Having assessed the defensive data over the last four rounds of fixtures earlier in the week, we now turn our attentions to the centre of the park. We analyse a host of playmakers from Everton, Spurs, Arsenal, West Ham and City before casting an eye over the recent new arrivals at Sunderland and Newcastle, as the Wear-Tyne duo step up their battle to beat the drop.
Always going to be tough anyway, with Dortmund & Napoli in it.
To be fair they would probably have struggled against Castilla as well
Gary Lineker
GaryLineker
It's hard to comprehend how poor Manchester United are at present.
7:35 p.m. - 18 February 2016
Not that hard Gary - bad players = bad team
Easy for those glory-hunting Leicester fans to say!
Haha....You can't really accuse GL of being a newbie Leicester fan.
🙂 maybe not. But it's easy for the big teams to criticise minnows like man Utd. They're trying!
Interesting that he posts this when they are losing. Is Gary our very own Cpt Hindsight?
Not the brightest Gary. For me, the players aren't good enough for starters. Terrible waste of funds.
The team United are playing are still in their pre-season, while United are at the business end of the their season.
Okay...
Taking a big break, not pre-season
Taking a big dump on United more like
St Etienne 3 - 2 Basel
Damn, come on Basel!
If DDG is out next GW, I think Arsenal will have a field day.
Sanchez better *****ing do something!
Flipping?
They might do anyway with that defence. I hope so as I have Sanchez and Ozil.
Thought I was the only nutter to have them both.
Keeping Ozil has worked a treat, recruiting Sanchez not so much.There is noone else I want tbh. He is first to go though when I am trying to field players come GW30.
Shrewsbury will fancy their chances
2-1 Middleland's goal
https://streamable.com/aub2?t=12.9Pretty mean of UEFA, calling back the Danes from holiday, just to have someone to put down the dog
Hehe Middleland, sounds like Lilliput from Gullivers Travels.
Damn , still to witness a goal tonight
Reckon Frank de Boer should be getting a few phone calls.
Will LVG survive until the weekend if it stays the same?
Definitey.
With the correct spelling though.
It is embarrassing
If they want Mourinho and don't appoint him now, then I don't see them getting him in the summer. He'll have far easier offers.
It makes no sense to wait with Mou.
I've posted similar before. It would be foolish to expect he won't get other offers.
He might want the job at the moment but he's perfectly entitled to look at other offers that come along.Maybe he will end up in China:)
Shouldn't under estimate FC Midtjylland they have played a lot in Europe and are used to winning at home.
This
Man United are one of the few clubs in Europe who's aspiration is to try and compete with the likes of Barca and Bayern....not find reasons to make a 1-2 defeat at the hand of FC Midtdjylland sound better.
Exactly Wakey
This. There is no excuse for this defeat...
2-1 and 1-1 are certainly not good enough scores to rest many senior players for the second legs.
LvG needs to rest players in the league.
Rooney? 😉
He needs a permanent rest 😎
They are the away games... Would be surprised if Tottenham don't have a similar line up
Rest ? If there are any seniors players available to play .
LVG and Giggs look like a soon-to-be-divorced couple who have nothing left to say to each other
haha good observation 🙂
I don't think a conversation with LVG would be much fun
Definitely sleeping in separate beds
Spurs 1-1 FT
Decent result. Not ideal but solid European result.
🙂 🙂 🙂
2-1 FTLemme guess who.
At least Man United can focus on the league now....
Predictions no good so far.
http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/12710116Phone call to the stock exchange incoming
Eh?
Need to inform them before sacking LVG
Ahhhh! Right thanks.
Yeah... Wall st getting twitchy.
If i had the contacts and resources id hire a hit man to put one clean through his fat flat Dutch nut
Rather unpleasant, aren't you?
not as unpleasant as the football he dishes out
reported
Living up to your name
haha im not that bad
His name has the contacts
Fran would sort him no bother 🙂
@henrywinter "We're f***ing s***, we're f***ing s***" sing #mufc fans
Seriously?
'Freezing cold on a Thursday night, and we're playing f*****g s***e, what a feeling, what a night'.
Liverpool will be the only English team to win in Europe this week 🙂
See you in 2 hours 🙂
Heavy defeat to Arsenal at Old trafford should be the final nail in the coffin for LVG right?
Starting to believe Moyes is better than this clownHe shouldn't be given the chance its beyond a joke now
I never doubted that Moyes was the correct choice.
Agree
Dropping to 7th position was a little too much . I would have been happy if he would be able to achieve a top 4 .
If he had stayed, you would have a much better side now.
Maybe but we will we never get to know .
No. I am very sad about that.
Nobody knows. How he's lasted this long is a mystery in truth. A couple of months ago everyone was convinced he'd be gone that weekend...
I'm pretty sure we all know Moyes was better for a long time
This Ausgburg crowd are a lively lot!
Must be the communion wine ... 😉
Beauty of the sup!
😀
The worst thing about it is, just as there is the "West Ham Way", so there is the "Manchester United Caché".
It, or the lack of it, diminishes all of us.Yep , much as we like the Lol's , great to see all top teams firing
Absolutely. At least some of the time.
And the John Terry (lock up your wives) way? Any truth in the rumours to West Ham? Hope not.
No, it's laughable. There is a fairly large section of the media who absolutely loathe us, now.
Envy.Bit disrespectful alright. A transfer to QPR would be more fitting for Terry!
'FC Midtjylland - no game in two months, one win in ten before that, and lost 9-1 on aggregate to Napoli in the group stages.'
🙁 🙁 🙁
Hmm , Dunno if Flynn is aware of this stat
The devil in United must be scared stiff. Possibly getting closer to God
Sanchez>Mahrez? For a free. These stats are scaring me into keeping him, I have ozil of course, but need mahrez back in for his fixtures.
Other mids are
Alli, Payet, stanislas but cant afford stanlislas to mahrezI have Sanchez but if you do not have Mahrex for Nor its ok.
Got vardy so may hold off.
Mitjit rollrd around the ball @ the back with ease. Its an embarassment/punishment to play Europa. Now we want to win Europa. LoL @ Man U... Lolest @ Van Girl
Stream shows Firminos name spelled 'Firminio', couldn't they do a quick google
For me, LVG should have been sacked for offloading better players (RVP, Nani, Evra) than he kept (Fellaini is enough of an example).
^^^.
Nah , offloading those guys was the thing to do. Cant blame him for that. Blame him for all else though
That's a good point. It's logical they're not doing well, in any competition, because their squad is so bad. He's the one who got to spend a lot of money though so he's responsible for this situation.
Hello, Crusher!!! 😀
You OK?Hi there, doing pretty well thanks. Hope you've been doing better lately
Yeah. Had a wobble, on the up now. 🙂
I'd imagine Van Persie would have had a hat trick tonight easily. Crying out for a finisher.
RVP was on his last legs in PL. It;s what he has done with the money and his tactics that's been the ultimate killer ?
Evra going is just absurd, 250m into this current team is beyond a joke, Moyesy was better, what a state the team is in
Yeah. Evra could/.should have stayed another season , I guess
he loved the club, if asked he would have stayed for another year, guide and help Shaw, but nope
Dont know the circumstances. But yes , top player and would have been a stabilising factor , for sure
Javier Hernández would've been a better example than the three you mentioned tbh.
It's beyond painful watching him scoring pretty much every week. Braces, even the occasional hattrick. Over 20 goals already for Leverkusen.
Don't blame him for the examples you mentioned personally. Evra wanted to leave, plus we have Shaw. Nani was an inconsistent pain in the arse. And van Persie was declining at an alarming rate.
It's the fact that he's completely gutted the squad that annoys me.Forgot about Hernandez, never given a chance of a decent run. It was hard to watch Martials frustration with the likes of DePay. Martial looks the real deal, just surrounded by poorish players (including Mata; lack of physicality).
Aye, he's undoubtedly the best outfield player United have. Head and shoulders above the rest.
And I agree he's surrounded by a load of crap, or players who are average at best. Rooney, Mata, Fellaini all need replacing in the summer.
dont forget chicha. very useful player to have for moments like this .
very hardworker and gives 100% whenever he players
And was flagged offside a million times in CL Final vs. Barca...Chicharito had his chance to shine...cya.
De Gea my only keeper. Bit gutted if he's ruled out. So much for saving a transfer this week.
Need a replacement with full fixtures.Forster the main man?
I own VVD, Fuchs, Wollschield, MahrezForster or Butland
May as well wait.
Thanks. I'll be hanging fire till next Friday either way. Hopefully fit
Firmino should have done better.
8 years, 2 months agoGood Luck LvG with trying to win Europa League