Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread - Read Mod Warning in OP 7/1/15

Your Airbag

Another victory but another shocking display in attack and just like against Sunderland it was heading for a draw until a defensive howler that got us out of jail.

We will be found out in the games against better oposition coming up.

Vic Vinegar

posturingpat wrote: »

If we get into the top four they may disband the premiership because we are putrid, i want this season over and done with and this parasite gone asap :mad:

Ha ha ha.

In a thread full of lunatic's posts, that one wins first prize.

Nolars

Dunno how we managed that 3 points but jesus we are bad

kryogen

Again we have been awful at scoring, but we won which is all important.

Huge improvement is needed in the coming weeks, its all well and good dominating the game but we need to be better at creating and scoring

irishfeen

Jesus Christ them 3 points are like gold - result is the only thing that matters.

The Moldy Gowl

jayo26

Lord TSC wrote: »

Obviously not the sort of win which proves anything.

We need to be more clinical in finishing; Rooney and Young did well on the goal but they could have scored earlier if not for poor finishing. DiMaria needs to get a kick up the ass.

I do stand by the fact the problems lie with players rather than managers, and whatever about defense this summer, I think we need a clincal finisher who will take that one chance a game which crops up.

Yhh I agree but the whole team needs a kick up the ass. I thought tonight was a small bit improvement we created more chances deserved our win at least. A win is a win at this stage ill take it.

Whatsisname

Giggs reaction to LVG's celebration shows a lovely relationship with manager and assistant manager anyway.

adox

Only on this thread could the Di Maria sub be criticised. You have to laugh.

Rayne Wooney

I had to laugh at Van Gaal celebrating that goal, Giggs looked píssed and rightly so it's fcuking Newcastle we needed serious luck to scrape a win

We're not getting top 4 are we?

irishfeen

Whatsisname wrote: »

Giggs reaction to LVG's celebration shows a lovely relationship with manager and assistant manager anyway.

What happened??

Quandary

Great tenacity from Rooney there at the end to force the errors. Young took the goal very very well in fairness to him after having quite a poor game. I thought Valencia had one of his better games tonight. Di Maria was still poor but better than the last match, let's hope he can kick on a bit. Herrera was average, as was Blind. DDG was brilliant, as always. I thought we defended quite well, Smalling doing well again.

Overall we deserved the win but that was very ugly at times from us and we made it far more difficult than it needed to be.

Still think Rooney up front is our best option even though he had a tough night tonight.

Whatsisname

irishfeen wrote: »

What happened??

Have a vine handy and all, pity we can't share them anymore.

Basically raised his fist celebrating and held in there right in Giggs face and Giggs just blankly stared at him.

jayo26

irishfeen wrote: »

What happened??

Lvg got up in his face with his fist I thought it was a bit of messing about... All the players seemed pretty close to lvg as they were coming off he game them all clap and a hug. Bless him.

edgecutter

For the love of god my nerves can't take this. Terrible from us today. Far too many passes around the back which made it easy for Newcastle to defend.

I can't say that we will get top four, because our play just doesn't look like we will get the wins needed.

Timmyctc

Whatsisname wrote: »

Have a vine handy and all, pity we can't share them anymore.

Basically raised his fist celebrating and held in there right in Giggs face and Giggs just blankly stared at him.

pm me it brah.

Michael Carrick coming back could be crucial for the finish to the season. Great to see him come on

dr.bollocko

We could probably all club together and just buy Di Maria for the boards team at this stage.

sky88

Van gaals substitutions just wreck my head mata needed to be on way earlier and how falcao or wilson didnt come on boggles the mind.

It was so clear from 60 mins nothing was working

adox

3 precious points. I thought Utd did ok in the first half and should have been ahead. Really poor second half though. The lack of urgency was staggering.

Di Maria was awful, so was Rojo. Young was very poor too although took his goal well. Blind and Herrera were ok, nothing more. Valencia was Valencia. Fellaini played really well and Rooney was my man of the match. Should have scored at least one and sloppy with his finishing but I thoughhis overall play was really good and he did fantastic for the goal.

Maximus Alexander

kryogen

Whatsisname wrote: »

Giggs reaction to LVG's celebration shows a lovely relationship with manager and assistant manager anyway.

You seriously read that much in to that?

Van Gaal celebrating, Giggs (understandably) looking at bit shell shocked and like myself, happy to have scored (he is out of his seat) but disappointed with the overall cutting edge, again.

It could easily have been Giggs advocating taking Rooney off for Falcao, or taking Young off and Van Gaal disagreeing, then when Rooneys hard work creates the goal and Young shows composure to score the goal he rubs it in his face a bit

"You silly Welsh man, you thought we should take him off?!?! Falcao would not chase that down and create that goal" I am king of all passing"!!!!!!

madcabbage

Anyone with a weak heart should refrain from watching United for the remainder of the season! Not good for your health people!

Lord TSC

adox wrote: »

Only on this thread could the Di Maria sub be criticised. You have to laugh.

I also laugh when people are calling for Falcao. Commentators were doing it too. When he's playing, there's calls for him to be dropped and not signed; as soon as he's dropped, there's outrage he's not coming on :pac:

2 losses in 22. For all we're poor (and we are), we're grinding out points. Just not enough quick enough...

Vic Vinegar

Michael Owen is a shockingly bad commentator. The crap he spouts.

Your Airbag

Simply not good enough from ADM

64% - Angel Di Maria completed only 64% of his passes against Newcastle this evening. Mistimed.

https://twitter.com/OptaJoe/status/573227558017347585

LuckyGent88

I just can't fathom why Carrick was being brought on when we needed a goal. We had two strikers on the bench ffs. Such a strange decision and there is no way giggs would have been happy with that.

Did LVG know we were going to score a jammy goal and brought Carrick on knowing this??!!

adox

sky88 wrote: »

Van gaals substitutions just wreck my head mata needed to be on way earlier and how falcao or wilson didnt come on boggles the mind.

It was so clear from 60 mins nothing was working

Wilson wasn't on the bench so not mind boggling really.
Falcao or Mata? I was happy to see Mata come on.

ElChe32

Watching us tonight

Vic Vinegar

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

I just can't fathom why Carrick was being brought on when we needed a goal. We had two strikers on the bench ffs. Such a strange decision and there is no way giggs would have been happy with that.

Did LVG know we were going to score a jammy goal and brought Carrick on knowing this??!!

Rojo was one foul away from a red card. Its called logic.

Timmyctc

Shout out to the man who inexplicably managed to turn popular opinion back in his favour again. Everyone will admit he bailed us out and was as always this season, very very good. (Liam O will claim Young Miss hit the cross or something no doubt) but Ashley Young. Winning his way into our hearts and minds.

The Moldy Gowl

This gifs sums up our season

Your Airbag

I'm sorry but LVGs reaction, seen here, directed at Giggs after we scored was just awkward and strange.

https://twitter.com/MrAdam_Davies/status/573234661092139008

You can almost read Gigggs mind "Yeah whatever you plonker".

LuckyGent88

Vic Vinegar wrote: »

Rojo was one foul away from a red card. Its called logic.

But we had to win that game. A draw would not have been good enough. A conservative subsitution was at that time when we needed a goal was poor imo

Giggsy11

Your Airbag wrote: »

Simply not good enough from ADM



https://twitter.com/OptaJoe/status/573227558017347585

His passing was poor but he created at least 3 chances that I can remember. Pass to Rooney after Coloccini slip, Fellaini's chance which was messed up by young also and a wrong offside call. 2 of those passes (to Fellaini and Rooney's offside goal) was brilliant. Had they scored 1 or 2 from those passes, we would be talking about good performance by Di Maria.

recylingbin

Timmyctc wrote: »

Young Mi****

What is it with young and ninja sh1t?

kryogen

Your Airbag wrote: »

Simply not good enough from ADM



https://twitter.com/OptaJoe/status/573227558017347585

Not that unusual from a winger who is trying to create things. Pretty common in fact.

I genuinely believe sometime people don't actually know what a player is like (no matter how much they pretend to have watched him/know about him) until he comes and plays in England, and even at that until he is playing for United from a United fans perspective.

There always seems to be such surprise at a player playing, how he has played basically for his whole career overall. Doing things he has done over his whole career overall. Highlights packages don't show the other 90% of a players game.

kryogen

Delighted with the team spirit on show again and how close they all seem AND with the manager too. Great to see that anyway, they are at least all in it together even if it isnt quite working properly just yet.

Robson99

Vic Vinegar wrote: »

Rojo was one foul away from a red card. Its called logic.

He could have gone 3 at the back

WallyGUFC

It's written in the stars. We'll get top 4. I'm not worried at all about it now. We are playing disgusting football but in stark contrast to last season, we're generally nicking results. The gods are on our side.

We'll beat Liverpool in the cup too and send Stevie off to the US in tears. It's going to happen and I'll bet any man here that it will.

irishfeen

People getting right carried away at that LVG/Giggs thing .. Seems as if Giggs is slightly freaked out but LVG is like get in to fcuk ..

Timmyctc

Whatsisname wrote: »

Have a vine handy and all, pity we can't share them anymore.

Basically raised his fist celebrating and held in there right in Giggs face and Giggs just blankly stared at him.

Thanks for the PM pal/mate/friend

WallyGUFC wrote: »

It's written in the stars. We'll get top 4. I'm not worried at all about it now. We are playing disgusting football but in stark contrast to last season, we're generally nicking results. The gods are on our side.

We'll beat Liverpool in the cup too and send Stevie off to the US in tears. It's going to happen and I'll bet any man here that it will.

Playing the worst football I've seen us play in as long as I can remember. This is probably on par with Moyes ball. But by jove we're ahead of that lot. :pac:

bangkok

van gaal is a total spoofer, we need a goal and he brings on carrick and leaves falcao on the bench. we will be found out when we play the big boys. Dreading going to anfield, chelsea away as well oh god

edgecutter

ADM at least tried to create chances today when he got on the ball. Thought he was managing to get into the game a bit better in the second half.

I think we will play better when we play the better teams. They will at least try to attack us rather than sit back and hit us on the counter. Monday will let us know where we are at.

thelad95

I'm going to inject a rare bit of positivity on this thread. If Di Maria doesn't have a brainfart in the first minute and actually shoots, if Fellaini took his sitter of a chance after being played through by Di Maria and if Wayne Rooney isn't wrongly flagged offside, it would have been a very comfortable night.

Your Airbag

kryogen wrote: »

Not that unusual from a winger who is trying to create things. Pretty common in fact.

I genuinely believe sometime people don't actually know what a player is like (no matter how much they pretend to have watched him/know about him) until he comes and plays in England, and even at that until he is playing for United from a United fans perspective.

There always seems to be such surprise at a player playing, how he has played basically for his whole career overall. Doing things he has done over his whole career overall. Highlights packages don't show the other 90% of a players game.

I watch la Liga a lot and was quite aware how hot and cold AMD can be, I posted as much here recently.

Still poor from him, I guess he's on a cold run, even so I can't remember him being this poor for this long in La Liga. The EPL is tougher though so maybe he's going to struggle a lot.

akelly02

mcratsix wrote: »

That's what happens when you play Carrick

He had nothing to do with the goal?

bangkok

thelad95 wrote: »

I'm going to inject a rare bit of positivity on this thread. If Di Maria doesn't have a brainfart in the first minute and actually shoots, if Fellaini took his sitter of a chance after being played through by Di Maria and if Wayne Rooney isn't wrongly flagged offside, it would have been a very comfortable night.

nothing about the newcastle peno??

Rayne Wooney

there would be a new river in Merseyside if we got top 4 playing the way we are but I honesty can't see us nicking results until the end of the season

The Moldy Gowl

There is a sick part of me that loves these wins.