Rooney's being rested as a precaution as he has a few little strains, I'd rather have him miss this than play and potentially tear something.
Manchester United vs. Blackburn Rovers
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shouldn't be making hard work of this, no chance we see the youth in the 2nd half, we have to chase the game.
Booking two Utd players for their only foul and allowing Blackburn players to jump into tackles with no talking to including their left back hauling down a player on the edge of the box who was in behind him, talking to Samba about the keeper's time wasting then doing nothing when he continues to do it. He's been shite.
Except there's no player on the bench who might actually make a difference. Unless you count Anderson who hasn't played in ages.
Leaving out Giggs and Rooney is baffling.
I know the rules, and that was never a penalty. Stop whining about how the ref's against us, and Blackburn are game raising cnuts, and just support the bloody team
Fabio can play CM decently. I'm not sure I've seen Rafael do it. He hasn't today.
Ah. Good old Scholesy.
Agreed... But he still needs to put in some more movement for me.
How can no one see. Rafael is useless in midfield. Nani's wasted 9/10 passes/crosses. Those would be the 2 changes /rotations. Berba needs to drop in the hole, Nani needs to not play in the middle and generally less. Rafael needs to be subbed
there's no point picking out people username by username. just saying some of the comments themselves are awful.
Fergie has fecked up big time with the selection.
So he chooses a Brazilian fullback in central midfield over a natural CM in Pogba? The very same player that Fergie himself said needed games if he was going to commit to the club.
Madness.
So he chooses a Brazilian fullback in central midfield over a natural CM in Pogba? The very same player that Fergie himself said needed games if he was going to commit to the club.
Madness.
Maybe Hernandez off, Anderson on?
Move Rafael to right back, put Valencia on the right, Nani on the left, with Berbatov and Welbeck up top.
Move Rafael to right back, put Valencia on the right, Nani on the left, with Berbatov and Welbeck up top.
He wouldn't tear anything on the bench. But we'd still have quality back-up, if only for the last 20 minutes or so.
Remember in the FA cup vs Arsenal ?
If you know the rules you should know that you're not allowed to hold the opposition player's shirt.
60% of the Caf think he would ba great defender.
They were bookings. Frst challenges or not they were both bookings.
That was MR no?
I agree, we're playing like its a practise match. Expect us to come out with a bit of determination and pace in the second half and if we do I reckon we'll tear them apart.
I'm going for 3-1
But half the players are not in their natural position.
I can see why we're fecking up here - players aren't comfortable in the roles selected. Welbeck out wide - not working. Park and Rafael in central midfield - not working.
Blackburn are offering nothing up front, so why not move Carrick into midfield for Rafael? Get Anderson on alongside him. Get Park out wide left and haul one of the strikers off.
It'd be a much better balance.
I'm struggling to be positive here and that's unusual. Can't see us fashioning anything. This is worse than the Basel game.
You're supporting the wrong team mate...
Shit 1st half, but boo?
I think he was commenting on the supporters in the ground booing, rather than booing himself.
I might be wrong though.
Winger.
Yeah, and Cleverley and Vidic.
because they are injured, but Rooney isn't.
Yep. And they were booing the ref.
You clearly don't or you wouldn't be banging on about whether he was in control of the ball.
Oddly enough it is possible to support the team, but still criticise the ref. That's what I'm chosing to do.
To be honest I don't think Blackburn are particularly guilty of "game raising", they're about as shit as ever.
Fryers on please. Carrick into midfield with Park, Rafael to right back and Nani/Valencia on the wings.
If Carrick's was a booking every single foul is a yellow card. For some reason rugby tackling somebody on the edge of the box wasn't a foul.
I agree. All of our worst performances have been against teams parking the bus. We seem to really struggle to break down defensive minded teams.
On another note, did anyone else's stream just have some woman analysing Giggs's signature and drawing? Absurd half time feature.
If he came on there's still a risk of exacerbating the injury, we have the players on the pitch to beat Blackburn IMO, Giggs should be in the squad but other than that it's fine. I think Macheda and Gibson aren't involved due to pending loans/moves, that's my hunch anyway.
Our easiest game of the season and we're fecking up like this
Chicharito's first touch is frustrating.He's so inconsistent at that aspect of the game.It ruins him from having great chances
Wasn't that when Rafael and Fabio played right and left wing?
First few minutes of the second half crucial now, will be continue like we did at the end of the first half or go back to playing pretty slow. Hopefully we will continue as we finished the first half
Early in the second half I believe. But then he'll give us one as usual too when Park stumbles in their box after being hit by a strong pass from Valencia.
Ferdinand, Smalling, Vidic, Evans, Fabio, Fletcher, Cleverley, Giggs, Gibson, Rooney, Owen.
This is who we are missing folks. Take notice
This is who we are missing folks. Take notice