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coogar:
fellaini & mata should start in every game. fellaini is actually very good. he has the best ball retention skill in the entire europe especially when the ball is in the air.

mata is king when the ball is on the ground. young, mata & fellaini should start behind rooney tomorrow. blind & herrera should hold down the midfield. the defence - rafael + smalling + rojo + shaw.

MrTA:
Well in the absence of anyone better yes, Mata is one of those players that would probably play himself back into form. Similar to Rooney really.

pazienza:
Even in the worst days of Arsenal when we had Chamakh as our top striker and Silvestre as our center back, we never finished outside the top four.

Man u is the definition of failure, having splashed millions in transfer market, and in overbloated salaries on mediocre players and manager , Man u finished outside top four last year and are bound to finish outside top four this year. Your competition to top four is Liverpool, they are going to displace you, not Arsenal who are above you already. Deal with it, Your era of dominance is over, accept your New mediocre status, it happens, look at AC Milan, a bigger and far more prestigious club than Man u.

SIRcumalot:
Should we've kept playing Falcao till he starts scoring too ? Because I do believe he'll start scoring again but not with the same frequency and sadly not for us.
At least when rooney his out of form he makes up for this by coming up big for us defensively. Mata can't do this though not for lack of trying on his part.
I laughed at Chelsea when they sold him to us. who is laughing now ?

coogar:
fellaini got himself into good positions against arsenal & if he had the intelligence of mata, we would have scored more especially in the first half.(

coogar:
rooney is actually very good in the air - it's gross stupïdity to see one of our aerial threats jogging to the corner flag to take corners or indirect freekicks - rooney should be in the box & players like mata should be taking those set-plays. mata is useless aerially but his delivery is world class.....common sense dictates mata(with his aerial weakness) should be taking all our crossed set-plays.

all these things are what LVG should sort out - we don't make enough chances from our set plays because LVG can't even sort out who our best specialist is. it was mata that delivered that set play in allianz arena that drogba scored from to draw parity against bayern in a champions league final - it was mata that delivered the corner than ivanovic scored from to win the europa cup final.....

yet, he rarely gets a sniff at united....

elampiro:
I am sure all the set plays you listed were from the right side of the pitch. Rooney and Young should take from the left side while Di Maria and Mata from the right.

My observation and thought.

elampiro:
That chance fell on the right foot. Mata wouldn't have scored with his right. But I think Fellaini did not even shoot (if it's same chance we are talking about)

I am sure all the set plays you listed were from the right side of the pitch. Rooney and Young should take from the left side while Di Maria and Mata from the right.

My observation and thought.

SailorXY:
I'm not so sure it should matter which side of the pitch it is, a good delivery will cause chaos in the box.

See the pin-point from di Maria for van Persie's equalizer against Chelshit; yes it was from the left side.

elampiro:
side matters. it's d norm now to take from opposite side of ones foot. it makes it more dangerous. why do u think messi and ronaldo don't take all free kicks?

coogar:
mata is one of our best players....
it's a shame van gaal prefers fellaini's physical nature to mata's deft toüches & intelligence. fellaini got himself into good positions against arsenal & if he had the intelligence of mata, we would have scored more especially in the first half.

actually, the type of football van gaal wants us to play suits mata more - it's just that the number of gidigbo players in our squad outweighs the technical players......besides, he's a set-play specialist but rooney's doesn't help at all.

rooney is actually very good in the air - it's gross stupïdity to see one of our aerial threats jogging to the corner flag to take corners or indirect freekicks - rooney should be in the box & players like mata should be taking those set-plays. mata is useless aerially but his delivery is world class.....common sense dictates mata(with his aerial weakness) should be taking all our crossed set-plays.

all these things are what LVG should sort out - we don't make enough chances from our set plays because LVG can't even sort out who our best specialist is. it was mata that delivered that set play in allianz arena that drogba scored from to draw parity against bayern in a champions league final - it was mata that delivered the corner than ivanovic scored from to win the europa cup final.....

yet, he rarely gets a sniff at united....

SIRcumalot:
On further consideration Maybe I am a bit unfair to Mata he looks like the guy that will look for the adventurous pass rather than play it safe maybe this is why his always on the bench I don't think LVG is much of a risk taker this may also explains why Herrera is a bit conservative now.

Come new Transfer season Rooney and Maybe De Gea(if he stays) will be the only guys off the market everybody else is for sale.

Funny, all the things we heard about LVG character so far his the exact opposite.

I do think we've more Technical players than Gidigbo.fellani is the only physical player we have in that Midfield.

coogar:
in-swingers can be as dangerous as out-swingers. it shouldn't matter which foot.

elampiro:
but Mata has taken some for us. we are generally not as effective as last season and before.

Rojo has wasted two point black headers that even old me should score. that should have been two assists to Rooney.

leggo:
Who misses evra? Not seeing that nigga bomb down the left flank attacking and hopelessly trying to recover is depressing. Please take shaw and give me even the evra of 2012/2013

coogar:
maybe if rooney was in the box, the chances would have fallen to him instead of rojo. it's bizarre not to have fellaini, rooney, RVP in the box. they shouldn't be taking corners - it's a waste of goal threats!

SailorXY:
sure! We'll just sell our team & sign Ronaldo so he plays 11 positions & win us the UCL

chrisley024:
2nd-4th position is now open.The team should buckle up