Lana1:
In the second half when he pushed up, and City were on d back foot, how often was he getting the ball. I can still recollect how many times Pogba was in the middle waiting for the pass while Rooney & Fellaini were busy losing the ball, Fellaini was busy elbowing City players and Valencia was busy smashing his crosses into Kolarov and Otamendi.
Even in set pieces and especially corners, Rooney couldn't even get the ball past the first defender. And as such, our big men weren't getting the desired service.
Pogba eventually had no choice than to drop deep again so he could see more of the ball.

U cant blame Pogba. Every one around him was simply off their game.

sinizia:


If it's United now, you'll see the Haters calling us PDP. But now, they've kept mute. Hypocrites.

Diademk07:


You mean the same Kagawa that was our best player vs Bayern?

Kagawa never played as poor as Mkhi though.. Also, he was hardly given a chance to begin with. He started just 14 games under Moyes, most of the appearances came towards the end of the season when Moyes tumbled upon him and realised what's he's been missing and that he was too good to sit out.

At this point we are duty-bound to praise Rooney for ‘trying to make things happen’. Which basically means tearing around, chasing balls, flying into tackles for which he really should be booked sooner, attempting to start a fight with Guardiola, taking all the set-pieces and appealing every time the ball hits an opposition player on any part of his body in the box.

By the end of the game he had lost possession more times than anybody else on the pitch (23), which – granted – only happens when you are ‘trying to make things happen’. But for real influence, check out De Bruyne, nominally playing in the same position as Rooney at the opening whistle but making a lot less noise while having a lot more impact.

elrony:


Facebook pundit Save yourself the cluelessness and read the full post match interview!!!

elampiro:


Everyone was rated poorly by Goal.com

But Mkhitaryan and Lingard were the worst. In fact Mkhitaryan and Lingard are being crucified right now on facebook and some other online fora

sinizia:
This is for Elampiro that accused me of hating on Rooney and not watching the match; and for diademk that still found praises for the worthless Rooney. . .


Another truth, this just what I wrote earlier, the writer stole my thoughts.


http://www.football365.com/news/man-united-1-2-man-city-16-conclusions


Like Sailor and I said, Mourinho will rue his decision if he sticks with Rooney. Rooney will get him sacked while Rooney takes unmerited glory as a good player.

Elxandre:

I thought na only me dey see am o.

Because of their gra gra pressing football, they have concluded they are unstoppable.
Lol

Their defence is porous, and United only lost as a result of being over-coached today.
Once i saw Lingard ahead of Martial, I knew it might not go well.
Martial's poor form is far ahead of Lingard's best.
We were unlucky with Mkhi today.
He has the X-factor that could have won us the game, but he just didn't "play"!

We are wasting Ibra playing Rooney behind him.
I've always said the combination would prove problematic.
Zlatan is even slower than Rooney, so how the hell can they combine?

Pogba is trying too much though!
I need Mourinho to craft a formation that would give Pogba a free role with no inhibitions, else we are looking at a £90m flop.

I stil believe in this team to win the league!

Diademk07:


He had it in Van gaal first season and was horrible in that role.

There's a reason Van gaal never trusted him in that role again..

elampiro:


If you go round fetching articles for each players, you will discover Mkhitaryan and Lingard would be blasted more, even though some English tabloid have a habit of blaming Rooney for United woes.

Rooney played better than Pogba today. Pogba is now the biggest name in the club. Remember. Rooney was one of the top players today.

elampiro:


If you go round fetching articles for each players, you will discover Mkhitaryan and Lingard would be blasted more, even though some English tabloid have a habit of blaming Rooney for United woes.

Rooney played better than Pogba today. Pogba is now the biggest name in the club. Remember. Rooney was one of the top players today.

elrony:


Lol...Skimpledawg don save him money!!!

SailorXY:
you see PK wey gunners use win?

sinizia:


You're missing the point. Mhiki and Lingard was useless, nobody dey say any less, the issues here is you rating Rooney high when he's just as useless as Mhiki and Lingard whole playing more minutes.

elampiro:
Sinizia

From Metro

elampiro:


Rooney was one of the better players. Your hate for him has made you biased against him.

I didn't even rate the team at full time, so how do you mean I rated Rooney very high?

sinizia:


Kante-Fellani or Kante-Schneiderlin would fit well behind Pogba.

chrisley024:
Let's leave hindsight and focus on what we've.

Our best pairing is Carrick-Herrera/Morgan - Bastian.

Carrick-Herrera with Pogba behind the striker and we've guys that can pass, hold ball and defend likewise while Pogba gets closer to the post.

Though we know it ain't happening.

sinizia:


No player in the history of United have been given more chance than Rooney. Stop defending him. Rooney went 11 months without an away goal and still van Goat made him our point man. Mata has not gotten one-tenth of Rooney's chance. Rooney is a failure leaving off his past glory.

sinizia:


I quoted a link, did they hate Rooney too?


The rating is for full time and he's below average for someone playing 90 mins.

chrisley024:
Let's leave hindsight and focus on what we've.

Our best pairing is Carrick-Herrera/Morgan - Bastian.

Carrick-Herrera with Pogba behind the striker and we've guys that can pass, hold ball and defend likewise while Pogba gets closer to the post.

Though we know it ain't happening.

sinizia:


Rating without description to write what Rooney really did? Rooney was not good, he's just there for the whole 90 mins doing nothing spectacular.

elampiro:


There are ratings out there. The popular Goal.com scored Rooney higher than Mkhitaryan and Lingard.

Diademk07:


The thing with Rooney is he always put in an effort and even help out defensively unlike Mata who becomes invisible when the going get tough..

Did you realise that Rooney was later moved to the wing and still looked decent enough unlike Mkhi and Lingard who were quite poor on both wings..

elampiro:


I can give you rating with descriptions if that is what you want. De way u take carry this matter for head sef.