Manchester United (Part 2)

I never told him what to comment, I made observations about the comments he makes. It's not up to me to "let" people comment. 

I'm a big believer of free speech, you can say anything you blimmin well like. 

You however are most definitely implying that I shouldn't have made my comment, which is rather ironic, given your message. 

"Let people comment what they want to comment" includes me. I will say what I like, within the forum rules, thank you very much.

You're welcome to comment whatever you want, I'm just pointing out that your comment comes cross incredibly judgemental and asshole-y. As does this follow up. So, yes, I'm implying a decent, polite human being wouldn't have made that comment and therefore that you shouldn't (obviously making assumptions here that may be incorrect). Everyone is entitled to voice their opinion but "free speech" isn't a free license to say what you want without being called out for being a Twit.

How about I just say what I want, you cry about it, and we're all exercising our free speech.

Have a nice day. 

And maybe we can now stop playing the man and get on with talking about Man U.

Sounds good to me.

How shark are United then? Completely outplayed at home by a depleted PSG side. Should really have been 3 or 4 but for some poor finishing.

Paul Labile Pogba. Has he ever done anything of note in a big game for Manchester United Football Club? He seems happy enough scoring, assisting and dabbing when playing the likes of Huddersfield, Fulham and Cardiff. Goes hiding when a competent midfield pairing or trio rock up.

Also has this shown up the Norwegian goblin for what he really is? A tactically inept and clueless manager at the top table. Hopefully for all our sakes he rights some wrongs when you take on Liverpool later this month, but i think on that showing Klopp will be licking his lips at the prospect of going head to head with Ole eleven days from now.

You just know the manager is doing something right when Buffoon returns with his salt deliveries. 

Superb.

You are so right. Just a clown.

PSG  are ranked the 4th best team in the world, unlike 16th place Arsenal.

hahahahaha joke thread

Play the ball not the man lads, EG said so. Discuss the issues at hand please.

Full strength Arsenal just lost to Bate Borisov ... "How shark are Arsenal then?"

As far as I see it there's no shame in losing to PSG. The two injuries absolutely killed us. There's a difference between having players injured before a game and being able to completely plan accordingly, and losing two at half-time and having to completely re-jig the strategy mid-game. In saying that, I am sure United meticulously plan for such eventualities. It hurt us because we just don't have the depth to cope and someone like Mata is a completely different type of player to Lingard. PSG were the superior side, with superior squad depth and it showed on the day. No shame at all in that. 

One such loss hasn't "shown Ole up" at all. Reality is we are in the CL spots for next season as it stands - something that wasn't even in anyone's thinking a month ago. Let's see how the next few weeks play out, starting with Chelsea Tuesday. 

We are absolutely horrific mate, no question.

Thank you for discussing the issues at hand, one or two of your fellow supporters could learn from this.

Any thoughts on Pogba?

I agree to a certain extent to him having big games against the bottom half of the prem but he can only play what's in front of him in those ones. Pundits who were slating him a few weeks ago were questioning whether he should now be in line for POTY honours for the whole league. I don't think last night was a concern. He's been excellent for the last month and was due a quiet game. It just happened to be against a pretty good side on a big night. He was pretty damn good for France in the World Cup and I'd call those big games. We've got Chelsea/Liverpool/PSG coming up so we'll see how he goes across those fixtures and then reassess whether he has a big game issue. I think he'll have a stormer against the Scousers.

I can see why you lot wanted to offload Sanchez though!

God damn so many Utd fans are embarrassingly easy to troll 😂

Yep! We were unhappy at the time but how well did that work out. 

Mkhitaryan hasn't even been good and yet we still got by far the better side of the deal. 

Sanchez' market value over time: 

Wenger's done it again. 

Agree he was excellent for France at the World Cup, i even defended him on here from one or two posters who suggested he was shark in Russia and it was simply Kante making him look good. Fact is he's never really delivered for United in a big game or when it really mattered. One performance comes to mind, City away last year. Pogba seized the initiative and turned the game on it's head. I think if he were to do that more often he would certainly be in the discussion for best player in the Prem. Pundits can be incredibly fickle so POTY calls are very premature and fail to take in the bigger picture. I hope you're right and he does show up against Liverpool, cannot stand the thought of them winning the league.

I think you've proved Oska's point there bro. 

This is so tiresome. Can we talk about football?

Guys, seriously.  Can we just move on?

I mean, walking up to someone’s front door and screaming profanities isn’t trolling. It’s just being a bit of a dick. Three paragraphs later you're not really trolling, you should go find something to do.

but it looks like Lingardino and Martial will be out for 2-3 weeks. Probably the worst time. I’d rather see some young players given a shot than tirelessly continue with Sanchez. 

Really bad time for injuries too. I think we will miss Lingard in particular with his work rate. Still hopeful we can take three points from Liverpool and royally cock up their season.

First away win against Chelsea since 2012, pretty good performance overall. OGS coached Sarri off the park there, our  diamond midfield shut down the areas Hazard likes to operate in and still managed to avoid being overexposed in wide areas for the most part, very interesting battle to watch.

Good performance to get the job done. Pogba/Herrera/Rashford all good. (Matic maybe lucky not to get a second yellow.)

(Away at Wolves in quarter finals.)

Chelsea looking to dump manger after being beaten by ManU this morning 

Oh how cirles go round 

Haven't seen the match but listened to the live BBC commentary at work. Sounds like we dealt with what was thrown at us relatively well and then took our chances at the other end. Good result. Ole's now beaten Spurs/Arsenal/Chelsea away. Loves London does Ole!

Probably made easier by the fact we didn't throw anything at you.

Stats don't always tell the whole story, but Chelsea possession 67% to 33%,  638 passes to 319,  pass accuracy 87% to 73%, shots pretty even.

Those figures suggest you did throw a lot at us. 

They suggest we passed the ball aimlessly around, as we've been doing this season, with no real purpose with 2 shots on target, both in the 11th minute.

Yeah Chelsea didn't feel threatening in the slightest, reminiscent of LVG's United.

Those stats that I mentioned yesterday were ones that I read about. I had not see the game.

I've just watched the 1st half and quite frankly Chelsea were miles the better side. When we scored first it was against the run of play.

They certainly have a couple of fantastic players. 

Anyway lets hope we can continue a winning streak against Liverpool.

The Liverpool game will be quite a test, for both sides.

Hi All,

New to this forum so hello!

I am a Phoenix fan but also a United fan, and so I have started a United supporters page based out of Wellington with a view to organising meet-ups for games and other social events. I was a member of a NZ wide page, but most members were Auckland based so I thought the time was ripe to have a page for United fans in the capital city.

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Very cagey first half to say the least. No subs left (Herrera, Mata & Lingard have all come and gone) and Rashford has been hobbling about with an ankle knock since early on. Still game on, but to be fair, while having most of the possession, Liverpool haven't created anything meaningful.

Shaw having a really good game thus far and is keeping Salah quiet. 2nd half just kicking off.

Had to make the tough decision to miss this one - by sounds of it we were hampered by injuries?

Liverpool with lots of ball but completely ineffective?

Liverpool were very ordinary for a "title contender" and didn't even get a shot on target in the second half. Big chance for them against a very under strength United side. We showed a lot of desire and effort, team attitude has done a 180 under OGS. Luke Shaw has a Mo Salah shaped bulge in his pocket again.

Would be a tragedy if he didn't get the fulltime job at this point.