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Get in United! Outstanding to have Evans back.
As I predicted, had to be de Gea in goal!!!
Looks good!, plenty of CL experience there, let’s give’em a real fright!
That’s not good hope I am wrong but this could be a struggle tonight.
I’m a genius
Guessed right the starting line-up
@ parryheid:
What’s wrong with it? Would u care to enlighten us all?
How can you say that parry
That’s our strongest line-up, very balanced
Good stuff , balanced team hehehe
man united Forever
@nickcoppack: While we wait for official confirmation from UEFA on the team, I can tell you that there’s an 88% chance of rain at OT tonight.
why evans not rio? just wish my team best of luck
Ferdinand ??? Evra & Rafael are midgets !!
Otherwise seems Ok…………….The Reserves ??
Perfect attacking line up, a lot of flare up front with RVP and Kagawa.But we should avoid defensive lapses…happy to see De Gea back…this should surely give us a comfortable win, hopefully.
That’s a better line up. Great to have DDG at the back plus Evans coming in for Rio..
88% chance of rain? That’s not reporting, it’s England ffs. There’s also a 99% chance the away section will be rocking at OT tonight. Now, where’s my pulitzer?
Evans? Ok, so maybe Rio is lacking a step against the young Gala but Scholes is a surprise. Played 70 minutes plus on Sat, I would have thought SAF would have utilized Cleverly and Carrick. Intresting indeed. Also, RVP finds more space with a striker on top, not so today as Kagawa will floating behind him. Nevertheless, I predict United 2 – 1 Gala. (scorers RVP, Wellback)
Apart from Johny Evans, i think it’s our strongest line up.hope Rio is Ok and ready for Liverpool game..don’t want to be harsh on Evans, but he just seems prone to make mistakes for me…he had good season for two years, but still not consistent to me..hope he proves me wrong though.
@QuintonFortune: Unbelievable atmosphere at OT already- brilliant!!!!
I’m buzzing here!!!
Subs: Lindegaard, Ferdinand, Anderson, Cleverley, Fletcher, Hernandez, Welbeck
There’s also a 70% chance I make a mess of my jeans should RVP score another cracker
Fletch on the bench
YES. This is what I’m talking about. Let’s rape shit!!!
Never thought I’d ever say this, but come on Man United.
Wanting you lot to get knocked out of Europe can wait; those murdering scumbags shouldn’t even be allowed in Europe
Glad to see Evans back. and what about Fletcher on the bench!
a bit worrying there is no full back on the bench. Buttner probably should be there.
come on now!
I would have had Buttner on that bench in place of Fletch, nothing personal, solely for balance and footballing reasons.
Great line up – me likey! Also DDG in goal! Can’t wait – european football is back!
Happy for Nani that he got the nod too. Should bring some balance on the left hand side. Interesting that there is no space for Cleverley as well.
Separately, I’m not arguing about Anderson’s omission, but you have to feel for the guy. He’s hardly featured.
Cmon United!
Fuck off you sheep Shagger…. Thank your fucking stars cedars is not around here anymore….
I’ll enlighten as I see it don’t really expect to meet approval.On Saturday I considered we had one remaining weak spot after Buttner was introduced,and that was the midfield.Seeing the team I feel we have reverted to giving two weak spots again by Evra playing.And by altering our goalie are less competent there,Front line no problems in my eyes.When Galatasery come at us it is obvious to me they are going to get at our back line,Evans may cope but the stay on the line goalie scares me rigid as I said the other day If you mess up your dropped until your replacement does likewise.That hasn’t happened Sooo.
SAF certainly stuck to his word in fielding a strong side (and bench) tonight. Good to see Darren Fletcher on the bench too, a warrior that’s what he’s
Now get hem 4 goals in the turks goal..
United united united!!!
Cracking starting line up for united….delighted to see evans back in there….Would love to see goals from RVP and Kagawa on there champions league debut for united! Great to see Fletch make the bench tonight too. Come on boys….LETS DO THIS
100% chance that we’re gonna beat gala 2-0.
@lufcwhite
speechless
This is a strong lineup. Evans will hold it down at the back 100%. DDG will play well too with confidence
WELCOME BACK JONNY AND DARREN. Also good to see De Gea in goal again. Only concern is considering Scholes played on saturday, I hope he doesn’t tire out easily in this one. We must be alert for the full 90 mins plus injury time.
Strong line up all things considering. It also hopefully means that Scholes won’t start on Sunday. However, Giggs being absent from the squad makes me worry that he could start at Anfield.
September 19, 2012 at 18:45
Proverb says:
I’m a genius
You are!
September 19, 2012 at 19:16
Costas says:
spot on about Anfield %)
Hope Rooney place in midfield rather than Giggs.
The Manchester United players will wear black armbands tonight in memory of the 2 policewomen murdered in Manchester yesterday
Respect
Who is on the bench by the way?
@Costas: Good point on Giggsy…I really hope SAF abandons the play it safe with Giggsy in the side against big teams approach this season. It clearly did not work last time around!
First of all great to see Fletch back . Secondly what a great away crowd. These gala fans are mad. Hope we beat them.
I was actually looking for Pogba on the Juventus bench when I did not see him in the starting line-up… Hope he gets the chance he claimed he wasn’t given in Man Utd.
@Mahesh
Lindegaard, Ferdinand, Anderson, Hernandez, Welbeck, Cleverley, Fletcher
I am more shocked to see Ando on the bench than Fletch.
Hope you are right about Giggs. Sunday’s game is a good opportunity to move forward. Use Carrick and Tom at CM and see where it takes us.
Watch the flow of kags and the ginger prince
The 2ke tuk
@Costas i sincerely hope he doesn’t start at Anfield. We need to use this exact same line-up except cleverley coming in for scholes at Anfield and Rooney’s fitness. If rooney is fit then he takes Nani or scholes place.
@Costas i sincerely hope he doesn’t start at Anfield. We need to use this exact same line-up except cleverley coming in for scholes at Anfield and Rooney’s fitness. If rooney is fit then he takes Nani or scholes place.
Hope that Nani will play better than last Saturday. Come on United
On another note, Liverpool is leaving 8 first team players at home while a young team heads to Young Boys in Switzerland. They’ll be fresher and at home, the scumbags!
How about we focus our attention on the task at hand and worry about Liverpool later.
@Costas – lol, just when I think Ando’s finished, up he pops again!
Ando had a slight knock and was always gonna be available for this game, he needs match football so the bench is a must for him, is it a must for fletch at buttners expense tonight? Lets hope it all goes to plan and we get a 2-0 victory!
@Danny
I’ve heard that Rooney is close to a comeback, but as things stand, the only change I’d make on Sunday is the one you mentioned. We don’t know how fit Rooney is right now. He and Scholes could come on in case we are struggling.
It will also be interesting to see which goalie starts on Sunday.
Somebody! Anybody.. I need a stream please!!!
Happy with that line up.
4:30am in Sydney, United shirt on, coffee in hand, come on United!!!
Hahaha, focus our attention on the task at hand
I’m sure sir alex and the players do that beTter
Let’s show them we mean business! 3-0, Kagawa, van Persie and Nani to score.
COME ON VIDA. be alert. That should have been a penalty already.
Evra oh my god
They shoud’ve had penalty, we got lucky
Carrick gives the ball away with practically his first touch.
GET IN!!!!!!
CAAAARRRRIIIICKKKKKKKK
CARRRICKKKKKKK!!!!!! SHINJI KAGAWA!!! YOU ARE BLESSING!!!!!
FUCK YEAH, keep going lads!
http://tvestadiocanal.blogspot.mx/p/4.html
Why oh why have sky got that gobshite Quinn at our match. What a tosses bitter Twat.
Go Carrick.
Carrriiiiiiic
Wow!!! Kagawa’s class!
FOOKING HELL Niall Quinn is on our game? Oh God no.
FUCCKKKK get back FFS. they hit the bar.
@Philco: I’m watching this in Ireland, we have Ronny effing Whelan to listen to, with Liam ‘smiler’ Brady in the studio – looking forward to plenty of positive comments on United then – Not!
Lucky again.. stop giving away the ball scholes
Goddamnnn my class. Can’t believe i’m missing this game. Someone tell me how sweet Carrick’s finish was cus the press are raving about it. Kagawa playing a beaut of a game from what i hear.
Great tempo to the game. Passing it around well. We need to watch out for the counter attack. Come on lads!!!
Any body have a stream ?
Norman-85 I feel your pain.
That’s just not funny.
stream: http://tvestadiocanal.blogspot.mx/p/4.html
http://www.vipboxsports.eu/watch/72447/1/manchester-united-vs-galata
GET UP you turkish jessy ffs
Galatasaray are more than capable of getting a goal themselves. Cmon United!!! Stamp out the errors.
Coolsports.tv/stream2
Nani has lost his shooting boots again
<3 TonyBee
True quality from Tony
http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=170478&part=sports
our final ball needs to be better! The turks are dangerous on the counter attack
Tony V has been immense!
Hold the line lads.
That was tooo close !!!
Valencia’s crossing has been below par. Evra needs to buck up his game. He is not doing that great.
that was close very close
Lads need to focus . Giving the Turks too much time
Tony V is indeed awesome
Altintop is the Turkish Carvalho.
What’s Tony on . Hes flying around
this is a strain at the moment
carrick! what a fucken tackle on altintop. i thought he was gonna get a free shot for sure
what the fuck are we doing …
I think the hairdryer treatment is needed at half time Sir Alex
We are lucky its only 1-0, could’ve been 1-2 easily. We score one and stop playing, have seen this so many times last couple of seasons. Shape up in 2nd half please!
Scholes having an off day, he’s playin only ok at the moment.
We will see him stronger in the second half, cmon!
dont just fucking stand there Rafeal GET FUCKING BACK
Bollocking about to start.
Slack look light in midfield surprisingly…
We lost our composure after the goal
United are out of sorts here after the goal, I hope we improve in the 2nd half, else I see the same performance as that of last season.
Would take out scholesy and put ando. The game is too fast for him. Too many loose passes from the ginger ninja
THE game isnt over FFS. why are we playing like we are 4-0 up? and we are giving the ball away in the worst possible place THE MIDDLE of the field. COME ON BOYS. Fergie please give them a bollocking in the dressing room.
what is wrong with Nani another below par performance, his shooting and passing is so poor
Common lads lets Finnish this off..scholes on abit of an off day ando at 60the minute shd do it
Never mind Fergie’s hairdryer – I have to listen to monotone Brady here – bit of perspective please
The standard shit from us. This team can’t compete in the knockout stages anyway. Carrick and Scholes against Javi Martinez and Schweinsteiger? Barca’s midfield? Real’s? I don’t understand Fergie’s reluctance to strengthen where it’s needed the most.
I guess I am not missing much. Sounds like a copy of games from last year and this is really close to our 1st team.
Really lucky we’re not level. Our sloppiness with the ball could’ve cost us…very much hope we cut out that second half!
Only Carrick would score with a tackle.
Other than that, it doesn’t look like we’ve learned a lot from last season. Get on top of them ffs.
3-0 post hairdryer
boy ur right costas. looks like basel all over again. but im baffled at how we are cnceng so much space in the middle for them to hit us fast.
The midfield needs a better combination of skill, pace and energy. Carrick and Scholes does not work in Europe, maybe for the last half hour, but Carrick/Ando/Cleverley/Fletcher must step up as a formidable duo.
It’s obviously energy and pace catches United out in Europe when talking about the midfield, especially when possession is lost in the midfield from the flanks.
also we are making a habit of sub par first halves. not good.
Let’s start the 2nd half like the1st.
Come on United!!!
What are you guys on about? I can’t remember the last time we were this exciting going forward, so many little through balls and bits of skill, it’s great to watch. The only downside really is Nani! He really is useless at the moment.
thats more like it lads
There’s so much negativity from the fans on here!
Kagawa epitomizes composure in the box.
Kagawa plays so good with Nani, and he likes to play with 2 players near him, so give him the BALL!!
PK PK PK
fuck i cant look
U G LY UGLY UGLY UGLY PK
Thats why i didnt look
can’t believe nani was taking the penalty
WHO THE FUCK TOLD NANI HE CAN TAKE A PENALTY?!!?1 WHAT IS VP THERE FOR?!
nani has been poor . penalty was just ridiculous
Nani…….YOU SUCK
Penalty practice needed asp! FFS
I fucking had the sinking feeling the second Nani stepped up. fkin cunt
do we not know how to put away a penalty anymore. FUCK ME.
Beggars belief Nani was told to take the penaltys
Still not a goal scored from penalty. Pathetic stuff
Wtf Missed 3 pens in 3 games…
people take it easy, he’s not the first to miss this year, so don’t slate him.
Don’t know what’s happening with the PK, but Van Persie should have taken it
Maybe he does the same like the others and scores the goal later
Van Persie and Chicha did it
Galatasary came to play!!!!!!
Hope we don’t regret that miss. We are living dangerously
Think the hairdryer needs fixing.
Pick a guy supposedly low on confidence to take a pen…why?? Maybe I’ve answers red my question but still…
better.
Fuckings assays to cross the ball
theyve hit the post three fucking times. Our defence and midfield needs to step it up we have a BIG run of games coming up. no room for error.
Eboue still an actor I see.
Get the fuck up Eboue you massive fucking whopper.
the sloppyness continues in europe, Galatasary could have scored 4-5 goals by now.
Lost for words .
aaaaaahhhhhhhhh dang it.
Brilliant save degea
DE GEA!!!!!!
If that penalty taking choice was down to Fergie then he should take the blame himself! What the fuck was Nani doing taking that penalty!?
Awesome dave, thank you.
DDG coming up trumps. Awesome saves.
Familiar pattern here unfortunately. Well played DDG
Nani is silly lying on the floor there and they nearly scored.. Second time he hasn’t played to the whistle.. Time to bring on chicharito or danny
Nani doing his best to piss us off.
FLETCHER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fletch lives.
Stop whining on Nani, not like he is the only one sucking tonight. Where is Carrick/Scholes in the 2nd half?
mon the Fletch! Just what we need to gain control of the midfield, if he’s anywhere near his usual play…
Valencia crossing like 1/15, fucking poor…
Great to see you back lad!!!
Only one Darren Fletcher!!!
Kagawa’s covered nearly 10km tonight. I love that STAT.
I’d have taken off one of Kagawa or RVP by now mind. Oh there you go, as I was typing…
Boy, if we cling on to this lead, it’ll be more than a win.
Raphael defending much better tonight then recently apart from being caught out of position in the first half
This is so frustrating we deserved to lose… If this is anything to go by europe will prove to be a struggle again.
Needs sorting asap our style is confusing
Carrick has looked our best player by a mile not just the goal
So confused . Just don’t understand how we are going to compete against the top teams in Europe .
Is our fitness as good as theirs? I remember Bilbao and ajax being fit teams last season. We don’t look like we are full of energy.
Niall Quinn is such an abu cunt!
We need a strong ball-winning yet creative midfielder George. Unfotunately there are no Roy Keanes available.
Chicarito is looking VERY sharp.
Van persie had a nightmare tbh lets hope he is in better form Sunday.He seemed to be isolated for most of the game mainly because Kagawa was doing a lot of running back to midfield to help break up Galatasarys play.Our midfield has once again being exposed which is terribly disappointing especially considering we will have to play a lot better teams than this if we have a hope to win the competition.In my opinion that is not very likely to happen as there are at least 5 teams with a better chance than us.Should have bought Fellaini in the summer.
Nice move. We can play some really flowing football at times, but we’ve not been doing that consistenly for a long time
Johnny Evans has given 2 penalties away . Lucky boy
Nani create more chances than you all whiner. Wtf. He make some mistakes but he DID CREATE more chances than our midfield has!!! Without Nani i dont think we look like scoring! Oh my so freaking greedy….
Sorry also vida
Nonsense !! our fitness is just fine.
Fuck me we made hard work of that!
we deserve to lose is rather strong, but if we drew or lost we would have little to complain about besides the performance. what is going on.
Vidic was the first half penalty.
Nani is just frustrating period
Shit performance, but glad we got 3 points. Better look at themself and fucking shape up for the Liverpool game.
Good result. Mediocre performance. Carrick, Kagawa and Rafael good. RVP, Valencia (suprisingly) and Nani had off days. We need to improve, mostly in midfield. Onwards and upwards boys.
United United United!
they may have played better but we stole the points, oh crafty Devil..
There should have been 5 or 6 penalties in that game.
We were lucky, but i take the three points, overall sloppy finishing and the team defended badly. But we played some great 1-2-1 football at times
September 19, 2012 at 21:36
kel says:
Nani create more chances than you all whiner. Wtf. He make some mistakes but he DID CREATE more chances than our midfield has!!! Without Nani i dont think we look like scoring! Oh my so freaking greedy…
THANK YOU. Nani was in the game involved the most,
In the good and sometiems in the bad, but more good. so shut the fuck up haters. Valencia was the same, he was very good also, faded away later on.
Glad we got 3 points. Our finishing has been piss poor. No worries we will score more goals as we we play more games. Another clean sheet is great work by boys.
Huge sigh of relief. How I’m glad to see the back of these 3 points. Being a United fan these days is a neverending nerve-racking strrugle.
My Sky Go down seen nothing of the game,hows my assessment doing good/bad/rubbish.
Three hard earned points. But that wil do. Need to hold on to the ball more in midfield and control the tempo of the game. Especially at OT. CFR beat Braga didn’t predict that one?
THREE POINTS!!! Overall our mistakes made what should have been a comfortable win very nervy. Lots to be encouraged about really.
Needless to say, we would have thrown a game like this away last season.
We keep saying we have to shape up and do better. But maybe that’s as good as it gets in Europe for us
Boring. Just not a great performance but that’s not unusual for us in the champions league group stage. Scored once and then just left it at that. I have no doubt if Galatasary scored they would have kicked up into gear, but they need to be more ruthless. Oh well, doesn’t matter, three points.
Very lucky tonight. They should have had 3 pens.
Scholes is great coming off the bench, he doesn’t have the legs and our midfield looks slow and easily bypassed, especially when hit on the break at speed.
They closed us down for 90mins, they are not the first team do that, Everton and others have done it. Our fitness has to be questioned. Maybe we are playing the long game. We need legs in the middle, someone who can run and pass.
Europe is going to be a struggle, we are missing something. I put it down to energy and getting on top of the opposition, keeping the pressure on them. We lose the ball and can’t put them under enough to bring out the mistakes and we don’t wear teams down physically like we used to.
why oh why didn’t we sign yaya toure when we had the chance, he can dominate madrid’s midfield yet we can’t dominate galatasaray!! fergie needs to wake up and sign a tiote or m’villa
It wasn’t as bad as many make it sound. We’ve been MUCH worse in Europe, where I’m often wondering at the end of a snorefest where my 90 mins have gone. Here we could have scored 5-6, and were generally sharp. Tightened up defensively as well later on. Fletcher doesn’t look quite there to me yet.
Nani is so polarizing in a match…one moment brilliant another totally daft…he is a genius but totally looses focus easily.
Valencia ran and ran but was poor with his passing and crossing, same with scholes who ran out of gas too quick and i think its cos he played two consecutive games. While good to see fletch why risk the game and not put in anderson? Van Persie was average but Kagawa was excellent but ran out of gas as well. All in all nothings changed in 4 years.
Our mistakes were bad but nowhere near as bad as the ref’s. 4 missed pens for us and 2 for them and countless bullshit fouls and cards. At least he put in a good obstruction there at the end to give us a breather though…
aaaaaand the age old problem returns, midfield can not hack it at the top level. I’ll be happy if we reach the Quarters.
ANd for our team
DeGea: why the fuck he is dropped? TOP CLASS PERFORMANCE 10
Rafael: good attacking good defensive 8,
Evans: 6 he was out of place,
Vidic: 9,5 did nothing wrong,
Evra: 7, veeeery good attacking, defensive wise, improved in the second half
Valencia: 8,5 Very goood both sides, created lot’s of chances, faded away later on, but came back at the end again. Verygood.
Scholes: 7,5, I give him 7.5 because his first half was shite, second better, usual self.
Carrick: 10, Man of the match, good defensively, and scored a goal that led us to win.
Nani: 8, First half was ok, second second best after Carrick, created chances and was involved everywhere, in the good and bad. I give him 8, because he missed the chance, it would have been 8.5.
Kagawa: 8, I give that because he isnt played as much as he should be, assisted the goal, and created very beautiful chances when plays with Nani.
Van Persie: 7, wasn’t involved and it showed when had the ball, we should use him more as a target.
SUBS:
Fletcher: N/A well I won’t rate him, cause this was his first minutes and in a hot place.
Welbeck: 7 Nicely involved, hadn’t that much time, but did something.
Chicharito: 8, played 10/15 minutes, created 3 chances that should have been a goal.
@ AntiScouser
Absolutely correct. We would have lost or tied this last season.
If this is us learning from last season, I shudder to think what would have happened if we didn’t. Gala were unlucky not to get something. It’s an important win, but God we need improvement. The back 5 were very good (other than the penalty incidents), but the midfield is non existant when it comes to recovering the ball. Story of the season.
Nani will get a bollocking for that penalty (why didn’t RVP take it?) and he really looked below zero confidence wise. However, he was out better winger out there. Whereas he created openings for Evra and others, Antonio wasted cross after cross after cross. Both were frustrating tonight. Nani just a bit less.
The missed penalties this season prove the same thing out performances do. We miss the in form Rooney.
Oh fuck off
I forgot @WeAreUnited
Fukme its hard work wotcing us in group stages. We should win the nxt two games comfortably. Think nani gets 2much stick frm alot of United fans. Hes still 1 of our most skilled players and Hernandez was unlucky not 2 score fron through balls frm our number 17. And how fuckn good is it 2 see fletch bk!
what? @colbert?
tell me why, we should stay United, Im’ just laying my opinion, aren’t we supporting the same team?
f u fuckin fag
It was just like last season poor. We look like we have lead boots on, but a win is a win, saying all that I would rather win at Liverpool on Sunday don’t give a fuck about Europe
I sometimes wonder if fergie watches the same game or he just bullshits the media. Is he losing it? Not once mentions the midfield and says they didn’t get a chance in the second half. Degea made 2 cracking saves and they had a head just miss and didn’t they hit the post? Or was that the first half, when they hit the bar as well.That’s off the top of my head.
I’m starting to think he’s stuck in the past, playing Scholes from the start and not fixing a 4 year problem with the central midfield.
Have to say aswel. Fuckin hate the bitter cunt nail Quinn commentating when we play. You would swear the twat wanted them to score!
LOL the players need to stop kidding themselves when they say they’ve learnt their lesson. THIS is what you call learning your lesson? Midfield YET again closed down. I knew Scholes could not keep up with the furious pace. Isn’t it time to move on and inject speed and energy in the middle again? it really is frustrating sometimes.At least we won. last year we might have lost this game so i guess you could call it some sort of improvment. Please just put in a good performance at Liverpool please.
You still here Parryheid?
Any thoughts on De Gea’s performance tonight?
just before the whining orchestra pushes the “panic” button let’s remember: we need 10 points to go through. We got 3 of them tonite. That is the bottom line. In one month, no one will remember what RVP did, or how Valencia crossed. What is, and will be, relevant is that 3 points are in the right column. Kagawa and VP will eventually learn to play together, Nani will return to form and Valencia is still the best in his position. So take a deep breath. It’s going to be a long season. Believe.
Sir Alex Ferguson has now won 100 Champions League games becoming the first ever manager to do so.
Legend!!
first CL game, we won, Galatasaray ain’t no shitty team like some assumes.
We haven’t learned the lesson yet, but Barcelona won only 3-2 against Moscow, so don’t whine, they have Messi.
GOOD JOB ManUtd, wasn’t a top performance, but we did the job and broke the deadlock.
Liverpool will go down.
So I’m with you gexmex!! 100%
parryheid———armchair fan, frigging mouthy tw*t, who doesn’t go.
Match day posters full of themselves
Carrick a 10/10 tonight? Really?
exactly, how many actually attended?
The Gala fans were incredible. They certainly know how to support their team.
In my eyes, and I’m not even a fan of him
this time he played a man of the match performance, assisted forward and interupted the plays, he can’t play 90 perfectly, only MEssi can.
scored the goal, and we won with the goal. I don’t see why not?
he is a very quality player, getting every game better and better.
2 seasons ago, I wrote him off, MISTAKE from me. Last season one of the best players after Valencia.
SO yes. 10/10 performance.
Until Rooney returns, I hope we don’t get any more penalties. Give us a corner kick instead. At least we’ve scored one of those this season.
Keane against Juventus is a 10/10, Carrick being adequate tonight is a 7. Or 8 at most.
Well I’m not reminiscing the old days.
Man of The match performance in my eyes, but if it makes you feel sad, then I give him 9,8
I’m not an expert, but this is my opinion
peace
And look, just if we don’t performe as we should.
I always do the rating based on the game, so watching the tempo of this game and so on, and the action, for me based on this game, he had a 10/10 performance.
peace.
pls man u need strong miefied,creativity,strong defence miefied , also nani should be sold by january is not loking up to espectasion, for last season and this season, so he could be sold thanks you guys for the victory.
@Costas
Rooney has missed a penalty or two himself as well, you know.
Well, I simply can’t accept that!
Just kidding. Fair enough. You’re wrong, but that’s your right. After all, this is America. Oh it isn’t? Alright then.
Let’s hope we have a better game on Sunday boys .
A win is a win but this was truly a shocking performance from what looked a great team. We should beat teams like this, full of European rejects, comfortably. Tonight we were lucky to get away with 3 points but we were due a bit of a luck. They could have had three penalties. I wonder what happened to Valencia tonight? Not a single decent cross. Nani is very lucky boy tonight, I would be surprised if Fergie did not sell him this January. We are playing too slow and we are not making the most of Kagawa and RvP. At times we were too sloppy and needlessly overcomplicated things.
Unlike a couple of times last season, we got a result tonight. I hope lads will learn from this and make us proud this Sunday!
At least the defence is getting better . I thought the back 5 where solid.
@Arthur “Two Sheds” Jackson
Crystal Palace in 2004, Arsenal in 2010, Chelsea in 2011 and Man City in 2012.
No I didn’t know.
It’s obvious that Sir Alex’s formation in Champions League is no longer effective and teams have adapted. United are playing with two rigid banks of four going forward. When one of the wingers goes forward, the full back follows and the shape is quickly exploited because teams will counter at pace. Sir Alex needs to have three midfielders operate as a unit. One center forward and two supporting more narrow (not wingers). Width can come from a supporting full back run.
4-4-2/4-4-1-1 doesn’t cut it anymore. I think a top three of RvP, Rooney and Kagawa can succeed because they move well in and out of space and are intelligent off the ball.
September 19, 2012 at 22:21
Colbert says:
that’s funny hahaha ,
okey no hard feelings mate, and this is not America
hahah is it a 10 for me or a 8 for you, we won.
the important thing we won and carrick played a great game
we have to improve against Liverpool and start dictating the game more!!! we just loose the focus, and against those scousers you can’t do that.
impatient, I want to be sunday so we see the game!
Fact of the matter is, Rooney is our best penalty taker. And it doesn’t look like a lot of work has gone into finding an adequate alternate.
edcunited1878 says
I’ve noticed that too, it can be effective but teams have been used to our formation and it does leave us exploited
This was definitely a disappointing game, and tbh we were very lucky to come away with the win. Not a lt of positives from the game other than Carrick’s goal and build up to it in the first half. We still have not learnt a single thing from last year’s Champion’s League at all. We’re very pedestrian when off the ball, we dont close in or pressure the other teams.. But other team’s work rates seem a lot higher (Everton/Southampton this season, Balbao last season). Disappointing game from Valencia, hes always so consistent. I absolutely love Nani but today he was at this frustrating best. Flashes of brilliance and then messing up the simplest of things.
One thing is for sure, as much as we all love Scholes, he shouldnt be starting in Europe. He needs time on the ball which European teams dont allow him hence the numerous misplaced passes today. I would have loved to see Ando have a go, even if it was just coming off the bench. Anyways 3 points is 3 points, at least we didnt throw the lead away unlike the RentBoys.
Look forward to Anfield on the weekend, would love to see a Clevs/Ando midfield pairing and keeping the rest of the team the same.
#UNITED
Galatasary was the real deal tonight. They are used to dominating possession in their home league. We were lucky to have the post as an extra player tonight. But over all, I saw many encouraging things from us. The most uplifting was the reintroduction of DARREN FLETCHER!!!
I think SAF told Carrick / Scholes to maintain area discipline primarily and let our front four do the attacking. That is why much of the attacks went through Nani. Nani’s decision making ability was center stage tonight and I was not impressed. He had his spotlight and as usual it went to his head. He was good tonight but as usual, when he plays to set up his teammates he plays much better ! The penalty ….do I even need to comment on that?
De Gea…..awesome, awesome, awesome. His shot stopping demoralizes opponents.
Our defense: Jonny Evans starts, Evra was threatening to be exposed for pace and, Vidic could have conceded a penalty. We survived but improvement is needed.
When Carrick and Scholes pass the ball in the final third to each other, they will get caught out when possession is lost; they support each other, when it should be a third player supporting them so they can play centrally, not in a channel. Too many times Carrick and Scholes are forced to pass the ball sideways or into space forward and hope the first touch is adequate to retain possession/United player gets to the space and ball first.
There is no cohesive movement and passing in the middle of the pitch between three central players.
Rvp was ment to take the penalty but Nani grab the ball . Unbelievable
with regard to penalties: What is wrong with just leathering the damn ball? If you’re not confident, if you’re nervous, as Nani clearly was – what makes them resort to tame shots as opposed to saying fuck this I’ll hit it as hard as I can? I simply don’t get it…
Hernandez could have scored three after he came on!!!
He looks like our best striker at the moment. Both teams had penalties that were not given. Valencia could include some new tricks in his game. He always goes outside the defender to get the cross in.
RVP could have been taken off early and Hernandez, Welbz could have been given more play time.
Scholes was found wanting on many situations. Hope he comes back well against Liverpool. Had no idea why Cleverley or Anderson weren’t given a chance.
Rooney better come back soon to atleast put in a shift to give the midfield/defense some bite.
And penalties need to be put away with force. Our strikers seem afraid to hit the ball after getting a penalty.
The combination to the goal and the goal itself was superb. Long it may continue.
bah_humbug @ 21:41: “RVP, Valencia (suprisingly) and Nani had off days.”
I disagree – a bit. RVP and AV7 and TheGingerNinja weren’t at their best; Nani – apart from his appalling attempt at confusing the keeper and flubbing the shot – was just terrific. His passing in the danger area was terrific – if his team-mates had been on-song there could have been some real magic.
For me, however, the best news was the return of DarrenFletcherinho – not at his “football genius” mode but just great to see # 24 running around in something approaching fitness. He’s a key player and his absence has been as significant for UTD as GreatBigHugeYaYa’s was during the winter when he was at the African Cup of Nations. NoFletch/NoWin.
RMJ @ 21:48: “All in all nothings changed in 4 years”
Well, I’ll take that – 2 CL finals and one semi-final in addition to 2 EPL titles and “first-last” on the other two occasions as a result of a MartinAtkinsonMoment in the spring of 2010 and shitty refereeing that cost TheLads five points last year.
WeAreUnited @ 21:51: “Valencia: 8,5 Very goood both sides, created lot’s of chances, faded away later on, but came back at the end again. Verygood.”
Really ? AV7 ran around a lot but his final ball was really shitty, from the start to the end of the match.
AND, Scholes 7.5 ? I’ll take some of that stuff you’re smoking. I’ve admired TheGingerNinja for almost twenty years but, really, he needs to be used judiciously (same goes for SirRyanGiggs). He shouldn’t start more than one match per week – and, really, he should be kept “in reserve” so that he can play flat-out when the game’s on the line and his incredible control/passing come to the fore on a tilted playing-field.
Vivek @ 23:03: “Hernandez could have scored three after he came on!!!”
Agreed. There has been a lot of complaining about how frequently Chicharito is caught off-sides but tonight his movement was tremendous but, alas, his finishing was sub-par. AND, correct me if I’m wrong, but I seem to recall that the through-balls came from the Nani/NinjaEvra axis.
@denton davey, I think you are right and I felt the team played better after he came in. It was as if he provided a outlet to the midfield in the final third with precise positioning.
When RVP was on the pitch, I have no idea why Nani was taking the penalty. And he must understand that he is not Ronaldo mk II. RVP was below par and Rooney’s return can’t come fast enough.
Evra was ok today but he was at fault for passing to Vidic in the opening minutes which could have led to a penalty.
Also I am not sure why were are still worried about the midfield. If the midfield is to create chances for the strikers to score goals, then I would be very happy, since our strikers seems to see plenty of balls and many chances to score.
Welbz is in some great form even though he is not scoring. I would play him every match along with Hernandez/RVP.
I want to see Hernandez/RVP combining with Kagawa. Both are very good at making runs/finding spaces, it would create more opportunities for the players to score with the defence spread out.
Kagawa was good too. But we need to stop focusing on wings too much and have some play concentrated on the middle too.
Midfield got overrun. Surprise Surprise
Midfield getting overrun in Europe and at times in the PL is a case of tactical formation than anything else.
edcunited1878 – I did not see anything wrong with that lineup tonight, we played with 3 midfielders, 2 wingers and a striker who fits the no9 role perfectly. Problem is? maybe scholes and carrick’s level’s drop because of age, esp scholes, this is when we need the likes of cleverly fletcher and sooner or later powel can come in and take the slack off scholes, we add carrick and kagwa is well, there should be the strength to control games. And a midfield 5 of scholes carrick kagwa valencia nani, is quiet an impressive midfield to call on
Didnt watch the entire match but from the highlights, I got the feeling that Galatasaray should have got something from the game. The performance needs to improve and hopefully it will. However, call me a cunt or whatever but I don’t see us progressing far in Europe this time too. Hopefully the lads can prove me wrong.
We need to give enough service to RvP.. we are not using his abilities in the box enough.. frm the Gala game I dont remember a shot on goal frm him…
We are better thn that… C’mon united
Didn’t get to see the game live. Watching it now
Their fans are louder than us. :/
denton davey says:
maybe you’re right, and I give too much to Valnciea,
for me he did his job, but nothing spectacular,
and for scholes well, he played the second half good.
Vivek @ 23:36: “I want to see Hernandez/RVP combining with Kagawa. Both are very good at making runs/finding spaces, it would create more opportunities for the players to score with the defence spread out.”
Where do you fit in TheWayneBoy ? Nani/AV7 ?? or DannyTheLad ???
The fact of the matter is that SAF has a wonderful assortment of attacking options.