Manchester United vs Leicester City 01/05/16 k/o 14.05 Sky

Liam O

Meh it's the Scholes tackling thing again. I'm yet to see anyone hurt by these constant elbows Fellaini is hitting them with. You'd think if there was the huge force that people make out in them people would have the bloody mouths, broken jaws and teeth that would come with actual elbows to the head?

Hococop

rob316 wrote: »

Good call referee. Lingard was weak there

On another day he would have done better, so hot and cold for us

Mars Bar

United are playing very well. It's some of the nicest football we've seen in some time.

SlickRic

Lord TSC wrote: »

Trying to justify Fel's behaviour by attributing it to faux outrage or other supporters is incredibly lazy.

What Huth did was bad, but nothing should justify throwing elbows like that. One can cause significantly more damage than the other. Hair pulling and elbowing someone full force in the face are not comparable, and it was a horrible thing to do.

This, pretty much.

Focusing on the hair pull to justify an elbow is pathetic in the extreme. There's no outrage. It's just thuggery.

CSF

If Lingard had been a bit stronger Simpson would have been forced to foul him and it would have been red.

hullaballoo

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Jesus, some of the "Leicester" fans in here today...

Everyone wants Leicester to win the league and they can do it here today against Utd. Stop pretending you don't know that.

Mars Bar

Rooney is silly to be playing those long passes unless he is 100% certain.

Andersonisgod

Rooney is not up to it in central midfield at this level.

niallo27

Can we get back to the football and less of the outrage at people being outraged.

Sanity_Saviour

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Jesus, some of the "Leicester" fans in here today...

Leicestepool

Hococop

Nope no peno ran into rojo rather than the leg

So why the **** doesn't he get carded for diving

martyos121

Mahrez was playing for the peno there, not a fan of that carry on.

Paully D

Stonewall penalty.

J. Marston

"Thuggery" lol.

If you try to be a sneaky shíte by pulling someone's hair and take an elbow for it, no harm.

The_Kew_Tour

We should be man down and that was penalty although he went down too easy

glued

SlickRic wrote: »

This, pretty much.

Focusing on the hair pull to justify an elbow is pathetic in the extreme. There's no outrage. It's just thuggery.

It's pure faux outrage and it's embarrassing. Somebody grabs your hair you're going to do what you can to get out of that situation.

It's particularly embrassing as Fellaini was defending himself and trying to get himself free. But that doesn't fit in with your agenda here.

monkey9

niallo27 wrote: »

Can we get back to the football and less of the outrage at people being outraged.

What an outrageous suggestion.

JustTheOne

Defo Peno.

KERSPLAT!

M!Ck^ wrote: »

So why the **** doesn't he get carded for diving

Because he didn't dive

deaddonkey15

martyos121 wrote: »

Self defence against a few lost hairs at worst? Come on man, it was a blatant overreaction to a bit of dirty play. There's no way a hair pull ranks anywhere near as high as an elbow to the head.

What way was he supposed to react, pull his hair back? What would you have done?

TheCitizen

Should've been a penalty there

finno

Liam O wrote: »

Meh it's the Scholes tackling thing again. I'm yet to see anyone hurt by these constant elbows Fellaini is hitting them with. You'd think if there was the huge force that people make out in them people would have the bloody mouths, broken jaws and teeth that would come with actual elbows to the head?

http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/shocking-man-uniteds-marouane-fellaini-brutalises-liverpools-joe-allen-with-wild-elbow-no-booking/

SlickRic

He stood his ground. No penalty.

deaddonkey15

JustTheOne wrote: »

Defo Peno.

Hilarious.

adox

Ronney has been really poor so far today. The opposite of the last game whe he probably had his best game of the season.

Mars Bar

I don't really know where Rojo could go there to get out of the way. Mahrez ran right in to him.

Rojo is pathetic at set pieces. Again he loses Morgan.

CSF

Definite penalty.

martyos121

I must be the only non-United fan who doesn't think that was a spot kick. He ran straight into Rojo in fairness, and away from the ball.

AdamD

Probably a pen, last replay showed Rojo kicked him a little. Having a terrible game Rojo

ScummyMan

This in absolutely excellent game

hullaballoo

hullaballoo wrote: »

Everyone wants Leicester to win the league and they can do it here today against Utd. Stop pretending you don't know that.

No not everyone does

Stop pretending everyone does

frisbeeface

Wow that slowmo replay. 100% penalty. Didn't think so at first.

Liam O

Rojo should have dived out of Mahrez's way there will be the narrative no doubt.

JustTheOne

deaddonkey15 wrote: »

Hilarious.

What's hilarious?

Ball went past he stook his leg out and caught him.

Paully D

Martial is seriously wasted playing where he is.

Amirani

M!Ck^ wrote: »

So why the **** doesn't he get carded for diving

Clearly wasn't a dive. It's not completely binary, can easily be not a peno and not a dive. Was Lingard falling over beside Simpson a dive? Of course not.

deaddonkey15

Mars Bar wrote: »

Rooney is silly to be playing those long passes unless he is 100% certain.

What? I'm pretty sure it's this mentality from LVG that has led to the dire football we've seen from United recently.

Hococop

Rojo has been awful

glued

Passing has gotten really sloppy.

Lord TSC

deaddonkey15 wrote: »

What way was he supposed to react, pull his hair back? What would you have done?

In the context of a football match (not just a random meeting on the street), push him away. Tell him to **** off, tell the ref if you want and get on with it.

There is no justification for elbowing someone in the face. That sort of attack can seriously injure people. Pulling hair is childish and dirty, but not dangerous.

I would get if people were using the "but he is our dirty player..." Argue,net, but trying to put hair pulling and elbowing someone in the face twice is crazy, and showing off some incredible rose tinted glasses.

Mint Sauce

M!Ck^ wrote: »

No not everyone does

Stop pretending everyone does

Everyone apart from Spurs fans maybe, and possibly a hand full of Utd and Chelsea fans. Anyway, back to the game.

adox

Thought it was just a collision in real time but Rojo has a fresh air kick with his left leg. Could have been given. Would need another look at it though.

deaddonkey15

JustTheOne wrote: »

What's hilarious?

Ball went past he stook his leg out and caught him.

Nowhere Rojo could have gone.

monkey9

glued wrote: »

It's pure faux outrage and it's embarrassing. Somebody grabs your hair you're going to do what you can to get out of that situation.

It's particularly embrassing as Fellaini was defending himself and trying to get himself free. But that doesn't fit in with your agenda here.

You're the only one who's outraged. Everyone else is just commenting on Fellaini's elbow to Huth's head and his second attempted elbow.

Now watch, at half time it will also be mentioned because it's an incident that happened in this football match.

CSF

deaddonkey15 wrote: »

Nowhere Rojo could have gone.

Towards the ball?

LostBoy101

This game is screaming for Herrera.

Manutd_4life

Very tense atmosphere around the stadium. This is going to be a massive 2nd half

duffman13

Forget the peno appeal, Rojo has been absolutely awful, put about 8 crosses in that have gone nowhere, left Morgan free twice in the box and struggles to make basic passes. He's very poor today.

JustTheOne

deaddonkey15 wrote: »

Nowhere Rojo could have gone.

Em that's grand and all but it doesn't explain his left leg connecting with the player when the ball had gone past him.