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codedguy1:
I like payet he is very good player but is he what we need now? I think he plays on the left and we seem to be lacking somewhat in the right wing.

I just tire.

I think he plays on both wings.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has said playing in the Europa League is "killing" him.

The Swede was part of the United side that won 2-0 against Zorya Luhansk in Ukraine on Thursday, a result that ensured they progressed to the knockout stages of the competition.

But the 35-year-old striker said the schedule of having to play Thursdays and Sundays hasn't sat well with him.

"We don't have a lot of rest. These Thursdays are killing us, especially me. Now we have one day less to recover before we face Spurs.

[Source: standard.co.uk] #MUFC #Ibrahimovic

^^^

If true, we will get some good pace down the wing, but more competition for our forwards. With Mkhitaryan hitting form, and the fact that Ibrahimovic and Pogba must play 90 minutes, it is going to be hard time for Rooney, Martial, Mata and Lingard. I guess Young settles for deputy right back or finds another club. To think Young was our best outfit player two seasons ago, playing on the left wing.

It's clear Mourinho wants to keep Fellaini, but it is almost over for Schneirderlin and Mephis. I will also like Darmian to be sold. We have Luke Shaw, Blind and Rojo on the left. We can play Jones on the right if Valencia is injured.

But Pogba doesn't like playing quick passes. Even a slow pace match, he still manages to get slower than the game.

Lana1:
Our first European away win for the first time since November 2013. Ending a 9 match winless run.

When Moyes beat Leverkusen 5-0

zlatan10:
Zlatan has now scored 7 goals in his last 5 games
#Deal with it

This is a great scoring form.

Yesterday


#BREAKING There is a risk of Uniteds game with Zorya being called off tomorrow night. Temperatures set to fall to -9 over night and the pitch is already rock hard and icy. There will be a pitch inspection at 8am UK time tomorrow.

kokaneprodigy:
"The pitch is very hard, it is icy," Mourinho told a news conference. "I think UEFA knows the conditions of the pitch. Everybody knows that in mid-December, the conditions in Ukraine and Eastern Europe are more difficult.

What u get for playing in the Europa hahahahahahah

They (Ukraine and Russia) have teams that play in the UCL.

Receive sense

patrickmuf:
So Carrick can and should have controlled the play all by himself? Carrick as good as he is needs ball playing guys around him just the same way Xavi thrived with Iniesta, Busi, Messi etc...If you seek to control a game or at least gain some semblance of control, you don't take out Miki for Fellaini.

We lost possession completely when Carrick, Herrera, Pogba, Mkhitaryan, Martial and Ibrahimovic were on the field. What we needed was a ball winner and players who could really run. Fellaini was not a bad choice though, being he can win long balls. But I think Lingard should have also come in. He is better at winning the ball on the ground than the rest of our forwards, and he can run with it to start a counter.

zlatan10:
What then is the use of carrick?

Exactly, if Carrick, Herrera and Pogba could not cope, was it Mata who is more weak defensively that should have coped?

We were not winning the balls, that was the major problems. We needed a ball winner and runners to exploit them on the counter.

patrickmuf:
They were peppering us but we weren't giving much away in the way of chances rather we kept on surrendering possession for much of the second half, the best thing to do at that point was to introduce a calming presence, a player who could retain possession intelligently...We had that player in Mata but Mou thought otherwise.

I don't think Mata would have helped. Mata flourish when United dominates, but unseen when we are dominated, particularly when dominated with long balls. Lingard would have done better than Mata. Lingard has a good defensive sense and he would have combined well with Valencia to take the ball forward on a counter.

Carrick and Herrera who had more defensive abilities were not able to cope with the long balls, so Mata wouldn't have done anything.

MrLouisVanGaal:
I thought i was the one who keeps seeing this in our games. That place is always open until the opponents pass there before martial or Shaw or blind or in this case the woeful darmian remembers what to do

It's terrible. The arrangement is horrible. And from there dangerous crosses go into our box. Mourinho should address it.

weedtaker:
nope, it's just that we're blowing it outa proportion bcuz itz fellaini, he gave away a penalty which did not do us any favour, but remember de gea also costs us 3ponts against stoke with his blunder but not many here were calling for his head like they are doing for fellaini now.

I think it's just too painful considering it was from an almost harmless situation. If he were beaten by an opposition player to a dangerous scoring position, we would be less bitter. But the guy had already lost control of the ball and was taking a fall.

It also painful particularly the missed chance to close the gap with Liverpool and City.

We were more forgiving of Rashford for the error against Arsenal because he is a kid. We didn't need another error yet. The players on the field had managed to keep it clean and tidy despite fire after fire, then the one that was sent to give them a helping hand messed it up from almost a harmless situation.

Players do cause penalties, even Ferdinand, Evra... But some penalties given away are just mumu. Was he trying to fool the referee? The ref had forgiven us for Rojo's reckless tackle, it was clear he would compensate for it later with the slightest of wrong move.

chrisley024:
The same guy fans here wanted to remain our DM

Fellaini started the season well, he was very good in our first two or three matches. But he was soon exposed due to his sluggish play. Perhaps, our approach then and now has changed. At the beginning of the season our football was still very slow and boring with our defence line playing deep while we took eternity to get to the final third and opposition box.

Fellaini will not cope with the fast football the likes of Herrera and Mkhitaryan are playing in our build up game. Carrick is slow physically but he is still able to pick fast passes.

If Fellaini is unable to come to help see out our games, then he he would be useless to us. The guy he fouled for that penalty had already lost the ball because he lost his balance and was going down on his own. He wasn't called in to hit people but to head long balls away.

weedtaker:
oh and the positives

1) we playing better football than last season, its a matter of time b4 the results will start coming [ ve been said countless times here, but I'll say it anyway].

2) jones and rojo have impressed so far. bailey on de bench

3) Mhikitaryan is on fire, seems to have José's trust.

4) League cup semis against hull, Verge of EL knockouts.



p.s ; A draw at the goodison ain't that bad. cheer up guys, we'll put 4 past zorya in de coming days.

A draw at Goodison Park ain't bad if you are not far from the top team, and if you didn't play far better for the greater part of the match.

weedtaker:
Pogba had a poor game yesterday same as carrick and herrera our midfield was shyte, but they did well in their last 3-4 matches so no problem.

All these guys still completed the match. Then Mourinho substituted Martial and Mkhitaryan who were still ready to run around. He also left Ibrahimovic who wasn't winning balls from our defence.

weedtaker:
see as everybody de blame fellaini, even if jose put bailey instead of fellaini we for still concede, i wonder how people de take watch ball dis days.




dis was desame fellaini folks here wey saying would've prevented Giroud from scoring arsenal's equalizer.

some of una post de make una look clueless.

una Good morning.

So you mean you support the needless penalty Fellaini gave away at 88'?

sinaj:
lol am from Rivers pls nd I don't eat dog

That's my baby

sinaj:
yes am from there any ish?

So you are Calabar? You eat dog? Puapua

AdisaOwala:
Are we playing to win in order not to get a tough fixture in the next stage (round of 32 )?

I think a draw should be enough to see us through nah...

Finishing top is not in our hands. But we still have to get the three points and wait for Fernabache to slip against Feyenoord.

It is always a disadvantage tange meeting a tough team early in the Knockout stage.

We need to avoid such teams as Zenith, Roma, Ajax at this stage

chrisley024:
Haha. You when we argued if he was or not

Unto da next game. Give rest to Val, Jones, Rojo, Ibra, Carrick and Herrera and play other. They should win if they want to.

We cannot afford not to win against Zorya. We play our best legs. Only Carrick deserve rest. May be Europa will be our route to UCL football.

chrisley024:
It's a pity for Fellaini cos he's now the scapegoat. The team dropped off while Everton were pressing. I knew it was just a matter of time.

He just didn't apply wisdom there. That guy was going nowhere, and it was about that time Everton were destined not to score. One or two forward balls to Rashford or Valencia, we take away two minutes from the play.

When we defend why do we leave space on the full backs positions? Yesterday, when Chelsea were leading 2-1, they covered their full backs and midfield positions well. We always leave our left back open until a pass goes to that direction

chrisley024:
Fellaini to counter the aerial threat is ok just that one of the CM would have given way for him which should have been Pogba while we try to keep the ball. Bailly would mean 3 CB which is a change in formation and I don't know how it would have panned out.

The truth is that we don't have the defence to hang unto a 1 nil lead.

We did the 3 man centre defence before. Smalling came on late to help Bailly and Blind, and did well defending aerial balls that day.

I am now tired of Fellaini, the only thing he knew how to do was to see a game out. Now that he has lost it, he is completely useless.

chrisley024:
The main thing we needed at that point we were under pressure was to try and keep the ball but they were busy gifting it to Everton. Fellaini was brought in to help in the aerial ball cos Carrick and Herrera weren't helping.

Why Pogba was given 90mins to hop around is beyond me.

I wanted Bailly for the aerial balls stuff. I remember how Felliani made us worse the last time.

Mourinho doesn't appear to know how to defend anymore