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Football/Fútbol/Fussball/Calcio Thread 11/12 |OT5| Manchester Fragrance: Channel N°5
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MaritalWheat
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From the Opta twitter: Scholes 71 passes, 97% completion, more than any City player all game. I thought he looked tidier than some of you are giving him credit for, sure gave that goal away but his cool passing helped keep off a 3rd, looked like half that United team was ready to panic.
Well I don't know if it was Kompany's fault - I think I'd lay the blame on Chris Foy for that one. And City played 80 minutes with 10 and lost by 1 goal. United played 40 with 10 and lost by 5. Just saying.
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Vivalaraza
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Perhaps, but they had 10 men.
They game back with such fight. Sure, United were shit and let them back in, but they capitalised. If you give them a chance they've showed they can and will be there to pounce.
It's so commendable and a quality all the best sides have, one United have had for years.
That was just not good enough. It should have been a turning point in our season, City if anything will be more confident in themselves than they were before.
Haven't found anything =(
Jones looks extremely shaky and I'm not sure why Ferguson (I assume) is making him to push up so often and leave gaping holes in our back line. Lindegaard seems to have picked up de Gea's lack of confidence.
Rooney makes excellent runs and positions himself so well and yet gets absolutely no service at all from our central midfield.
As a Porto fan I can say that he is more a winger than a forward, he plays a lot better on the wing because he his quick and very strong. But just let him be here with us
or pay us a lot of money ok? XDbone_and_sinew
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The awkward pauses in the interview with Mancini were fantastic
he was at old trafford in 08 when porto drew 2-2 there and caused vidic and ferdinand problems with long balls the whole 90 mins both legs. he out muscled vidic a number of times. who told you he is more of winger? he might have to drop back more recently, i dont know. but he was fantastic playing as a lone striker against united
Nailed it. They were more United than United has been almost the whole season.
And yes they did fell apart in the first half after going three goals down (credit to Aguero who continued to fight on) but they really came at us after the half time break, presumably due to Macini's dressing room actions. Once again, very United-esque.
Broder Salsa
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Well everyone and that is what he looked more like whenever I have seen them too, but also just the ones who follows the Portuguese league in here :
As a Porto fan I can say that he is more a winger than a forward, he plays a lot better on the wing because he his quick and very strong. But just let him be here with us
The Friendly Monster
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They should be kicking themselves for conceding 3 in the first half as well as applauding their second half comeback though.
Confidence and form is massively overrated in sport, the next game against city after losing 6-1 at home to them and we beat them away. Swings in form happen all the time. The more pertinent fact to the title run in in my opinion is that City won't have any FA cup matches filling their schedule.
City have two injuries, we have 9 though... we had to get scholes back from retirement. Everybody knows the problem. Lack of a world class midfield, and fragile defence at the moment, [keeper included]. And we still knocked out city from the FA Cup. Who saw that coming eh?
Credit where it is due, fergie pulled another one out the bag.
i guess he plays on the wings now. he was holding up play on a 451 back in the champions league and was fantastic. if he can play on the wing and cross too that just makes him more valuable.
Even in that game he play on the wings. He's currently playing in the middle because we have no good options for that position but he loses some of his qualities. Hulk is a player who needs space and plays better with space because of his speed.
I don't think Scholes was quite as bad as I was making him out to be.
He recycled possession well and some of his passing was crisp. He was definitely at fault for Citys 2nd goal though.
He can still do a job for United against the weaker teams.
I think he'll have to play a few full 90min games before we can tell what level he's actually at.
I'm not expecting brilliance. He retired because he wasn't able to put in the great performances like he did when he was younger.
He recycled possession well and some of his passing was crisp. He was definitely at fault for Citys 2nd goal though.
He can still do a job for United against the weaker teams.
I think he'll have to play a few full 90min games before we can tell what level he's actually at.
I'm not expecting brilliance. He retired because he wasn't able to put in the great performances like he did when he was younger.
Dark Machine
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Don't rightly know GB. Maybe FA or Football League rules or something.
I watched him play last night. There's a hint of Drogba in his finishing, but his play style reminds me more of Aguero. He has both the pace and strength.
He looks like a force of nature when he starts charging through players.
Tim the Wiz
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Bit of an exaggeration here. Vidic is our club captain, and you can see we're really missing him. He sets a great example on the pitch and instils amazing confidence. And don't forget the huge loss of VDS to retirement last summer.
Agreed. Indicative of a weird backing-off we've seemed to become accustomed to this season. Feels like we're missing our ruthless instinct these days. Scholes seemed to gel into the pace of things as the half wore on, though. Fergie a little too optimistic putting him on right then.
Vivalaraza
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I don't see how you can even judge Scholes. He had so much time and space when he came on. It sounds strange but it was an easy game really, hardly ever put under any pressure. Misplaced one or two passes.
When he plays a whole game, or starts a game...then we'll be able to see whether he has regressed massively or not. But it's not like Scholes was at his best before he retired, there were many games in which he was a passenger himself.
Scholes should not be back simple as. Great to see and I love the guy, but he retired at the right time and it should have stayed that way.
When he plays a whole game, or starts a game...then we'll be able to see whether he has regressed massively or not. But it's not like Scholes was at his best before he retired, there were many games in which he was a passenger himself.
Scholes should not be back simple as. Great to see and I love the guy, but he retired at the right time and it should have stayed that way.
Spinning Plates
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It's tough to make a big push when the other team is playing keep ball against a team that has been playing with 10 men for 75 minutes.
José Mourinho
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Don't think it's being filmed at all. Booooo!
Vivalaraza
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im surprised porto is still able to hold on to him. i thought he would be headed for spain in the summer of 09 after his performance in that years champions league
Gareth Bale
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I think people are judging the substitution rather than the player himself. At least I hope they are.
Vivalaraza
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Radio it is...
Fair enough. Vidic has probably been our best captain since Keane left.
Lump it into our box. It almost worked.
At those moments, against a panicked defence, the Allardyce philosophy makes sense.
Nope. Scholes was poor more often than he was brilliant in the last two to three seasons. After six months away from the game, all he can do is add numbers to our midfield but not the quality we desperately need.
José Mourinho
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bone_and_sinew
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How is a Chelsea match not on tv in 2012? All I can find are audio feeds. I mean I've found streams for Qatar's league for fuck's sake.
Jeff Albertson
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Wow doicare bringing the honesty fair play lad
LabouredSubterfuge
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See it's part of the post match analysis game: If your team wins, then it's okay to be more honest about things.
Posotives out of todays games apart from the win were, Rooney was back close to his best along with valencia. Smalling was brilliant imo, did very well against Aguero and Welbeck should start most games with Rooney from now on.
Negatives were the keeper, had a meh game, can't believe we didn't score more that 3 so it was disappointing, credit to city though, they played well with 10 men. Good to see scholes back although he was at fault for the 2nd goal. Jones was pretty bad today and Evra who's been playing shit since the CL final.
We need a midfielder who can control the game, would have been ideal in the 2nd half.
Negatives were the keeper, had a meh game, can't believe we didn't score more that 3 so it was disappointing, credit to city though, they played well with 10 men. Good to see scholes back although he was at fault for the 2nd goal. Jones was pretty bad today and Evra who's been playing shit since the CL final.
We need a midfielder who can control the game, would have been ideal in the 2nd half.
Spinning Plates
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I think if Mancini is critical of the red card then that lessens the chances of it being rescinded.
I haven't heard anything about that and I don't read the benfica newspaper (aka abola). But there's no reason for concerns about that matter. I haven't heard anything about it.
Spinning Plates
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Gutted to have missed out on Sanchez in the summer.
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