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kokaneprodigy:
That Willian na dirty

60 league goals in about 14 yrs of senior football.....and it is not like he is an assist king or anything like that. He is a box to box winger.

iamoyindamola:
I told these people if koulibally and VVD are in arsenal defence we go still chop am cos the midfield is nothing.
Thank God for partey and elneny, if na xhaka play yesterday game e go be horror film

Your coach is too defensive. Brought up in La Masia, played under Wenger, coached under Pep but sets his team up like the love child of Mourinho and Simeone.

Even with no CAM your attack is better than its current output.

He needs to discard the 3 CBs and play 2CBs. With Angel Gabriel at CB and Partey/Elneny protecting you don't need 3 CBs.

Move Tierney to LB instead of LCB and move Saka to LW.

Move Auba from LW to CF and move Lacazette into a cage under the stadium.

CAM is not compulsory. Liverpool and City don't depend on a no 10. Play Partey at CDM and use 2 box to box midfielders beside him.

RW you can try different options (Pepe, Nelson) but accept that Willian is not the answer and you will know peace. 10 yrs of watching him tells us he is an activity former with little end product. Once Martinelli comes back to fitness he and Saka should flank Auba.

Skimpledawg:
What manner of man are you

A man after God's own heart.

Eawwal:
What is Arteta's style of football?

Doggy style.

eph12:
Kokane come outside now

I didn't even watch the match. So it ended Assanal 0 - Aston Villa 3

Aston Villa 3 - Assanal 0

kokaneprodigy:
Na until we kill una for field before una know una papa for this game.
Ewure

I say na your papa be ewure.

kokaneprodigy:
Stubborn goat

Na your papa be stubborn goat.

kokaneprodigy:
Person beat you at your backyard and you still disrespecting it’s name like that. Correct the spelling bro.

My bad. Assanal Football Club.

Expert17:
Wow..

We are challenging for the title then

We are top of the table but Chelshit has a game in hand. I don't think we have the all round quality to win the title but we should make top 3.

Our women just did what the men could not do, beat Arsenal at home.

MRTA7:
And if you're not matching Ruud's best season you're definitely a poor striker.

Hahaha, this must be sarcasm. You mean any striker who does not match Ruud's BEST season is a poor striker?

CapitalCee:
Thats very poor for a man United CF in all competitions. Van Nistelrooy for example does over 40 just in goals

Not holding brief for Martial who surely can do do better, but Ruud passed 40 goals in just 1 season out of 5 seasons here.

eph12:
I don't think he was played as a dm. Assnal players were just more aggressive on the ball and off it, so our players were pinned back. Plus there was no coordination in our press.

Fred was our DM that day.

KingAlabi:
Not entirely
For instance fred had a bad game against Arsenal because he was played as a DM rather than the box to box he is, and that is on the coach.

Will you blame martial inconsistencies on the coach.

You got that Fred example totally right. Fred is a liability as a DM but very reliable as a box to box midfielder.
Starting him at DM was the beginning of our problems against Assanal.

eph12:
Rashford and Martial are not too old to learn something na. If much emphasis is placed on it and time invested in that skill, they should pick it up faster than we think. It doesn't have to be perfect, just much better than what they currently have

They are not too old but Greenwood is younger than them by far and a more natural box player.

timbros:
Missed the game

Had an accident in Abia State on my way back from a burial.

Sorry to hear that bro. Great to know no lives were lost and you didn’t sustain major injuries.

Same thing happened to me about a month ago. Apart from 2 bashed cars and a bit of neck and upper back discomfort from whiplash i was okay.

You can buy a new car but can’t buy a new life.

TrebleChamp:
True, we need to get them out of the club somehow. Even if it means paying part of their wage for a stipulated time or we just cancel their contract. It's so annoying watching Pogba, Martial and now Rashford and others play rubbish every match day while still cashing out big every week. We watch Vardy, Kane, Son, Sallah, Mane, Jota to name but a few on probably lesser wage putting in consistent performance for their clubs...

If you cancel a contract you still have to pay all the wages for the rest of the contract so it sorta defeats the purpose.

eph12:
I'm even confused on how our main strikers are still lacking in this with Ole as the coach.

First of all even though Amaka's movement was good as a striker he was no Cavani. After yesterday/s game Michael Owen said Cavani had the best box movement he had seen in recent football. Players with lots of skill or lots of pace rarely develop such movement when they are young because they never needed it.

If you check the list of player with such movement you get Ruud, Inzaghi, Fowler, Crespo e.t.c None is similar to Rashford or Martial. I think Greenwood being younger and a more natural striker than those two has the best chance of learning from Cavani.

eph12:
I know who and what you're addressing na. No mind me, was having a dig at some of us here. They know themselves

We can't get every player and we also can't predict how a player will integrate into a new league and culture but Ziyech so far has been good.

What we should focus on now is improving the players we have now and of course improving our squad with quality acquisitions going forward.

eph12:
Are you sure it was less about Sancho for some people here? I mean nobody else can improve the squad the way Sancho was destined to do according to some reports here

Also Ziyech's strongest point which is his long range crossing from deep might be wasted in this our team in which Cavani is the only striker who has box movement.

eph12:
Are you sure it was less about Sancho for some people here? I mean nobody else can improve the squad the way Sancho was destined to do according to some reports here

We were addressing larride who was not happy that we didn't look at Ziyech. You were the one who then connected it to Sancho.

What i am saying is that Sancho had nothing to do with us not signing Ziyech. By the time Chelshit signed Ziyech way back in February we were not in negotiation for Sancho and there weren't even any strong links.

We missed out on Ziyech because our board is too slow and clueless to sign players early. Woodward prefers to drag out transfer news for months and then sign players late. Hopefully with Amad Traore that will change.

Oasis007:
Though Amad is a young chap, but I am having high hope on him to excel at United as a RW.


Forms are on sales now.......

This one na real gambling. How many games of his have you seen?

eph12:
Sancho or nothing!!! If its not Sancho, the board is not supporting Ole apparently

Ziyech already agreed to join Chelshit in February long before the Sancho new gathered steam. It was less about Sancho and more about the propensity of our board to be slow in all things.

Chelshit signed players like Pulisic and Ziyech 6 months ahead of the season but our board prefers social media relevance and drawn out transfer hype so they can sign the player on deadline day and drag out a piano for him to play.

TrebleChamp:
So what do you suggest we do with an under-performing people earning huge wages?

What he is saying is that it is not that easy to just sell such players. Other clubs are not stupid. Finding a club to accept to pay their wages is not that straightforward especially for our clueless management.

eph12:
Honestly the ref tried for him. He could have gotten a second yellow easily

The ref applied common sense. The Everton players were obviously trying to get him sent off.

If it was that dunderhead Atkinson he would have issued a second yellow.

Lana1:
Dem dey craze. 30m and we have a deal

We can swap him for Daniel James plus 10m.

Ibime:
Will you sack your snake oil selling pastor when he is sworn in?

The narrative will change. Trump is being punished for his sins, the Republicans are just going through trials and tribulations and will pull through, the Biden victory is just a test of faith e.t.c
There is a sucker born every minute.

Clean sh.it stained.

E be like say jazz don finish.

ChristineC:
I don't know why we got in fresh players and don't play them.
Lindelof, Martial and Rashford all pants today.
Tuanzebe should get a run of games in that CB position ahead of any. he has something the others lack which is pace and has something Lindelof lacks (strength in the air).
Greenwood or Cavani should be our starting CF. Cavani will need good crosses into the box so Telles should be ahead of Shaw, and where's the Pellistri guy anyway? let's see what he's about..
enough of the favoritism from Ole
again Pogba proves useful from the bench. if we will move forward, that's how it should continue.

Pellistri is not ready. He has good technique but they were bullying him in Under-23. Apart from Tuanzebe for Lindelof which fresh players would you have preferred to make the starting line up today?

KingAlabi:
Yeah
And sometimes ole is a two faced bast*Rd
If you watched the game Shaw was ready to come back in
Ole just indicate, "oboy comot abeg"
Did you see Shaw's reaction after the substitution.

He was upset not that he was injured but substituted.

Na telles from now on though

Shaw was not ready to go back. It was the physio that indicated to Ole that Shaw could not continue. Shaw was just disappointed that he had gotten injured again.

chrisley024:
Incredible day

Extremely incredible.

Bruno, Fred, McTom played well. Maguire was solid and made some crucial stops especially in the air.