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Football Thread 2015/16 |OT| The Great American Sport
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To China with Rooney
Infernostew
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Love how the commentators are acting like this match matters. It's what amounts to a friendly. I'm embarrassed we're even in this competition. Thankfully we'll be out soon.
Milchmonster
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Yes Kloppo
There's still a chance for a return to Dortmund.
There's still a chance for a return to Dortmund.
The teams that could beat us 4-0 are not playing in the Europa League. We obviously can't send our U21 to London but it's over. Even more so when Spurs care as much as today.
Interesting that you've waiting until you're 2-0 down to say that.
Infernostew
Member
I was working and I just got home to watch the damn thing.
Edit: I would've said the same thing if we were up. Europe Jr tournament is a waste. I'd rather our decent players stay healthy so we can put up at least the resemblance of a fight for top 4.
Phoenix Fang
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Even when healthy, your players are still garbage.
Infernostew
Member
You don't need to tell me that, I know! I've watched almost every match this season. Teams should be beating us by a lot more. If we didn't have De Gea we'd be fighting for relegation.
Macadinho94
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Winners get a Champions League place, that's worth a lot considering United's form in the league in the past few weeks
WadiumArcadium
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Firmino's on fire at the moment. Should have got a few more but it was a great performance.
The match matters to improve United's European coefficient if nothing else.
United had a good spell for about 10 minutes when Carrick came on, going 3-5-2 confused the Liverpool team until Allen replaced Sturridge.
2-0 is an excellent result, just go to Old Trafford and score one and we should be ok.
Phoenix Fang
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I seriously hope someone beat the shit out of that piece of shit Fellaini. He's a dirty fucker that should be banned from football. How he keeps getting away with shit is ridiculous. If he doesn't get retrospective ban for elbowing Can on purpose, then UEFA is a joke.
If I was Can, I would have stuck my fist in his mouth and break all his teeth.
If I was Can, I would have stuck my fist in his mouth and break all his teeth.
Portugeezer
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Scholsy ain't happy.
Phantast2k
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I'm fine with the way Spurs played. Clearly they didn't underestimate us as much as they simply said "fuck it, league is more important". Sucks for their fans who made the trip.
That's some joga bonito right there: https://streamable.com/nxba
That's some joga repulsivo: https://twitter.com/MUnitedGirl/status/708051065678274561
That's some joga "I dont have seen it": https://twitter.com/LFCMostar/status/708058122745565184
If he were at least good and a cunt (like Cantona), but he's just simply a cunt.
That's some joga bonito right there: https://streamable.com/nxba
That's some joga repulsivo: https://twitter.com/MUnitedGirl/status/708051065678274561
That's some joga "I dont have seen it": https://twitter.com/LFCMostar/status/708058122745565184
If he were at least good and a cunt (like Cantona), but he's just simply a cunt.
lol
Every year the same old lie.
You couldn't win the EL no matter how hard you tried.
May as well play the kids and the squad players since were gonna get trounced out of this competition anyway.
privitsan02
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De Gea is like a cheat code at this point. United would be dead if they had to deal with Mignolet. Hopefully we can remain consistent.
Best wishes.
Best wishes.
Fakeknowledge
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Fellaini managed to keep a lid on it for the most part and still should have been sent off, that's before his sly forearm at the end the fucking clampet. Total shithouse footballer.
Aguero is leaving City when his contract is up
Pep still gets a couple of seasons out of him but he's going to be hard to replace
Pep still gets a couple of seasons out of him but he's going to be hard to replace
Because Pochettino would rather win the Premier League than a Mickey Mouse Cup like the Europa League that means all BPL clubs are mediocre.
Solid logic right here.
They are crap and it's clear a lot of deadwood need to be cleared out. Same goes for Liverpool, they may have won last night but have similar problems as United. I've been saying this all season. There's a lot of clearance from both sides that needs to be done or risk another disastrous season next year.
Don Draper's Hat
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Meh. I'd much rather have an exciting league and have teams "struggle" in Europe than have a piss poor league and have teams thrive in Europe.
did you crawl back under your rock after the gameThe Liverpool fans will be crawling out of their basements to comment any minute from now
What does 'Mickey Mouse" mean when used as an adjective?
Fake, or unimportant.
Funnily, that's probably what German football fans would have said about their league about 10 years ago. You know, when other teams actually had a chance at the title (and all of our teams were shit in Europe).
I also fully agree with that sentiment. EL/CL is a nice extra, but the domestic league is the important stuff.
cartoon_soldier
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Easy for you to say, your team doesn't have to worry about domestic competition at all.
Don Draper's Hat
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What am I denying, exactly?
I'm fully aware that English teams pale in comparison to Bayern, Madrid, Barca, et al. when it comes to quality.
ask 2000s Bayern Fan Blablurn
I would have killed for a CL win back then
KILLED
and back then we didnt win the title every year
I'd rather watch consistent quality week in, week out. It's fine if you support a top club that fights for top 4 spots consistently and you'd rather win the CL. The Premier League has quality from top to bottom because winning the title is the focus, the be all and end all. I mean, look at Newcastle, they're in the bottom 3 and they have some fantastic players/prospects. Wijnaldum, Ayoze Perez, Mitrovic, Krul, etc.
I'm still posting.
StWilson85
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The criticism of Poch for his selection is insane. Would it be nice to win the competition? I'm sure it would but literally the only point of the Europa this season is for the CL place and barring a miracle, Spurs have already secured that.
If he plays the first team in a very difficult game, that they could easily lose, and somebody gets injured, the title push takes a major dent. And it's much more important to a team like Spurs to win the title for the first time in nearly 60 years vs a competition that's won by middle of the road clubs every year.
If he plays the first team in a very difficult game, that they could easily lose, and somebody gets injured, the title push takes a major dent. And it's much more important to a team like Spurs to win the title for the first time in nearly 60 years vs a competition that's won by middle of the road clubs every year.
If this was the case more English clubs would have won it.
I want to know this as well
Infernostew
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What lie? The only things that matter to me is the Champion's League and the Prem. I miss the days where the League Cup and FA Cup was pretty much reserved for youth (not that we had any choice with injuries). Europa League means nothing to me even though the winner gets a CL spot but if you're not finishing at the top few spots of your league then you really don't deserve it.
Yeah, our squad is shit and they don't seem to give a damn but I put a lot of that on LVG. Dude doesn't even know his best 11 or have a solid formation. Things just aren't working and we need to bring in someone who knows what they're doing.
Benitez is the new Newcastle manager on a 3yr deal apparently.
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