Rowan_Osborn

I don't think so. We can defend when we need to, as we did against Bayern and Barca. What we need to develop is a balance between the two.

Reading's goals were not really defensive errors but goalkeeping mistakes, we were on the front foot for most of that game and did well. Wigan and Newcastle were made to look poor by our play and the defence and holding mids prevented Newcastle from attacking, Ben Arfa was hardly mentioned due to the good job Bertrand and Cole did. I agree we need a balance and it will take a while to come, but i don't think people should be so negative this early on, even if we hadn't won our first three games.

Yes i don't think we can judge our defence on last season, as basically we sat the whole team back with Drogba up top. Remember how long it took for us to adapt to AVB's defensive tactics ( we never really did), hopefully it won't take that long but it won't be the immediate success people seem to be predicting.

We are still trying to adapt to a new system. Before the start of the season most Chelsea fans were expecting us to take a while to settle, as we have performed well in our opening three games people seem to have forgotten this. Luiz will come good, he has the qualities to be a good player and if he can iron out his mistakes then he will be a top player.

We have improved, we are much better in attack and our defence is as good as it was last year. Wigan are a good side and we have struggled at the DW recently, it was a good result. Against Reading we showed great determination to come back and the goals scored against us were a strange mistake form Cech and then some great attacking work.

I can't think of many better CBs that are available. Cahill and Luiz could be world class and Terry is, as he as shown at the Euros. Cahill and Luiz were amazing against Bayern and on that form i couldn't think of many better CBs. Last night was bad all round but it was a blip rather than the norm.

He looks very good and at 18years old he has still got 3 years at least until he would be wanting a first team place, in that time i reckon IVan would of moved on.

I was surprised by this as Malouda still gets in France's national team. You would of thought that he would of taken this into consideration and looked for first team action elsewhere.

Luiz was poor, but you blamed the whole defence. for the 3rd goal the speed of the break didn't allow for Luiz to get back from the corner, but if you watch Lampard he is around the box but is casually jogging. the 1st goal was Luiz's fault, the second was a great finish but could have been prevented. Our main issue was a lack of pace in defence, Ivan was too easily exposed by Adrian Lopez.

I don't think you can put yesterdays defeat on the defence. They were left exposed by the CMs and lack of support from the wingers. Its almost impossible to defend against quick breaks, especially when the opposition has someone of Falcao's class up top.

He should get some game time though, especially i cup games. The kid has huge potential we should try and develop it.

We might of got Marin, Moses and Azpicuelta. We would of had to of watched City get Hazard and Spurs probably get moutiniho or Hulk ( we basically didn't get him because Porto don't like us). Would of been one of the worst transfer windows and now its been probably the best i can remember.

Don't forget Ramires is actually a CM and I think management reckons Oscar can do a job in Lampard's current role, he played there against Reading. I'm happy with our striking options, don't forget we have Piazon too.

I would argue that Terry is still world class, he showed it at the Euros and paired with a fast cb he is great. Torres is showing signs of recovery. Lampard I'm not sure about, against possession based teams he can do a job but against AM he was caught too often up the pitch.

Its got to be the biggest knee jerk reaction to a game I've seen. We are top of the league for crying out loud.

I agree, RDM shows huge potential. He ha shown us he can set a team up to defend as he did against Barca and Bayern and also to attack like he did for the second leg versus Napoli

Even SAF took a couple of seasons to settle at united and the fans wanted him out in the third. Can you imagine of they had got rid of him in 1989. I still reckon we should of kept Carlo though.

Well I'm guessing its the one where he missed the ball and let it roll to Falcao (the video only really shows the goal). Although he made a mistake, Falcao's shot was amazing and i would of put the blame on Cole for allowing that much time and space in the area; he backed off when he should of been closing Falcao down and trying to block the shot.

My issue with the guy is that he has the potential to be amazing but quite often he makes decisions that are astonishing. You can't blame him for the second and third though, the second was just an amazing goal and the third was a breakaway from a corner ( i would blame lampard for his causal jogging at the edge of the box). As for the almost own goal, he prevented an almost certain goal, so give him some credit.

Its nice for him to come out and say it, he didn't need to do it.

I disagree. It isn't really a big game, its basically a glorified friendly, and Cesar's pace would have been better able to deal with Lopez's speed. Ivanovic could not keep up and AM noticed this and took advantage of it.

This has probably been our best transfer window. We've spent £79.5mil and even though i would of liked to have seen another striker, being help to ransom by clubs is not a good move for the club. We have Piazon as well, who i can see getting a couple of games in cup games and lesser league matches.

RDM got his tactics wrong today, but if you consider that he is still learning as a manager perhaps this will help him to improve. Having said that, I don't know if I am happy having a manager who is developing at the club, although if you consider SAF won nothing in his first year at united and many wanted him sacked and look at him now. Perhaps keeping RDM in the job will improve our consistency and we can build a legacy like that at united. We've got the resources to do so, but this constant changing is effecting the club. Added to this RDM has won his first three BPL games, so we shouldn't be so quick to judge him.

Im not bothered by the defeat but by the manner of the defeat. However ever year a team will suffer a bad defeat, hopefully this is our only one and if so I'm glad it came in what is basically a pointless game.

In my opinion his tactics have been good up until this game. However the board clearly did not see him as first choice given how long they took to appoint him. I hope he succeeds as he has done well for the club as a player and manager. Today was exceptionally bad, but you can't blame RDM for a poor team performance, however he did little to effect the game and i don't understand why he only brought sturidge on with 5mins to go; if you need a goal put your strikers on.