I have just returned from the game and read some of the articles on here and would like to add my thoughts.
System - I thought we changed a little bit today using Paulinho more as a second striker and defending deeper without such a high line. Also we showed a lot more urgency throughout.
Defence - All of our defenders seem to have a mistake in them every game. I know Chiriches is everyone's favourite on here but he got caught badly once today trying to play out from the back and needs better decision making.
Loris - I love the way he plays but because of it he is likely to give away a penalty or get sent off at some time. Unfortunately for us it cost us 2 points today and the question is will he get us more points than he costs us. Personally I like him and think we just have to accept some games he will cost us a goal.
AVB - Good team selection but not happy with his substitution of Lennon when we really needed a goal. Chadli may have been good but was not much of an attacking threat and surely he should have been the one to come off for Townsend.
Man Utd - Very average and should have been beaten.
Overall - A good performance but disappointing result and 2 points dropped.
Todays game
posted on 1/12/13
AVB is throwing his toys out of the pram because the mail have said he's done crap this season. Talk about a complex
posted on 1/12/13
Fans that booed taking Lennon off are a disgrace. Not saying I was happy with the decision but he could've been injured, and he didn't really do anything in the second half anyway so why fecking boo?
posted on 1/12/13
raptor
posted on 1/12/13
Team played well today.
Thought we should have won the match.
Sandro ... great strike. He'll be back in the Brazil squad on this form.
Thought the penalty was a weak decision. Mike Dean is not the best of referees TBH.
I do hope Soldado starts scoring goals. He works hard and deserves it. A bit short on confidence maybe.
posted on 1/12/13
If AVB gets sacked ...... who would Levy have come in?
Any ideas?
posted on 1/12/13
Why sack AVB?
On today`s showing the players are still firmly behind and playing for their manager. Re assess at the end of season imo.
posted on 1/12/13
Avb should not get sacked !
We've got games coming up that we can win and levy should hold his nerve.the support for Avb and the team was good inside the ground today.
Walker has got some stick this season but played well today and sandro scored a brilliant goal,I have to say I thought Rooney was brilliant for them today and vidic deserves credit for THAT tackle on walker
posted on 1/12/13
the ref always bottle it against united.....nothing f ucking changes even under Moyes. he ref couldn't wait to give that penalty to united.
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What the hell are you whinging about? It was a stonewall penalty as he caught his trailing leg. You seem also to forget we had a stonewaller in both games against you last season turned down. So quit your fecking whining like a little biiiitch.. It was a fair result end of
posted on 2/12/13
Exactly.........trailing leg, which players deliberately do to try and get a penalty when they have lost the ball. Lloris did catch him, but Welbeck went down way too easily in my opinion.
As I said earlier, Vidic was also lucky he stayed on the pitch!
posted on 3/12/13
Genius
I thought exactly the same about Vidic and was surprised not much was said about it.
To be honest I thought Chadli done ok without being anything special and I thought the penalty was extremely harsh but a draw was about fair IMO and at least we played quite well for once without the negative approach we have adopted recently.
Fortunately that high line was absent as well