The old Man Utd Thread

[5R7]

o...k...then not sure on the line up here...532 maybe?

 

[feltmonkey]

4-3-3 with Young on one of the wings and Mkhitaryan on the other, I reckon. 

 

Terrible pitch, apparently.

[5R7]

3 minutes ago, feltmonkey said:

4-3-3 with Young on one of the wings and Mkhitaryan on the other, I reckon. 

 

Terrible pitch, apparently.

nah its 5ishm young rwb, blind lwb, rojo jones and smalling at cb... pogba hererea in the middle, feallani being a a dunno what, miki sort of a free role, and zlatan up top

[feltmonkey]

Yeah, you're right. I'm in work so having to follow it on the BBC updates at the moment. They just said it's 3 at the back and wingbacks. I bow to your ability to determine formations of mystifying selections.

 

 

[5R7]

 dude, watching the game too haha

altho, on fox sports, they did try and say at the start that it was gona be young on the left wing... with a 4231..but they were wrong lol

 

it is also, a very scrappy, terrible game ,on a terrible pitch

[Gabzy]

Fellaini playing like a don for the goal! Excellent to score in such horrible pitch conditions.

[5R7]

stream died...missed goal...

 

ah well

 

gooooooaaaaalllll

[5R7]

jesus fucking christ!? that was a terrible goal to concede! route fucking one, and teh back"3" didnt have a clue!

[feltmonkey]

1-1 away from home and no injuries. That's not a bad result, really.

[5R7]

be nice to play on a pitch in the next game!

[Trigg]

15 hours ago, feltmonkey said:

1-1 away from home and no injuries. That's not a bad result, really.

 

I was more impressed with the resilience showed by the team. It was shitty conditions on a shitty pitch after a long and probably shitty flight. The team of the last 2-3 years would have crumbled in that situation. 

[feltmonkey]

On 3/7/2017 at 18:58, spork said:

We'll just stick Fellaini up top.

 

It looks like we'll have to!  Zlatan, Rooney, Martial and Rashford are all out of the cup match.

[Gabzy]

Whaaaaaaaaat

[ckny]

Seems a little too convenient an excuse for us losing tomorrow...

[feltmonkey]

1 hour ago, Gabzy said:

Whaaaaaaaaat

 

I know, right?  Rooney has been injured in a collision with - who else? - Phil Jones, and apparently Martial and Rashford are both ill or something.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39176050

[Mr Do 71]

FFS

[5R7]

sooo...5 at the back again...ok...:/

[spork]

BBC think a back four with Jones in midfield.

 

Quite hard to see anything other than a comfortable Chelsea win isn't it?

[Gabzy]

Least we actually have a striker on! Rashford needs to have a great game for us to have a chance.

[5R7]

ive always liked jones as a DM, so should be interesting. prob not the game for that though...

[Gabzy]

Jones is such a bulldozer 

 

[spork]

Oh dear.

[5R7]

what a fucking joke, thats just not a yellow. garbage from fucking oliver again...

[the_debaser]

Wasn't a booking but if Oliver had any sense he would've booked every single Man U player afterwards who got in his face. Which would be just about all of them. 

[Baring]

Another ref fucking a football match up. 

 

You don't need a yellow every time there's a foul. Jones probably should have totted one up though. 

[Baring]

1 minute ago, the_debaser said:

Wasn't a booking but if Oliver had any sense he would've booked every single Man U player afterwards who got in his face. Which would be just about all of them. 

Aye, I wish a ref would just do it and it would stop it from happening. 

[Gabzy]

FFS Herrera is stupid though, he knew he was on a yellow. That's spoilt the whole game now, which was surprisingly entertaining and even.

[Liamness]

I don't think Herrera had done enough in the game to warrant two yellows, but it's the context of it. He's really stupid to go in on Hazard in that moment, he basically forces Oliver to card him.

 

I think this sets the stage for us to park the bus and for Mourinho to be able to paint it as a glorious if ultimately futile fight against the injustice of the ref's decision.

[Liamness]

Well that worked for about five minutes.

[Gabzy]

It was good while it lasted.