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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 10:20am On Feb 08, 2016
chrisley024:
Which match? Him, Rooney and Lingard didn't show up yesterday. And Rooney trying a chip in the box in the last minute. Like WTF!

Which match did you watch? Rooney was quiet in the first 25 minutes, then he ran the show from then on. He was tidy in possession even as Terry man marked him up and down. Set up good final third moves by picking team mates, fine dribbling in the final third, unlucky to have a last tackle stopped his fine dribbling on verge of facing the goal against the goalkeeper.

He gave the Assist to Lingard for our goal.

The chip you mentioned was a 50-50 decision, either to shoot or pass. He did well to beat his man to get into that position, but may be he should have passed.



European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 10:13am On Feb 08, 2016
I didn't even know Blind slipped. I knew something was wrong with the ball through the middle.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 10:11am On Feb 08, 2016
In my own rating, the MOTM is actually DeGea, followed by Courtois.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 10:09am On Feb 08, 2016
AdeLaNa1:
Mata was MOTM yesterday. Yes he's recently had a poor run of games. But u guys underrate that nigga too much...
This is the joke of the century. This is coming from someone who blasted Rooney week in week out. You didn't even say Mata played well, but that he is MOTM. All the rating Do well to read the ratings below:

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m):
chrisley024:
You mean they should have stayed with De Gea? Nawa o! The lad made a huge error which I don't know if to blame it on his lack of experience or concentration. Most likely the later since it is a school boy error.
Not staying with De Gea. But your defence gets deeper as the the game wears on when you hold a slim lead. That deepness also requires that you don't rush out high the pitch too quickly from a defensive situation which is not cleared. There is always tendency for someone to be left behind. We played young men along Vidic, Ferdi and Brown, we never had these situations. I have lost count how any times we have had this since Vidic and co left. Butner, Blakket, Jackson have all made us to concede. Last season and this season, I have seen Valencia, Shaw, Blind, Rojo all made same mistakes, although we didn't concede.

Those days in our local football, the centre backs always called everyone out. There was always a watching out for one another. If you aren't coming out to draw a straight offside trap (line), someone must call your name immediately.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 9:10pm On Feb 07, 2016
airmark:
Nothing marginal. It would have been clear offside bro.
You are right. But I am sure if it was Smalling who was closest to he would have still have the awareness that he wasn't offiside. Even sharp offiside was not something to be encouraged at that time of the game because it could lead to mistakes. Remember how Chelsea defended against Barca in Camp Nou, the were not looking to catch Barca offiside at the slightest opportunity.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 7:53pm On Feb 07, 2016
airmark:
Your LB was the one that gave him that ticket
Even at that he would have been marginally offiside. The experienced guys should have known better.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 7:10pm On Feb 07, 2016
SailorXY:
There's no speed in defensive midfield
But our defence was also a problem. Blind's lack of pace and poor aerial ability was easily exposed. How did we even allow Costa to sneak behind us so late when we were packing the box?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 7:02pm On Feb 07, 2016
MaziOmenuko:
Rubbish!!

All Memphis had to do was put up a pass to his team mate! How difficult can that be? Just put up a simple pass for fvckk sake!

And these guys makes more money per week than I make annually!!!
For the last two games Mephis has come on, he has contributed nothing.

The substututions didn't look okay to me.

Schneirdelin should have come in for Mata. Then we switched from 4-2-3-1 to 4-5-1. The next sub should have been Herrera coming for Lingard.

The margin was too slim to have even introduced careless Mephis.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 6:00pm On Feb 07, 2016
Our defending is poor. We even poorer defending set plays. We have played better but they have had the clearer chances.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 3:44pm On Feb 06, 2016
If not for injuries we would be topping the league. We were top before the injury spree began.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 3:12pm On Feb 06, 2016
GBR1:
Why would he choose us exactly?
He doesn't have to chose us. We will chose him.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 3:05pm On Feb 06, 2016
Mahrez should be our next signing.
Politics › Re: Obasanjo Prostrates Before The Ooni Of Ife! by elampiro(m): 5:36am On Feb 06, 2016
holllandis:
Are you crazy .Has Obasanjo ever entered white house .You know what it takes to get there ?/don't let me slap u
What is in White house? The late military governor governor of Bendel and Kwara State used to visit White house during President Clinton regime like it was his backyard. In one instance he went to White house with our parish priest (Rev Father) in Benin.

That's just a former governor, what about an Iroko like Obasanjo? White House that Beyonce and JZ go to everytime.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 7:49am On Feb 04, 2016
We should be able to beat the Chelsea I saw last night. The only person who manages to be tidy on the ball was Mikel. Watford ensured they didn't allow him space to even think, not to talk of gaining balance on the ball.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 12:03am On Feb 04, 2016


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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m):
Yesterday we played against a team that cannot play on the ground and with the personnel we deployed we were able to force them to play proper football. That's how we got the upper hand.

I have always said we were the only big team which had consistent great results over them under SAF because SAF always deployed players who can control and play on the ground against them. Scholes, Carrick, Rooney, Giggs and Park, and in 2013 Kagawa.

Yesterday, the return of Carrick was timely while we started Mata. With Blind and Jackson ability to pass and control, we made them clueless when we had the ball. Fellaini provided a balance with his ability to bring down the ball and his slow movements complimented the other guys.

We will have to wait to see how we fair against other teams that can also control a game. I still worry over players who are yet to return from injury. We need them.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 11:10pm On Feb 02, 2016
chrisley024:
I'm now more afraid of us making top four since the teams, Leicester and Spurs, I was hoping to drop seem to get stronger. We need to be exceptionally consistent which I know is hard to get from this team.
My fear too.

Our back makes me nervous. We kept a clean sheet but there was so many to worry about our defence.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 11:08pm On Feb 02, 2016
Good game tonight.

Another game another injury, and our injured players are not coming back.

Out defence was a bit of a problem. But that Jackson gave a good account of himself.

Rooney had a marvelous assist for Martial's goal after a good team play.

Martial had another marvelous evening. If his decision making improves to even 70% of what we used to get from Giggs, Rooney would be scoring more goals this period. Most times as Martial is moving, Rooney is going away from the last man, but he (Martial) Fellaini and Lingard don't see these passes. Martial is just 19, so he will improve so much with time. Sometimes a lob ball over the last man would be enough or some other time a curly pass.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 10:08pm On Feb 02, 2016
We could easily have scored 4-5 goals in the first half. Let’s pray Stoke doesn't score the next goal of this match because this defence is shaking. All the 50-50 decisions in the being awarded to Stoke.

Rooney goal
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m):
If only Martial could improve his final dicisions.
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 5:35pm On Jan 31, 2016
weedtaker:
we've rooney schweini carrick young and valencia all of dem 're veterans, then we've got mata schneirdelin herrera whom are all above 25. our under-21 stars are martial and shaw nd depay. I would've shared ur opinion if de player in question is an attacker (cause we really don't need a youngstar in our attack), but he's a midfielder.
You are right. But will he immediately improve us? Or we are buying our future Zidane?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 12:25pm On Jan 31, 2016
weedtaker:
if he's good enough in de eyes of de board why we no go sign am? Na ur money dem wan use? Is it ur money??grin And how do you know he's not better than perreira nd pearson? You don watch am b4? Afterall when we sign martial people de question him goal returns. So number of games doesn't really matter, talent, potentiaL nd what you can do with the ball does. Afterall how many games wey pogba play for man.utd? No be dsame pogba wey herrera scatter 4 midfield around 2012 de make top 10 for balon d' or now? 4get de money nd just look at what de player in question would offer to de team.
The problem is that the team is made up of too many young stars already. If we continue like this we might wait for 5 years more to lift a trophy.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 9:49pm On Jan 30, 2016
weedtaker:
dey're rumours about united planning to sign an 18yr old benfica midfielder named renato sanches, 've u heard anything about de rumour? Nd do you know de guy?
We should not worry ourselves over an 18 year old. He can't start in the senior team.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 9:12pm On Jan 30, 2016
chrisley024:
They're similar;, Blind is poor in aerial balls. Watch Fellaini's position most times we're are defending aerial balls you'll see he's on the Blind's position or in front of him thereby vacating his proper position for the opponents to utilize. If that's the only reason we use Fellaini, then, we need a CB asap and use a proper midfielder since dude is shyte and clumsy in the midfield.
He is in Blind's position because he acts as a CB in set plays. He is doing a great job for us, and he even count steps away from his position to head from other positions, that's even when the ball is not his. That's something Vidic used to do for us.

As I said, he is praying because we need more headers in the absence of Jones and Rojo. If he were still on the pitch against Southampton he would have put his head on that ball because it fell to where he could have taken care of it easily.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 9:08pm On Jan 30, 2016
weedtaker:
if dis current united team is leading its opponent with a single goal margin and you think de game is done n dusted den u're clearly not following de team, as for de schneirdelin sub he didn't put up a decent performance last nyt, he was also to be blamed for derbys goaL.

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I agree, mata plays better at the right flank, but with valencia behind him,
Schneiderlin ought to have tracked that run. Even Bysquet wouldn't have taken his eyes off that action, not to talk of a player like Mascherano.

We have seen such lackadasical attitude from our players many times this season. I thought with Schneiderlin we had solved that problem.

But apart from that he was okay yesterday.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 8:02pm On Jan 30, 2016
AdeLaNa1:
Bro u get sense! I dont know wat else dey want from Mata!! And considering the fact dat he's spent majority of the season at RW, u cant really blame him.
Mata has performed better in the right wing than in the middle. Beginning from our match in PSV, Mata has been abysmal in the middle except on one occasion we could credit him with above average performance there.

Yesterday you implied the players around him are poor and that's why Mata is poor. I want to believe you have stopped watching our matches.

Someone is placing undue emphasis on his goal (our third goal). One thing was clear, as soon as the second goal went in, that match was done and dusted. That was why Gaal could afford to take off Schneiderlin and introduce Carrick to gain some fitness. I thought from the second goal on, it was a matter of how many more goals we score, particularly as we were getting behind their defence line.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 7:51pm On Jan 30, 2016
weedtaker:
i like the carrick type of midfielder though.
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.@Olabode89 i think chrisley024 is talking about fellaini not blind.
We are not talking about midfielder style, but a midfielder with attributes to play as a centre defender.

Mascherano, Makalele, will pass for CB than Carrick and Blind.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 4:51pm On Jan 30, 2016
olabode89:
All you guys hating on Blind I still don't it! His marking has improved tremendously, His passing from deep is second to none. Mascherano is a CMF/DMF and have been playing CB for Barca for close to 5 seasons if not more. A ball playing CB is a huge asset to a team. Although he needs to improve his awareness and positioning at the back. If you look closely you will notice that he has bulked up a bit to improve his presence and success against them EPL 'jam body' specialists.

Blind's natural position is as a defensive midfielder, but he has played as a LB and LCB before he came to United. Make una cut the dude some slacks jare.
Mascherano is a beast na. You can not compare. Mascherano at Liverpool midfielder was like having a rock there. Same for Argentina. He wins tackles with ease and goes back to help defence tracking strikers going into the box.

Blind has no rememblance to Mascerano. It's like comparing Carrick to Makalele.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by elampiro(m): 4:48pm On Jan 30, 2016
chrisley024:
he is always covering Blind in set pieces. exactly why we need a CB and throw him to the bench. He's not a midfielder talk more of a CMF
Covering Blind or helping them out?

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