We weren't completely awful; Fletcher looks pretty confident and they're all working their balls off.
Manchester United F.C. vs. Swansea City A.F.C.
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We don't have players capable of advancing with the ball and we simply never have any passing options on. It's bonkers
Close down, tackle... please 
Kagawa not strong enough for the middle. He also slows the game down too.
I said before, referees revenge.
Just another team playing us off the park
no goal threat at all in our team.
welbeck, yeah he can pop up with one or two sometimes and januzaj is still young.
but kagawa is too afraid to shoot, while valencia is pure valencia. carrick and fletcher, you just don't expect them to be on the edge of the penalty box after all.
it will be a pleasant surprise if we can get a goal in the next 45 minutes.
welbeck, yeah he can pop up with one or two sometimes and januzaj is still young.
but kagawa is too afraid to shoot, while valencia is pure valencia. carrick and fletcher, you just don't expect them to be on the edge of the penalty box after all.
it will be a pleasant surprise if we can get a goal in the next 45 minutes.
All Epileptics are retards then?
Embarrassing, but you look out there and you see SEVEN players in our side that are on the decline as footballers and then it makes sense.
If only the transfer window was open and we could help our squad issues out.
Can anyone remember us playing worse than this in the last 3 decades? This is lower-league stuff, but at least they try.
Would be a red on the continent most of the time. In the EPL on the verge to it.
Making Swansea look like Barcelona out there. We have no clue how to properly press them. They are passing rings around us. On the other hand we still look disjointed and unable to fashion too many chances in open play. Welbecks one was as good as it gets but somehow he missed.
Danny and Januzaj are running hard and Fletcher has ddi some solid work on the ball in midfield, but overall another lackluster performance.
Facts are that if we want to become a top team in England and Europe again, the cash needs to flow.
This is setting up a dramatic finish with a late winner...for Swansea.
Never a red card, shut up.
We played like utter cnuts, no urgency, no closing down other than in rare bursts and simply no tempo or movement to create passing opportunities. Sort it out, getting tired of this utter shit. Swansea look like they have at least 2 more men on the field which about sums it all up.
We played like utter cnuts, no urgency, no closing down other than in rare bursts and simply no tempo or movement to create passing opportunities. Sort it out, getting tired of this utter shit. Swansea look like they have at least 2 more men on the field which about sums it all up.
That was a dismal half. Basically being bossed about in the game, with Swansea in full control and at times just going through out midfield/defence far to easily. We really need to pick things up in the second half, other wise it is only a matter of time before we go behind.
We've played badly in the first half before, but then Fergie magic (i.e. bloody good rollicking) transformed the side.
If David Moyes has half of Fergie's motivational skills, he'll do the same during half time.
If David Moyes has half of Fergie's motivational skills, he'll do the same during half time.
That's a ridiculously good and accurate
analogy.Good to see we manage to make it hard for Swansea
Could someone teach Kagawa to actually pressure the man with the ball. Standing 12 feet away from him isn't doing it.
We do know that defending means more than just standing around the penalty area right? We just let teams pass right up to the point without any pressure on them.
Saw the last 10 minutes of the half.. It wasnt terrible.. Not great either.
Chico should be starting when Rooney and van Persie are out. We need a presence up front.. Welbeck isnt the lead striker.. You could say the same for Rooney and Robin as well, but they are better up top when they are alone.
We'll win.
Chico should be starting when Rooney and van Persie are out. We need a presence up front.. Welbeck isnt the lead striker.. You could say the same for Rooney and Robin as well, but they are better up top when they are alone.
We'll win.
As much as it sticks in my throat to say this, its clear what we're missing: Fellaini.
If our tactic is simply to sit back and hit long balls forward its clear we need a target. Smacking it forward and hoping for the likes of Welbeck, Januzaj, Kagawa or Valencia to hold off the challenges until the cavalry arrives is hopeful at best. No, this approach needs the good old fashioned big man in the final third to win the knock downs.
Best chest in the league. 'That's what they tell me'.
It has another home loss wirtten all over it imo
Disappointing really. Just 34% possession which is terrible. We've let them keep the ball for long periods, time wasting in their own half while we sit off. A pressing game would force them into making mistakes and giving it back to us. Otherwise their retention of the ball has been superior across the pitch.
We're too slow when we get in their half and any sight of their penalty box makes us clueless. There are gaps and opportunities to exploit if we can pick better passes and make runs. From midfield to attack we're lacking that spark, as usual. Get Januzaj and Kagawa on the ball more.
We're too slow when we get in their half and any sight of their penalty box makes us clueless. There are gaps and opportunities to exploit if we can pick better passes and make runs. From midfield to attack we're lacking that spark, as usual. Get Januzaj and Kagawa on the ball more.
Okay ese.
Is Moyes actually instructing the team to play with no tempo or intensity whatsoever? It's got little to do with the squad he inherited anyhow.
Fletcher made his first challenge of the game. Then got fouled.
Awful half, slow, static shit football as most predicted. As bad as Cleverley played against Sunderland at least he offers something. Sub fletcher for Cleverley, that will give us some more movement/aggression in the middle.
Get Kagawa in the number 10 role and keep him there.
Switch Rafael with Valencia (assuming we have no proper winger on the bench?)
Awful half, slow, static shit football as most predicted. As bad as Cleverley played against Sunderland at least he offers something. Sub fletcher for Cleverley, that will give us some more movement/aggression in the middle.
Get Kagawa in the number 10 role and keep him there.
Switch Rafael with Valencia (assuming we have no proper winger on the bench?)
Seriously, we look like a team that do not know how to pass the ball. We keep giving the ball back and not doing much in pressing them. We need to wake up in the second half.
Moyes' football makes me want to kill myself. Swansea are making us look like relegation fodder.
At least Moyes has his customary refereeing decision to moan about now though.
At least Moyes has his customary refereeing decision to moan about now though.
Close down, tackle... please
What annoys me is that every United player gives the opposition player about six feet of space to play the ball
Its pretty poor. Swansea defenders playing with the ball just short of the halfway line. We should be pressing the shite out of them when that happens.
At least we are all together in this horrible sea of shitness
take Kagawa out...put Lindgard in.
We have two major problems. Players who love to run with the ball, take too many touches but also because they don't have many passing options to them and players who are just too afraid to try adventurous passing and prefer to play it back.
City had the exact same possession at their game at the Etihad earlier this year. Swansea do this to most teams
We just have no pace in midfield.
Kagawa for example initiated possibly the slowest counter attack in the history of Man Utd.
Kagawa for example initiated possibly the slowest counter attack in the history of Man Utd.
Even against City at the Etihad and Chelsea at the Bridge Swansea had more possession, that's no big deal. It's that when we do get on the ball there's nothing happening. Every now and then you think "Kagawa's doing nothing", but then when you spend the next 5 minutes keeping an eye out for him you see him making himself available for a pass constantly but we're content to pass it around pointlessly.
They were swapped 30 mins in. Kagawa is playing in the centre.
I suspect some of the players aren't trying their best. Which in itself is disgraceful.
I am. Sky will massage numbers to make a story more dramatic. They're like a tabloid in that regard.
We are turning into RAWK
(I know you're not serious.)
Also, it was never a red
Also we've had the best chances despite being poor.
Swansea with possession but no real threat.
No. I meant retarded as well as epileptic.
While that did make me laugh, it's actually true. We look absolutely clueless, I'm absolutely dumbfounded.
They must have forgot to put a new calender up on the wall. I'm looking forward to Christmas.
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