Athletic Bilbao vs Manchester United

The Caf: OMG we can't keep the ball, they're so much better than us blah blah

ESPN and BBC Live Text: Possession=50-50.

We were back at OT at keeping the ball but we haven't be bad at all today, blunt admittedly but nowhere near as bad as some have suggested.

Meaningless statistic if you don't consider where the possession was held and what came from it.
 
Are you for real?

When you are being closed down like that you play one touch football to negate it. Think about it!

:wenger:

Are you a silly cnut? Cannot you not actually watch the game and see where our weakness lies. It has nothing to do with attacking, but the mere fact of closing down the opposition in our own half. You stop the fecking flow goals, and 9 times out of 10 you win the fecking game. Especially when you're Manchester United.
 
Kingminger trying to do a Jim Jones on redcafe.
 
We're clearly not arsed about this so I'm not going to be too critical. A wise move to take a hit tonight and focus on the league.

:lol: we clearly are arsed otherwise we would have fielded a different team, they are just a good side and we seem not to be able to play teams that are pressing us
 
Go 4-3-3, take Park and Young off, Hernandez & Welbeck on. Carrick, Giggs & Cleverley in midfield.
 
Chances of Rooney staying up top and not getting involved in the midfield?
 
La Liga isn't only comprsed of the top 2.

I know, they have 2 teams far better than any other side in the PL and a whole bunch of sides that can give us more than a game, like we are watching right now

Top to bottom, La Liga has far more quality. Its not Utd's fault at all by the way.

Its just the way things have happened.

The PL was only ever briefly the number one league in Europe. Its reading too many papers and the likes of Sky who give many fans the impression the PL is the best league in the world
 
Are you a silly cnut? Cannot you not actually watch the game and see where our weakness lies. It has nothing to do with attacking, but the mere fact of closing down the opposition in our own half. You stop the fecking flow goals, and 9 times out of 10 you win the fecking game. Especially when you're Manchester United.

:lol:

What in Gods name are you talking about.

If you are not being given time on the ball, you do not take time on the ball! It is left follows right basic fecking logic you nipple.
 
No changes...

excellent.

maybe Park will morph into Messi and score 5 for us.
 
Not really, I say that as a 'Spanish style' is as likely as me winning the lottery for our team. It simply isn't on Fergie's agenda. A star player is the only thing that'll see us beat teams like this.

Cleverley? Welbeck? Neat, compact players both of whom have come through the youth academy under the tutelage of Rene Meulensteen, we will never play the Spanish style but our retention and ability to deal with pressure will improve in the coming years, stars or no stars.

Sorry if you thought I aimed the comment directly at you.It was more in general, the possession of the ball may be even but the quality of their ball retention pisses all over ours.

No worries, I disagree though our retention has been decent not as good as their's but not as bad as people make out.

Might have something to do with Bilbao holding a comfortable lead. They can afford to let us have the ball.

Doubt they'd abandon their pressing game which has proved so successful against us amongst others, also you still need to keep the ball.
 
lol...competitive?

we haven't looked their equal in the last three halfs of football. What makes you say we can do anything except draw this game?

No I don't. But if we take those three players off we could be On the end of a 4-5 goal hammering and feck knows what that could do to the whole teams confidence.
 
:lol: we clearly are arsed otherwise we would have fielded a different team, they are just a good side and we seem not to be able to play teams that are pressing us
"Not being arsed" is what narrow minded fans convince themselves of so that they could take the defeat a little more easily.
 
This is not a particularly young or inexperienced team.


We need better players in order to compete with the top Spanish teams. We are miles off them.

We've a substantial squad of good players but few truly top players, if any tbh.

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7th best team in Spanish football.Must be an incredible league then.