[mav_9me]

Mata has been poor too.

 

[El-Manos]

Mata having a stinker today.

 

[Skills]

We should press their keeper and centre halves even more aggressively. They're dreadful on the ball.

 

[The Stain]

Decent half but we're just not looking as organized in the 3-5-2. Just the way it is.

 

[Kant-ona]

The whole match looks like a provisional arrangement.

 

[Snow]

Good to be 1-0 up. Good that Memphis scored. Generally not the best game. Can't say anyone has had a specially good one. Lots of mistakes from both sides and very little urgency. Might change as the clock ticks on.

 

[roykeane19]

Mata hasnt been very good today at all

 

[Ibi Dreams]

Memphis has definitely improved, but what are those chops about?

 

[DevilRed]

Great first 15 minutes or so. We actually looked to cross the ball in the box and hit first time balls. Then it all petered off when Herrera got injured. Now we're stuck in this abomination of a 5-3-2 formation again.

Hopefully we keep the clean sheet and get away with the 3 points. That's all im realistically asking for.

 

[Mutter Merkel]

3.5.2 is crippling our attack. We can't get the overlap fast enough because the wingbacks can't get there. Why are we playing 3.5.2?

 

[nachomuska]

Turn to shit at the moment LVG change the formation. BFS and Mata are having a poor game IMO.
We need Pereira to come in

 

[amolbhatia50k]

So how exactly have we changed it post-Herrera? We seem to have be playing Blind and Young as wingbacks? That seems to be leaving Schweinsteiger and Schneiderlin isolated in the middle.

 

[WyoManU]

Mata is mostly a useless passenger again.

 

[dsch]

Gomes is the reincarnation of Taibi.

Gomes is the reincarnation of Gomes. Remember when he was at Spurs?

 

[Rooney in Paris]

Schweinsteiger and Mata should be bossing games like this, they've been mediocre. Good goal by Memphis, and we had a good start, but since Herrera's been taken off and the change of system, we've been meh and keep making sloppy mistakes.

I like the workrate provided by Schneiderlin in midfield though.

 

[Hammerfell]

This is going exactly as I expected it to, apart from us actually scoring a goal.

 

[Kag]

Wind is spoiling the game.

That said, we've been poor since we scored.

 

[Godfather]

Mata having a stinker today.

Yup. Again.

 

[Someone]

Don't see the need for 3-5-2 at all, we were playing well and had other options, not a time for any drastic changes.

 

[Ainu]

Very sloppy half. Passing percentages for both teams can't be great this game.

 

[acnumber9]

We were playing well. I like the fluidity we had up top. Then the uneccessarily convoluted sub ruined it.

 

[Wade3]

If Mata had some more precision on his passes, we could be up 2-0. Very uncharacteristic for him. Memphis and Lingard have done well, Schweinsteiger und Schneiderlin are disruptive in midfield, but also tend to give the ball away too often.

 

[Hed Zitin]

Not bad. The front two lads have done well. CM is winning the ball. CB's have met everything.

I think we'd be doing better if we had just put on Pereira instead of changing the formation.

 

[Skills]

Holy shit, I just realised their keeper is Heurelho Gomes.

Didn't Spurs pay a record fee for him once?

 

[Maradona10]

I would take a similar second half and the game 1-0. We have been solid, i hope we see goss/rashford in second half.

 

[KM]

Think the wind is playing a role in the poor passing by the players.

 

[Adam-Utd]

The injury to Herrera has messed up our momentum but we are by far the better team, ideally we should go back to 442 and put darmian on rb and push young to right wing, the movement was killing them. Happy With that half though, schneiderlin has been fantastic

 

[dsch]

So how exactly have we changed it post-Herrera? We seem to have be playing Blind and Young as wingbacks? That seems to be leaving Schweinsteiger and Schneiderlin isolated in the middle.

Yeah, we've lost the ball quite a few times in central midfield.

 

[Wade3]

Very sloppy half. Passing percentages for both teams can't be great this game.

To be fair, both teams are very disruptive with their play.

 

[Dec9003]

No worries, take your time.

 

[kouroux]

What has happened to Bastian ? He seems to be such an ordinary player.

 

[Irrational.]

Lingard, Mata & Schweinsteiger have all been poor today.

Hopefully we manage to grab another goal or two after the break and give some minutes to Rashford/ Goss/ Pereira. Can't see it happening though, since we're lacking pace and incisiveness in the final third.

 

[Adisa]

Baste and Mata have been very very bad. We have stunk since we went 352.

 

[fishfingers15]

Shut up about the 3 5 2 already FFS

 

[Organic Potatoes]

Damn...Herrera was on his way to being MOTM.

I might suggest getting Pereira on for Mata...

 

[Kag]

The Lingard praise is a little odd. His work rate has been good but he's struggled to complete a pass.

 

[Hammerfell]

Think the wind is playing a role in the poor passing by the players.

I live nearish to Watford and it's going mad here, can't be fun.

 

[Irrational.]

Gomes is the reincarnation of Gomes. Remember when he was at Spurs?

I remember very well.

A blend of brilliance and sloppiness.

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

It's not bad but we've certainly lost a lot since taking Herrera off. He was having a very good game...

 

[space]

Think we've done alright