The Skipper

@WhoScored: Fewest minutes per goal in the PL this season (min 2 goals): Robson-Kanu 51, Dzeko 56, Hernandez 78, van Persie 95, Lukaku 97, Walcott 102

If Moses put away Sturridge's exquisite pass, your statement would be so invalid.

There's a difference between pointing out a mistake of a player and saying a player is shit. Grow up.

It's not his fitness that's the problem, he played 120 minutes. It was his sharpness. There's a big difference.

Ridiculous. Absolute tool.

And vice-versa. I don't think anyone was vilifying Cahill for yesterday, more about Sunday. Some of the Luiz criticism is over the top as usual, besides apart from the first half Luiz was actually very solid. From second half onwards you won't find him making the silly mistakes he committed in the first. If Luiz had put in the performance Cahill did on Sunday he would've been destroyed even more - Cahill for me was at fault for United's second and Ivanovic's sending off. To me these games have just reaffirmed how important JT is to our organisation in defence.

He's allowed that far up the pitch because RDM and the management staff give him the freedom to. Simple.

I'd go with a front 4 of Torres, Hazard, Oscar and Moses. Moses did enough to warrant another start IMO, and Mata should be saved for Shakhtar.

Go watch the game again and tell me he struggled to do basic things again. Unbelievable the bullsh*t people actually come up with.

Well, Luiz's role is to harass the striker, whilst JT/Cahill sit back. Of course he'll have more interceptions, foul more and be dribbled around more times. It's what's being asked of him.

Toronto!

Go watch the game again, there's only one real selfish moment from Sturridge, apart from that I can't see what else you're trying to complain about. People need to lay off him, it's his first start all season and he had a decent game where he scored with a tidy finish, nearly had an assist as well. Caused havoc with his pace upfront. He's not as sharp as he could be obviously due to lack of game time but that was a decent outing by Sturridge.

Do remember that this was Sturridge's first start all season. Don't be so ridiculous.

I thought Sturridge was decent today overall. People are just saying he had a bad game because of one selfish piece of play... Apart from that he led the line really well and got into great positions. His pass to Moses (which Victor unfortunately missed) was pretty sublime too. Decent first start from Danny, I think he'll kick on from here. Luiz... Uhhm. He had a horrible first half, but in the second half and extra time he looked a different player. Composed himself well, won a lot of headers and tackled well after half time. There's not much he could've done for the third goal, it was either him leaving it or taking Nani out for a penalty. It should've been stopped before. Special mention to Anderson from United whom I thought was superb. Oscar was also supreme in the double pivot, he is such a talent. I could see us playing Moses more often now because Oscar actually looks at home in the pivot. Decent game, shouldn't have conceded four really... I hope this game and the few before enlightened to many how important JT is to us.

Becoming? We're already there mate.

You'd have Huntelaar, Mandzukic, Lewandowski or Damiao in your team over Aguero? Haha. It's Halloween, not April fools!

Fully agree. I say give it a few seasons, and Luiz will sort out this problem. Apart from the minor mistakes he makes now and then he's an excellent prospect. As he gets older and more experienced he'll start making better decisions and he'll read the game better.

Exactly. Because our striker up front ATM (or anyone in our team actually) isn't as good at cutting crosses as let's say Drogba/Ballack/Lampard were obviously we're going to have lesser quality in our crosses.

This guy was a class apart in the game last Sunday. Scariest thing is that he's only 21. His potential is mouth watering. Great player.

Of course it's cool to criticise a player after a few below par performances, but there is difference between criticism and saying we should sell him/that he's been a waste of money etc. Luiz hasn't reached his peak at all for us, there's still a lot to come from him.

There's a reason Luiz starts over Cahill who is a good defender himself. RDM is not dumb.

Oscar?

I'm still livid about Sunday but use some common sense everyone. No point in playing our full strength side against a weak United team, what will that prove? Nothing. What's done is done.

Thanks for that link. I've been trying to tell people exactly that, Ivanovic has a decent cross on him yet some think he's absolute garbage at it for some reason.

We had no striker upfront. Of course RDM is going to put on a striker when we're a goal down.