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I don't want Evans to be banned. Let's maintain a steady back line and see. However, the defence is not settled yet. The few times the Newcastles strikers saw the ball they tore us open. No wonder DDG was just voted MOTM by United fans. Then we could have conceded a penalty. Newcastle virtually packed the bus and left three men upfront to catch us on the break, yet those three men troubled us. Rojo was easily outpaced even though he knew that would set the striker with one vs one with Smalling.

Newcastle were close to equalizer just after we scored on 89th minute. They could also blame themsleves of squandering chances. How our defence went to sleep to allow them run to face DDG on two occasions remains a mystery. However, with more games, it could get better.

The plus is that we played a very good game we can build on going forward.

I see exactly what Di Maria is trying to do in every of his moves, but it's not working perfectly well for now. He will improve, and yesterday was an improvement on his recent games.

He is used to playing fast and with fast team mates. May be he sometimes forgets not everyone has the speed and ability to take away their markers like Ronaldo, Bale, Marcelo and even Isco. The whole team will play better as a unit next season.

For the records, Di Maria still has the best key pass/per minute for us. 32.3 mins per key pass. Followed by Januzaj at 50.9m

Dadehmola:
Na this kind thing tire me pass for your matter..

Di Maria has started showing us the terrible inconsistencies that made him sit on the bench on various occassions at Madrid, simple and short!!

No need to start finding "goodies" in the shítstorm he's been serving us recently Abeg!!

Did you see how our game dropped yesterday when he left?

He is good. He is one of the best players in the world, he cannot lose his skills over night. It's just a first season struggle. He was like this in Madrid many years back until he got better and became one of the best in the world. If he played for Argentina today, he would still give a world class performance.

Happy 78th birthday to OBJ.

Di Maria may not be near his best at the moment, but I think he is improving.

He raises the tempo of our game too. He has the ability to drift inward and attack through the middle than anyone else.

chrisley024:
Either you're trolling or you've not been watching EPL games this season.

If all the penalties Young and Januzaj won at the start of the season were awarded, we should have been at least 7 point better by Christmas, and that should have propelled us to contest for the title.

Other teams have gotten dozens of awoof penalties before we eventually got our only league penalty.

chrisley024:
Rojo is actually playing Left-CB not LB and I won't suggest Shaw playing there since he lacks qualities of a CB

No, Rojo was LB while Evans was the LCB.

Shaw should be our LB. Rojo lacks pace.

As for me, Rooney stretched the defence well enough today. Apart from not slotting into the net, he did every other thing excellently well. One of his offside call could have been onside some other days. That happened because he was stretching the defence. Also, I saw him calling for the ball while alone with the centre back but Fellaini and co prefered other options. That's football, players make decisions within split seconds. Overall, Rooney made genuine bite on the defence while holding and creating with the ball. His 90% pass accuracy, his on and off the ball movements and dribblings were commendable.

As for Valenvia, another good performance. Again he came top of our pass accuracy despite being one of our highest passers. He could have had a good assist if Fellaini knew how to head with power like Drogba does. He also doesn't always go to his right anymore. He did his job as a left back and as an 'overlapping defender'.

Evans seems to have finally find his feet. He was our best defender today.


I just wish we finish top 4. May God help us achieve it. Amen.

chrisley024:
Now that Carrick is back, what happens to Blind and Herrera?






I'd try Carrick and Herrera

It's dicey. And it's not the time to scatter the team with undue changes. I will want Rojo dropped from left back due to his lack of pace. He is the only defender without pace and he exposed us today. Since our midfielders are not the fastest or strongest, we need our defenders to be fast (speeding).

Oppositions mostly try to outpace us with little of the ball they see.

All teams approach us the same way. They seat deep while hoping to catch us on the break. We will be far better next season. I can see lot of improvement but also lot of nervousness due to the situation we find ourselves at this critical time of the season.

We played well, just that little mistakes here and there and ill luck let us down. Di Maria's substitution and introduction of Janujaz did not work for us today as the temple dropped drastically. In my opinion, this was our best away display this season. We controlled and dominated completely. Fellaini should play faster while Ljuke Shaw should be used as the left back instead of Rojo.

SailorXY:
Zouma is now your best midfielder behind Rooney?
OK pawa Jones will be drafted in. satisfied?

Gbam! Good night.

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“He (Mourinho) came to do a job with his team and they did it,” he said.

“They don’t defend because they have to – they love and enjoy to defend. They live to defend, you can see that every time, that’s why most of the time they play a final they end up winning it.”

-Thiery Henry.




The tactics is working for Mourinho. It was working for SAF when he used Jones to get results against some oppositions in midfield. Madrid, Everton, Stoke, Tottenham, etc.

SailorXY:
no time wey you no dey log out. e be like say na cyber café you dey always visit

Make I dey sleep for internet? I have other things I am doing na.

SailorXY:
our midfield need an injection of pace through the middle & not really jam-body brainless bag of fufu. Spurs didn't help themselves by isolating Kane upfront while Chelshit sat deep. I'm yet to see the ingenuity of Mourinho being hailed in that game & I've seen the game thrice! a goal off set piece & an own goal is not magic.

it was a good win & cup final no doubt, but the way media drool over the 'tactics' like the 9th world wonder is just bla bla bla

One word: Zuma.

The combination of Blind and Herrera might not hold when we come against pace and power playing oppositions particularly at away. Swansea and Sunderland are some of the softest playing sides in the EPL.

Sailor, I wan log out. Talk wetin you wan talk make I give last response.

SailorXY:
oh well I'm leaving it! you say so many ridiculous stuff & battle with epistles just to prove you are right

besides, do you still think Herrera should be the last choice in midfield?

What's ridiculous in what I have said? Point them out.

Herrera and Blind will have to adjust to EPL. Did you see what Zuma did against Tottenham? Mourinho always know how to neutralize oppositions. Tottenham couldn't get their acts together as Zuma destroyed them in the middle of the park. Sexy football doesn't always work. The reason we are fluctuating like Nigeria stock market.

SailorXY:
abeg who do elamps this thing Holy Azz of Amber

Thats the simple truth. Playing with Valencia gives you little or nothing to worry on your right and even your front-right. Val is laos feared to over lap with speed to counter, that puts the opposition on alert while Young keeps the other side of opposition defence rooted deep.

Take it or leave it.

Rojo has won 8/16. But was not there when we defeated Arsenal and Liverpool.

McNair and Rojo have given us the highest wins.


Although I will take Jones+Smalling over Rojo+McNair.

This is the best in Central Defence if stats were to be used

McNair:
Man Utd 2 - 1 West Ham
Man Utd 2 - 1 Everton
Man City 1 - 0 Man Utd
Man Utd 1 - 0 C Palace
Arsenal 1 - 2 Man Utd
Southampton 1 - 2 Man Utd
Man Utd 3 - 0 Liverpool
Man Utd 3 - 1 Newcastle
Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd
Man Utd 3 - 1 Leicester
Man Utd 3 - 1 Burnley
Swansea 2 - 1 Man Utd............. Right Back.

McNair has won 9 drew 1 and lost 2. (one vs City).

The difference between Samlling and Jones is the fact that Smalling has benefited far more from Valencia and Young starting matches with him. Valencia with the highest tackles in the EPL protecting his right side (instead of McNair) while pace and security Ashley Young stretching the other end. Yet Smalling has 40% wins. So why the hullabaloo? Our best matches are when Valencia and Young start.


Smalling:
Man Utd 1 - 2 Swansea
Sunderland 1 - 1 Man Utd
Leicester 5 - 3 Man Utd
Man Utd 1 - 1 Chelsea
Man City 1 - 0 Man Utd
Arsenal 1 - 2 Man Utd
Man Utd 3 - 0 Hull
Man Utd 2 - 1 Stoke
Southampton 1 - 2 Man Utd
Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd
Stoke 1 - 1 Man Utd
Man Utd 0 - 1 Southampton
West Ham 1 - 1 Man Utd
Man Utd 3 - 1 Burnley
Man Utd 2 - 0 Sunderland

Phil Jones
Man Utd 1 - 2 Swansea
Sunderland 1 - 1 Man Utd
Burnley 0 - 0 Man Utd
West Brom 2 - 2 Man Utd
Man Utd 3 - 0 Liverpool
Aston Villa 1 - 1 Man Utd
Man Utd 3 - 1 Newcastle
Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd
Stoke 1 - 1 Man Utd
Man Utd 0 - 1 Southampton
QPR 0 - 2 Man Utd
Man Utd 3 - 1 Leicester
West Ham 1 - 1 Man Utd
Man Utd 3 - 1 Burnley
Swansea 2 - 1 Man Utd

I am worried about finishing top 4. Liverpool looks like a team that will win 90% of their remaining fixtures. I thought Southampton and City could make them drop points.

8/02/2015 18:30, Report by Ryan Grant
Van Gaal pleased with victory over Sunderland

After United's 2-0 win over Sunderland, Louis van Gaal spoke to MUTV about the game and gave his thoughts on the Reds' match-winning captain Wayne Rooney...

Van Gaal on the win: "We started the match poorly. I think we were nervous, which is understandable after the defeat to Swansea. After the first quarter of the match, we started to create more chances and we played much better in the second half. We had much more composure on the ball, the tempo was better and we stretched the play from one wing to another. I was pleased with the performance, especially in the second half. We scored twice but could have got more."

Second-half control: "It was comfortable, because they had 10 men and we didn't give them any chances in the second half. We played with control, it's a step in the process to finish a game off when you are winning. Perhaps [Marouane] Fellaini could have scored, and there was also [Antonio] Valencia's shot, so we could have scored more goals. Goal difference can be very important at the end of the season in this rat race for the top four."

On Wayne Rooney: "He said to me, and he was right, that he usually hits penalties high into the goal. Today, he shot along the ground because of their tall goalkeeper and I was very happy that was the case."

Angel Di Maria's adaptation: "We have to give Angel more time to adapt to the Premier League; it's not so easy with the high tempo. I want to give him time, it's also not easy to change a player of his quality, but I have to make these decisions."

On current injuries: "Luke Shaw [had a tight hamstring] and [Phil] Jones was ill. I cannot put those players in my line-up. Victor Valdes also has a problem and wasn’t on the bench. I had to make three changes during our final day of preparation."

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So this man is telling the public how Rooney shoots his penalties?

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Dadehmola:
Pawa and security??

Chei, elampiro must be having an Ërection as e dey read this piece !!

Yes pace and power and now security. Young is wonderful and he should stay fit till the end of the season. You don't know which way he would go. Good game from the young Januzaj. I must commend Valencia too, when everyone looks shaking with the ball, he offers that security with the ball at his feet even under tight marking. His decision making yesterday was outstanding. Good defending from Smalling, although he started out loosely.

Di Maria will be good. He started in Madrid like this and now he finds himself in a league where he even has to play more speedily to out pace his markers. With more time, may be next season he would be able to combine his speed with composure and better final balls. Let's keeping hoping for a top four finish this season. We have lost some points carelessly.

leggo:
hehe..knorr vex, but I've always bn pro-neymar tho

but.....

Hazard is the best in EPL.

Odunharry:
Lol....Na elampiro suppose fast for 2weeks

anti-rooney thread shud do the fasting

may be due to d injuries. I can fast cos even Rooney has been playing with a huge injury on his toe since new year . yet haters said he dived. we no o w knew why he has been passing instead of shooting

leggo:
Good good.. this is what happens when people like elampiro manage clubs.. when you think the aimless buttt-dependent running of hazard is superior to the decisiveness of Neymar.. lol.. best league in the world o... pardon my rant..EPL clubs are technically zero...

leavw me alone
when i was neymar way back, doubters like u said he would flop in europe . DAT brailians are over rated.

Talk to the hand henceforth. I am logging off.

SailorXY:
maybe i should request for a pix of your tv set first
if Valencia is soo good, why is his output shyte? if he was in form sef, its a different ball game. i don't like Young one bit, but i can't say nothing if he's making the team this season - he is earning it with every game he plays & the only surprise here is that he is not yet starting games every week. he used to be a "cut back & in-swing zombie" & no-one on this board liked him (except coogar).

playing zombie soccer is nothing, otherwise the like Kuyt & Huth will make balon d' or every season.

that zombie football is what kept Rooney in midfield for so long & you always came here to bore us how Rooney is better than every midfielder we have. why can you sa about that now??

The last time we conceded two goals, we had Herrera, Blind, Januzaj and Di Maria in midfield. Now we had Herrera, and Blind leading our midfield and we are back to conceding two goals. The same players led us to conceded 5 goals against Leicester.

Against Southampton, Rooney left midfield and Herrera couldn't protect Carrick, then Smalling was no where when Southampton scored.

Valencia is better than those other guys you try comparing him with. Enuf said.














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