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afrodoc2:
I fit pay post digger to dig out all the lamentations here when Martial was playing on the left wing.
Someone that will disappear for 30-45 minutes at a stretch as if he entered black hole.

At the same time people were lamenting about Rashford’s poor touch and tunnel vision and how easily our build up play broke down with him at CF.

Playing CF is not just about shooting and playing wing is not just about close control dribbling.

Both of them are okay in their present position. Martial is just presently off form, which could happen to any other players in general.

Afterall some people where cursing Rashford for his poor performance after he returned from injury post lockdown. Now he's back to the Rashford we all love.
Martial too will be back, and the competition he has will even make it quicker sef.

raumdeuter:
You know Pep and Klopp who won the last 3 EPL titles play a very high line

They play a high line, but not a very high line Lipzig and Bayern usually keep. I mean their last defender is usually inside their opposition half. That a ridiculous and arrogant set up to use. I mean, if you are playing against the Padeborn or Hertha Berlin of this world, then it's fine. But the a*sholes do it against good teams too, who have midfielders that can send good one time ball through to their forward.

That was an arrogant type of high line, that even Liverpool with all their work rate won't even try

CapitalCee:
Giggs has not failed though as a manager, if anything he is doing very well at the moment. However, he should stop using us to do his tribalism, he first recommended James a championship player, now he is saying we should give him the No 10 role. He kept recommending his below average Wales players to us

He's mad. I hope he wasn't the one linking David Brooks to us in the summer when we were looking for Sancho alternative. FFS, the guy doesn't even get into Bournemouth team that much again.

If the David Brooks rumour was Giggs hand work, thunder go fire am.
Fucking British and their tribalist mentality without regard to merit. No wonder Naija is tribalistic because they showed us the way.

Expert17:
No 10 position na brain work o, James dull.


He should try his luck at RB, just like Antonio Valencia.

You see why some of our Ex-players needs to be flogged.

Always yarning sh*t everytime someone puts a camera in their face. That is how Evra said we don't need VDB, yet the same idiots were crying about our lack of quality squad depth last season, using City as example of how those ones have at least two players in every position.

At this point,they need to take a back seat. No wonder most of them are failed managers

handelex:
Lol... you must be part of Ole's backroom staff seeing sure you're about the bolded.

You don't have to be his staff to know the obvious.

A lot of people online that have followed Leipzig games will also come to the same conclusion, and with the fact that we have the midfield personnel to play that formation to perfection, it's no brained that , Ole and his technical team will go in the direction of a 4-4-2
What is surprising to me is that Nagelsmann must have seen it coming, yet he couldn't adjust accordingly, instead he stuck to his style.
Nagelsmann na confirm purist, I swear. He's just the younger version of Van gaal who usually stick to their style of play, no matter the opposition tactics

patrickmuf:
Watching Leipzig yesterday, you could see that some of his players struggle when pressed. The shortage of quality in their ranks only becomes evident when they are pressed...Even their passing is most times misplaced simply because the payers are not very technically gifted...

I doubt that. They play against teams that press in the bundesliga regularly without problem. The likes of sabitzer, Nkunku and co are quality players, so that one nobi excuse
They just had problem with the set up we used yesterday, they found it difficult to progress the ball to create chances, thus resulting to recycling possession.

Funny enough, Ole must have seen Leipzig last league game against Hoffenheim , and adopted Hoffenheim strategy with little fine tuning to contain them. Even though they eventually beat Hoffenheim 2-1, but they found it difficult to break them down throughout the game. Those ones lost because they couldn't keep up their concentration level throughout the game.

The key to Ole's win yesterday was Leipzig last match were he must have discovered that the team is useless against low block, hence the 4-4-2

patrickmuf:
I was part of that argument and I remember saying that Nagelsmann is over achieving with the players he has...That was way before the game yesterday.

I still think Nagelsmann is a better coach compared to Ole...The fact Ole is coach of Manchester United isn't down to his impressive resume but rather his status at the club...

As I said yesterday, let us enjoy the victory and wish for improvements going forward...If the team starts playing badly again, some of us will still demand for more, it doesn't mean we hate Ole or the players but we just want better...

For a young guy, Nagelsmann is an impressive coach, I'll also admit that.

But his style of play of highline is very dangerous o. With a lot of defensively disciplined sides in the EPL who knows how to counter, they will conceed a lot of goals. If he can learn to be flexible and not grow to become a purist mindset like Pep, he'll go far.

nitrogen:
Just 2-3 games o, don’t say he’s been learning from his mistakes abeg. What if his system is to bring on board new signings to ginger the team, and as soon as they blend with the team, we return to our normal self? Just a harmless question.

I do hope he gets it right this time, I am tired of one step forward one step backward.

Time will tell sha.

But I believe the consistency will come eventually.

airmark:
Go and listen to what Evra said about your team's approach to that match.

Always relying on counter.

You mean crack head Evra that is saying shit lately. Saying we don't need VDB. As if Man utd is Burnley that only play league games, hence no need for a big quality squad?

For what it's worth, we didn't even play you guys the way we played Leipzig where we played low block defending against them. We where even more open against you guys, but you wouldn't know sha, because you have German Pius ikedia as striker running up and down like a headless chicken

FacundoCruz:
It's not about negativity bro, it's about what's best for the club. This is the not the first time ole has won with large margins only to go on a dismal run later.

There will always be a time that consistency and stability will come in.
Liverpool were like that too during klopps early days, blowing hot and cold, but there board backed him because of the potential they saw whenever they played well. Liverpool started becoming consistent in getting results in 2018, after like 2 seasons of hot and cold.

This season will probably determine that and I strongly feels that Ole will do well considering the things he's had to learn for the past 1½ years. From the look of things so far, he's been learning from his mistakes and the way he's been approaching things, he doesn't look like someone that will repeat his mistakes twice.

airmark:
Ziyech first Ucl first goal.

We will see how your left back will survive when James and Ziyech bombard his area. I know that Ole will be conservative again and rely on counter.

The last time I checked, you guys were the conservative one, playing 5 at the back

afrodoc2:
So his social activism is not affecting his football again abi?
Martial too must be feeding kids secretly.
And DDG secretly fed kids for the 2 years he played rubbish for us.
Makanaki theory.

Doc be giving bloody nose to people since yesterday night. Oga calma calma na

airmark:
Man utd will go far in Ucl if they don't meet Chelsea. Impressed.

You think if we meet again, we'll be playing James and Mata against them?

Ole used those guys last week for squad rotation purposes. We have a lot of games in a short period , so it's not wise to run the main guys to the ground very early in the season. Ole has learnt from last season burn out problem obviously and he's trying to rotate his team as much as possible

GloryIsaac:
Rashford and Martial are better than Neymar and Mbappe.
Fact

The Amala turning no shock u?

benji93:
Some people here are quite narrow in their analysis of the game. As i talk am, na one day chick dey break out of egg. Just maybe those Leipzig players have always had that quality, we only began noticing them when they got through to the knockout stages of last season's champions league. If Lingard, Perreira and the likes were playing somewhere else outside, England and Spain, nobody go look their side too. Most of us here struggle with finding the most reasonable context for our argument. To think that those Leipzig players are on the same level with Lingard and the likes is quite disingenuous. We no dey identify better ball players by dem popularity. You must watch to know. So telling us Nagelsmann dey coach a bunch of amateurs is quite ridiculous. The line between good coaching and good quality players is not as clear as you people make it seem. At the very least you need good players. most of us no dey watch other players barring the transcendental ones in other leagues, unless transfer dey link us.

No mind them na

They will always change the goal post to fit their agenda na.
It used to be Nagelsmann is better than Ole, but now that Ole humbled him, they now change it to Ole has better players than Nagelsmann. I wonder if we also have better players than PSG too.


Yeye dey smell

eph12:
Lol be calming down. As at the beginning of this season, almost everyone thought the squad was garbage. Shey Woodward was the demon for giving Ole a poor squad? Now this same squad is now quality.

God is good

You mean the same squad that added three quality players in Telles, Van de Beek and Cavani who all can come in as subs or can start games and still maintain the same intensity is garbage? Lete also add Henderson too.


Compared to what we have last season with Ighalo , Lingard, Perrera on the bench, whom Ole is usually afraid to bring on in games, that is why his substitution usually look late last season and he usually make those substitution in 80+ minutes because those fuckers on the bench are worse than the crippled version of the first 11?

eph12:
Pastor Fred been doing his thing quietly since forever. Those that know are grateful

I swear. He was on course for Man utd player of the season, last season. All of a sudden, Bruno happened

Sulele04:
STUNNING PERFORMANCE FROM TRASHFORD.
I SAW IN THE PAPERS THIS MORNING MAN U WANTED TO SIGN UPAMECANO, BUT AFTER THIS STINKER OF A PEFORMANCE I AM SURE THEY WOULD BE HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS .

We are signing him nonetheless. Before Rashford came to unsettle their backline, he was there best player.

He'll replace Dr Jones and Dr Rojo when those two medical students are gone.

Arabiandude:
He is surely bigger than him,
There are citizens who are literally bigger than their presidents.

Sure , it's every where. There are citizens (especially some rich men) whose presidents are like their puppets.
It is what it is

elrony:
Who dey the midfield then, what available options?

you dey mind am. Pogba was injured then . Shey na Lingard or Perrera go come bench am?
If we had bought VDB then, he will still bench Lingard and Perrera.

But now, we have better options on the pitch . Any new midfielder will have to be Xavi or Iniesta esque to break into the midfield immediately.

Infact, most teams know that it(midfield) is our strongest forte now.

JohnBullMySon:
believe me, all natural still beats that particular hybrid method. Nigerian clubs are only going for it because they cannot maintain all natural pitches.clubs in Europe don't use that particular style. They either go all natural or use little fires to strengthen already natural grass. I think it's desso grass master that is the name.

Nothing like all natural pitch anymore. Most pitches you see today in world class stadia all over the word are hybrid.

All natural grass have been faded out.

Thecassanova:
I think it’s time I get Son

Wao. You still dey dull bro. SOn and Kane are the hottest FPL assets for like 2-3 weeks running now

charlesemeka85:
glasgow rangers young italian born left back calvin bassey tipped for possible call up for next month's afcon qualifiers

From having one natural left back whose only competition is a make shift, to have 3 natural left back who will fight eachother for shirt. This is a wonderful stuff

Mrviktor:
My only fear is his hamstring once he gets older..

But my God is dis guy goooooood at stretching

Hamstring doesn't discriminate by age. If he will get an hamstring , he suppose don get am tey tey. His muscles is already tonned to the stretching. The guy is an elastic rubber

MorataFC:
Government have the best in all departments, it doesn't take a professional 7 hours to would have done a perfect well done job.
So, editing or re-editing is out of the cause of d delay.

... and by the way this one may sound funny, did they promise us that they will release the CCTV footage to the public?
I won't be surprised if they say we have seen the video footage and bla bla bla bla case closed.

@Bolded
Are you sure about that? That is fallacy from watching too much of Hollywood.

kendrick9:
the Person who negotiated that 40m fee for Arsenal should receive a knighthood...
Everton should be embarrassed for paying such amount...

Arsenal didn't negotiate sh*t, Everton just came with the £35m bid straight up and Arsenal accepted it because it was a big money to turn down.

This was because Everton have had their bid for Zaha rejected by Crystal palace , so they came for Iwobi on deadline day out of desperation, so they just drop the cash to avoid any haggling and negotiation

Karleb:
We all saw what he did last season at Sheff United.

David is just getting himself.

Shebi being a Sheffield United goalkeeper has the same stakes as being a man utd goal keeper. Commit an error in Sheffield, nobody will notice, but commit a lesser error at Man utd, and your face will be on the faces of all the major sport newspaper and tabloids for the rest of the week. It comes with a lot of pressure. Henderson probably won't appreciate it now, but what Ole is doing for him will help him grow into the man utd shirt without pressure.

Dan James is probably not a bad player, but the pressure of being at ur best every match day, might just be getting to him. At a big club, no one expects u to be shit, they won't pamper you if you have a bad day because there are equally better players ready to take you place, in addition with a lot of criticism from fans and media.

CSTRR:
What is this new trump-like policy the FA wants to create in the English premier league?

Why must everything great suffer the curse of diminishing return?

Those brexiteers will kill this league.

They think because their League is the most popular in the world, they are untouchable. They will destroy it themselves and those American investors will just move to the next hot league. Remember, Seria A used to be in EPL's position a long time ago in terms of popularity, so let them continue

SirWhiteFish:
What if he is being setup?? No corper will be dumb enough to take his NYSC ID to buggle a store and still lose it there

Plot twist, it might even belong to a Corper that works in one of the stores there.

do4luv14:
Make we see how its gonna be, so far oga dey collect im cash,

as for Ole, hmmmm

wetin do Ole?

If you are the coach, you go play Ighalo ba? when you have Rashford, Martial, Cavani and Greenwood as options?
Heck, if not for Nacho that was in the wilderness clubwise, I prefer Nacho to Ighalo during those periods

olabode89:
Villa don dey lose that initial advantage of having a team fitter and more ready than most teams at the beginning of the season.

That is because other teams are catching up , in terms of fitness level.

By GW 15, water go done find him level. All this Everton, Leeds etc, will soon find their Level

afrodoc2:
It seems the club really believes in Shoretire but I think they are promoting him too fast. At 16 he should be playing Under-18 not under-23.

Player no dey available for U23