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coogar: no 2 seasons are the same....
ruudie is quite right. if we batter the smaller teams home & away like we have done swansea & palace then we would replicate 08/09 season.

the mini-league hardly matters anymore - if we can beat the minnows then we should be fine. like i said earlier, the next 5 games should be comfortable for us. let's see where we get by the time we face arsenal.




this is my problem with statements like this one. i could score 80 marks in JAMB and be the best performer in my village. the question is how did rooney fare in comparison to aguero & negredo? they don't make as much as rooney but you could see the gulf in class between the city strikers and rooney. you know it's over for rooney when ordinary nasri outperformed rooney:



young did not perform worse or less than expected. i expected him to get the ball from wide areas, work the angles with evra & deliver crosses into the box. all the time this happened, there was no united shirt in the box to aim at. all i saw was rooney running out of the box towards the ball instead of making himself available to receive crosses & push kompany & nastastic back towards city's net.



rooney isn't messi but he gets paid like messi. so why shouldn't we compare them? if saint obi gets paid like brad pitt, would you not expect excellent acting performance from him?

Young was abysmal going forward. i have already posted his passing stats going forward and compared to our other attacking players.

Asinine Young ended the match with 60 percent passing accuracy ( 62 percent in 1st half)
welbeck had 93%, Valencia had 84% and Rooney had 74 %. with players like asinine young who keep giving the ball away to the opponents who needs enemies?

coogar: reina simply waited for him to kick before diving. i dunno why no one figured this out yet. cech didn't move for cristiano in moscow too and he saved ronaldo's kick easily.



the truth is finally out....
young worked the spaces left today. when he got the ball from the wide, he had nothing to aim at. this is why rooney leading the line worries me. he's never in the box to be the attack focus and he makes zero movements.

valencia is a toad!
the less said about him, the better. he didn't beat kolarov throughout the match. all he did was to escort him to get the cross to aguero's first goal. look at this & tell me one reason valencia stopped tracking his man....

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apologies for singling out the highest wage drawer in our team for a disgraceful performance. to whom much is given, i expect heaven & earth. why won't i single rooney out? rooney even lacked the tact to stand off kompany and leave a gaping hole in city's defence. messi was only 22 when he did the same against rio/vidic in the 2009 final in rome.

Rooney is highest paid and he was our best performer on the day,so there should be no problem.
I assume Asinine Young gets paid too even if its a plate of ewa agoyin....so why does he perform like he is working for free? ditto valencia and carrick and rio today.is any of them working pro bono?
Rooney is not Messi,nobody is.there are very few people in the history of the Hominidae who are as accomplished at what they do as Messi is.

superstar1: Young made himself the easy target due to perpetual mediocre performance. If he had given us a virtuoso performance today, he would definitely have been exempted from the tirades against the whole team.

EXACTLY.

chronic perpetual olodoism

Young was very poor today but so were many other players on the pitch. I would rate Valencia worse because of his direct contribution to the goal that started the onslaught,at least Young kept his defensive shape most times. However the chronic nature of Young's malaise is why most United fans are tired of him.

@Coogar it was not objective of you to single out Rooney (the only one who seemed to care about the match) for criticism when it was a team wide problem.Valencia,Carrick,Fellaini etc were having major problems competing yet you singled out Rooney.......just the way others singled out Young

Valencia was so naive today it wasn't funny. Strangely so cos he is usually so in tune with his defensive responsibilities. Only good thing i can say for Young is that he offered Evra more protection.

Ferdinand was slow to react and looked off pace throughout,3 matches in a week is one match too many for the old boy esp when the 3rd is against heavy hitters like City.Hope Moyes learned that lesson. H e should have been rested midweek.

Vidic and Evra weren't too poor.

Carrick and Fellaini were competing for the crown of mediocrity and although Fellaini was poor i think Carrick was more disappointing considering his talents.

Welbeck and Rooney had little service from the midfield and struggled for most of the match.HOWEVER Rooney was the only one that looked like his drink wasn't spiked with Valium,he TRIED to compete unlike the others.

The Asinine Young issue has been overflogged and i foresee a long spell on the bench for Quasimodo

jackbauerspower: Ayo mi kun ore mi



David Moyes ti je eba yo l'eni

u guys no well.

una own still dey come o

Ibime: Carrick and Fellaini are too sluggish. One of them needs to step down for Cleverley.

I've been telling Fellaini lovers on Chelsea thread for some time that they would be surprised at Fellainis sluggishness when they see him in a midfield two.

oh boy see as fellaini they jog like say he get belle. no urgency to move forward with the ball,no urgency to track runners defensively,no urgency close down his man. his turning arc is as wide as an olympic athletic track

however when a team concedes 4 goals you have got to look at the defense and those supposed to help out with that.

Rio Ferdinand had a poor day at the office today,was caught ball watching several times,lost his man and didnt pick up late runs into d box.

The full backs were overrun several times. However City were able to overload on our full backs and advance their own full backs forward because carrick and fellaini couldnt compete in midfield and our wide men especially valencia shirked their defensive duties

jackbauerspower: You put your head on the block and got decapitated by an axe of your own making.

Like I said, stones and glass houses.


Moving on, what does Kagawa have to do to get a game. I cant imagine the guy would be happy seeing wastepipe Young starting ahead of him weekly?

dont worry ASININE YOUNG'S days are numbered.He has just been given enough rope to hang himself

Cristalz: RVP being present on the pitch today wouldn't have made any impact whatsoever.
The overall performance woulda made him look like a handsome ass, the way Welbeck and Rooney have been made to look since the beginning.

completely agree

Ogbeche77: towel ke? So soon..
Shebi SAF chop 6 from shitty months ago.. Abeg relax joor

i mean in this match

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kai see how fellaini just dozed and allowed aguero to ghost in

omo moyes should throw in the towel

dopeJemi: Coogar stop dah nonsense talk jhoor, hau has rooney been left alone 2 lead d line, what is welbeck doing in d number 9 position? He's a big person, Young is a bastard and also a person... Valencia is a phucking liabiLity... Fuuuucccckkkkk

Ojigbijigbi see vex

for the first half
Valenica's pass accuracy 94%
Wayne Rooney 90%
Welbeck 100%

Asinine Young 62%

Mr_TA: What build up play?

LOL.
its like someone dosed their drinks with Valium

13 goal attempts to 1.
oh boy eh, this na apako

YOUNG! SMH

Build up play has been real SLOW

Valencia has been poor defensively. Even after the goal he is allowing Kolarov and Nasri to double up on Smalling

no ryan giggs!

hope boys are happy now?

well very few obvious candidates.......and the usual suspects drogba,adebayo,essien,etoo seem to be out of d picture

not to say mikel is a frontrunner though

mikel don score ooo

its looking like no music here tonight

TOO NARROW!

wide men cutting inside!!
overlapping full backs CUTTING INSIDE to join their wide men!!!

omo see etoo dey miss chance! e don chop too much akpu for russia

JM just said that Juan Mata's performances in his last 2 matches have not been convincing enough to include him in the match day squad.interesting
He also implies Luiz is out because he is not positionally and emotionally stable.

LOL. Mourinho has started wielding his big stick o. boys are not laffin

no MATA? whats the MATTER?

coogar: talk about instant impact....
hopefully, this would prompt birmingham to play him in every game. these lads need game time & the experience. lingard would come back and fight for a first team shirt.

i am happy for lingard. he and larnell cole were the quiet ones in that explosive youth team with pogba,morrison,will keane and tunnicliffe.
since then his finishing has improved markedly and apart from pogba i think he has made the most improvement in that side.
hope he comes back to fight for a first team place in a few months and hopefully with lingard,zaha and januzaj coming up that signals the beginning of the end for your boy Asinine Young........as well as baba Giggs of course

dayokanu: This is how Chelsea ruins some players career

In a World cup year playing for a competitive National Team Jose decides to ruin Mata.

Why not just sell him in summer

Look at how Bayern sold Gustavo and Gomez without any fuss to their preferred clubs just to help their careers

Financially, Mata this summer would have gone for an upward of 40m, After a season on the bench and playing as a full Back lets see how much he goes for

Those eagerly celebrating the coming of the Special one I wonder what they have to say now

I am hoping Fulham gets the win today

u too talk. just make sure say band boys and instruments complete today

we suppose start with bonue fuji today then rewind to talazo .hope rising

dayokanu: ^^
-Tyson was a ferocious attacker and woeful in defence yet he is one of the All time Boxing great

-Barca is a blistering attacking team but suck defensively and in goalkeeping yet one of the greatest team of modern times

-Brazil 1970 was a great attacking team which was mediocre in defence yet the best team of their generation

-Madrid at the turn of the century cant be bothered with defence and yet achieved a lot

-The Italians are one of Europes best side and they place more emphasis on defence than attack

-Juventus is the best Italian club domestically yet they are a very defensive side

Point is there are many ways to win and to be a great side

EXACTLY