The old Man Utd Thread

[Guest]

This has been the worst half of football I've seen. Such little quality on display.

I think this comment has been made about pretty much every match this season. Can someone change the thread title to include it?!

[feltmonkey]

Martial is trying to do it on his own now. You can't blame him.

[feltmonkey]

Yessssss!

Totally undeserved.

[Liamness]

FUCKING YAAAS

Who edited the thread title?

[Bleeders]

Dunno, but keep it. We scored soon after.

[Baring]

Bang! Great strike and technique.

[feltmonkey]

The cross from Mata was one of the few bits of quality we've produced.

At this point, we should pull Rooney back into midfield and play Martial or Depay up to run the ball away from Liverpool.

[DC Lemon]

I've never felt his way after a victory over Liverpool. Another week of misery confirmed.

The main consolation being that I used to want Klopp as manager.

[feltmonkey]

How have we won that?

[Liamness]

Smash and grab-tastic.

[Guest]

Best thing about United at the moment is the title to this thread!

[Liamness]

How can we be so bad and still be fifth?

[Baring]

How have we won that?

Aye. Liverpool played well and looked like they had 15 players, their energy was really good but carving out the great chances was minimal. De Gea outstanding when called upon once again.

It was a shit game though.

[Mr Do 71]

Man of the Match is De Gea.

[Gabe]

We were robbed etc but our defending at set-pieces is some of the worst I've seen at any level of football. 5 players all sucked towards Fellaini, leaving Rooney completely clear? Awful.

[feltmonkey]

You do have to wonder what Lucas thought he was going to achieve by leaving Rooney unmarked and jumping with Fellaini.

[Guest]

Worst season in years and yet we've still done the double over the Scouse.

[Gabe]

Both pretty rubbish games for the spectators, too.

[Liamness]

Jones, Carrick and Rojo in the away end all looked like they enjoyed themselves.

I think Borthwick Jackson should be starting if Rojo or Shaw aren't available. He looked good, particularly in attack. Darmien is a little more defensive so we need that balance on the other side, plus he looks much more natural at right back. Van Gaal's subs were a bit frustrating, he seems to take one attacking player off and put another on, rather than actually changing shape or emphasis. Herrera and Lingard were both having decent games, why hook them instead of Fellaini / Schneiderlin?

@tbb That's four in four for Van Gaal now.

[Majora]

It's pretty amazing that we've failed to score in the first half in 15 games so far this season, are playing the most turgid football imaginable, and yet we're fifth and only 7 points off the top of the league. Utterly bizarre season.

[Guest]

Yeah but we were top only 6 weeks ago.

[Guest]

It's lucky that the rest of the 'top teams' have been so bad as well. It'd be interesting to see how many points everybody had at this point of the season last year, the year before, etc. to make a comparison. Is that info available anywhere?

I just hope our board don't deem it good enough if we do manage to squeeze into the top four, because next season surely things are going to be more difficult. Unless we go all guns blazing for Pep, I imagine he'll be at City. Klopp will no doubt bring in reinforcements for Liverpool. Abramovich will throw money at Chelsea. Whereas I can only see LvG plodding on with his insipid style.

[Guest]

Chelsea were top at this point last season with 52 points IIRC

[Gabe]

It's lucky that the rest of the 'top teams' have been so bad as well. It'd be interesting to see how many points everybody had at this point of the season last year, the year before, etc. to make a comparison. Is that info available anywhere?

I just hope our board don't deem it good enough if we do manage to squeeze into the top four, because next season surely things are going to be more difficult. Unless we go all guns blazing for Pep, I imagine he'll be at City. Klopp will no doubt bring in reinforcements for Liverpool. Abramovich will throw money at Chelsea. Whereas I can only see LvG plodding on with his insipid style.

Klopp is still subject to the dreaded transfer committee at Liverpool, so I wouldn't necessarily expect our reinforcements to be much good ( ... )

[Guest]

Fellaini 1

Sakho/Toure/Lucas/Henderson 0

[Bleeders]

Another shit show of a first half performance. 11th successive failure to score in the first half.

[boxoctosis]

Another great match I see. Wonder when they'll actually bin LVG. Soon, please.

[Liamness]

Martial is really wasted in this United side. When he does burst into a little bit of space, he's usually got two banks of defenders to get past. So few balls played in behind.

Unfortunate that Januzaj has given away the free kick that leads to the goal for his first bit of action. If we were having any joy in attack though, these little mistakes wouldn't be so damaging. I feel like we're as bad as we were under Moyes right now, and the only reason we're still fifth is because other teams at the top are also having a poor season. Imagine if Liverpool, Everton or West Ham were playing at all consistently, we'd be miles off the top four.

[SaintM]

I'd say you're much worse than under Moyes, given the amount of money spent on that team.

LVG has been living off his reputation for 1 and half seasons now, surely it can't be for much longer..

[boxoctosis]

And also the fact the team is seriously terrible to watch.

I'd empty him right now, the lack of goals under his 'system' is ridiculous.