Manchester United Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread - 2013/14 mod warning post#7259

Giggsy11

Win against Southampton and WBA at home we would be level on points at the first place, 5 points that we shouldn't have dropped.

Good win but the performance in the second half was like watching Sunderland Vs City. We are little short on confidence so it's sort of understandable. Hopefully we improve on that front.

How Soon Is Now

If that doesnt get Moyes and United going this season nothing will!

Great result fully deserved as well totally stopped arsenals game Jones and Rooney were something else.

Delighted we could prove that no matter what where always gonna be there.

That was Manchester United right there!

Let's kick on now and make sure season starts from here!

Kerrydude1981

We were very comfortable for long periods,which was something I thought we wouldn't be,Ozil and Carzola were kept quiet and when they did get the ball it was in positions that they couldn't do damage with it.

Rayne Wooney

Great result.

Second half performance was one of the worst this season.

We're lucky Arsenal choked, Rooney created the goal but little else and I'm sure that'll kick us a lot during the season especially in the knockouts in Europe

Great work rate from him though getting back.

Timmyctc

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Win against Southampton and WBA at home we would be level on points at the first place, 5 points that we shouldn't have dropped.

Good win but the performance in the second half was like watching Sunderland Vs City. We are little short on confidence so it's sort of understandable. Hopefully we improve on that front.

Evra is such a liability toward the tail end of games its unreal. He goes AWOL far too often. No wonder all the dangerous situations came from crosses on that side. Not a bad result all the same against a team with a Midfield vastly superior than ours

Vic Vinegar

Lucas Hood wrote: »

Thought Jones was brilliant today in Cm & Cb. Good to see.

Agreed, he was great. Really got stuck in.

adox

We can pick the bones out of it but it really was all about the result today, nothing else.

It's nearly unbelievable that Utd are fifth and five points off top. It's ****ing great.

Vic Vinegar

Great pic up on ESPN!

Whatsisname

I don't usually like Smalling at RB but he played an absolute blinder today, top stuff.

RasTa

Did not enjoy watching that

Cantona's Collars

Nalz

Rooney, Smalling and Jones were great I thought

ScummyMan

Still think he's an Arsenal man Arsene?

Cantona's Collars

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

Still think he's an Arsenal man Arsene?

:pac:

Hank Scorpio

Rooneys work rate was brilliant. Valencia wasted attack after attack, Kagawa is worthless on the wing, hes too lightweight with his back to goal. Jones and Smalling were excellent, and De Gea was very solid when he had to be

J. Marston

Moar Van Persie pics!

Red Crow

Valencia was poor, Evra was poor defensively, Cleverley did ok when he came on but we just weren't good at all in the second half.

Delighted with the result and Rooney was fantastic.

Maximus Alexander

Delighted with the result. Valencia is not the player he used to be at all. I keep expecting him to recover his old form, but game after game it's the same thing. Get the ball, turn, pass to full back. I don't really know how he keeps getting selected.

Giggsy11

Bombleswizzum wrote: »

Great pic up on ESPN!

That's clearly photoshopped. We have experts here and also some with inside info who knows that RVP is not happy at ManUtd and also Rooney-RVP don't like each other.

Timmyctc

I thought Val was quite good. A definite improvement over his usual self.

IvySlayer

This calls for more beer

Hank Scorpio

Timmyctc wrote: »

I thought Val was quite good. A definite improvement over his usual self.

He wasn't a threat. His defensive work is always good. He should just switch to right back and be done with it. Imo

Red Crow

Timmyctc wrote: »

I thought Val was quite good. A definite improvement over his usual self.

I thought he was terrible. He definitely needs to go at the end of the year, he can't cross a ball anymore. He's a shadow of himself

ScummyMan

Kagawa was very poor today, surprised Januzaj didn't get a run out.

IvySlayer

Vidic gone to hospital, hopefully a 3 match ban for De Gea

Giggsy11

Btw it was great to see RVP celebrating his goal. He showed his class last season and was booed(maybe rightly) and this season it was pay back time. 3 goals in 3 against Arsenal.

RasTa

Good time for international week?

Rayne Wooney

November

(A) Fulham - W
(H) Arsenal - W
(A) Cardiff

December
(A) Spurs
(H) Everton
(H) Newcastle
(A) Villa
(H) West Ham
(A) Hull
(A) Norwich

30 points to be taken there until the 1st of January

6 points so far, 24 left to play for

Only 5 points off the top now and unbeaten and top of our CL group.

IvySlayer

Hate international breaks :mad:

Lord TSC

IvySlayer wrote: »

Hate international breaks :mad:

Yeah, it's a real shame. Kind of stops us building on today.

Cantona's Collars

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

Kagawa was very poor today, surprised Januzaj didn't get a run out.

Knocked off the ball a few times but put in a shift,never stopped demanding the ball,Evra behind him gave me heart attacks at times when he ended up time & again standing in the middle of the penalty area while Sagna had acres of space to run into.Sagna is one of the worst crossers of a ball in the league but given the amount of space he got today he put in some decent stuff.

Great result but the same deficiencies were there,the shift Rooney put in masked a lot of them.

Corvo

Well I enjoyed that...

Nalz

December is a massive month for us by looking at those fixtures

Kerrydude1981

Good day all round,ex Man U players doing there bit to beat City

Great to see Wes Brown back again.

user2011

Thankful that the game didn't end in a draw, the way things have played out this weekend a draw would of been pointless imo to both teams, united couldn't of suffered a draw as much as Arsenal so the next few games for both will be important for how things will play out come May.

The midfield , has Fellaini been signed a season or even two too soon, I can't for the life of me see Carrick and him working together ever. Fell is Carrick's replacement for the longer term, I can see Carrick carrying through next year with not much problem so what do we do with Fell for the next year and a half is what it is looking like?

SherlockWatson

Red Crow wrote: »

I thought he was terrible. He definitely needs to go at the end of the year, he can't cross a ball anymore. He's a shadow of himself

He played a cross right to Kagawa's foot within three minutes of the start.

Headshot

Absolutely delighted, we played poor but I would take 3 points against a team of Arsenal quality every day of the week. Im hoping some day that I can see utd play beautiful stuff thou.

On another issue, that Fell purchase has been woeful business

Kerrydude1981

Bit of a hold up there with the lads mowing the pitch

Nalz

SherlockWatson

Headshot wrote: »

Absolutely delighted, we played poor but I would take 3 points against a team of Arsenal quality every day of the week. Im hoping some day that I can see utd play beautiful stuff thou.

On another issue, that Fell purchase has been woeful business

Give the lad a season or two at least before you can say something like that tbh.

IvySlayer

Man Utd 1-0 Arsenal

A slip of the tongue from Manchester United boss David Moyes in his media conference: "Great players score great goals in big games, and Robin van Persie is a great player. But his sidekick Wayne Rooney played great too. I always hoped Robin would show that, and he has done since I've been here. He's great.

Great

Nalz

SherlockWatson wrote: »

Give the lad a season or two at least before you can say something like that tbh.

Agreed. Anyone remember Evra and Vidic when they joined?

Kerrydude1981

Trilla wrote: »

Agreed. Anyone remember Evra and Vidic when they joined?

Jesus ya I remember Evra's debut against City,was thinking to myself wtf has he signed him for

user2011

Trilla wrote: »

Agreed. Anyone remember Evra and Vidic when they joined?

No where near the same, Fell has had 4/5 seasons playing in and against United too be up to speed with things in the PL.

Does it take good players 1/2 seasons to get up to speed with just how a club works.. Always thought it was how the league works more so?

Headshot

There's a huge difference between Fell situation Evra/Vidic. Vidic and Evra they came during Jan, no preseason and a new country/league

Fell has no excuses

If your not going to start a player that by right should be better than Jones in the defensive role of the team and cost 20m plus, there's somthing wrong

MagicMarker

Fellaini didn't have a pre-season with United either.

I think it's harsh to expect him to just slot seamlessly into a new team.

Red Crow

MagicMarker wrote: »

Fellaini didn't have a pre-season with United either.

I think it's harsh to expect him to just slot seamlessly into a new team.

He did quite well for a couple of minutes. Everyone needs to stop being so expectant. Give Moyes and Fellaini time

Cantona's Collars

All the table needs is the anomaly of 2 midtable sides to go back where they belong & it'll look very familiar at the top.

Let's build on this result & do some decent business in January then suddenly all the doubt will melt away,we will have to do away with this football by numbers we are playing though.

Rayne Wooney

Does anyone see an improvement in the football we've been playing in the 11 league games Moyes has been in charge now?

Headshot

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Does anyone see an improvement in the football we've been playing in the 11 league games Moyes has been in charge now?

Nope nada zinch but tbf to him he hasnt got the best CM's to work with

In todays game I saw alot of balls bypass out CM today from the defense, think it says alot