The Official Manchester United Thread (Vol 11)

[simonas2702]

Enjoyed that tonight and made a change not to win 1 nil

I thought Sancho looked a bit livelier and it'll be interesting if Antony is not able to play in the cup final and Fulham seeing a forward 3 involving Garnacho, sancho, Rashford and Martial as for me we look more dangerous on the break with those options

We also looked better without Eriksen on the pitch, hes been so slow last couple of months

[Gone a bit AMG]

The Chelsea end went home early and missed their goal!

[Gone a bit AMG]

It’s coming together. Varane looked right on it tonight and him fit for the final will really help.

The ground was bouncing it was a great night.

Anyone any doubts over the beast that’s Casemiro anymore?

[simon800]

Lindelof was top drawer again.

At one point "Maguire needs the right partner next to him" was a thing, I think that's been thoroughly debunked seeing how Lindelof has done without him alongside.

He is a lot more aggressive without Maguire, which makes complete sense - when next to someone as slow as Maguire you can't be aggressive as you need to constantly be aware of covering the space behind knowing your partner will likely get turned/skinned at some point. Hence Victor turned into this passive "meh" defender.

With Varane next to him he knows he's got cover behind so can get tighter, be more proactive, etc.

I still worry about him a little against the very best teams and the most physical strikers, and don't think he's at that elite level, but as a squad option there are FAR worse 3rd/4th choice CB's in the league.

[Frimley111R]

Good performance last night but....

1. We were playing a pretty awful team

2. They caught us on the break a lot and we were lucky not to finish 4-4. If you see the highlights you can see how close they were to scoring on many occasions. We did have similar chances but a decent team would have capitalised on those

[Dogsey]

Frimley111R said:

Good performance last night but....

1. We were playing a pretty awful team

2. They caught us on the break a lot and we were lucky not to finish 4-4. If you see the highlights you can see how close they were to scoring on many occasions. We did have similar chances but a decent team would have capitalised on those

You could just as easily say that we were unlucky not to win 7 or 8 nil though.

[simon800]

XG has it as a 5-2 game;



We were incredibly open - what the game lacked in quality it made up for in openness! Very entertaining, but definitely had an end of season feel to it.

[Frimley111R]

Dogsey said:

Frimley111R said:

Good performance last night but....

1. We were playing a pretty awful team

2. They caught us on the break a lot and we were lucky not to finish 4-4. If you see the highlights you can see how close they were to scoring on many occasions. We did have similar chances but a decent team would have capitalised on those

You could just as easily say that we were unlucky not to win 7 or 8 nil though.

Yes, I essentially did say so above but the point was more about our defence and the opportunities we gave Chelsea.

[Lotobear]

ajap1979 said:

G-wiz said:

And we can pip Geordia Arabia to 3rd also.

It will be hilarious if the Qataris buy United

It's certainly come to something when potentially finishing just above 'lowly' Newcastle is seen as a succes by Man U fans - talk about crumbs!

[hotchy]

Yes!!! Hopefully celtic draw utd in the champions league now. I still remember when nakamura scored that free kick while I was watching it on the phone to my grandad down England who supports utd. Brilliant haha. It's his fault utd became my "English team" but there it is. Lovely memory's of a great man.

[LF5335]

Lotobear said:

It's certainly come to something when potentially finishing just above 'lowly' Newcastle is seen as a succes by Man U fans - talk about crumbs!

Has anyone used the word “lowly” that you put in quotes? You’re just another financially doped club. I’m worried we could become one too. Hardly something to celebrate. As soon as City have done the legal legwork and get away with their financial doping, you’ll be splashing the cash like it’s going out of fashion. Then it will be a short hop to the ESL and all that entails.

[Dylano]

Frimley111R said:

Come on!! Cool pen and we're in the CL!!!

Yay!

Back in the CL amongst Europe's elite.

Perhaps in the next 10 years you might even manage to win more than 2 games in the knock out rounds... unlike the 10 years just gone.

[Dylano]

LF5335 said:

Has anyone used the word “lowly” that you put in quotes? You’re just another financially doped club. I’m worried we could become one too. Hardly something to celebrate. As soon as City have done the legal legwork and get away with their financial doping, you’ll be splashing the cash like it’s going out of fashion. Then it will be a short hop to the ESL and all that entails.

Please don't worry about becoming a financially doped club, you've already been one in the past.

Now your just a club that wes itself out to every commercial sponsor and "official partner" that waves a grubby tenner in your direction, no matter how laughable and cringeworthy they may be, along with having anywhere between half a billion and £1 billion in debt, obviously no-one is quite sure of the actual figure as your accounts are hidden away in that bastion of financial honesty and accountability that is the Cayman Islands.

[GTO-3R]

Dylano said:

Please don't worry about becoming a financially doped club, you've already been one in the past.

Now your just a club that wes itself out to every commercial sponsor and "official partner" that waves a grubby tenner in your direction, no matter how laughable and cringeworthy they may be, along with having anywhere between half a billion and £1 billion in debt, obviously no-one is quite sure of the actual figure as your accounts are hidden away in that bastion of financial honesty and accountability that is the Cayman Islands.

Oi oii it’s Mike’s love child.

[Frimley111R]

GTO-3R said:

Dylano said:

Please don't worry about becoming a financially doped club, you've already been one in the past.

Now your just a club that wes itself out to every commercial sponsor and "official partner" that waves a grubby tenner in your direction, no matter how laughable and cringeworthy they may be, along with having anywhere between half a billion and £1 billion in debt, obviously no-one is quite sure of the actual figure as your accounts are hidden away in that bastion of financial honesty and accountability that is the Cayman Islands.

Oi oii it’s Mike’s love child.

He is indeed, football thread troll from Citeh.

[franki68]

oh good Mancheater city's chief troll is back.


In other news Anthony is out for 2 months supposedly.

[Challo]

Frimley111R said:

GTO-3R said:

Dylano said:

Please don't worry about becoming a financially doped club, you've already been one in the past.

Now your just a club that wes itself out to every commercial sponsor and "official partner" that waves a grubby tenner in your direction, no matter how laughable and cringeworthy they may be, along with having anywhere between half a billion and £1 billion in debt, obviously no-one is quite sure of the actual figure as your accounts are hidden away in that bastion of financial honesty and accountability that is the Cayman Islands.

Oi oii it’s Mike’s love child.

He is indeed, football thread troll from Citeh.

One that doesn't really post much on his own clubs thread, just like Mike.

[GTO-3R]

franki68 said:

oh good Mancheater city's chief troll is back.


In other news Anthony is out for 2 months supposedly.

Yeah, gutted for him as he was just starting to show glimpses of why we signed him. Time for Sancho to step up on that right side!

[G-wiz]

Six points ahead of Liverpool.

Don't know what the fuss was all about.

Comfortable Champions league qualification.

[G-wiz]

FA Cup final is a 15:00 kick off again.

Thought they shifted these to a 17:00 kick off.