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chrisley024:
If true, he ruined the FA cup celebration according to the club.

Yes, it was too early. Body dey pepper he and Mourinho too much.

Diademk07:
Crying wetin? We won the Fa cup already.
No manager would have managed to win anything with that pathetic midfield of ours and lack of quality strikers.
On the other hand, Mourinho managed to almost relegate his teams consisting of quality players like Hazard, Fabregas, Costa and Matic who would seamlessly slot into our team.
I would really loves how he revamp our midfield and move out Rooney because he's always been lucky with quality midfield in every club he took over. For example, Alonso at Madrid, Deco at Porto, David luiz who was a solid holding midfielder under Benitez and got deployed in the same role under Mourinho. Or even Oscar who was quality under many Benitez before Mourinho came.
He's also been lucky with quality midfielder that suddenly became available like Sneidjer, fabregas and Ozil (after his worldcup performances).
However, there are no quality midfield available on the market right now and our midfield isn't a quality he could work with.
Eventually, we would see who's the fraud.

Who bought Schneirderlin?

Don't give excuse that he is not a good midfielder. He was the best in EPL last season. When Di Maria came to United, he had world class performance in about 5 first games which he played on the left of a diamond midfield.

Instead of Van Gaal to adapt his system and philosophy to suit the players quality, he will want the players to adapt to his philosophy. That has been the problem. What Di Maria needed last season was a strong DM, not Blind that played behind him that neccessitated Di Maria to be defence conscious. We saw a certain match Valencia was played on the right side of the diamond midfield. His physicality meant that the other players were able to express themselves freely without worrying about the battle side.

Van Gaal has a good playing style, but he doesn't buy the right players to gain the right mix in selection. In EPL you need men who can head very accurately when attacking set plays, you need them too to defend set plays. Men who can jump and head accurately. In United no one player Van Gaal bought that can head the ball accurately, like the way Drogba, Vidic, Ivanovic, Terry would head the ball into the net. Rojo, Blind, Schneiderlin, Herrera, Mephis cannot even jump.

The only players who can head the ball to target almost every time are Martial and Rooney. But these are short guys. The other guys who can jump high, Fellaini, Jones and Smalling are shyte while trying to score with their heads. Given another season, Gaal wouldn't have corrected this.

What about mixing the team with pacing players. Pacing players who can cause havoc, not players like Lingard who run and run without producing quality.

Even if Gaal is able to assemble a great squad, he might still spoil the party with selection and substitution because he sees the beginning of the season as a time of experiment. I like him though, I believe the injuries to senior players spoilt the party for him.

Diademk07:
Like they did with Pedro transfer?
I won't be surprised if Mourinho's agent, mendes leaked the news for his fear that utd would renege on their verbal agreement after the FA cup win.

It was Mendes that leaked the news last night. They said it was reported so by Skysports.

Watch the Sky news here:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=996697990412689&id=112070568875440

AdeLaNa1:

He scored 15 half of that number. If he didn't injure when he hit form, he would have scored close to that. We were not creating chances in the beginning of the season until we moved Martial to the left. Our season no set as e suppose.

Defiant Van Gaal

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/10290638/manchester-united-boss-louis-van-gaal-defiant-amid-jose-mourinho-rumours

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chrisley024:
@elampiro, what Smalling did was the best in such case especially when you look at the remaining time. It's very likely Blind would have struggled against the physicality and pace of Bolasie. A CB shouldn't allow an opponent to go freely toward his post, if unable to clear the ball commit a foul and take a card.

You are right. I just reviewed the action again. It would actually have been two vs one against Blind, except if Carrick or Valencia paced enough while Blind delay the counter.

We are always making same mistakes. The second player pulled away from Darmian and Carrick while they were just watching hoping Smalling wins the tackle. Also, Martial repeated our usual mistake, he played four Palace players onside for their goal.

PietroRico:
My personal natch highlight

Motherfücker

I did the dance when we equalised, and also at final whistle.

[b]Congratulations to us on winning the F. A. cup.

We only went two seasons without a trophy. It's a good comsolation at the end. We won community Shield in 2013/2014 so it just one season. Ukwu!!!

Smalling didn't have to commit that foul. Blind was at the back. One of Valencia, Darmian and Smalling would have recovered before that guy get past Blind.

We are poor at defending, but surprisingly defend better when we played 10 men. I still think Smalling will play more confindendly if he had another strong and pacing guy like Jones beside him. When you know you are the only one who can actually all the defending duties well (jump, tackle, chase a pacing player , etc) it can lead to some distractions.

Fellaini, although not really winning aerial duels today, his presence helped our organization and defending aerial balls. But he was useless using his head at the opposite head. He ought to have buried two chances with his head in the first half.
Again he had the best chance to open scoring, but he lacks goal scoring sense and shooting accuracy.

Particularly happy for Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick who won their first FA cup. The last time in 2007, Rooney looked like he was going to single handedly win this match, but we were unliccky in the match we dominated, and Drogba broke our heart in a game we dominated well.

Congratulations again. We are Manchester United. We can go a long time without a trophy. Kudos!



Ayagayayagayo hei Ayagayayagayo
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Pope Francis confuses me a lot. But this is just a proposal to call a commission to study the possibility of women deacons (deaconesses).

I have always been sceptical about him, just when I was backing him, he wants to open another controversy.

Italo, Syncan, ubenedictus, what do you think about this new move. I am back again. Lol

Diademk07:
Lol!
How many games did Kagawa and Hernandez play under Van gaal? Both players left after being given no assurance of first team place especially after the disaster that happened under Moyes in the previous season.
That said, Rvp, Nani, McNair, Rafael were either washed up, average, inconsistent and crocks. I won't lose sleep over them.
How many games did Nani/Rafael even start under Fergie in his last 2 season? How about the abomination performances Rvp put up at the world/cup after the 5-1 win over Spain. Van gaal was only going to choose either Rooney or Rvp and he went with Rooney who atleast is a utility player who can operate as a CM, SS or on the wing.
As per Di Maria, he's always been a brainless winger, nothing else to see. He was constantly benched by Ancelloti until he made a come back as a makeshift box-box CM. He still looked the same brainless player against City in the CL and that's no Lvg's fault.
I can't even believe you would bring up Bastain when it was Lvg who made him the player he is, in the first place. Injury hasn't helped his cause though.
As per Schneiderlin, I can't even see the difference in his performance at Southampton. He was known for his defensive skills and not for his techniques nor his passing skills. He's shown the same at Manutd except that he's expected to atleast have skills in the passing department.
Januzaj is the only player who's regressed but then, he had his best form in a poor team that allowed him to do as he likes, even when he acted brainless. If I recall well, his form already got dipped when the whole team started playing well (thanks to Kagawa's playmaking) in the last few matches under Moyes because then, his decision making became more glaring and was brought under much scrutinity which wasn't the case when the whole team were playing poorly and look disjointed.

Di Maria was one of Madrid top finest players that season. I really followed their matches that season. And the UCL final, without Di Maria, Athletico would have won it comfortably. He was their only trouble.

On highest number of games started:

Diego Lopez 36
Benzema 34
Ronaldo 30
Pepe 30
Modric 29
Di Maria 27

Di Maria made further 7 substitutions. Which means he played 34 games.

TheGoodJoe:

The Hausas in the educationally challenged regions have been coping and they will continue to cope. They have their means to test the understanding of the principles being thought.

Just as a Chinese man who can not speak English can understand physics principles or a German who can not speak or write in English can understand Chemical laws and theories.

So is your problem the educational challenges some Northern communities face or is your problem the fact that a girl kidnapped, tortured and raped is found?

Thank God Amina Ali is alive and found.

#WelcomeBackAmina

These people don't understand that this girl may not have spoken English for 2 years. Together with all the trauma, it is by the grace of God she can still reason like a same human.

When Obasanjo returned from prison, his English fluency left him. He was always waiting for seconds before his brain could pick the next appropriate word to use. Then he waits again and keep repeating hem, hem, clear throat, then cough, then think of what to say next. It took him more than 3 years of more to gain some speaking fluency.

RuuDie:
Na who born Liverpool or any EPL team in Europa for dat matter where Sevilla dey!

Europa cup is on 5-yr lease to Sevilla. Na beg una go take collect am back

What na happened eventually, was Sturridge substituted after he scored? I didn't see him again. Even Origi and Benteke never held the ball like players.

parrotibaba:
Be like Lukaku de go either manutd or bayern. See wetin im papa talk.




www.m.goal.com/x/en/news/11/transfer-zone/2016/05/18/23654792/everton-want-65m-for-lukaku-and-he-will-be-sold-before-euro

It has started. This is how the speculation will be in the next three months.

Diademko7

You can also look at this pass accuracy and number of passes of our players against Everton at Wembley.

Lingard with about half of number of Rooney and Carrick passes had highest pass accuracy.

Elxandre:
Elampiro don't do this please.

You are descending to Ramdeuter and Kagawa10 's level because of Rooney.

Three times world player of the year to Rooney as a MF?

I was saying he could have off days, and he also had average days.

I am by no means saying Rooney is like Zidane, but his game of yesterday mehn, wish that was how Rooney would play 80% of the time.

codedguy1:
I agree Rooney had a good game, but u are making it look like he is the best player in the world especially when he has been found wanting this season numerous times.

The commentators were biased about Rooney. In the first half every little thing Rooney did especially the long ppasses were praised to high heaven and when he made a mistake or wrong pass they kept quiet or made a joke out of it.

English commentators will praise Rooney no matter what. Your comparism with Zidane was a little too much and am sure u were not comparing him with Zidane when he (zidane) had a bad game and we all know what Zidane was when he was in his element.

Rooney played against Bournemouth FFS.

All these your stories na say Rooney must not be praised. That was a wonderful performance from someone leaning how to play midfield. He looked like he had played their all his life, he took the game and put it in his packet. Even the first touch people complained about, he has been very good at it since returning from injury. And Yesterday you would think it was Zidane making a first touch of the ball.

raumdeuter:
He played vs Denmark with bandage on his thigh and they lost 2-0

Okay, it's a long time.

lekkie073:
zidane did not play against senegal

Which one did he play and he was helpless.

I think they also lost that match.

raumdeuter:
How can you see someone who didn't play

Elxandre:
I doubt Zidane started the Senegal match.


Edit.....
He didn't even play, cos I remember he was injured.

But he played in one of the matches and they lost. He was poor.

codedguy1:
So because today was christmas for Rooney we no go hear word again. It was even only in the 2nd half that his game made sense sef. He was average 1st half.

Rooney that has been useless nearly half of the season.

Abeg calm down with this ur Rooney worship that u see even in a match he did not play.

He was our best player in first half. Even at 0-0 the commentors kept praising him. He was opening and changing our games with passes. Second half was a great football artistry from Wayne.

chrisley024:
You don start again with this your Rooney FC fanaticism.

Zidane wouldn't have such performance against Bournemouth. Nawa for you o!

Zidane we didn’t see against Senegal. I meant Denmark.

You think everyday is Christmas?

elrony:
Tufiakwa!!!!!..... useless defenders!!! Mtcheeew!

How we allowed them freely into our box in the last minute of added time is beyong imagination. We could have stopped them but we were just not concerned. It was like we lost the match.

Diademk07:
Lol!
Exaggeration at its worst.

Leave sentiments aside. On the average Zidane wouldn't have that performnce. Rodney's passes were tearing Bournemount apart. He was in total control and overshadowed Carrick.

Diademk07:
Came on against tired legs. Even Depay almost had a goal.

Depay is poor. He shot waywardly when he should be scoring. Even Valencia almost had a long range cracker. What an effort that was. I never knew he could shoot from 30 yards. The keeper broke his finger there.

Odunharry:
Chaii, golden glove award gone

I almost fell from the chair when that goal went in. We just relaxed when Bournemount built...

I felt for DeGea. Before kick off I saw him walked to middle of the field to talk to Smalling, Valencia and Carrick. Like saying pls help me.

Diademk07:
Young just came back from injury, hasn't attained full fitness.

Is it not the Young that scored and almost had a double?

With nothing at stake, LVG is playing his first team. This man is funny. These same players will play again on Saturday.

Why not start Jones so that we access him before summer? Even Young sef on the bench.

SIRcumalot:
Rooney is using his inbuilt top quality player
experience to try to adapt.
@elampiro you dey always bust my head

Lol

E easy to make FIFApro XI as a forward player? Was once world 5th best. That makes him world class na.