Manchester United vs. Liverpool

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I don't watch you guys that often, but watching you now, mata, Rvp, Januzaj and Rooney are all wonderful footballers - but can they play together? The shape just doesn't seem to work, especially with mata on the side

It doesn't work. We end up playing both Rooney and Mata out of their best position and all as a four there's no pace at all.
 
I don't have a lot by way of hope now, I know there's more than a half left to play but on the evidence of the the rest of our season it looks grim and we'll be lucky if it doesn't end with a proper hiding or a sending off for us.
 
Rafael was unlucky there, was putting his arm to his body when the ball struck him.
Clear penalty, Rafael imo unlucky there and wasn't a booking as it wasn't intentional. Hand wasn't going out to the ball.

I do agree with this - I'm just not sure he is calm enough to handle the rest of the game and them targeting him to get the second yellow. We were lucky in the sense that you do see players carded for unintentional hand balls.
 
People seriously think Rafael should've gotten a yellow for that unlucky handball?

Exactly. Every tried changing direction on the run without using your arms to balance? He'd have fallen flat on his face if he kept his arms down.
 
If you lack pace, then it's vital that you keep a lot of possession in the final third. We can't do that so no wonder we look clueless going forward. We can't counter and we can't keep possession in their third.
 
I am very confused. We have 3 number 10s yet nobody is in the middle. Then we decide to go wide nobody is out there. Where are all our players going?
 
Rogers has got his tactics spot on!!

Can Moyes find a way to change this round? I doubt it.
Thats it, we're getting murdered out wide and through the middle but hes kept it the same. Put play a 5 in the middle with Rooney on the left
 
People seriously think Rafael should've gotten a yellow for that unlucky handball?
Desperately unlucky that he deliberately moved his arm towards it. Moronic defending, he's one of very few players who give us a bit of pace and energy but unfortunately he's an idiot a lot of the time.
 
At this point I regardless of who is on the pitch it's really meaningless.

The tactics and the way we generally play, move and attack are just useless.

Play for the cross when you have the ball..that's it.
 
It really is frustrating to watch Liverpool knock the ball about with intent and moving the ball quickly, just for us to get it and stand on it before even thinking about going forward
 
In nearly 30 years of supporting this club I can honestly say that I don't ever remember us looking so consistently poor and clueless as we have this season.
 
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