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nitrogen:
Just continue to park triple deckers na. We are playing Arsenal this week, tell the new manager to park a triple decker.

You're on the board. Tell carrick to play a high line so you can have more lamentations to do.

Leyqute:
Fred did well to intercept that ball.

It was a brilliant move from him.

His final ball just wasn’t good enough. Had that chip been successful or had he passed to someone who then scored, we’d be singing his praises now.

Everybody is disappointed. He panicked, which is not unusual from him

nitrogen:
Intercept what, the keeper passed to Fred. Oga, why you dey lie like this?

What's your definition of interception? Wahala!

nitrogen:
This is not a cup game, it’s the league ffs.

It's better to lose in the league, away at Chelsea, with the form we have been and the form Chelsea has? It's okay we go to Chelsea and expose the team so we're beaten 5-0 because it's not a cup game?

Karleb:
I don't get.

Where did I talk about Sancho and Rashford?

Looks like you jumped into a discussion you know nothing about. No wonder you're making some funny comments. What concerns Lukaku with our argument about the attackers that should have started? Because you mentioned his name

elampiro:
1-1 is better than losing 5-0

If not for Fred we could have stolen a victory

LOL please don't forget that Fred actually intercepted that ball. You are talking like he was passed to

Karleb:
What sort of question is this?

If you didn't see what Ronaldo did when we didn't have the ball, I'd advice you watch the highlight.

If you didn't see what Sancho and Rashford did when we didn't have the ball, I'd advice you watch the highlight

nitrogen:
That was a triple decker. 4 defenders, 3 defensive midfielders, and Bruno was even withdrawing to support dem. That’s not double decker.

Ridiculous!

Champions league have been won this way. I am very sure you praised Mourinho for this years ago when he won his champions league this way. We could go on and on.

Karleb:
Anyone making this statement is blinded by hate.

So AWB, Fred, Matic and Co are more physical than Ronaldo.

I don't blame you guys sha. Many of you even insulted him because rumour had it he was going to City.

Did you see the run he made for that offside ball?

Even a "physical" Lukaku had less impact compared to Ronaldo.

Ronaldo may be a better fit physically, but you're missing it. Will he be willing to use that energy to help the team when we're not with the ball? Chelsea was always going to have the ball for major parts of the game, what would Ronaldo be doing?

nitrogen:
What good move? You think if it was Ronaldo that had the one chance we had in the first half, he would not have buried it?

Let’s face it, Carrick is shyte! He decided to have more bodies in the midfield so we could park a double decker. We played nothing, absolutely nothing today.

Coaches have been praised for playing the double decker in the past. I'm not making a case for Carrick, but you can do better

nitrogen:
It’s not common sense, Rashford and Sancho did nothing today, they did not press anything, except for the lucky goal, they did nothing. So, I don’t understand the covering of more grounds that you are talking about.

I guess that’s why you adore Fred. Because he runs around like a headless chicken.

I stopped reading there lol

nitrogen:
You started by saying we haven’t seen Ronaldo, now it’s why play him if we are not creating chances. don’t play any forward players then.

The game hadn't started before you lots wanted to lynch Carrick. That was a very good move for this game.

nitrogen:
You started by saying we haven’t seen Ronaldo, now it’s why play him if we are not creating chances. don’t play any forward players then.

The forward players that deserved to start today's game are those that can cover more grounds. It's as simple as that. Then we introduce Ronaldo later to capitalize on some moments. There is no agenda there, it's common sense.

nitrogen:
Except you are not watching the game, we have not created a single chance in this game. We scored a lucky goal because of Jorginho’s sloppiness. I don’t understand this agenda against Ronaldo. Someone that ensured that we are still in the UCL

It's not an agenda against Ronaldo. What exactly do you want Ronaldo to do if the team can't create chances? You said he should have started, how would he have influenced the game with the way we had to play today? Are you saying he would have been all over the pitch, creating chances himself?

nitrogen:
Shey Fred for pass the ball to Ronaldo na. You are not creating chances, you are looking for Ronaldo. We were abusing Sancho until the goal because he was not good in possession.

Nawa for you o

Okay the players are beefing Ronaldo, that's why we have not seen him for over about 30 minutes now.

Ronaldo is on the pitch though

weedtaker:
The PK was very soft seff

Unfortunately

AWB saving a certain goal but all we hear is crickets as usual

I was looking at Rashford, was he not further than the ball? A pass to him would have been offside I think

olabode89:
Omo... how the Bleep does this Chelsea team play so wide and high up the pitch??

I go like see them against Bayern, make we know whether them go fit choke them like they do teams in the EPL.

It's the energy and willingness to recover no matter where they find themselves on the pitch. Nobody is strolling around, waiting for some balls to come their way.

larride:
This match you are watching so, is it 11 vs 11?

Unfortunately I don't know again

We may have the slowest reaction in the league

slimghost:
Player for player, there isn’t that much difference between both clubs. The difference is in the ‘coaching’ and ‘management’.
No United team should ever be set up to play this way, not with the talents we have.
I don’t blame Carrick though because he hasn’t had time to impress his philosophy on the players.

First of all, we don't even know if Carrick has any philosophy.

Looking at where we are coming from, man we have to stop the bleeding first before doing anything first. And we were bleeding goals

patrickmuf:
See fools watching Rudiger shoot.

If Rudiger is stepping up, someone should be stepping down to be on him. That's how it should be. That's why it's 11 against 11

slimghost:
Simple! We didn’t come here to win. We set up to keep them at bay. That mindset alone irritates me.

You would have preferred we were losing 3-0 by now. Good one

What we need to understand is that it's more about damage control. There is nothing to build on

frankmoney:
You can't expect to go defensive against an attacking team when your defence aren't rock solid . They will Destroy you

LOL what's the alternative? Play high line?

nitrogen:
Liesssss. Only useless managers will play McFred to cover for their tactical deficiencies.

You didn't answer the question

A major problem is our build-up play. That should be a major focus

nitrogen:
Question is why play McFred, same question we’ve been asking since Ole became the manager. This thing no be about number of bodies in the midfield, na intelligence matter for football na.

Any manager that comes in will still play McFred. Who is the intelligent one that should play in their stead?

These guys are just so soft and be looking confused. The damage that has been done may take a whole year to erase

My God why are these players like this?