update..

usbcable:

1 am not an animal.
2 Liverpool thread will forever be in backseat unless you my friend push it forward.
3 where is the main thread for Liverpool sef? lost in the archives of nairaland
4 on match day if you soo desire your thread to hit FP keep it in view.
5 being abusive doesn't make you smarter.

loool!
He is nt taking about d main thread, he mean, the fixture thread for every game to be played in a season

eennh nah i like this result

macity 1 - 1 hull city
QPR 0 - 0 Soton

oluwa deliver R.madrid in d hand of this At. Madrid guys

At. Madrid 4 - 0 R. Madrid

a quite outregeous day to R. Madrid so far

3 : 0 defeat

Krasid:
Come on villa you can do it?

equalise!

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHHHHhhhh!!

At. Madrid 3 - 0 R. Madrid

city is getting wrench nd wretch

horlakunle25:
who be dis Se na brilla fm u dey watch d match ni??

no dey shake jooor! I dey watch am for ur head

sammycarz:
BRANA WITH THE VOLLEY

damhh! look for d replay again

come on astonvilla!
I need an equallizer

Remy in

chaiii mancity don enta one chance again ooo

xynerise:
Na Chelsea turn again?

bruv! this is jst d beginnin

kobonaire:
adjust the "antenna" of that your black and white TV ...

busted!

Goaaaaaal!

Chelsea 1 - 2 astonvilla

[size=30pt]PRESTON VS MANCHESTER UNITED[/size]

MATCH PREVIEW

Preston boss Simon Grayson will be looking to upset the odds against Manchester United once again in their FA Cup fifth-round clash on Monday. Grayson led Leeds United to a stunning 1-0 victory at Old Trafford five years ago, becoming the first lower-league
opposition to beat Sir Alex Ferguson's side
in the third round.

Louis van Gaal's United have already beating League One opposition in Yeovil in this year's competition, but they struggled their way past League Two Cambridge after needing a replay to secure their place in the last 16.

Preston are right in the promotion mix, lying fourth in League One, and forward Paul Gallagher is the FA Cup's current top scorer with five goals.

They have already dumped out Championship Norwich and cup specialists Sheffield United, and Grayson's men go into Monday night's game full of confidence.

Team news

Jermaine Beckford, who scored the winner in Leeds' third-round victory at Old Trafford five years ago, will not have the chance to repeat his FA Cup heroics after being sidelined by an ear infection.

Top scorer Joe Garner will fancy his chances of stealing the limelight this time round after scoring two goals against Chesterfield in midweek on his first start since picking up a knee injury in November.

Striker Robin van Persie is a doubt for the visitors due to an unspecified injury. Left-back Luke Shaw returns from suspension, but centre-half Phil Jones is unlikely to play because of a knee injury he suffered against Burnley in midweek.

Daley Blind went off in the win over the Clarets with a head injury but he should be
fit for the game at Deepdale.

Fellow midfielder Michael Carrick is out with a calf injury, though.

Louis van Gaal pulled out a dossier full of statistics at his press conference as he hit back at Sam Allardyce's claim that Manchester United are long-ball merchants.

West Ham boss Allardyce described Van Gaal's team as "long-ball United" after they scraped a 1-1 draw at Upton Park on Sunday.

But Van Gaal said Allardyce's "interpretation" was incorrect and the Dutchman produced a pamphlet filled with statistics at his pre-match press conference on Tuesday to support his stance.

The statistics quoted in the A4 pamphlet, which were put together by Van Gaal's analysts, claim West Ham sent a higher percentage of their long passes forward than United during the match.

West Ham attempted 200 passes, according to the figures, and United 343.

The pamphlet said 71.1 per cent of West Ham's "long passes" - of over 25 metres - went forward whereas United's percentage was just 49.9 per cent.

Diagrams in the pamphlet claim to show United's passes went sideways or diagonally, rather than forward.

Van Gaal talks regularly about the fact that he wants his teams to play attractive football.

He was clearly, therefore, annoyed at Allardyce's comments and he had the pamphlet on his desk waiting when he fielded the first question about the West Ham boss' jibe.

"Because I expected this question, I have made an interpretation of the data for this game and then I have to say that it is not a good interpretation from Big Sam," Van Gaal said.

Van Gaal insisted his team only started launching balls forward after 6ft 4in Marouane Fellaini came on in the 76th minute of the draw in east London.

"When you have 60 per cent ball possession do you think that you can do that with long balls?" Van Gaal added.

"Yeah, long balls, in the width, to switch the play. You have to look at the data and then you will see that we did play long balls, but long balls wide, rather than to the striker.

"A ball to the forward striker is mainly caused long-ball play.

"It is not so difficult also to read that.

"I am sorry, but we are playing ball possession play and after 70 minutes we did not succeed, in spite of many chances in the second half, then I changed my playing style.

"Then, of course, with the quality of Fellaini we played more forward balls and we scored from that, so I think it was a very good decision of the manager.

"But, when you see overall the long ball, and what is the percentage of that, then West Ham have played 71 per cent of the long balls to the forwards and we 49."

United may be fourth in the Barclays Premier League, but the team lacks the energy, dynamism and flair of the Sir Alex Ferguson era.

"I think we have played attractive games and less attractive games," Van Gaal said.

Van Gaal's United take on Burnley at Old Trafford on Wednesday.

Luke Shaw is suspended following his sending-off at West Ham and Michael Carrick is absent because of a calf injury.

Burnley boss Sean Dyche reacted with incredulity to criticism of United for being a long-ball team.

The Clarets boss said: "I find it incredible, the whole thing.

"I think back to my youth and a player then who was renowned was Glenn Hoddle. Was he renowned for playing five and 10-yard passes? No he wasn't. Was Ronald Koeman renowned for playing five and 10-yard passes? He was marvelled at.

"I'm looking at Man Utd's team - I think they're capable of playing the ball more than five or 10 yards, and probably accurately and probably with some style.

"I'm certainly not questioning whether they're a long-ball side or not. I think it's a bizarre debate."

The trip to Old Trafford is the start of a formidable run of fixtures for Burnley, who headed into the midweek programme one point above the relegation zone.

Over the next two months they also face Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Tottenham and Arsenal, but Dyche is undaunted.

"This is the reality of the league," he said. "You've got to play everyone home and away. How they fall is irrelevant.

"It's the challenge we all wanted. I want it, the players want it, the town wanted it, the club wanted it. You can't then go, 'Oh, they're big games against big clubs'. Yes they are and that's exactly what we were expecting."

Burnley's hopes of surviving the drop were dealt a blow on Tuesday with the news key midfielder Dean Marney will miss the rest of the season after damaging his cruciate knee ligament.

The 31-year-old suffered the injury during Sunday's 2-2 draw with West Brom.

Marney joins defender Kevin Long, who suffered the same injury last month, in the treatment room, while striker Sam Vokes missed the start of the season as he recovered from a ruptured cruciate.

http://www.espnfc.com/barclays-premier-league/match/395542/manchester-united-burnley/preview

Match Appointments

Referee: Mark Clattenburg
Assistants: S Beck, J Collin
Fourth Official: A Marriner

Hit Like if you believe manchester United will win! Trophy is yours as our rivals has been knockout of this tournament

#THE FA CUP
#come on you RED

Hit likes if you believe ARSENAL will win

#Come on you gunners!

ARSENAL 2- 1 ASTONVILLA

luvola:
Chaiii.. I no even see am .. hahaha .. I wrote December instead of January.. hahah. I be yaba left patient true true.

........maybe that's why mod never recognise it

december ke

Match Appointments

Referee: Martin Atkinson

Assistants: M Mullarkey, H Lennard

Fourth Official: T Harrington

major466:
I believe in Cambridge.

on your envious mind ....enemy of progress


#GGMU!

ah don show

.....

Owlumeday:
oook God go provide. Bt he shud come nd start his reg ooo. Dem no ask for sch fee naaa

iffah hear

Match Preview

Louis van Gaal has warned Manchester United that nothing other than a win will do when they travel to West Ham United in the Barclays Premier League on Sunday.

United rose to third last Saturday with a 3-1 win over Leicester City, with fourth-placed Southampton losing at home to Swansea City the next day.

Van Gaal's team followed that up by coasting
to a 3-0 FA Cup fourth-round replay win over League Two outfit Cambridge United on Tuesday.

The Manchester United manager wants his side to continue their winning ways against a West Ham side who suffered a 2-1 defeat in September's reverse fixture at Old Trafford despite Wayne Rooney's red card.

"After we beat Leicester, we were third in the league, and after that we beat Cambridge and are in the next round,” Van Gaal said. "Now we have to continue and all players know this is true.

"It is not so easy because we have to play away in London against West Ham and it was a tough game in Manchester.

It shall not be easy but we want to continue and we have to win in London. "I am only satisfied at the end of the season because now to be third and in next round doesn't count. We have to play a lot matches and also Spurs and Arsenal are in our back, one point or two
behind.

A lot of matches to go and still three to go to the [FA Cup] final. That is our goal.

" Sam Allardyce bemoaned West Ham's injury problems ahead of the match, but urged his side to frustrate United.

"Man United have had some very good results recently and the beauty of them is the goalscoring ability in their squad," the West Ham manager said.

"Our aim is to limit that as much as possible. We need to be tactically astute and try to cause them a few problems.

" Allardyce has injury concerns over James Collins, Winston Reid, Guy Demel, Diego Poyet, Doneil Henry and Andy Carroll. Diafra Sakho will be available for selection after West Ham
were fined by FIFA for playing the Senegal striker during the Africa Cup of Nations after he had pulled out of the tournament with a back injury.

Van Gaal will again be unable to call upon Michael Carrick, who will miss the encounter against his former club due to a calf problem.

Match Facts

West Ham United have scored the most headed goals in the Barclays Premier League this season (14).

Wayne Rooney has scored 10 goals in his last nine league matches against West Ham.

Manchester United have won 11 and lost none of their last 12 BPL meetings with the Hammers.

Sam Allardyce’s side have lost just one of their last 10 top-flight matches at the Boleyn Ground (W7 D2 L1).

[size=30pt]RE-PLAY[/size]


MANCHESTER UNITED VS CAMBRIDGE UNITED


Manchester United or Cambridge United have been drawn to play away against Preston or Sheffield United in the FA Cup Fifth Round.

The tie will be played on Monday 16th February, kick-off 7.45pm.

Sales arrangements for the game will be announced shortly.

If we beat Cambridge on in the Fourth Round, applications for the away game against either Preston or Sheffield will open immediately after the game until 8am Monday 9th February.

"As you know, last Friday we drew in Cambridge in the FA Cup," said Mata, writing on his official blog.

"It was a very physical game, played in tricky conditions, and now there will be a replay at home to try to get to the next round.

"On paper, it may seem easy to beat a team of a lower division. It is not.

We just have to take the example of last Saturday, with two big clubs being knocked out at home.

"It reminds us that the FA Cup is full of surprises. Also, it should be a warning sign for us ahead of our replay."

facts

Wayne Rooney has scored six goals in his last six FA Cup matches. Manchester United have lost just one of their last 41 FA Cup matches
against lower league opponents (W33 D7 L1).

Man Utd and Cambridge had only ever met once before in any competition before this tie and that was the 1991-92 League Cup where the Red Devils won 4-1 on aggregate over two
legs.

The 1991-92 season was also the last time Cambridge knocked a top flight team out of the FA Cup when they beat Coventry City after a replay.

Cambridge last reached the fifth round of the FA Cup in 1999-2000.

firstEVA:
Don't be deceived, I know a moniker that has about 10 other handles, just divide 1.3 millon by 10.
I commend seu n though for an amazing forum.

its seems you have more than 20 monikers..... What are you using it for

What are you gaining from it?

share your wishes and your experience here since you join nairaland [NL].

Nairaland is now 1.3millions members!!!
A round of applause for Mr Seun Osewa and his subjects (i.e mukina2 obinoscopy mynd_44 and others )here on nairaland that assist him to keep the ball rolling perfectly without any hinderance.

Despite the attack of some bad and hatred peoples , nairaland was hacked last year and it was recovered and better.

Perharps, Nairaland Members should have clocked to 1.5m. But Coincidentally, after the restorement, some accounts was deleted. We say glory be to God!

Oya let hear your experience here and your can even ask oga seun some questions about nairaland here thanks

[size=30pt]NAIRALAND IS NOW 1.3MILLIONS MEMBERS[/size]