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GloryIsaac:
I actually put Ighalo’s name initially, but removed it because the partnership between Martial & Rashford looks too good to overlook against Chelsea.

Except it’s a 3-Man midfield with no anchor, then Matic can be rested.

Yes Matic needs rest. For me I dont think Martial and Rashford looked tired to me oo, those boys can go on and on. Martial was even pissed when he was hooked one match like that.

Oasis007:
Make I rush drop my Lineup

GK
Romero

Defenders
Dalot
Bailly
Maguire
TFM

Midfielders
McTom
Fred
Perreira/Lingard

Attackers
Mata
Ighalo
James

You just wan dash Chelsea the match na. Lol. You for just call Nicky butt, to come and play the match with his boys

Nezzjnr:
We were the Defending champions den.... It was just hard getting used to defeats

So it was terrible getting trashed by clubs like Norwich.. Newcastle... Westbrom

The day he won Arsenal... I was very happy ehn .... That Fluke goal from RVP

Most of the games we won that season were fluke. Yeah it was hard at first, but after some times, I just calmed dow and wrote the season off

Leyqute:
Don’t listen to him. That guy lies through his teeth

Lmao . Are u saying that Ole is like Lie Mohammed

Expert17:
I was disappointed that we couldn't defend with 10 men for just 5 mins,...

We are just unlucky sha

Expert17:


What's their business with that

I tell you some teams will have soft pedalled especially when it was due to injury, and they have nothing to play for.

GloryIsaac:
Dalot featured against Norwich..

We’ve actually lost our left-backs, so OGS has to bring up another two to fill the position till the season is over.

Lost our 2 left backs, I thought he (ole) said that shaw's case wasnt as serious as they thought.

Nezzjnr:
Those fellas are getting paid... We are just here throwing bants at each other

This is less compared to what we saw during the days of Moyes and LVG

MOU sef no reach

I can remember how Moyes gave me sleepless nights but we move

Lol. Moyes didn't give me sleepless nights, because after like December, I wrote off the season.

GloryIsaac:


Line up will most likely be 4-4-2 diamond.

Romero

AWB
Bailly
Maguire
Dalot

Matic
McTominay
Fred
Bruno

Rashford
Martial

Will love to watch Greenwood against Kepa, but he might start from the bench.

No Ighalo? and Matic for rest to be used to full effect against west ham

GloryIsaac:
Days of Jose Mourinho.. this thread tore up

Really though, playing 10 men against Southampton didn’t favor us at all, and those guys play dirty.

Am telling you, shaw's injury cost us the match. and even when Williams went off, they were attacking us with venom, I was like, this people sef, na wetin? Didn't they see that we are one man down? We go pay them back sha.

Expert17:
Romero( DDG needs to rest, abeg no be agenda)

AWB. Bailly. Maguire. Williams.

Pogba. Matic.

James. Bruno. Rashford.

Martial.

For me I will rest pogba and martial. AWB needs rest too, we have a crucial match versus West ham, we need to be on the front foot versus Liecester. We need to win that west ham, Mou has to do us a favour tommorow.

Oasis007:


Once again, I'm sorry Bro. Football get as e be. I couldn't sleep that Day to be honest. I was haunted all through the Night.

No worries

ChristineC:
so everyone here have stylishly dodged discussing possible line up for the game against Chelsea after taking shots at mine

Lol to be fair, you are bold to come out with a line up, because we are in difficult times. For me I will say DDG should continue in goal, since he is a goalkeeper, and can't possibly be tired. I dont trust Romero now, he looked suspect last match he played, it may be just a blip, but we dont need to give away things easily in this crucial point. I think martial and Rashford doesn't look tired to me, so Rashford/Ighalo/James up front, Martial on stand by to come in. Maguire will start as usual. The key issue is our midfield, to be honest we need either Pogba or Bruno to steady things. I will go for Mctom/fred/bruno. But like I said it's about fitness, it's very difficult.

Oasis007:


CapitalCee..... Don't be annoyed I went berserk on you. Apologies.

I was not annoyed, I have seen things like this. I understand Like I told you it just being passion for the team . I wasnt joking I nearly died against Southampton. Obafemi nearly killed me. Lol

Expert17:
I noticed that you can't go through 4 pages on this thread without seeing "Bruno needs to play it simple" .......but I'm the only one that do complain about our biggest issue -DDG.....

You are correct, bruno has not done anything to warrant any criticism. The reason his performance dropped was due to fitness. Even with that he created the 2 goals we scored last match. And DDG while he is excellent in patches, is a major reason we are not yet in top 4.

eph12:
I guess it's part of the game to have favorite players, bash others with little or no facts or logic

I noticed it too. Van Nistelrooy was the reason I started supporting man united, but when Fergie benched him with saha and subsequently chased him away, even though he is our top scorer that season. I simple wished he succeeded at madrid, because I too like the guy. But United remained my team thorough and thorough, I never bashed fergie or wished we failed or hated saha just to justify Ruud's sale. Infact I adored Saha.

Oasis007:


Seem you dey vex mode ba?! Not Everyone is a blind Critic Bro. I've called out almost all United Players.

Take it easy Bro. Even Expert17 no vex reach you. See as my BP dey high as I dey read the Epistle.

Habaa, Egbon...... E take e easy nah.

Can you prove the bolded?! Same Expert17 you're defending like Hushpuppi, do you know he does see nothing wrong in Bruno and Matic?!

You even fired Shot at Nezzjnr..... LMAO!

Oasis I am not saying you dont criticize accordingly. Read well, I said that you are not among doesn't mean other people dont.

Why I no go vex? Lmao! Do you know how high my blood pressure went up to that day we drew with Soton? Guy that i didn't die that night or the day before was by Gods grace, I have supported man United since 2001 and have passed though thick and thin and faced horrible defeats, but few can be compared to how I felt with that soton draw. Till now I never recover oo. Lol.

eph12:
Doesn't this show that we criticize too early? The other day it was that Rashford should learn from Greenwood. I won't say more than this

People can never be satisfied, that's how they will heap pressure on the 18 year old, and tommorow is he fail to score in few matches, they will start destroying him with senseless criticism. Rashford was lucky he started scoring and assisting, they have started asking him already to learn from an 18 year old who just graduated from the academy.

afrodoc2:
Well i will leave Expert17 to speak for himself, but even i was getting tired of DDG allowing cheap goals to be scored against him week in week out, i don’t have an agenda against DDG.

There are other Man Utd fan sites were calls have been made for Henderson to be recalled to replace DDG. Making such a call does not have to be agenda driven.

A steady keeper is better than one that makes great saves and allows cheap goals.

I try not to harbour any agenda against any United player. Any United player who proves me wrong by improving and becoming a good/great player and helping the team win titles only brings joy to me.

The joy Man Utd’s victories give me is greater than any smugness or pride i can get by being right that a player is not good enough.

Thank you very much

eph12:
Maguire is fond of pushing the ball forward. This is not being slow, this is pushing everyone forward, covering more spaces. I watched last match trying to understand what you people are talking about, I just couldn't see it. Na wa

Maguire must get his routine bashing per match na. Eventhough he was bombing forward last match from defence, orchestrating and linking play. I wonder why people have not noticed that Maguire is one of the best ball playing defenders in the league. Last match he even made a crucial last ditch tackle to deny Zaha, coming from a slip up in the midfield, but nobody de see that one.

Expert17:
I can show you my posts where I criticize and also praised DDG and Martial....

But I can show you posts of people who can never blame Martial and Pogba..... No matter what.

Abeg no mind them, I am clearly seeing your point. Pogba while he has been excellent since his return nearly cost us against aston villa, but someone here tried to put it on matic until I corrected him, against Southampton we were made to pay for the same pogba slip up. But Bruno who is even the reason why we are even too 4 discussion should keep it simple. Even with the bruno dropping performances he still orchestrated our 2 goals last match getting 1 assist. I admit that bruno performance dropped, but isn't it obvious that its because of the number of matches he has played in such a short period of time? People sef

afrodoc2:
My personal opinion is that they were wrong for attacking you on DDG. But in the same vein you are wrong to attack them on Bruno.

I would have to admit however that your DDG criticism was eminently more justified than the Bruno criticism.
David was dropping disaster class after disaster class and they were defending him because of what he had done in the past! What a penkelemes.

The overarching idea though is that no United player is above constructive criticism. We have won nothing yet for us to be having sacred cows.

We should learn to distinguish agenda from fair analysis.

God bless you doc, If DDG has been alive to his duties this season, we won't be doing permutations on how to enter top four, there is nothing further than the truth here. But for some people he is immune to criticism and must be pontificated for not moving to madrid and and signing a 375k/week contract with us.

handelex:
Unless we are not watching the same games cos Bruno has been misplacing a lot of passes lately and it's only right fans no matter how we love him expect better from him... yes Bruno has won 2 epl player of the month and rightly so but you and I know his performance level has dropped and if he was performing like since restart he won't have won those awards... having said that, he's human same with Ddg and Martial and every other member of the team, collectively we are demanding more from the team not only from Bruno and when they put in good performances we praise them, but it seems DDg and Martial can do no good in your eyes...

Same way Maguire and co can do no good in majority of peoples eye, even when he has played every single match, due to lack of fitness of his counterparts.

Oasis007:
Sorry Doc, let's be honest here Expert17 has an Agenda against DDG. This same Dude believes Romero and Henderson are better than DDG and should take charge.

There is nothing constructive in his Criticism of DDG, rather reflection of emotive Bias. DDG dropped Forms. He was called out by almost Everyone but fairly.

No one is shielding DDG from Criticisms. Martial FC ain't shielding their favorite from Criticisms as well. I guess few Weeks ago, Lana tore his Martial FC Membership Card on this Thread.

Patrickmuf and Gloryisaac, two known Martial FC Conveners have never shielded him from Criticisms like Expert17 is doing for Bruno.

Let's be factual here Doc. Expert17 has pure Agenda towards DDG, perhaps because he's a retired GK.

While, Expert17, use to be a little harsh on DDG, most of you guys, I dont want to mention are acutely and annoyingly bias towards DDG, he does no wrong in your eyes. DDG has directly cost us more points that every other player this season. If Maguire, Shaw or any other less "favourites" commit half of what DDG has done, there will be serious call for them to be offloaded. You can't deny that there is a clear bias towards some certain players, so dont pretend as if you dont know, you might not be among, but dont say nobody is shielding him, for sure he is being shielded from Criticism.

Mctomminay as young as he is ( yes he is still young considering when he graduated), was surprisingly torn into shreds just because he couldn't match Matics level in our last match, not that he put any foot wrong. Shaw has been unfairly criticised, even though he kept dropping spirited performances, that he was substituted was among the major reason we drew the Southampton game, Maguire who has played every single game this season, due to the fitness problem of our other CBs has been dragged into pieces for being dribbled on few occasions even when our defence is among the best in Europe, any good thing he does is waved away with scorn, for him to come from Liecester this season and be awarded captain by ole, then he must be some leader. Rashford who was out for up to almost half a year due to back operation has started getting unfair judgements, without being allowed to gain back his match fitness until now, thank God it has died down, because he has recovered his form. Fred is another person, pogba is the new bride who its obvious is far better than Fred, but it was the same Fred who was putting in virtuaso performances against City, Chelsea etc, when we had nobody.
Mind you I also personally criticize the above players, when need be, but you can't accuse expert117 of having an agenda on DDG when its vice versa on the others.
For some people, Martial, Lindelof and DDG does no wrong, someone was even wishing the team fail because Ole dared to sell Lukaku last season, Imagine! For me DDG and Martial are among my personal favourites but I dont miss the opportunity to tear into them when the misbehave. We know it can never be equal preference for every player but let's not do as if Expert117 is wrong for calling out DDG because every of his criticisms on him has been VERY SPOT ON. the only issue is that he (expert 117) does not acknowledge it when DDG does well like our last match. Likewise most of you when Maguire and shaw for example put in excellent performances.
The general idea is criticise constructively, and praise when appropriate. Expert my be guilty in parts for DDG, but he is not alone.

engrelvis:
What we need now is good defenders. Mcquire tried a little. Lindelof was a write off.I dnt really understand our constant backward passes yesterday ( is ole now copying van gaal).

He is copying pep. Ole doesn't know the effect of those back passes to my BP. And we are bad at it.

ChristineC:
the next game against the Hammers will be another tough one, probably the toughest yet; not because of the opponents but because of the mentality required to go into the game.

against Chelsea predicted line up:

- - - - - - - - - - - - Romero - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - Bailly - - - - - Maguire - - - - Mensah - -
AWB - - - - McTom - - - Fred - - - - Dalot
- - - - - - - - - - - - Pogba - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - James - - - - - - - Ighalo - - - - - - -

For me DDG starts the Chelsea game biko. Or is tired too? Please we need to beat Chelsea, in as much as top 4 is our priority

Chrisus:
Three years running? Someone that missed the whole of last season through injury? Calm down and go over your stats again.

This is only his second full season as an EPL keeper. For a connoisseur of football knowledge, I’m surprised that you missed this.

I know all that, our former youth player Tommy Heaton was Burnley's first choice when they came up, Heaton was very very outstanding, but got injured, pope replaced him. when he returned, it was clear Pope is better than him. Why I said 3 years running is that all the time he is available he still maintained elite standard. Infact everytime he is available he is easily Burnley's best player, making saves after saves. He is a player I have followed very closely. Even Heaton himself went to Villa, and have been outstanding before his injury.

Zabiboy:

Personally, i'll go for Pope over allison ...
Oblak still remains miles ahead of them tho

Leave na. Moreover I am not saying for sure that Pope is better than any of the keepers I have mentioned, But the guy is the real reason Burnley fights for European places every season. He makes unbelievable saves and rarely makes mistakes. It's not even a hidden fact. While it's about choice and perspective, for me on current form, Nick pope is the best keeper in EPL this season

Expert17:
If you tell them that Nick Pope is better than Dean Henderson.....they will start arguing

People who dont follow EPL closely. Nicky pope has been among the best keepers in EPL for 3 years running now

Lana1:
It's to be decided if we can win anything with Rashford and Martial too....

We can and we will

Lana1:
Rashford and Martial have both surpassed Lukaku's best season in a United shirt.

Are we still angry Lukaku forced his way out and Ole let him??

Check my posts, I was very excited we sold lukaku, very nice fellow, but you can't win anything with him.

Chrisus:
Nick Pope? Lol calm down

What do you mean by Nick Pope? Nick pope has been consistent for 3 seasons now. What are you saying? If you dont know football please leave me alone, I am not here to argue with you