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Man Utd v Spurs

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    #182
    DeanAustin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    Ormus wrote: »
    Bentaleb looks one for the future but we got hammered in midfield after Capoue went off

    Kane looked like he had flu or something. Shoulda been booked for kicking the ball away.

    No he shouldn't. He wasn't offside until he touched the ball. That was the beauty of it. Most players would have just let it go and played on. Thought Kane did okay besides that to be honest.

    Also thought Bentaleb did well. To be fair, we were always going to be on the rack for the last 20 minutes. Same thing happened last year.


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    #183
    jobeenfitz
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    SuprSi wrote: »
    It was weird, I could've sworn that extra time was 4 minutes and shortly after Kane kicked the ball away it seemed to go to 5 minutes. Did anyone else see this?

    I heard the commentator say there would be four minutes before the board came up with five mins.

    On a seperate note could not believe how kind Howard Webb was to us yesterday.


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    #184
    Ormus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,913 ✭✭✭Ormus


    DeanAustin wrote: »
    No he shouldn't. He wasn't offside until he touched the ball. That was the beauty of it. Most players would have just let it go and played on. Thought Kane did okay besides that to be honest.

    Also thought Bentaleb did well. To be fair, we were always going to be on the rack for the last 20 minutes. Same thing happened last year.


    From Football365: As much as Sherwood deserves praise for Spurs' victory, his absurd decision to replace Capoue with Nabil Bentaleb after 64 minutes was pivotal in United regaining momentum. Tottenham may have scored soon after the youngster's introduction, but they immediately began to unravel thereafter as Welbeck halved the deficit and Wayne Rooney dropped deeper to pull the strings in midfield. It was a substitution that hinted at both naivety and hubris from Sherwood as he basked in the glory of Spurs' lead

    Mailbox: Jury still out on Tim Sherwood. Great win at United, but other teams have done that too, and bringing on Bentaleb and Harry Kane for experienced stalwarts was just strange, and kind of smacked of his desperation to prove that The Kids Are Alright. I'm sure they're fine, but Soldado and Capoue were both having great games. We really haven't got a good enough points total to justify taking 'anti-AVB' risks.

    Mailbox: Some of Sherwood's substitutions were terrifying. Harry Kane on for Soldado may have been understandable given Ade's injury and a need for fresh legs to hold the ball up, but it's hard to remember him getting a touch. Capoue, who was admirably holding the base of midfield, going off for the talented but young Bentaleb was a very scary moment, and following that substitution Spurs were put under much more pressure and dropped much deeper. Of course it's great to see young players (imported from other clubs largely, but still) coming through and getting games in the first team, but when you're defending a lead at Old Trafford really isn't the time to give a young player a run-out.

    In fairness there are other comments which back up your points, such as:


    I disagree with W&L that Bentaleb's introduction handed the initiative back, as it was clearly the goal they scored and the total change in atmosphere in the ground.


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