Stoke vs Manchester United Match Thread 1/1/2015 k/o 12.45 Sky.

Drumpot

Think LVG was always going to take off falcao. He has strategies before the game that he sticks to and I think he simply felt falcaos fitness would be jeopardised by playing the full 90.

Think bringing on januzai was a statement of intent to go for the win.

Gits_bone

LVG has been so lucky this year.

West Ham should have drawn at OT
DDG in world class form
Liverpool and Arsenal diabolical.

Liam O

"Adnan Januzaj going down a blind alley" as they said on NBC. Story of his last year.

Donnielighto

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Think Shaw was either knackered or took a knock. noone else to take the wing back role other than Januzaj.

Penalty for me

Young...

Strumms

MagicIRL wrote: »

If Jones, Evans and Smalling never played again I'd be delighted.

Evans needs to be shown the door. The guy is only 26 and not only has he made no progress developing as a player in the last 3 or 4 years he seems to be regressing at quite a rate. A liability.

monkey9

Lads, Falcao was knackered and he hobbled off. Van Persie is more likely to get a goal at this stage than Falcao would have been.

Donnielighto

Raf has to come on now

MagicIRL

There goes Young

Mars Bar

Young's hammy is gone

Bloody hell

Billy86

keeponhurling wrote: »

Moyes with Cleverly

Cleverley only started 17 of Moyes' 34 league games (with sub subs appearances) to be fair and while he was awful, the alternatives were post-illness Fletcher and post-lunchtime Anderson, not Falcao or one of Herrera/Rooney/Mata depending on the formation.

LuckyGent88

Ah ffs. Different year, same story

Not another injury ffs

madcabbage

Ah for goodness sake, another hammy injury! :mad:

Liam O

Drumpot wrote: »

Think LVG was always going to take off falcao. He has strategies before the game that he sticks to and I think he simply felt falcaos fitness would be jeopardised by playing the full 90.

Think bringing on januzai was a statement of intent to go for the win.

A statement of intent would have been to take off 1 of the 3 CBs or the player playing just in front of them.

Billy86

Hamstring, that's Young out for the next 2-3 weeks.

Pudsy33

This is beyond a joke.

Cantona's Collars

Classy as usual from the home fans cheering an opposition player getting injured.:rolleyes:

Mars Bar

That's what happens when you play so many games so quickly

sky88

Bit scummy from stoke fans cheering an injury

pmasterson95

Hamstring torn. Bye Young. Another defender ****ed.

Cantona's Collars

Rafael to get the winner.

Hotblack Desiato

Another feckin' injury :mad:

Timmyctc

Stoke and their fans being scummy? Never

RobbingBandit

It never ends

Pawwed Rig

That is a huge loss for Utd. Young has been great the last 8 weeks

Mars Bar

Pointless corner to be giving away

Drumpot

Liam O wrote: »

A statement of intent would have been to take off 1 of the 3 CBs or the player playing just in front of them.

That would of been stupid considering how weak uniteds defence looks with three at the back.

I meant in relation to picking an attacking wide player instead of a full back

Donnielighto

sky88 wrote: »

Bit scummy from stoke fans cheering an injury

Is anyone surprised though?

Gits_bone

All talk about improvement from Utd but not beating 10 man Villa, getting dominated by spurs 2nd half and dominated by Stoke 2nd half is not improvement.

AdamD

Poor Marko :pac:

Nalz

Gits_bone wrote: »

All talk about improvement from Utd but not beating 10 man Villa, getting dominated by spurs 2nd half and dominated by Stoke 2nd half is not improvement.

Dominated me hole

Stoke deserve more with this second half performance but dominated? Gimme a break

Liam O

United's best period of the season coincided with the only period they've played 4 at the back. This is a fúcking joke even if they can scab a win.

Johner

With Falcao off United don't look a threat.

monkey9

Stoke fans are like Niall Quinn's commentary. I shouldn't like them but I do because they wind people up so much.

Gits_bone

Trilla wrote: »

Dominated me hole

When did Begovic make a save?

Stoke hit the post and should have had a peno too.

LuckyGent88

Stupid free to give away. Just inviting pressure on

Drumpot

Gits_bone wrote: »

All talk about improvement from Utd but not beating 10 man Villa, getting dominated by spurs 2nd half and dominated by Stoke 2nd half is not improvement.

What are you benchmarking their improvement against?

They finished 7th last season and despite being shaky are comfortably 3rd with a chronic injury problem and a huge overhaul of the squad.

United are clearly getting better and looking better.
Controlling games, players showing more confidence, more character and winning games they play poorly in. Reminds me of the last season United won the league...

keeponhurling

Evans again losing possession

RobbingBandit

Falcao worked his legs off, fair play to Young too, Januzaj playing like last season he is the future.

Timmyctc

Gits_bone wrote: »

When did Begovic make a save?

Stoke hit the post and should have had a peno too.

United could have had a peno. And Hitting the post is missing the target fyi

Nalz

Gits_bone wrote: »

When did Begovic make a save?

Stoke hit the post and should have had a peno too.

= domination?

MagicIRL

Has Januzaj even touched the ball since his run to nowhere? Kid desperately needs a loan.

glued

Rooney has been useless

ben.schlomo

First time ive seen Utd in a long time, they are shocking, no pace, far too many touches, no incisive play, sideways and backwards to clumsy defenders who fong it forward.

AdamD

Its been domination since the 60th minute.

pmasterson95

Diouf having time of his life toying with Evans

Tom.D.BJJ

Gits_bone wrote: »

All talk about improvement from Utd but not beating 10 man Villa, getting dominated by spurs 2nd half and dominated by Stoke 2nd half is not improvement.

For a Liverpool fan, you sure do watch a lot of Utd games.

Cantona's Collars

If Stoke could play on wet & windy days all the time,they'd win the league.

Liam O

Diouf.

dubmick

Dreadful passing