didierforever

manu had pool (a), city (a), chelsea(h) in their first 5 fixtures. tell me thats not tough. their squad last year was as bad as this year's. at the start of the last season, no one gave them a chance to win the PL. it was SAF that made them a champion. united's real "class" of the squad can be understood by their performances in the CL where the shitty nature of their squad left them horribly exposed.

precisely. SAF was there for years. yet he dint win anything for his first 4 years but people are already ridiculing moyes after 4 months. united have had a tough fixture and to be honest how many of us actually thought that united have a PL winning squad compared to squads like ours or city's? it was SAF's genius that made them a PL winning squad. nothing else. right now they should be fighting for a CL spot and by the looks of it that is what they are doing.

since u will conveniently ignore, the facts about herrera and when united actually bought fellaini, i wont bother to go into it. we paid MORE, infact double for torres than RVP. what a joke. mistakes can and will happen. he would have been able to get players if he had splashed money. but what u have so easily ignored is that moyes has been given the assurance of time. in his first matches he tried and tested all the players of the united squad and since then players like anderson,young, nani,fabio, buttner, have been considered deadwood by him. he just dint want to overhaul the whole squad as soon as he came in. he gave these players their chances and now will make his move. on the other hand, even some1 like SAF was not able to pull players like OSCAR, HAZARD, MOURA and they were taken from right under his nose. i believe he is a decent man and a decent manager. to compare him to SAF is unfair. infact to compare any manager to SAF is unfair.

wow. u really are an idiot are u not? lukaku's age is a FACT. he is 20 years old, i know that. but if he performs poorly, no one is going to hear this age excuse because now that is the level of expectation from him. "it has nothing to do with luck." read what i wrote in the bracket after that. guess it was asking too much of u to do that. i ll help u by writing it in bold and in a bigger font. (lukaku did not, he took both his goals very well) now please stop bull-shitting and for once write some sense.

all your statement tells me is that u definitely dint watch the match. also lukaku's age is not a thing that he can hide behind. he is a striker who aspires to play for one of the best clubs in europe (4th ranked to be precise), who is a regular starter for a team which has an outside chance of making into europe. also u can get lucky in scoring goals (lukaku did not, he took both his goals very well), but that does not mean that his overall performances over a period of 90-odd minutes becomes phenomenolly out-of-the-world.

moyes did not bring in fellaini. he wanted ander herrera and it was the united cheifs which spoilt the whole deal with some stupid money dealing thing. in their desperation for a mid-fielder, moyes went with the safest option he could think of anf that was FELLAINI as moyes has alreasy played with him and knows the guy. united the champions cant defend since they conceded 3-4 goals to reading and were generally outscoring teams rather than keeping clean sheets even in the last season. u should really know what u r speaking about before just going on about it. as for today, united have a big injury problem. they do not have carrick and fletcher thru injury. jones and vidic too have niggles. same with rafael. he put in a most obvious team that was possible and that team was winning until the last minute of the normal time. dont see how all this points out as moyes and me being deluded. rather things point otherwise.

no need. its a must-win for them. we can take a 0-0 and still be more than just happy. basel on the other hand know that their one and only shot to go thru is getting a win, hence they would get more desperate for a goal and play to our strength, ie, counters.

atleast he tried putting in a tackle for wba's 2nd goal which was more than what luiz did for newcastle's 2nd. remember that??? letting anita go thru like he was messi. also i remember ameobi nut-megging luiz. world-class defender indeed!!! also, the aguero goal. seriously!!!! u need to watch more football dude..

oh come on!!! what wrong did moyes do today??? waht does he do if his team cant defend a set-piece or if rooney cant put the ball in the back of the net 10 seconds after cardiff equalized.

i agree with selling mata for the right price deal. but i would wait for the right time and that is summer. the season is LOOOONNNNGGGG. not even one-third of the league games are done, we have (hopefully) about 10 more cup games to play and are yet to even officially qualify from the CL group. so lets wait. trust jose to do the right thing (and by the looks of it, he has been doing the right thing), and then make a call at the end of the season.

it all depends on the manager and your team. i remember demel going past azpi-hazard and then frank in the 80th or so minute. this is just to point out that hazard was defending deep even in the 80th minute and not taking things lightly. and a big cheers to him for that. compare this to city. their front 4 have been set to just play attacking football. nasri/navas/silva dont help their fullbacks the way our wingers do, not even half of it.look at oscar and how deep he plays sometimes to help our pivot, u dont see that with aguero. and i feel this is one of the main reasons for city's pathetic away form. u can argue that we have not been much better than them away from home but our away fixtures so far have been tough (united, everton, spurs, newcastle) compared to city's (cardiff,sunderland,villa,stoke and just one good team in us). inspite of these fixtures we have managed to rack up more points. so as i see, its the way, u r setup to play that will be the difference. mazacar played all this fancy football last year but at what cost? i personally would rather see us grinding winS than see us play beautiful football in one game and then losing the next one.

the logic in saying someone has played poor or even pathetic , yet has scored 2 goals is not hard to understand. the statement means exactly what it says. lukaku was a passenger for the majority of the game. he dint win a single aerial battle, lost the ball almost everytime he touched the ball, missed 3 1v1s before scoring and that would have been almost useless if allen had not missed a sitter. even i would prefer an ST who scores goals vs the one who does everything but score goals but the "performance" of the player can not be determined only by the goals scored but by his actual performance in the match.

spurs and united - hahahahaha...

he keeps falling back from the strikers, he is not good enough and blah blah blah,,,, but in the end, he is getting picked ahead of luiz and he is doing a much better job.

why rest JT? he has played 1 match in 2 weeks' time.

bvb are 7 points behind bayern, and just feel that bundesliga might already be over. it will surely be over till the start of jan. now i just hope that bvb dont make it to the knockout rounds of CL. then we should really have a go for this guy. cant see them refusing 20-25mil for a guy with just 6 months on his contract and with literally nothing to play for.

agree with most of it. but i stick to what i said too "nothing flashy. and good link up play" - he keeps it simple plus his positioning and movement are brilliant. also torres of this moment is better than etoo but torres taken over his almost 3 years at chelsea would not make the cut!!!

cech azpi-luiz-JT-bert (if fit) mikel-rambo willian-mata-andre torres basel should go all out for a win. the only way they stay alive in the group is by winning against us. plus they will have nothing to lose too as the 3rd place spot is pretty much decided. we should be able to play on the counters (very much like the match against basel in europa). i expect a win. 3-1 to us.

he might have scored 2 but i feel he was poor (bordering on pathetic today). i seriously cant think of any of the aerial duels that he won, general hold up play was poor too and passing was terrible. that moment when he gave the ball away on a 4 on 2 was just ..... nonetheless, took his goals brilliantly. if your striker can end up putting the ball in the back of the net, thats all u should end up looking at.

great win, good performance. 3 points most importantly. for me the most troubling part is still the start of the game. we are slow to non-existent in our starts which seems to help teams' confidence. until the goal, which was a defensive howler, we were average at best. not at all threatening and i cant remember a decent oppurtunity. our best hope for a goal seemed to be off the ball, hoping for oscar/etoo to nick the ball off a defender. and in some ways, that is exactly what happened. we desperately lack a play to break down a defence. that said, while on the counter, we are phenomenol. absolutely awesome. also, 4-3-3 makes us look far more comfortable with lamps and rambo getting the freedom to move up the pitch while mikel can do the dirty work. this is my player assessment- cech- he made a save at 92:55. so i really dont have anything to rate him on except for his cross handling, which was good and his ball distribution, which was great, i remember one of his kicks on a counter found etoo spot on. 7/10 iva - there is something very wrong when u get outplayed by downing. twice or thrice downing could have posed us a serious problem f only he had some1 to aim at in the center. disappointing performance in the defence though today i felt he was better in possession. but his clearance header almost off jarvis' head was brilliant. 5/10 GC&JT - solid. never looked troubled and dealt with almost everything thrown in the box brilliantly. 8/10 azpi - how the hell did he let demel go like that. not that hazard and FL were faultless but a few times, he seems to show the attacker the wrong side. but overall he was really good. many interceptions and a couple of good clearances when JT-GC missed their men or the ball. 7.5/10 mikel - for people who mindlessly and childishly critisize mikel, this is why he is in the team. he is a brilliant shielder and very calm on the ball. a near to perfect performance - unsung but awesome. 8.5/10 FL - the FL of young. he is at his best when he is playing in the opponent's box. a constant goal threat and having continous pops from long range. we should really try playing 4-3-3 with rambo-mikel-lamps/oscar-mikel-lamps/rambo-mikel-oscar. good to see such a performance. 8/10 rambo - THE BOSS!!! that ball to hazard was so awesome, he should have even got on the scoresheet but thrice (i think) he was ignored on the far post or simply not passed to. 8/10 oscar - MOTM. POTY (so far). just fabulous. full of running, closing down and a constant threat. though he needs to improve on his play with the back to the goal. 9.5/10 hazard - started awesomely, and couple of his flicks were wondorous. he is coming back to his own. but i still cant understand how, how for the sake of god, could he miss the ball rambo played to him to get him clear on the goal. all-in-all, very good. 8/10 etoo - nothing too flashy, good link up play, good couple of shots but not a threat in the box or rather not the threat we would want a PL chasing team to be. 7/10 subs- ba - pretty much the same as etoo. 6/10 schurlle - was a threat on the counter but his decision making let him down. 7/10 essien - would have loved it if he had scored with his first touch.

a point is a point. 1/3rd of the points we would get if we win compared to 0% of the points, in case we lose. every point is valuable.

do not feel good about the match AT ALL. honestly speaking i ll take a point as of this moment if u give me one.

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would be really interesting to see the team selection for this match. with the brazil hardly having time to train with the team and jet-lag issues, i would start this team cech iva cahill JT azpi (bert -if fit) mikel rambo hazard mata schurrle torres hoping for a good performance but not expecting one. we are definitely goin to struggle tomorrow against whu's physicality.

hahahahahahaha.... funny... azpi, iva, kalas, kane and now lahm... great...