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wtf? y r united player's falling at critical times? rooney,welbeck n rafael worst culprits.
GOAL! valencia

nice one.mayb this will give him more confidence

evans scores! 1st league goal for him i think

rooney finding space in the hole but passing poorly

MeGaStReEt: Guy! You smoke dry shitt?

laff wan give me muscle pull!

evra's defending has been declining at a rapid rate for the last 2 years.i can remember posting here last season that he was declining and maybe needed a rest or something but his apologists were giving several spurious excuses like giggs wasn't giving him enough cover or nani wasn't tracking back e.t.c someone even said it was cos he was bored and wasn't keen to defend,this from a man whose primary assignment is to defend.
the guy has been one of united's worst defenders for sometime now.
@DK its not that people r saying bilbao is so good,but their game play is attractive and is indicative of the trend in football

bielsa is a master tactician no doubt,but this goes beyond tactics.its about football styles and the way football will b played in the future pioneered by barca,bilbao n teams of similar ilk.u dont need powerhouses,u just need ur players to be technically sound,tactically astute and they must be able to operate both offense and defense WITH and WITHOUT the ball.
watching bilbao one can see why el loco was named as one of guardiola's mentors

if this doesnt make fergie shell out big money for world class defenders next season then nothing will!
united is being molested at will here,its painful to watch

this is rape at its most impolite level

this people r schooling united!
no b say go come,dis bilbao team no b fluke

torres did more than drogba in the match of yesterday? LWGMMP!!!

stat from soccernet
united has lost 7 out of the 17 games park has started this season,in games he didn't start we have lost just 1 out of 25!

hope we don't get the 3 goals,a 2-1 win should be honorable enough and we bow out of the competition without much disgrace.going further in this competition may complicate things in the league esp with a squad already limited in quality AND Thursday night football isn't the best for a team that has to win practically all its remaining league matches

rafael injured again? dis europa nonsense is claiming too many players o.valencia n anderson hav already bin hit wit injuries in it,hope we r knocked out so we can face wat counts=the premier league.i want a good performance sha

LOL

the maybe he is managing in d wrong era.in modern day football man management is very important,sometimes even more than tactics e.g harry redknapp
modern day footballers are superstars who are idolized by fans and paid bucket loads of money and who have the sleaziest characters as agents,u hav to b a good man manager.and when a young manager walks into a team and starts alienating all the senior players one by one then that is not bad man management,it is idiocy!
it doesnt matter wether u plan to offload them or not,u keep them fighting for ur cause as long as they r registered by the club.y do u tink mourinho's players always cry whenever he leaves a club? they r shedding tears not just for d coach they r losing but d FRIEND they r losing!
AVB is a metronome

thank God u said REQUESTED! it wasn't forced down his throat or has he been robbed of free will?
and if u check my post,i mentioned that even when his back was against the wall,he didnt change! he was still trying to force an impossible style through.
so the owner wanted him to play fancy football but its not working and d same owner is about sack him,shouldn't common sense tell him to revert to d tried n trusted (since even u said it works....simples ).then with a series of victories u get to d end of the season and then u make ur changes.instead he went mouselike to the guillotine like a timid french comtesse!

thank God u said REQUESTED! it wasn't forced down his throat or has he been robbed of free will?
and if u check my post,i mentioned that even when his back was against the wall,he didnt change! he was still trying to force an impossible style through.
so the owner wanted him to play fancy football but its not working and d same owner is about sack him,shouldn't common sense tell him to revert to d tried n trusted (since even u said it works....simples ).then with a series of victories u get to d end of the season and then u make ur changes.instead he went mouselike to the guillotine like a timid french comtesse!

@nateevs
chelsea actually played good football today and still beat a tough opponent,so playing tippytappy shouldnt hav stopped chelsea from winning under AVB.
anyways d fault is his for trying to change a team's style when he didnt hav the tools i.e players for the new style he was preaching.like i said he is like the doctor who shouldn't handle patients but be left in the classroom teaching students or in d lab mixing formulae.
do u think JT would hav come to him,pulling his hand to offer a suggestion? and even if JT did,would AVB have listened? he stuck to his wet guns and laboratory formulae even when it was obvious to even christian chukwu that the "project" was derailing.even with his back against the ropes,it was more of the same!
it wasnt just the results but the general game play was POOR! i repeat chelsea played well today(very well),not just dt they won

i am no chelsea fan but i think this has been the most exciting chelsea has played all season.they were quite fluid and committed going forward n not bad at d back too

hmmm after considering the circumstances one still feels AVB won't have been able to extract this kind of performance from these guys

@starboard
on d strength of this performance i can't find fault with your comments

ramires! take a bow son
drogba,wat a mensch!

ohhh torres!

eya! terry is out,must hv copped an injury

ahhhh so this is what AVB has been preventing? ahhh its not good o,so chelsea can play with such pace n movement n urgency?
di matteo is also willing to be innovative n take chances,ramires on d ryt in d other match but dis tym ramires on d left.
lampard playing a deeper role this tym rather than close to d opposition box....

THE THREE OLD MEN ARE DELIVERING O,FOR NOW FOR NOW

penarity!Penarity!! PENARITY!!!

shuo! nateevs wetin starboard do u na?

Torres warming up!
el nino to the rescue

GOKHAN INLER!!!!!!!!!!!!1 GOAL!!!!!!!!!!

JOHN TERRY!!!!!1 JT!!!!!!!1 JOHN THOMAS!!!!!!!!!!1
the old aged men r delivering,at least for now