefer

Yay, big Mike.

adox

What a ****e game this is.

Kylo Ren

Mars Bar

As much as I love Smalling and all, he really doesn't offer half as much as Rafael does down that wing.

Professey Chin

I want my 76 minutes back

The_Kew_Tour

If this was LOI game nobody would watch it again.

Brutal!!

Mars Bar

It'll be likely that we'll concede one late in the game and the final 5 minutes will be exciting as we try to get a winner. I'd rather this play out as a boring 1-0 in that case.

De Gea? What are you waiting for?!

Red Crow

Vidic's passing out from the back is awful

RikkFlair

Its like a champions league dead rubber

Mars Bar

Great play there

finnharpsboy

a 1-1 draw is 12/1 now

Liam O

A shot? They took a shot!

Will I Amnt

Moment of the match :pac:

The_Kew_Tour

It's fair to say Sky won't be showing this game in years to come as a Classic game of the past.

finnharpsboy

id happily take a **** 1-0 right now thank you very much

Kylo Ren

finnharpsboy wrote: »

id happily take a **** 1-0 right now thank you very much

Not with RVP as your captain you wouldn't!

The_Kew_Tour

finnharpsboy wrote: »

id happily take a **** 1-0 right now thank you very much

Ya won't complain but form is worrying even if we do go 15 points clear. At worst 13

Mars Bar

5 minutes!?

Red Crow

Where the fcuk does 5 minutes come from?

finnharpsboy

its always the same with those lowly placed teams at OT.... they sack there manager, are missing a few players who have caused utd a few worries in the past and we end up scraping through by the odd goal or two... nothing to worry about... another step towards supremecy roll on #20

RVD420

Awful game, worried about RVP. I hope he doesn't do a "Torres" on us.

The_Kew_Tour

I say 4th official must have been asleep too putting 5 minutes up. Can't blame him. Where ref got 5 I'm not sure

Your Airbag

Mars Bar wrote: »

5 minutes!?

This is gonna be a long wait for the ref's whistle

Lord TSC

RVP trying to end it with a flourish...

Mars Bar

Would have been great for RVP to have scored that. Probably had more time than he thought though.

Mars Bar

****e game.

Glad to take the 3 points though.

Professional Griefer

Thank **** thats over.

Not good enough.

RandolphEsq

15 points with only 27 left to play for.

Paul Tergat

****e game but 15 ****ing points. Job done

adox

Worst game of football I've seen all season.

finnharpsboy

adox wrote: »

Worst game of football I've seen all season.

a win is a win is a win

The_Kew_Tour

Delighted to be 15 points ahead. Form a concern though.

shrewdness

RVD420 wrote: »

Awful game, worried about RVP. I hope he doesn't do a "Torres" on us.

Crazy to even suggest that imo. Up until about February he was exceptional for us, he won us a crazy amount of games and points. Torres has never had near that sort of form for Chelsea.

He's just off form, no more, no less, he is mortal after all. I've full confidence he'll be banging them in again soon.

Crap game, wish there were a few more goals, but 15 pts clear, happy days.

Lord TSC

I dread early goals in United games nowadays. No desire to push on and hammer a team anymore. Just score quickly and sit back.

adox

finnharpsboy wrote: »

a win is a win is a win

Indeed it is am I'm delighted with the 3 points.

Still the worst game of football I've seen this season. Utd look as flat as a pancake.

RandolphEsq

adox wrote: »

Indeed it is am I'm delighted with the 3 points.

Still the worst game of football I've seen this season. Utd look as flat as a pancake.

Lack of Kagawa and Carrick was all.

adox

RandolphEsq wrote: »

Lack of Kagawa and Carrick was all.

Mmm I'm not so sure. Carrick of course will always be missed with our lack of options as stand in for him. Kagawa, while I love him as a player and have high hopes for him, has been a bit part player at best this season.

A few have lost a bit of form, look a little leg weary, and Utd seem to be content to try and play in cruise control.

RandolphEsq

adox wrote: »

Mmm I'm not so sure. Carrick of course will always be missed with our lack of options as stand in for him. Kagawa, while I love him as a player and have high hopes for him, has been a bit part player at best this season.

A few have lost a bit of form, look a little leg weary, and Utd seem to be content to try and play in cruise control.

I can't really see them picking up form. The league games are dead rubber at this stage, so it's just the F.A. Cup but that isn't what it used to be to win.

Cantona's Collars

Terrible game of football,Reading were honest but poor & we were dragged down to their level.It was like watching Rep.Ireland playing at times.

We shouldn't be panicking and hoofing the ball out of the area in the dying minutes against the likes of Reading.

RasTa

Sounds like I made the right decision to go snowboarding. Any positives?