Fussbot: Seriously?nobody is complaining about de gea?

Any ball that goes towards him is a goal!smh

elampiro:

World greatest footballers ever have played with pace and power.
Pele
Maradona
Ronaldo
Messi
Di Lima

chrisley024: LvG should pls add Fellaini to the bench if he's fit for when the ball starts flying in the air.

Our fullbacks also need protection.

Odunharry: NO BACKBONE , NO LEADERSHIP

I prefer mata in the hole..Gaal knows Falcao is better than Rooney upfront.
Gaal doesnt bench his captain..

I guess Rvp will sit on d bench then or mata

RuuDie:

Seconded - a plan B is very much needed - and route-1 footie can be very productive atimes if you got someone who can play it well

SailorXY:
that's not the united way smh


the attack is doing fine, but maybe we can use it to counter tactics of some agbero teams

ElFenomeno1:

As things stand, i think RVP should be made the scape goat.... One game, lets see Falcao and Rooney!

ElFenomeno1:

As things stand, i think RVP should be made the scape goat.... One game, lets see Falcao and Rooney!

SailorXY:
that's not the united way smh
the attack is doing fine, but maybe we can use it to counter tactics of some agbero teams

RuuDie:

If we are truly honest with ourselves, we will see that there's only one thing about UTD that hasn't changed over the years - from the twilight years of SAF, Moyes and now to LVG. we have 'scape-goated' many but yet still haven't really 'changed'! So if we really want to 'change' and actually do something different, then that 'constant' has to removed!

Odunharry: Van Gaal: Falcao can do a better job upfront than Rooney

Louis van Gaal has backed Radamel
Falcao to perform better than Wayne
Rooney up-front. The Manchester United captain was
forced to play in attacking midfield
against Leicester City at the weekend,
rather than in his usual starting
position up-front, to accommodate
Falcao. Van Gaal believes this is because his new Colombian attacker can offer United an improvement on the performances that Rooney has given so far. "We have played well but can improve and I was not so satisfied with Rooney as a striker... and that’s why I’m changing," he said to the Guardian. “Rooney can play in more positions, he’s a multi-functional player and I have tried him in a striker’s position.
He’s played well but not spectacular
and Falcao is a striker and I think he
can do it better.”

RuuDie: @ pietroRico

The short-term answer for me is using Rojo's aggression and ability to commit fouls to full effect in the middle of the park and use Blind more at LB/LWB or CB. He (Rojo) may pick up a few cards along the way, but I think some of the opposing players will also be mindful that they may be one 'Rojo-tackle' away from an injury!

RuuDie: @ pietroRico

The short-term answer for me is using Rojo's aggression and ability to commit fouls to full effect in the middle of the park and use Blind more at LB/LWB or CB. He (Rojo) may pick up a few cards along the way, but I think some of the opposing players will also be mindful that they may be one 'Rojo-tackle' away from an injury!

"I don't think anyone can put a finger on my best position, but I am adaptable. I can go into midfield, drop out wide or play up-front. It just depends on where the manager wants me to play."

codedguy1:
LvG will soon regret making Rooney the captain if care is not taken, since his captain must play and Rooney would be found out to be master of no particular position and there would be a player better than him in every position they want to push him to.

coogar:

translation - "i lack positional discipline" i cannot imagine messi, ronaldo, iniesta, ibrahimovic, etc coming out with this crapola.

rooney's indecision on where to play is a ploy to hide the fact he has regressed. he wants to be a striker today & a playmaker tomorrow. van gaal has to be an idïot not to drop rooney after this self-admission.

liveLongNprospa: [b][/b]GOAL.COM.
"I don't think anyone can put a finger on my best position, but I am adaptable. I can go into midfield, drop out wide or play up-front. It just depends on where the manager wants me to play."

PietroRico: ^^ good to see rooney hammering on his willingness to play out wide.

That's the 3rd interview this season(at least) that he's stressing it.

433 is the way.

PietroRico: A lot has been said recently about our struggling fùllbacks.

Everyone seems to have forgotten that we operate a diamond midfield system, a formation whose trademark is lack of meaningful width.

Our fullbacks therefore lack appropriate protection.
Dimaria in that LCM position did all he could! But he is no machine. There's no way he can combine playing as a cm and winger. He did offer some degree of protection because of his winger instinct but ultimately got exhausted early.

Herrera on the RCM offered no such protection to rafael.
His own instinct is to always drift into the middle (while we are attacking or defending)

We will get destroyed like this repeatedly if we come across any quality team that plays with width.
That's the long and short of the whole thing.

Its not compulsory for Rvp, falcao and rooney to start 2geda.
I've had enough of shifting from pillar to post to accommodate players.

433 is the answer.

For teams that aren't bullies, a midfield 3 of mata, herrera and blind will do (with matà béing the most advanced)
But for very physical teams, herrera, carrick and blind wit herrera being the most advanced.

Rvp should slug it out with falcao for the striking position while rooney and di maria man our wings.

That way we can bring rvp/falcao (whoever didn't start)
alongside adnan [playing in his most comfortable position(s) ] in place of rooney/dimaria to either give any of the aforementioned rest or as impact subs when the starting players are having off days.

The 4 1 2 1 2 alongside 3 5 2 should remain options.
433 is the way!

Dimaria nai dey even make this diamond midfield system tick to this extent.
the boy is exceptional.
Withouth his drive and energy, mk dons like teams go dey hammer us for fun, even with falcao et all on the field.

liveLongNprospa: I might not be a gud football analyst like coogar or elampiro but I hv been watching Rooney since d days of him playing with cr7 nd tevez AND TO BE TRUTHFUL ROONEY IS NOW AWFUL I MEAN DUDE MAKES ME WANNA LITERALLY SHIT IN HIS MOUTH IF I GET A CHANCE TO...he can't blame age..no way...coz ibra is showin to d world dat being 30 is awesome as a footballer...nd for the fact that he(Wayne the cow) has cheated man u into giving him a 300k contract I feel like stepping on his soul... Elampiro pls be truthful..wud u say Rooney has gotten better or worse...nd by d way m a Madrid fan nd it pains me like dis..i wonder hw u red devil lads feel wen u watch him

Ranting and raving like a Scouse John Terry following Esteban Cambiasso's equaliser, Wayne Rooney launched the pram, rather than the toys, as he moaned at Rojo, Blackett and Daley Blind. The irony was Rooney was to blame for Leicester's leveller.

Van Gaal's peculiar substitutions upset United's shape, deprived them of Ángel di María's pace and left Rooney on the pitch. The United captain is adamant his best position is "behind" the strikers but even Van Gaal doesn't sound convinced.

Rooney was poor again at Leicester as the No.10. Careless on the ball, he slowed down the play, wasted oxygen moaning at the referee, and began to resemble Jack Nicholson's increasingly volatile temper in A Few Good Men. He couldn't handle the truth.

Already, Van Gaal has said "my captain shall always play". Rooney is fortunate to have that privilege after and at times acrimonious four years, irrespective of his increasingly ineffectual performances and he has not revelled as a playmaker since a stint behind Javier Hernández over three years ago.

coogar:

does he have the pace to play out wide? i hate valencia with every pint of my blood but i would rather have him than watch rooney plodding labouriously on the flanks. when was the last time you saw rooney took the ball past a marker with pace?

he single-handedly ruined LVG's plan on sunday. the diamond formation concentrates the attack in the middle. only the fullbacks(when overlapping) and the 2 strikers should be drifting wide. the 4 midfielders making the diamond should be intelligent enough to play passes that would keep the shape.

if the ball goes wide too often, it would stretch the diamond because one of di maria & herrera would want to tag-team to beat the opponents full back. if the opponents get the ball from that point, our midfield would be out of shape to deal with the counter-attack. that was why we were vulnerable each time leicester broke....

PietroRico: . He spoke of his adaptability.
If he believes he is adaptable, then we'll have to wait for him to prove otherwise before brushing that off. If he isn't, it won't take long for him to be exposed.

He may have lost pace but he still has loads of energy to burn.(Essential quality for a winger)
That together with his footballing brain(I know you think he has none. Lol ) will mean there is a real chance of it working.


true

But I think you are laying too much emphasis on rooney's role in that defeat tbh.
The inexperience of our defenders was the bigger cause. (They lost their heads after that useless ref's decision)
That's what you are supposed to be hammering on.

SIRcumalot:
His willing to sacrifice self glory for the team.
Fuq them haters
this is the hallmark of great captains

codedguy1:

Is this not the same Rooney that was complaining about being played on the flanks, now he wants to willingly play in the same wide position or anywhere the coach plays him.

Rooney should now be used like Mourinho uses Mikel, when we are 5goals up, Rooney should come in to use his energy to wear the opponents down. He can choose wherever he wants to play when he comes in.

It's worth saying that Di Maria and Herrera won as many tackles as our whole backline against Leicester (5).

chrisley024: Are u serious with this u wrote?

Then we should better use Jones

PietroRico: I haven't seen enough of rojo to conclude anything about him tbh.
I've seen just 2 games of his as a LB and zero as CB and the only worrying thing about him seems to be his apparent lack of defensive awareness (apparent, because as I said earlier, I haven't seen enough to conclude)
A CB without that is a disaster waiting to happen.