The Skipper

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.

Yes we did. We could've bought Aguero, Dzeko or Cavani, but they went for Torres because Ancelotti wanted him.

He had one below average game, get over it.

Lol, the way some people portray Falcao as some sort of super hero. Of course Atletico won't win the La Liga.

Not captain material because he's trying to win a game. Right.

A push because he, and everyone who was a CFC fan watching that was frustrated, does not result in me changing my opinion that Luiz would be good captain material. Not enough evidence for me sorry.

Oscar was immense today. Such a shame, I can't believe this happened to us today. I fucking hate United.

We don't have to bomb Cole and Ivanovic forward as United have given us the platform to play through the middle with their weak central midfield. Can you imagine Cleverley and Carrick trying to deal with Ramires, Mikel, Hazard, Oscar and Mata?

Looks like a 4-4-2 from United. Possible switching to a 4-2-3-1 to match us with Rooney dropping in behind RVP. Cleverly and Carrick in midfield... We should really win this. United are actually giving us the platform to play through the middle.

Brilliant bench, loads of options.

More eager to see United's starting line up than ours to be honest. It's quite predictable what we're going to put out.

If you watch Sturridge's goals last season, they are a lot more elaborate than just taking on the full back an scoring. Sturridge has great movement, you'll see that a lot of his goals last season were tap ins rather than taking on the full back and scoring. He gets himself into excellent positions which obviously allow him to score. You can tell that facing 2 centre backs won't be as big of a problem as you're trying to make it out to be for him. Majority of his goals at Bolton weren't flick ons from KD either. Go watch his goals at Bolton and you'll see that. It's unfair to say Sturridge isn't able to play as a lone striker when no one has actually seen him there consistently. Sturridge has done it before, albeit at reserve level, but he definitely has. Look at the video below where he actually scores a lot of goals in one reserve game as a lone striker (5!)... The guy's a natural goal getter, regardless if he plays off one or regardless if he plays upfront on his own. I believe he can do it.

Is that Eddie? Haha.

Also, Oscar doesn't have the passing repertoire Pirlo has. Very few do.

Exactly my point.