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montelik: What about the games he played in that we won, there are quite a few of those. Giggs isn't the only common denominator in our losses.

which ones?
giggs has not started any tough game we have won with style. chelsea away, man city away, newcastle away, etc. check out the intensity and fluency we approached those games and compared to the games giggs started - there's a world of difference in the two.

i fail to see what giggs adds to this squad at least since 2009. that we still persist with him and scholesy is the reason we have lost morrison/pogba......it's also the reason we don't have any player making any giant leaps to make that midfield of ours his own. if neville didnt retire, rafael would still be in the doldrums.

montelik: ^^He didn't play when Everton almost trashed us in the season opener. Also did not play in our CL and League cup losses.

with all due respect, that was an anomaly. with carrick and valencia in defence, we were always going to have it tough against everton. with scholes in the middle of the pitch, what then do you expect? how about the loss to spurs and norwich?

basketball died after michael jordan retired. kobe, lebron, iverson and jeremy lin are little children. the NBA in the early 90s was the bomb - not today when sissies are all over the place.

montelik: That same team barring Nani for Young and Vidic for Smalling beat QPR last week.

qpr ain't norwich.....their league positions should tell you that!
norwich are one of the most hardworking teams in the league and they know how to press and defend. ryan giggs is a liability when we don't have the ball. he has the worst pass completion percentage in the top-4 too. i still cannot understand why he still plays for us. he has been the common denominator in all the games we have lost this season.

montelik: News flash, Norwich are the next team on our fixture list, not Madrid. This is the same Norwich that defeated us earlier this season. After last season debacle, our focus on the league must not waver no matter how much of a lead we have or we could find ourselves repeating painful mistakes.

the team list defeated us, norwich didnt......with a team like that, dolphins of portharcourt would have beaten us too. if we line up the same old fools again today, we would be taken apart.

Lindegaard, Rafael, Evra, Ferdinand, Smalling, Valencia, Giggs, Carrick, Young, Hernandez, Van Persie.

we had anderson, fletcher and cleverley fit on the day and fergie opted for giggs n carrick, we lost the midfield to norwich from the blast of the whistle with giggs doing nothing and leaving only carrick to marshal 3 norwich players.

NOIBMUUL: I'll like to pitch my tent with what an elderly man once told me; if a lady is above 30 with no husband or is not already in a serious relationship then she should check her behaviour. And also if a man isn't married or in a serious relationship at the same age, he should get serious. Unfortunately, these traits are easily recognisable from some of the comments here!

We just need to re-align our values, carefully select our priorities and yes of course lead a realistic life.
I'm careful not to put blame on the family (parents) because 'pikin whey go spoil go spoil!!!'

times have changed - a lot of young men know when to marry but many can't even afford the cost these days. the economy and the number of years youths spend acquiring degrees are the factors pushing the the age to the early/mid 30s

SailorXY: i think phil jones nullified ozil in the first half, and had ronaldo in his back pocket all second half long! he may not be the celebrity CDM but he rarely lost track of the players he was assigned to shackle. he put in a great shift playing out of his position in a match of such significance against world class oppositions?? pardon me, but i givqe him fully deserved credit

phil jones did nothing!
watch the game again......he's supposed to tailgate ronaldo but ronaldo can play everywhere in the forward line and he kept dragging phil jones across the pitch. jones was not effective until the 2nd half when we decided to attack. attack is the best form of defence!

there's nothing we can do to stop madrid from scoring - they would score, our objective is to outscore them on the night! if we sit back and they score first, then we are in trouble cos fergie won't make changes till the 60th min. it means we would have 30 mins to bombard madrid in desperation. they would hold out(watch most of their games against barcelona and see how defensive they can get) and they would score more from their counterattacks.

[quote author=Mr_TA]I definitely think we need the added defensive cover jones provides at home especially if we want to attack more at home. Real are probably the best counter attacking team in the world, it would be so easy for them to pick us up on the counter with someone like jones doing the same job he did at the bernabeu. Infact, I think we have to play like the away team at home to progress in my opinion.[/quote]their defence is wack.......
with van persie and rooney fit, we have a superior attack. we should have won the first leg even with our conservative approach. madrid must score to qualify.

sitting back and inviting pressure like the first leg would backfire.....we are not even that good at defending. our greatest strength is in the attack. attack madrid and we will outscore them.

phil jones' contribution was overrated cos he's young and english - but for de gea, we would have shipped 3-4 goals with phil jones doing the zombie marking! madrid would score at old trafford, one would be daft to think any defensive tactics would have us keeping a clean sheet. outscoring madrid is what would take us through!

babyosisi: [size=18pt]Why didn't her father kill her at nine for not having bre.asts like Cossy Orjiakor ?[/size]

Eediotic woman

too many female psychopaths around these days.