eph12: Yeah that's true. It will be very interesting. Always nice to have a different person from the striker sniffing for goals in a team. Helps a lot. I hope we work on that next season.
And with the Pace and Intelligent Movements of Griezmann and Rashford on and off the Ball..... it's really gonna be very interesting!
eph12: I'm not really a fan of 442 and I love having bodies in the midfield. I get pissed when I see a team bypassing my midfield anyhow straight to the defence. Creates unnecessary pressure on the defence. DDG Val-Bailly-Rojo-Shaw Hererra-Pogba Mkhi-Griezy-Martial Rash
Or we go 352 DDG Rojo-Jones-Baily Val-Herera-Pogba-Mkhi/Mata-Shaw Griezy-Rash/Martial
Seem you do not get the Concepts of the Formation?!
We've already choked the Midfield with four (4) creative Midfielders - while Valencia and Shaw would be operating as Wingbacks. They get the pace and tenacity to carry out the Role perfectly!
"It was the first game Anthony has played as striker this season and he was fantastic. He held the ball up, he gave solutions for the team and scored a fantastic goal.
"It was the same for Daley [Blind] and Eric [Bailly]. Daley was not playing every game, but he was fantastic today. He is not the tallest, he is not the strongest, but he is one of the smartest I have ever played with. He gives us a lot of things."
"We analysed them before the game and they are not easy to play against. They play long balls, they are very aggressive. We tried to play a high line all the time and not allow them to put the ball in the box too much and I think we controlled it.
"We didn't play brilliant football, but we were very clinical and comfortable on the ball. We didn't take stupid risks and we won decisively."
It was a very important week to stay in the Europa League and get closer to the Champions League spots in the Premier League table, and we had two very positive results, but unfortunately they came at a high price with significant injuries.
By defeating Anderlecht and Burnley, we have made it through the semis in Europe and have approached the top four in the Premier League, but we know there’s still a crucial way to go. The last few days have been very good in terms of results but those good feelings have been tarnished by Marcos and Zlatan's injuries. These situations just happen in football, that’s for sure, although they’re never easy to take… Now it’s time to be patient and strong to face the recovery period and I’m sure both of them will do their best. The rest of the team will support them.
There’s no truce in the calendar and, this very Thursday, there’s one of those games that every player likes to play: the Manchester derby. Away this time, but we know that, with the top of the table so tight, this is another big chance to make an important step in our fight and keep climbing. I hope you can enjoy a great game and we can get the three points!
Soon afterwards, on Sunday, Swansea will visit us at Old Trafford. My friend Fernando Llorente, among others, will be there. He’s having a good season, scoring important goals, and they will fight with all their power to try to leave the relegation zone.
So, April will be over with that game. As you can imagine, this month has been a bit too long for me due to my injury… I had never been in a situation like this before (I’ve been very lucky), but the truth is I’m feeling much better now and I hope to be back with the team soon, to try to help in the last spell of the season. I hope so, because that’s all I want: being always available to help and to contribute as much as I can, both on and off the pitch. A million thanks for all your messages wishing me a speedy recovery, I’m getting closer!
I really do not understand the unfair Criticism of Pogba! If you tell them it's because of the Price Tag, they would disagree!
Pogba plays decently and fairly. He makes the midfield ticks and effective. Had the FOOLS converted the numerous CHANCES he created, we would have appreciated him.
"First of all, thank you for all the support and love. It's no news I got injured. I will be out of football for a while.
"I will go through this like everything else and come back even stronger. So far I played with one leg so it shouldn't be any problem. One thing is for sure, I decide when it's time to stop and nothing else. Giving up is not an option. See you soon."
"Martial just injects that bit of pace into United's play. He has that ability to just drop deep, into the No 10 position and then burst forward, dragging defenders with him.
"Mourinho has a real dilemma now ahead of the derby on Thursday. Can he play both Rashford and Martial?"
"If he [Martial] wants to become a very special player - he can do that - then he has to go in a certain direction and today he showed this attitude and appetite.
"We are happy because we have a new player until the end of the season."
"We are together for almost 10 months, the same way I know the players much better now, the players should know me much better.
"Do I think Anthony [Martial] is a player with great potential? Yes, I think. Do I think he can play successfully for me? Yes I think. But he needs to give me things that I like."
“Individual performances, top. Collective performance, top. Total control of the game. Very difficult place to play and I think, since the beginning of the game, we had a feeling that we were going to win the game. Even in the second half, [it was] closer to 3-0 than 2-1. Very good really.”
“I would say [we play with] three centre-backs because Marouane was there to mark the direct football and to give protection to the other two, but I think all three [including Daley Blind and Eric Bailly] were really solid, I repeat, against an opponent which is difficult to cope with.”
“[There is] one point [between United and Manchester City] so the situation is open but Man City has to play Premier League football and we have to play in the semi-finals of a European competition. Yes, it’s an objective to try to finish in the top four but my feeling, my understanding, what I like to share, is that this club is made to win trophies.
"In the Premier League, we cannot win it. In the Europa League, we have a 25-per-cent chance of winning it. So, I think we have to put everything into the Europa League.”
“We miss two very important players but we have other players. Injuries are normal in football. We don’t cry because of that. We cry because of big injuries to two friends and their surgeries and long-time recoveries.
"We cry because of that and everybody is obviously sad but at the same time we all have to be positive, to surround them with good feeling and they know they have in every one of us somebody that is with them.”
“If the attitude is right, if the brain is right, if the desire is right, everybody knows the qualities he [Martial] has, so I’m really pleased with what he did for us.”
SIRcumalot: na only the coutinho free kick I see I go find the celebration watch. karma na crazy beach o, make depay just do respect himself for Europa.
Depay is cup-tied, hence if we eventually meet Lyon in the Final, he can only PLAY against us on PS4 or from the STAND!