Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2017

adox

Love that little faint from Lukaku before absolutely burying it.

He’s been good today apart from the goal.

BenK

Normal service resumed, 4 goals scored...

Trigger

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Dont even think he was that bad I mean he slipped. the goal just looked shocking as where the **** was everyone else.

I don’t blame him for it tbh, think it’s more on the players failing to chase the runners

wanderer100

Can't believe Zlatan is back this early. He is a freak of nature!!!

sky88

How great is it to see him back on the pitch

Liam McPoyle

Zlatan is simply a machine.

For any player to come back that quickly from that kind of injury is unreal, for a 36 year old it's positively freakish.

pjohnson

Pogba marked his return. Now its Zlats time.

BKtje

Mata has covered the most ground today apparently.

Jayop

BKtje wrote: »

Mata has covered the most ground today apparently.

Jose will like that.

Great performance and it's great to come back from a goal.

caviardreams

BKtje wrote: »

Mata has covered the most ground today apparently.

Luxury player

#hugsforjuan

Trigger

Some tackle by Lindelof there

wanderer100

BKtje wrote: »

Mata has covered the most ground today apparently.

Put in a great shift today. Quality player to have

Sexy Pogba
Yea

Lord TSC

Very happy with that.

Weren't at the races for the first 25 minutes, and then Pogba's cross for Martial woke everyone up. Amazing what a bit of confidence can do.

Even when they scored, I was 100% confident we were gonna thrash them. Pogba with a great return, Martial and Lukaku with very good games. Great to see Ibra back too.

Cantona's Collars

astradave wrote: »

I don’t blame him for it tbh, think it’s more on the players failing to chase the runners

Smalling caught out, Valencia slow on the cover and nobody tracking the runners. There were 3 players running in onto the ball. Can't blame Lindelof there. He looked solid enough today.

Lord TSC

And one other thing...

People will try to down play that with "Oh sure, they do it against small teams, etc etc."

Nah, **** off. If we destroy 14 of the 20 teams like that this year, it's a massive step up from previous years, and is the foundation that is needed to go on for title challanges. Even last year, when we went 1-0 down, we'd have been nervous. The improvement is very welcome.

Trigger

Lord TSC wrote: »

Very happy with that.

Weren't at the races for the first 25 minutes, and then Pogba's cross for Martial woke everyone up. Amazing what a bit of confidence can do.

Even when they scored, I was 100% confident we were gonna thrash them. Pogba with a great return, Martial and Lukaku with very good games. Great to see Ibra back too.

I’d add that the back 5(including DDG) where very solid when they settled down after that first 25

Giggsy11

Pogba is back and we started playing good football. That's surprising. It's so obvious what we missed when he showed his quality today. Had superb game.

Cantona's Collars

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Pogba is back and we started playing good football. That's surprising. It's so obvious what we missed when he showed his quality today. Had superb game.

Tries stuff others wouldn't even think of. A real creative force.

adox

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Pogba is back and we started playing good football. That's surprising. It's so obvious what we missed when he showed his quality today. Had superb game.

No one ever said he wouldn’t make a difference but it’s not as simple as above. We were impotent for the first half hour and wide open with the formation.

The Pogba out and we are brutal - Pogba in and we are great, is simplistic in the extreme.

He’s a quality player and always going to hugely increase the chances of making a difference but the point still remains that he needs to be fitted into the team properly and have the right team around him to get the best out of him and the team.

Utd won’t win the league with Pogba part of a midfield two long term.

bangkok

happy with that.

Pogba was fantastic

adox

Delighted to see Smalling getting so much game time after the clamber to have him sold so many times.

Also thought Matic had another fantastic game today. Earlier I called Pogba a Ferrari. Well Matic is a Rolls Royce of a player.

adox

Lord TSC wrote: »

And one other thing...

People will try to down play that with "Oh sure, they do it against small teams, etc etc."

Nah, **** off. If we destroy 14 of the 20 teams like that this year, it's a massive step up from previous years, and is the foundation that is needed to go on for title challanges. Even last year, when we went 1-0 down, we'd have been nervous. The improvement is very welcome.

We were pretty poor for the first half hour and created very little. I was delighted to see us pick it up and create chance after chance after that. That took hard work and application and a bit of mental resolve. Something we have questioned this team about in the past.

hufpc8w3adnk65

Anyone notice Martials smile when he was coming off for Ibra? Great to see some emotion from him

Cantona's Collars

Post match interview. Zlatan is the man.

https://youtu.be/bfESl8Uq2qI

Giggsy11

adox wrote: »

No one ever said he wouldn’t make a difference but it’s not as simple as above. We were impotent for the first half hour and wide open with the formation.

The Pogba out and we are brutal - Pogba in and we are great, is simplistic in the extreme.

He’s a quality player and always going to hugely increase the chances of making a difference but the point still remains that he needs to be fitted into the team properly and have the right team around him to get the best out of him and the team.

Utd won’t win the league with Pogba part of a midfield two long term.

That's true for any player, including Xavi or Zidane.

Pogba brings qualities that no other player in our squad brings and it wasn't by coincidence we struggled to play good football without Pogba.

jayo26

adox wrote: »

No one ever said he wouldn’t make a difference but it’s not as simple as above. We were impotent for the first half hour and wide open with the formation.

The Pogba out and we are brutal - Pogba in and we are great, is simplistic in the extreme.

He’s a quality player and always going to hugely increase the chances of making a difference but the point still remains that he needs to be fitted into the team properly and have the right team around him to get the best out of him and the team.

Utd won’t win the league with Pogba part of a midfield two long term.

Don't want to go back over old ground but it may not be as simple as one player in every game but if you can't see how much pogba brings to our midfield I don't believe your looking at it with an open mind.

In another team with more creative force pogba may not matter as much but in United midfield he is the battery for the clock it's as simple as that to me and until we sign another one or two players if that ilk we will suffer when pogba is missing or pogba has a poor game.

billyhead

I can see Ibra coming out of international retirement. The WC would be a poorer spectacle without him.

castletownman

Fairly poor form from a few lads here to pin the blame for Newcastle's first goal on Lindelof. The fella slipped, something that cannot be legislated for. There were at least a couple of other players far more culpable. It justs seems lads have their minds made up on him already and relish any opportunity to knock him, deapite having limited game time in the PL so far.

In reality, he was solid besides the first 25 mins (the whole team started lethargic), and I have a feeling his ball-playing ability will be a huge asset when breaking the lines.

limnam

castletownman wrote: »

Fairly poor form from a few lads here to pin the blame for Newcastle's first goal on Lindelof. The fella slipped, something that cannot be legislated for.

yup regardless of the slip he had 4 unmarked players around him and it was smalling's side.

WTF was smalling?

S.M.B.

Reading all the media outlets made it sound like it was a mistake worse than at Huddersfield. After reading here and seeing the goal it was good too see they were just being hyper critical of the lad.

Schwiiing

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bucketybuck

I have no real problem with Lindelof and don't think he should be jettisoned the way some people seem to think, but come on, he fell on his arse in the penalty box during an attack, thats not good enough.

People will say a slip can happen at any time but here's the thing, it doesn't happen at any time, you do not see top level defenders falling on their arse very often at all.

Get your feet right, get your positioning right and it doesn't happen. It was a mistake, it didn't matter much in the end but it shouldn't be ignored either.

brinty

limnam wrote:

yup regardless of the slip he had 4 unmarked players around him and it was smalling's side.

WTF was smalling?

Smalling was in left back position covering for young
But magic and Polka weren't getting back enough to help
Effectively four on two once Smalling was beaten

Cantona's Collars

bucketybuck wrote: »

I have no real problem with Lindelof and don't think he should be jettisoned the way some people seem to think, but come on, he fell on his arse in the penalty box during an attack, thats not good enough.

People will say a slip can happen at any time but here's the thing, it doesn't happen at any time, you do not see top level defenders falling on their arse very often at all.

Get your feet right, get your positioning right and it doesn't happen. It was a mistake, it didn't matter much in the end but it shouldn't be ignored either.

He was running trying to cover for Smalling and slipped trying to turn back to cut out the ball across. I'd blame Smalling more than him as he got caught completely out of position.The focus was more on Lindelof due to his slip but he was trying to cover 2 positions at once.

IamtheWalrus

Would we be leading the pack if Pogba was around?

yabadabado

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

Would we be leading the pack if Pogba was around?

No maybe a few more points on tbe board .He would have made a difference v Huddersfield for sure.

Hococop

yabadabado wrote: »

No maybe a few more points on tbe board .He would have made a difference v Huddersfield for sure.

I think the same, maybe 3 or 4 points better off at most

jayo26

Hococop wrote: »

I think the same, maybe 3 or 4 points better off at most

Two games that stood out for me were Huddersfield and stoke for sure.

limnam

bucketybuck wrote: »

People will say a slip can happen at any time but here's the thing, it doesn't happen at any time, you do not see top level defenders falling on their arse very often at all.

Happens to the best of them

Liam McPoyle

27 goals for and 6 against, only City have scored more and no-one has conceded the same or less.

#joseball

#portugesepulis

#upthebus

jayo26

limnam wrote: »

Happens to the best of them

Sure does..

yabadabado

jayo26 wrote: »

Two games that stood out for me were Huddersfield and stoke for sure.

He played against Stoke .

mewe

Just watching MOTD. Jesus Mike Dean is some flute lads.

jayo26

yabadabado wrote: »

He played against Stoke .

Hey he did sorry.

Bleating Lamb

Don’t know if it has being discussed here over last few days but I was absolutely disgusted to hear from interview with Mou that Phil Jones took 5 painkilling injections just before the international friendly on Wednesday night as he felt sore in the warmup.
What kind of a dope is Jones!!!
He has himself crocked again now just when Utd are coming up to the busy Christmas period of matches and we need a fit squad.

If I was the club heirarchy I would consider fining him a weeks wages for showing such disregard for his fitness to play in a bloody friendly.

adox

jayo26 wrote: »

but if you can't see how much pogba brings to our midfield I don't believe your looking at it with an open mind.
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Ah now don’t be making stuff up about me. That reads as increadibly patronizing.

J. Marston

mewe wrote: »

Just watching MOTD. Jesus Mike Dean is some flute lads.

Bigger than the flute in charge of City vs Leicester?

https://streamable.com/peqde

Such a coward.

limnam

J. Marston wrote: »

Bigger than the flute in charge of City vs Leicester?

https://streamable.com/peqde

Such a coward.

Such BS.

Lei a goal up against 10 men, different game.

what a clown.

adox

adox wrote: »

Ah now don’t be making stuff up about me. That reads as increadibly patronizing.

I highly disagree with you adox on this one(as in Pogbas impact). The difference Pogba brings to the team is night and day
And it ends up taking off the stress and focus put on rashford and martial