Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2016 - Mod Warning link in OP 20/3

Mars Bar

We are so slow at transitioning to defence

ParkRunner

Valencia at RB never works out well for us, hopefully he proves me wrong today

adox

Blinds corners have been mostly useless.

Can see a City goal coming.

Billy86

jayo26 wrote: »

They haven't shown anything. Rooney was in very good form until he got injured when the team started attacking at the turn of the year. It's nice to see the kids there but rooney aint done yet.

Theyre looking quicker, fresher, more incisive and dangerous, and they're scoring more when p front. Before even mentioning they're a decade younger and far less experienced, they've simply looked the better players.

And they're not drifting the ball from flank to flank time and again, in an effort to kill every attack we get.

KH25

Not even trying at this point. Valencia at RB gives me nightmares. Completely loses his man.

Rubber_Soul

jayo26 wrote: »

Thats because half our team is kids. Lingard and Martial were closest to him.

8 of the players on the pitch at the time are over the age of 25. I hate going on about the old days but if that had happened in any other era you would have had senior players piling in to protect the kid.

jayo26

Billy86 wrote: »

Theyre looking quicker, fresher, more incisive and dangerous, and they're scoring more when p front. Before even mentioning they're a decade younger and far less experienced, they've simply looked the better players.

And they're not drifting the ball from flank to flank time and again, in an effort to kill every attack we get.

Im not doubting their quality or if they keep progressing they will be stars for united for years to come but to simply say rooney is gone because they are playing well in a really bad run of results is jumping the gun.

Rashford had come in and done well but he is still not old or experienced enough to be counted in all season thats too much pressure.

For all that we have said about Rooney he still showed he has plenty left to give and I much prefer him as captain ahead of Carrick or smalling or mata.

jayo26

Rubber_Soul wrote: »

8 of the players on the pitch at the time are over the age of 25. I hate going on about the old days but if that had happened in any other era you would have had senior players piling in to protect the kid.

No u are dead right Keane or nevile or rooney would of been knocking them out but it also just happened that it was the lingard and Martial around him.

Rashford is my man of the match!

ElChe32

Yaaaaaaasssssss

Lord TSC

Did the bear minimum, and there was a few poor performances, but a win is a win.

jayo26

Well done decent win we were lucky but also should of had two penalties so fair result.

unplayable

yes yes yes after thurs being so bad thats brilliant.typical van gaal to pull out a result when he needed it so badly

Thepoet85

No beer since Xmas, can't see a better reason to break out 

Ordinary man

So now we start to believe fourth is on again til the next piss poor performance

madcabbage

Massive 3 points, a small glimmer of hope for the 4th spot.

StringerBell

bangkok

had the potential to be a sh!t day only a couple of hours ago....

massive massive 3 points. happy days

J. Marston

Get the fúck in. League season isn't over yet.

Liam McPoyle

Smalling was my MoTM.

Rashford and Martial immense up front.

Mata and Lingard poor showing again.

Hard fought win but a win nonetheless.

Manutd_4life

There's still hope.
Believe!
CMON UNITED

Kylo Ren

Supporting United this season.

Maximus Alexander

Only saw the second half but United really got away with it. Very disorganised and begging to be punished. We'll lose those three points to a much poorer team to even it out so it's hard to be excited.

PhlegmyMoses

Nice to get the win but it masked another poor second half performance. If City had scored, we couldn't have complained. So much surgery needed to that side it is unreal.

Chagan

Lovely result. Frustating to watch us retreat into our shells once we went ahead but City never really looked that threatening either. Hopefully a bit of consistency down the home straight will clinch a top four place.

Mars Bar

Luke sums it up in one simple tweet

https://twitter.com/LukeShaw23/status/711612681250349056

IamtheWalrus

Beginning of a title charge?

caviardreams

Guys - anyone know if Rashford's injury looks serious?
Only dampner on a great day! :D

adox

Well what a day!!

Decent performance. On the ropes for the last half hour and a daft sub or two, sat too deep when defending the lead but a great result.

Those three lads up front offer so a get out of jail card for the team. Their pace and interplay gives Utd another dimension.

Valencia was just awful when he came on. Could have easily cost us. Rojo wasn't much better but I would have left him on if that was the choice. At least he's a defender.

Dare I say another game where Schneiderlin was just ok but nothing more. Large part of the game where he wasn't involved.


Special mention for the worst performance of all - the ref. He brought bad reffing to new levels of ****eness today.


Oh and City were so ponderous. Couldn't believe how uninterested they looked.

The_Kew_Tour

Let's go ****ing mental
Let's go ****ing mental
La la la la hiiiii!!!!!!

jayo26

Business Cat wrote: »

Smalling was my MoTM.

Rashford and Martial immense up front.

Mata and Lingard poor showing again.

Hard fought win but a win nonetheless.

I thought lingard was ok. He stretched the defence an few times and while he didn't contribute anything statistically he still gave the defence something to think about with his pace.

bangkok

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Only saw the second half but United really got away with it. Very disorganised and begging to be punished. We'll lose those three points to a much poorer team to even it out so it's hard to be excited.

then you didnt see penalty incident just before half time. should have been 2-0 up.

massive 3 points, it gives us a huge chance

adox

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

Beginning of a title charge?

Yes. I'd have Utd as favourites now.

Bret Hart

MOTD tonight will make for great viewing and not just because of our win.

jayo26

Can't watch match of the day tonight but i have saved the match threads nstead ill read them has to be good

Bret Hart

Smalling is so posh.

Rayne Wooney

Top 4 would be a great parting gift from Van Gaal

There's more of a chance then there was two hours ago but still an incredibly difficult task, watch us go and lose the next two now

bangkok

have to say along with smalling, Carrick was brilliant today as well, martial and rashford excellent

IamtheWalrus

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

Beginning of a title charge?

100% we are only 16 points off the top spot now :cool:

PhlegmyMoses

Bret Hart wrote: »

Smalling is so posh.

He sounds like Moss from the IT crowd

adox

Souness loves Martial. Always gives him a mention when he's on a Utd game.

A "real" player.

bangkok

adox wrote: »

Souness loves Martial. Always gives him a mention when he's on a Utd game.

A "real" player.

he was class today, magic feet, only 20 going to be a superstar

StringerBell

Martial is so exciting, the potential with that lad is endless!

Isn't life so much better when we beat a big rival? We are ****, and we know we are, but for one night we can forget it and enjoy MOTD and revel in the jokeshop that is LFC and MCFC.

adox

bangkok wrote: »

he was class today, magic feet, only 20 going to be a superstar

I've no doubts about that.

Korat

It's been a great weekend of sport.

Looking forward to the FA Cup replay now

Mars Bar

Korat wrote: »

It's been a great weekend of sport.

Looking forward to the FA Cup replay now

Don't we play Everton before that?

Strumms

Jesus... First look there at a replay of the peno incident. That and his overall performance of the ref should see him sit out a match weekend. Not good enough... And to give a corner ! Defo bottled it.

All the same I thought we took on our first half performance vs Liverpool into this game with City only looking dangerous on the break. Composure, passing and overall link play much better then most of the season. The inevitable sitting too deep too early towards the end was something we should not be doing, inviting pressure but overall happy without that, 4th defo still all to play for, believe !!!

Rossi IRL

What a day.

Bret Hart

Mars Bar wrote: »

Don't we play Everton before that?

We play them Sunday 2 weeks. It's on Sky at 4.

RobertKK

A must needed result today.

Big battle on for 4th, Southampton are playing well behind us and West Ham. I make it a 4 way race for 4th.
Liverpool have the Europa league to drain them.

Ideal end to the season - United get 4th, City get Europa league.