He's probably not fit enough to play 2 games in 3 days. He's been our for three months and injured on and off for the best part of six months.
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He's probably not fit enough to play 2 games in 3 days. He's been our for three months and injured on and off for the best part of six months.
Adrian Chiles makes me want to vomit. Surely it's time for an ad break already.
Moyes proves once again that he's small time. Bloody idiot. 1 step forward 2 steps back. Uninspiring lineup.
Honestly I'd rather see Smalling pushed to CB and Valencia to RB than throw an inexperienced youngster into central defence away from home in Europe in an atmosphere like this.
Evans, Jones and Rafael all injured... what can he do?
So, his performances really justified him not being played a single a minute for five weeks despite being fit? I´m the first who admits that he is in a lot of ways a shadow of his former self, but in no shape or form was he that bad. His last EPL match vs. Swansea was actually quite good and in the Sunderland fixture he was not worse than the average.
Brian Kerr is an idiot. "Scrappy win against Fulham during the weekend"
Back 4 pretty experienced apart from Smalling he says. Dixon failing to mention that Smalling is now the best defender in that back 4.
Learn..
Pick a youngster
Kagawa has started more games than Young. Nice myth though.
With a bit of luck we'll keep it tight and maybe score a goal, hopefully not concede too many and we will have a twitchy arse second leg back at Old Trafford
My prediction:
1-1 tonight.
2-2 Old Trafford.
That would probably sum our season up to be fair.
I am hoping we can grab a goal or two on the counter, we have loads of work rate in the side. Let's wait and see how good these lot actually are first
Mark Lawrence thinks RVP wants to leave.
If being less than good was a criteria for being dropped, Valencia wouldnt be starting tonight. I'm all for accepting that Kagawa hasnt set the stage on fire but has Valencia? Young?
Who would you have dropped ? Mata or Rooney ?
Because we had two good games, two crappy ones and two which were OK. Nothing special. It shouldn't be like 20 years ago when playing in Europe was so different to playing in the league. Us doing OK in this group should be a given, even with an experienced manager who hasn't had many matches in Europe.
I wish something would hit Chiles and get him off TV.
Let's see how this pans out. I think there'll be a good reason why this team has been picked. We don't really know their full backs, or how they play.
I'd much prefer Carrick at CB than some 17 year old from the academy.
Yes. But nothing at all to do with tracking back.
I'd rather play players in their positions rather than put in experienced players out of position. It's very rare not to see CB on the bench, even inexperienced one.
Yup. Fwiw, I think we'l sneak a 1 goal victory.
With Mata signed and Rooney and RVP back, then yeah, that's where he is in the pecking order. All three have suddenly become available and they walk into the side every time. Welbeck, who has had a better season than Kagawa has had the exact same problem since they have returned as he has hardly featured. Ditto, Hernandez.
Workrate and defensive cover has picked tonight's team, rightly so.
Would love it if Keanes fist hit Chiles. Would not be surprised either, the way Keane looks at him sometimes...well if it was me I would be shitting myself.
He's been peddling that one for months since he said it and the same day Van Persie spoke of how happy he was here.
It's hardly like Fergie set the world alight in the group stages either. All I'm saying is he's managed to get the results in Europe and I'm not going to pass judgement on the team until we see how the game is going.
I've not once said we've been excellent but Moyes has clearly had a grasp on these games, 14 points from a European group is a good result.
Its a European away. Why are people moaning?
It is supposed to be boring where we defend and try to nick a goal..
Anything better would be a bonus
It is supposed to be boring where we defend and try to nick a goal..
Anything better would be a bonus
GasNeville?
Moyes - "We need to play compact and be hard to score against"
Boring game incoming with lots of defensive play, grab a goal on the break maybe.
Boring game incoming with lots of defensive play, grab a goal on the break maybe.
Fergie's one and only trouble in the group matches was simply not taking them seriously enough. Moyes hasn't done that. Problem solved.
He wants to be hard to play against. David moyes for you ladies and gentlemen. The sooner this clown is gone, the better.
I call bullshit.
Sorry you keep peddling that crap but we were excellent against Leverkusen who in that game needed to beat us to keep their chances alive. It was away from home against the team who were 2nd in the bundesliga at the time. That was an excellent performance.
Pictures of our European winning teams celebrating and picking up the trophy. Followed by a couple of worried looking players and a close up of David Moyes.
Would be so funny if he did smack Chiles.
Park the bus talk before a ball is even kicked. Hopefully the players prove that to be wrong though.
Yeah, because we know nothing else, which is sad. Funnily enough, all five knock out matches so far ended with away wins, some of them every big.
That will be nice for a change.
It's far too sensible to watch a game before deciding how people have performed.
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