Again, it's a football thread. Speak English, minus politics, or gtfo.
Wait, that's probably just as much BNP as the earlier comment...
Again, it's a football thread. Speak English, minus politics, or gtfo.
Wait, that's probably just as much BNP as the earlier comment...
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I didn't even recognize it as Al bhed. Cmon guys, Let's talk some FOOTBALL
Scudamore is all "£5.1b and we still can't get people to talk about our bloody matches in football threads."
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FixedOriginally Posted by Loony BoB
So speaketh the owner of EOFF.
What a smurfing game that was. Emre Can is a smurfing monster.
oh and mario balotelli etc. etc. BUT EMRE CHAN THOUGH
Did you know that CHAN in al bhed is BEST?
As in, George Best. Man Utd legend.
I have an elderly client who is a big United fan and regularly tells me all about how he used to see Best play and how he was there when United won the European Cup. Tells me Best was indeed the best of all time. He's very lonely so I haven't had the heart to tell him I'm a Liverpool fan. I actually think he thinks I support United because I know so much about the current squad and was having an in depth conversation about the development prospects of Blackett, McNair and Wilson. I'm just a football nerd, honest
On the subject of development prospects, who needs Raheem Sterling anymore? He just got replaced! Have a prediction: Jordon Ibe will be in the England squad within a year. Old Manus will not be happy about it and insist Nathan Dyer is the One True King of Westeros. A front three of Sterling, Sturridge and Ibe makes me get entirely too excited for a Wednesday morning.
All three shots on goal tonight by United, as at half time, have been made by Smalling (both headers, both goals) and McNair (shot on the half volley, on target but too close to keeper). This is with RVP, Rooney, Januzaj, Falcao and Di Maria playing. Bizarre.
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Rooney should be playing up front. Drop Falcao or RVP. Clearly the ball isn't getting to the forwards enough with the system we play, and since Rooney tracks back anyway we might as well be playing with 10 men. I'd love to see the stats with how involved our two strikers are. For as much flack Fellani takes, I have a liking to him. Much like Paul's love for Shelvey before he left - it's eternal. He gives us something different and I think his passing is underrated honestly. 3 at the back kills the full backs bombing forward too. I was secretly happy Jones went off because IMO Smalling (larging) is our best CB.
The biggest problem is we can't get the ball to the forwards enough and Falcao & RVP don't seem to have the graft to do more than put away chances. Herrera would be very welcome too. I know Januzaj is a winger but I think the guy would offer more. He looks devoid of confidence at the moment. Pundits go on about it's an advantage to not have cup games as a distraction & a drain on fitness, which is true, but Adnan would be playing them instead of league games to bring up his confidence.
On a last note, I feel slightly sorry for Lambert leaving Villa. He's a good manager and had to go but he had nothing really to work with. The contradiction is Sean Dyche, but there can only be one Sean Dyche.
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RVP is the one who should be dropped, for either Rooney moving up or alternatively Wilson coming in. LVG loves him too much, though. And yes to Januzaj, the kid showed he's happy to run at players recently and we need more of that from people who can actually get past said players (Mata, I'm looking at you - you don't get past the players, you just run at them xD). He and Di Maria have a similar problem of "no end product" at the moment when they get surrounded but don't pass it and end up getting the ball taken off them too easily. If they can just run past a couple of players, draw them in and get rid of the ball to someone else, they'd be doing a better job for us (and the forwards).
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RVP and Falcao are too similar in playing style, I think, dropping off the shoulder of the last man. Definitely drop one of them. I think Falcao at least shows a willingness to get around the pitch! I think Januzaj should go on loan to a team like Villa, which brings me onto...
I don't feel sorry for Lambert xD The football was a dirge. The likes of Guzan, Vlaar, Delph and Benteke are all very good players. He should've done more with them. At least scored goals or something!
Also as far as Shelvey goes, he's a really talented player. He just doesn't try as much as he should. He's like a less extreme Taarabt/Ben Arfa/Morrison etc.
On a last note, I feel slightly sorry for Lambert leaving Villa. He's a good manager and had to go but he had nothing really to work with.On paper Villa's team should be safely mid-table.
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Just on this note: He was probably our most dangerous player on the pitch (aside from Smalling, apparently) and he's one of the few people in our team who will try to beat a man. I think he should be fine with us and continue to get more games. Apparently only two people had played more games at United before turning 20, and they were Ronaldo and Giggs. He's doing pretty well for himself, even if he isn't being lauded like he was last season (although I think that's a good thing, because he needed to not get too ahead of himself - needs to now focus on fine tuning and selflessness and he should be okay).
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Interesting. Most United fans I know think he's regressed since the halcyon days of Davey M.
He has, but not by as much as some would say. It's easy to overrate a youngster - some might argue Wilson has regressed because he isn't scoring two in every game now. If he was performing better he'd probably have been poached by Real Madrid.But it's like blaming one person for last season's disaster - in the end, it was the team that fell, not an individual. This season the team is not performing well. At least with Januzaj you can get some exciting football before he buggers it up by not passing. Most players just make a rubbish pass without doing anything exciting first. Sadly, at the moment, this includes Di Maria. Young, Valencia, Wilson and Januzaj are the players I see as most exciting in our team at the moment. Shaw is surprisingly (well, for me, because I'd not seen him play much before he joined us) good when he's in the opposition third, too, I suppose. RVP has been rubbish. Falcao has been disappointing too, but at least he tries. Blind has been excellent. Mata shines on occasion and is generally frustrating other than that (the match where he skied/missed about 3-4 clear cut opportunities stands out to me).
Overall, Januzaj isn't doing that bad. We're doing well to win when we're playing poorly, but something has to give at some point. People are very, very quick to point at our defence when only Southampton and Chelsea have conceded fewer goals. In the end, it's our midfield that continues to disappoint and I do wonder how much of that is down to the new winger-less system that just doesn't lead to enjoyable football for me. It's like a knee-jerk reaction to last season when everything came in from crosses. We need to get a finer balance, a more flexible approach than "4-4-2 diamond" or "3-5-2 with wingbacks". If you played Di Maria and Januzaj on the two wings, I dare say you'd be causing some massively exciting games. They can cut in or stay wide and they are very capable at both options. Let's use that.
But eh, in the end, it's easy for us all to be critics here. I assume LVG has a plan that he's working towards and hopefully in the off season we'll see him make a team that he really does feel suits his system.
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