SIRcumalot:
sweet win;lingard was among our best today.

Spy360:
May amadioha judge you people.

Lana1, Elrony, Sailorxy and co.

Spy360:
Today's clash would be a huge marketing opportunity for the EPL.

Scintillating, end to end attacking play without physicality or bus parking.

The way football ought to be played.

Hope Mourinho and Koeman take note.

Oasis007:
“We work hard, in spite of not having much time between matches. Yesterday we spent quite a long time on the training ground training the defence in set-pieces, changing information in the players, changing full-backs, analysing situations.

"We did good homework and also my analyst people that are hidden, no-one knows who they are but the guys do fantastic work for me.”


- Jose Mourinho

SailorXY:
what other style does he want to play? He's gonna defend & hope for set pieces, nothing more. I wish Mensah or Bailly can play RB to compliment the CBs defending high balls cuz our LB has no aerial prowess too. I think Fellaini will start tho.

My prediction:

- - - - - - - - - - de Gea - - - - - - - - -
Mensah - - - Jones - Rojo - - - Blind
- - - - - - - - - - Fellaini - - - - - - - - -
- - - Herrera - - - - -- - - - Pogba - - -
Mkhitaryan - -- - Zlatan - -- - Martial

Oasis007:


Fellaini is likely to start this Match!

joeace2020:


I think he's just stating the obvious. Cmon Rondon scored a hat trick of headers in one match, it tells you such a team would look to launch long balls whenever they get the chance to hold the ball...So we will need to keep the ball on the ground always except we have the afro mop

elrony:


How many times refs don reason our matters in good faith.... I wouldn't count on it.

elrony:


So Pulis will probably come on the offensive, that's what you mean ba?

I'd prefer them defending. ...hehe... more chance for goals to come, and less balls for Rondon

Oasis007:
"If you manage big teams like we did – Real Madrid, Inter Milan, Barcelona, Bayern, Juventus, Dortmund – obviously the targets are impossible targets for people like Pulis, [Alan] Pardew, [Mark] Hughes, [David] Moyes, all of them. 

"Tony got trophies everywhere; in every club he got trophies. He didn’t get relegated with Stoke – that’s a trophy. He didn’t get relegated with West Brom – it’s another trophy. Not relegated with Palace – another trophy, and so on. 

"He has lots of trophies, and by that I mean he reaches targets. Just like Sam [Allardyce] – never relegated, it’s a big trophy. You are not expecting Sam to be champion at the clubs he was managing. So, for me, yes – English managers are not looked [at] as they should be.

"I know Tony and I know the way he wants his teams to play. They are very physical, they defend a lot and well, and they are very powerful in the transitions. 

"They are physical at set-pieces; they do things at set-pieces that in my opinion are a foul, with a lot of blocks and pushes on the goalkeeper with a player on the keeper to stop him coming out. But the reality is they score a lot of goals from set-pieces and they are a threat.

"The crosses and the headers in their last match were fantastic. The quality of the cross and the quality of the header of Rondon in the box… they were beautiful crosses and very clean headers."


- Jose Mourinho

afrodoc2:
Uniquegem did not read Sun Tzu. "Know your enemy". Nihilist is one of the deadliest guys on this forum, forget his carefree promoter persona the guy bad pass gammalin 20.
2nd mistake was to take it personal accusing him of lying, accusing him of watching under canopy with his father-in-law, stating that he depended on his FiL for sustenance
3rd mistake was claiming you could pay for his tfare back to Naija when your posts imply that 20k to 15k decrease in fee is a big thing to you.

The less said about the double masters claim the better.

You can't start a gun battle and then start complaining when your opponent brings out rocket launchers and automatic rifles while you are using a dane gun.

I do not criticise Nihilist for using overwhelming force especially since the other party went personal first.

kokaneprodigy:
No wonder I was turning in my sleep, this mod no try just hid all my posts, ooga ooo. Who's the snitch that called the mod? Ur guess is as good as mine.
Goes back to sleep

Nihilist:


This isn't about a battle bro. We are all comrades on this section though we may disagree from time to time. I understand that you were only concerned about my well being and safety when you asked if myself and my wife's father were watching the match in a loud and rowdy environment, while offering to purchase a flight ticker for my safe passage home to Ondo state.

Even though it may have come across in a harsh manner, I was only checking to see if you had finally managed to secure those undergraduate scholarships you were applying for early this year. The cost of education is really high these days bro, so I can understand why you appeared so anxious on those threads.

Anyway I wish you the best in your endeavours and my regards to your cousin as well. Hopefully your programme completes on time without strike so that you can finally enter the workforce and contribute to society through gainful employment.

God bless bro. Shalom.

Nihilist:


You've been watching me since 2015. 2017 is around the corner and I'm still on your mind. While I'm busy flexing and enjoying my life with my family, you are busy watching for me on Manyoo thread.

I am achieving my ambitions in life and you are here proudly announcing your ambitions as a spectator.

Congratulations on becoming a prayer point.As we go into the new year, May I never be a Mystic1 watching other people succeed at the expense of my own ambitions...somebody say Amen.

sinizia:




Laughing aside, Nihilist followed that match if you read his comments. From the Rojo's two-footed Challenge, to Ibra's hand assisted goal etc. Maybe he wasn't able to concentrate on both matches as no human can do so at the same time, but his comments showed he followed some parts of our match.

Nihilist:


LOL

Your grandad probably said the same all those years ago when somebody came back to the village and told him that you could see people moving and talking inside a TV. He probably called the guy a liar as well in his belief that only a witch doctor could have such technology.

Here in the UK, EPL rights are split between 2 broadcasters - BT and Sky. To encourage people to go to the stadiums, the broadcasters are only allowed to show 1 game each in a Saturday(Sky shows the 12.45 game and BT shows the 5.30) and 3 on Sunday ( BT 1 game and Sky 2)

BT shows only one midweek fixture per day when scheduled, whilst Sky exclusively show any Friday or Monday night fixtures.

To get around not being able to show all the games, Sky run a panel show called (Gillette soccer) where they have 4-5 pundits watching each match and several correspondents live at the grounds and the switch between all to give you solid commentary of what's going on from Premiership to League 1.

Thr only game being shown on TV was the Manyoo game, which myself and FiL sat down to watch. Because I am a sky subscriber, I'm entitled to watch live TV on my phone and ps4. So I was following the commentary by plugging one ear piece in and listening and glancing at my phone.

Finally, because I have unlimited Internet via a fibre optic connection to my house, I was also streaming the Chelsea game in HD on my laptop.

I was also sipping chilled beer too. 3 screens and 8 games in comfortable HD in the comfort of my sitting room.

I pray that you are one day to experience such technology so that you never have to embarrass yourself again in Public like your granddad used to do 50 years ago...

weedtaker:
de criticism for POGBOOM too much abeg, we should get off de guys back, Niqqa de ball, best midfield player for us since paul scholes.