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larride:
Baba, easy now. small small abeg.

show us the formation pep started in this match make we see.

Fernandinho is as much a defensive midfielder as KDB is a striker.

larride:
No DM bawo?

Fernandinho na wetin?

Fernandinho is a central midfielder not a defensive midfielder.

See how City are playing. No striker yet they're attacking fluently. No DM yet Barca could only score a lucky goal.

Somebody will come and start calling balance.

Tactics!

Tactics is all...

John Stones

*spits*

Gundogan why?

Mehn that Sanchez goal...

Imagine you buy a season film dvd after work, then stop on the way home to pick up suya and malt, reach home, bathe and change into your freshly laundered jalabiya, slot in your dvd only to find that episode 5-10 is missing.

John Stones is that DVD.

What a waste of investment.

So Messi no even get oju anu say espirit de corps?

See wetin he do Bravo.

dopeJemi:
Chelsea fans and hypocrisy are like peni.s and condom, so fitting

You just can't help yourself,can you?

seguno2:
Thanks for telling us what we already know.
Do you like that our country is a jungle?
If you don't, what are you doing about it?
What can you do about it?

Nothing. I can't do anything. I don't intend to do anything either.

I can only accept what is. Which is why I made my original statement.

seguno2:
If oyinbo people think like this and don't give us financial & other aids, we black people will be all dead.
No wonder the oyinbos are continuously on top of us.
Can we think before we talk please?

There's no need to be upset, it is what it is.

The Government should have a social programme for these kind of cases, that's what you pay taxes for.

Unfortunately, the Nigerian system aided by the general populace isn't setup to cater to fellows like this..so we have a situation where one dude us buying him coke and tangerine.

Guess what, OP isn't going to but him Coke forever. A day is going to come(if it hasn't already) when the OP is convinced he's done his best and will walk away...

Then what next?

It's sad but it's a fact. Nigeria is a jungle and only the strong can survive. The weak will die.

He's not our responsibility.

Only the strong survive in Nigeria. If he's not strong enough to survive, then he's better off dead.

That's just the unpalatable fact of life in that country.

bigkesh:
They have scored most,created most,covered most distance, completed most dribbles

You leave space behind and you are done


I know Jose is defensive but the set up yesterday was the best,it wasn't like they were defensive throughout.... They went matched Liverpool throughout the first half but they couldn't match them for 90mins

Jose can be very defensive but it was needed yesterday

Pogba cost more than the entire Burnley squad.

Burnley have beaten Liverpool this season.

Burnley have beaten Liverpool to nil.

Prior to last night Liverpool had conceded in their last 5 EPL matches so it's not as if they were not vulnerable. It was seeing Rashford playng at rightback that made me realise how pathetic the setup was last night.

raumdeuter:
I get the kick and the awesome feeling when a lower team uses that tactic to get results vs a vastly superior team but when you have one of the most expensive sides ever assembled and still play like this against a team of lesser or even equal quality?

Who am I kidding, someone who parked the bus vs David Moyes side

To be fair though, Liverpool always struggle agaisnt the smaller sides who park the bus. Just look at how they struggled against Burnley. Of course, Sean Dyche is also known as the ginger Mourinho..

raumdeuter:
As in Fellaini is the 10, Ashley Young the Left winger

Thanks to Trendlona for screenshoting that frame.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/4370874_img20161018wa0003_jpegf9561e29bfab213159f77cd06595d35d

What's the difference between this and a Rugby defensive line below?

https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2015/05/Marcos_one.jpg

The style of play was even the same. Manchester United RFC.

nyabinghi:
score chelsea, zlatan who? Zlatan the pensioner, epl no be ligue 1.

To be honest, we're very vulnerable at the back and against attacking teams we've been exposed brutally this season..but last night's game gave me life and hope..because Jose is still Jose and he will always prefer a point against a rival rather than try to exploit their weaknesses...afterall, this is the same guy that played for a draw against Moyes of all people.

Pataki:
Mou a genius? In a game that he should be winning, 1 minute left into extra time, he brings in a LB, to do what? That is what some people call a genius?

When I saw that move, laugh wan kill me. Only 3 things are constant in this life - Death, Taxes, and Jose parking the bus against a rival.

Spy360:
Llalana helped improved Liverpool when he came on.

Herera was good too- defending. At least he kept Coutinho quiet.

Jose parked the bus. Why? Why?

Most boring game so far.

United in 7th place, Mou doing catch up. He has never succeeded doing so.

The way I am seeing United now... not different from Chelsea last season. Na so e dey start...

Leyqute will tell you that Jose did not rotate his players from last season na why

Ibime:
Timing of runs is the main difference between those who score goals and those who don't. Most professional footballers can hit a shot on target and many have similar conversion stats. The difference between the supreme goalscorers and the others is they get more volume of shots due to the fact they arrive in the box frequently and at the right time. Hazard would need to learn to score tapins just by making the right runs to be able to compete with the likes of Muller, Griezmann and Neymar for goal output. Ororo and Messi is another story.

Have a look at the stats below.

The likes of Griezman and Muller arent necessarily taking that many more shots than Hazard. Griezmann in particular took exactly the same number of shots as Hazard that year....and even had a lower shot accuracy...yet he scored more goals.

I posted earlier how 8 la liga teams in 2014/15 conceded 60+ goals that year, unlike England where only 1 team had such a shockingly bad defence, so perhaps this positively affected Griezmann's scoring rate.

But it's the number of keypasses I want to bring to your attention. Muller and Griezmann made significantly fewer key passes than Hazard - this is a function of players who are exclusively focused on scoring - Yet are unable to post significantly better raw numbers when it comes to shooting and goal scoring.

Ronaldo and Messi on the other hand have fantastic shooting AND passing numbers...and to me this is a clearest indicator of the skill bracket Hazard belongs to.

Griezmann is exclusively focused on scoring and yet cannot actually outshoot Hazard...

Hazard's problem is a mental problem, he has what it takes to at least be close to Ronaldo and Messi if not stay on par with them.

chrisley024:
Are they not players or they came to watch

See you this weekend bro. Bye.

chrisley024:
You said

Thank your keeper and valencia

Mehn there was one frame where United look like they were playing a back 8.

Jose the blocker.

Jose will never change

Lmao blind.

Chai Coutinho omo oro.

Goal dey your boots tonight o. I dey smell am.

Pogba is like bambi on ice. He can't seem to Saturday on his feet for 5 minutes.

Herrera might shoot somebody today and get away it.

This ref is a criminal

Pogba tried with that skill and cross sha. Ibra should have dabbed it in.

SailorXY:
The "almighty-90 min-pressing Liverpool"! Wetin them don do apart from swimming competition?

After una don dey jam dem upandan unfettered and free?

He sha don drop cards now

Ibrahimovic needs an MTN tonight though.

kokaneprodigy:
Thought so as well until i remembered blood is thicker than water

My brother I just tire for the ref. No need to make it so obvious that he is the 12th man today. Manyoo boys don nearly kill Liverpool players yet no single card.