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Jones was solid

For her, Sharia has ended.

Diademk07:
You mean we could only beat Chelsea by parking the bus and countering, right? What happens to going toe to toe with them?

And don't make laugh with your Rojo suggestion, a defender? I think this argument has finally got to its dead end.

How did we park the bus when we created clear cut chances after clear cut chances against Chelsea. But when Ibrahimovic played we were defending to avoid being embarrassed, just trying to cut down the number of goals Chelsea would score.

Rojo is the best of our central defender going forward. When he is around, there is less fear and worry to go help the defence. He is best on our left side whether playing as a LCB or LB. He is a fighter, a warrior, and he is tough. He was a beast before his injury

My last comment on this issue. .

Diademk07:
Lmao..

I don't fancy stats except it's to get idea of a player. You and I know that Ibra often start most of the moves that ended up with him taking the shot in the end except you want to be dishonest.

I could remember the Burnley match for example where he started the move by holding up the play and giving a through pass to Mata who only had to square a pass to Ibra in return. In fact, most of the misses he was alleged to miss was started by him in the first place. He's still the best in the team at playing a throughball to a team mate and that's the fact.

Chelsea 4 Manchester United 0
With Ibrahimovic

Manchester United 2 vs Chelsea 0
Without Ibrahimovic

You must recall too that Rojo injured same day as Ibrahimovic, which badly affected the way we play. Abeg forget Ibrahimovic

sinizia:
During the first-leg against Celta we had a lot of chances though. Our chances reduced immediately Mourinho gave up on top 4 and instructed the lads to defend like Championship teams.

Exactly, it is Mourinho's style of playing against big teams that have made us to sit back.

Diademk07:
Again, lot of chances against Celta indeed!

Whether we had many chances or not, Ibra's hold up play which often help to bring others to play was prominent in that match, as it did in many other matches. The only time we failed to be productive with Ibra was when the opposition teams parked the bus and hardly attacked us but against a clueless open team such as Celta, Ibra is the man.

Ibrahimovic was there when we drew 1-1 with 10 men Bournemouth at Old Trafford.

Look at our players chances created per minutes, about 5 players ahead of Ibrahimovic.

Are we going to be eating hold up play or goals. Other strikers have banged in 25 goals.

We need Aubameyang

Diademk07:
Of course I can see we had lot of chances against Celta..

If that Guidettii of a guy wasn't so wasteful, you probably wouldn't be coming up with such prediction.

We had lots of chances against Celta away.

How many chances did we have against Fernabache away when Ibrahimovic played?

Diademk07:
I asked where are the many chances Ibra kept getting now?

You didn't answer my question instead you went on about a prediction you never knew about. You certainly don't know what would have happened with Ibra in the team. The only certain fact is that as soon as Ibra got injured, all the chances the team often had, is all but dried up!

Our number of chances have not reduced in the matches we played Pogba, Herrera and Valencia with Rashford as the lead striker.

The chances only reduced against Arsenal and Spurs when we rested the key players.

raumdeuter:
With the potential purchase of James, what do you see in his future,

I think he wil flop. elampiro, afrodoc2, ibime nihilist a40 what do you think

Another latin player who grudgingly comes to Man Utd for a huge fee. I dont se James as someone that will be defending against a full back like Mourinho wants

I want to see how Miki, Pogba, Herrera James etc will lineup next season

I am certainly not his fan.

Diademk07:
Still lamenting...Lmao..

Elampiro baba, I hope you have now realised what Ibra brings to the team in terms of his creativity. All those chances missed by him which you kept lamenting about, where are these chances now? He created them in the first place with his linkup, holdup play and playmaking in the final third.

He's still Mourinho's best buy because he didn't only bring in the goals but his aerial threats, holdup play and creativity are also advantageous to the team as a whole. Yes, he lacks pace but so is Kane. The only thing is he's a grandpa and we don't know when his decline will permanently set in.

I object. If Ibrahimovic were around we would have been dumped out of that Europa match vs Anderlecht. I prefer Rashford's agility and speed.

When Ibrahimovic went on 3 many ban we coped well without him. We wouldn't have done nothing with him against Arsenal and Spurs playing mostly second eleven team.

PointZerom:
The point here is that stolen money was given to Buhari and he did not only accept it, he also used the money.

If a gift is given to you and you accept it, what and how you used the gift doesn't matter again to the giver of the gift.

If the EFCC should arrest Buhari for accepting this stolen money, his explanation that he distributed the stolen money to beggars cannot be substantiated. It is a financial crime to accept a stolen money in the first place and given out such money to people for whatsoever reason and condition makes you a culprit not a kind citizen.

People should not celebrate Buhari here if actually he received a bag filled with stolen money and distributed same to beggars, people should rather condemn him for not blowing the whistle or returning the stolen money.

For the fact that Anini the notorious criminal distributed stolen money to beggars, does not make him(Anini)a saint.

Your points are null and void. The money was given to him under duress. It was a trap, to test if he was still angry with the IBB government. If he rejected it, he would probably have been killed for rebelling against the government.

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lordfalcao:
what of when man u were winning the UCL and the premier league?

That was when we had the strongest squad in the world.

Lana1:
Fact abi excuse??

It happened to us before. I think in 2011/2012 when we lost our fixtures following UCL matches.

Fact: 4 of United’s 5 Premier League defeats this season have been in games played on a Sunday immediately after a Europa League match.

Leyqute:
"3 great passes" and he stunk up the joint the rest of the time. Even his supposed "goal" was offtarget. It got into the net courtesy of a Vertongen deflection.

Those his three passes were the best things United players did all day apart from the goal. What else do you expect from a player who has not played regularly since October?

Can you prove his goal was off target? If it was off target, it wouldn't be awarded to him, it will be reviewed and awarded as an own goal. Even if that were to be the case, if he didnt run ahead of the defender, would there have been a goal?

Leyqute:
Mata on his part looked sharper, he just didn't have intelligent players around him to exchange passes with. And he was the one who created the chance for the goal. Im not surprised you didn't notice that.

Mata was the worst player for us. He was the reason we were poor.

How was Mata the one who created the chance for the goal? It was Martial. Phil Jones even did more work than Mata in the build up to the goal. Jones carried the ball from defence to Mata.

Leyqute:
Bur let's bury the issue. We lost fair and square. What's important is to return to winning ways and secure UCL qualification.

Let's hope so.

Leyqute:
Don't castigate Mata. He didn't make too many wrong decisions and wasn't sluggish on the ball like Rooney.

Thank God you know he shouldn't be played with nonperforming players because he's a minus one.

We need fresh legs, and brains too. Players with good brains.

Was Mata even in that match? Did anyone see him? How would you make bad decisions when you were not even available to decide? At least Rooney we saw. He even had three great passes.

chrisley024:
And your point is

I see nothing Jones did wrong today. Tying him with Smalling is bad witch-hunting. And he played on the left side again, the same position Bailly has never played irrespective of who he is paired with. Bailly has paired everyone but has never been played on the left.

chrisley024:
Smalling and Jones sha. Smh. They can't see how comfortable Bailly is with the ball. Blind continues with his last game performance.

Jones did well. Bailly will be poor playing on the left side of central defence. Have you noticed Mourinho has never played him there?

The major problem was that we allowed them to build comfortably from their half when the game started. This is becoming a bad habit for us recently.

Leyqute:
Elamps can you see how SHIITE Rooney has been so far?

When most guys lambaste him, it's because of the crap he's serving in a game. Sure he is a Man Utd legend and has given us some sweet memories but at the moment he's declined and has very little to offer.

Of course there are brief flashes of the man he once was but overall he causes more harm than good. The only way we can accommodate him is if we have 7-8 or 9 players who are performing exceptionally well in the team. That way a minus one won't hurt us much.

At this level, Rooney should not be used the way he is being used except if asked to play CM. He plays behind the the striker while keeping an eye on Wanyama. Rooney should be used when we have legs to carry the ball to him in attacking zone. Not when we play him with Mata, Tuanzebe, Carrick. We are even missing full backs who can go forward.
But Mata and Lingard didn't even come to the party. Abi you see them?

larride:
How can Chelsea won the league in 2016 when you officially won the league on May 12 2017, we give up on you.

Continue disgracing yourself

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The thing tire me fa

Funlord2:
ONLY FAIR:



http://www.football365.com/news/romero-will-start-europa-final-ahead-of-de-gea

Deserved. Not just fair.

Jose should not use Bailly to play all remaining league matches as he said. He should use the next three matches to prepare his CB pair for the final. Bailly should play only one match as CB, then another as RB for Val to rest.

Let’s hope no further injuries, and Ashley Young returns for the final. If we had him yesterday, we could have made our substitutions earlier. We needed to pull out Lingard then Mkhitaryan , but he was still better defensively than Martial and Rooney. So Mourinho was confused. Young could have brought a good balance if he were available.

chidexxy007:
Poor decision nd finishing cost us too if not celta for no get any need 2 honour this return leg.

Exactly.

Hope a run of games will improve the decision making and goalscoring of Rashford and Mkhitaryan

The reason we think our defence coped well was the poor finishing of Celta. How many times did they get free header or even a header with just the keeper left.

Blind and Darmian on same side can result to a calamity. Hope we learn against next season.

Let's try a high line defence with Smalling and Jones in league matches. This is what these guys are used to. When you make them to play deep, it becomes hard to monitor the technical movements of opposing players.

But I know Mourinho would not want to take that risk to open up play. These guys can run, plus Valencia, so they can easily chase back. Let’s make the field small for us.

pamcode:
with Bailly out i think it Would be very hard for you guys to win playing defensively cos other options Available are error prone. But then Mourinho has never lost a final so I guess United would see this through .
Though i pray you don't, my guy Traore has to win that title.

We can still do very well defensively without Baily. We have a good pair of Smalling and Jones. They need to play two matches together before that time.

If not for poor finishing, our defence today could have conceded 3 to 4 goals.

Our tactics have exposed us badly.

What is this?

I was going to say we should bring Martial for Lingard?

Smalling in too


And we concede