[RedDevilRoshi]

M.E.N. ratings gentlemen. Not mine, so don't shoot the messenger.

18:02KEY EVENT
Half time ratings
De Gea

Denied Hazard’s first effort. 6

Valencia

Nondescript again. 5

Jones

Shambolic. 2

Smalling

Losing duel with Giroud. 5

Young

Probing but seldom succeeding. 6

Matic

Languid. 5

Herrera

Best outfield player. 6

Pogba

On the fringes. 5

Lingard

Busy but ineffectual. 5

Sanchez

Energetic but blunt. 5

Rashford

Could easily be subbed at half-time. 3

They must be watching a different game if they think Herrera has been our best outfield player!

 

[Cassidy]

What else are we doing? What else have we tried to do this season? It's the way we play.

Hence I have no idea what the feck Jose is doing

 

[NinjaZombie]

People talking about Rashford, yeah he's been terrible, but Antonio Valencia is a senior member of the club who's been at United for years and all he does nowadays is jump around a bit on the ball and pass it back to whoever passed him the ball.

No overlapping runs, no quick one twos, no interplays in and around the box. All we are doing is passing it from left to right and from right to left. Horrid.

 

[JoaquinJoaquin]

How many times have we said about the Jones and Smalling combination? Absolute madness not playing Bailly.

 

[iam_kramer]

I hope this doesn't become one of those performances from us. But it is looking like it at the minute, really poor so far. Our players don't look forward enough, all coming back as shearer is saying now.

 

[MrMarcello]

Maybe Jose should have tried Martial as the striker since Lukaku isn't 100%. He has the better instincts for that role imho.

Hmm... might be worth a shout in the second half. I think Martial-Sanchez movement left/centrally could perhaps unlock Chelsea's 8-man back line.

 

[El Zoido]

Hopefully we can do another second half turnaround. It’s been dire so far. This team is so poor.

 

[marktan]

People criticise Pogba.. that run shows his class. It's the dross up front that stifles us.. Lingard and Rashford have been non-existant, and Rashford has been absolutely terrible as he usually is.

Our full backs are terrible as well.

 

[Minimalist]

Real good fun listening to the MOTD pundits basically laughing at us for how shite we are.

 

[gr3yham3]

Why are people blaming jose? Chelsea have offered nothing bar the brainfart from Jones for the penalty. If not for Rashford, we could easily be level at half time too.

 

[mav_9me]

This is what I was afraid of. The way we have been playing for the last few games for me was a portender of today. Same for Chelsea and you can see it today.

Both teams are playing absolute shit.

 

[Adam-Utd]

Our attack just look painfully rubbish. Sanchez can't stay on his feet and Rashford is having a shocker.

Matic / Pogba are having good games, Herrera looks a bit lost.

Valencia is shite and young only crosses to the back post, just meh.

 

[Nikelesh Reddy]

Bailly on Herrera off.

352

Rashford
Sanchez
Young Pogba Lingard Valencia
Matic
Jones Smalling Bailly
De Gea

Maybe Lukaku on for Rashford too.

Lukaku has to come on for Rashford,Rashfords just been hopeless.If Lukakus fit enough to be on the bench,he's fit enough to play 45 odd minutes....

 

[DomesticTadpole]

There's a reason big club fancy taking Martial off our hands and nobody is wetting themselves to get Rashford.

 

[Stadjer]

Agree. That last bit of play we'd see more of with better player around him...

Yeah, nobody else in the team could make those runs yet people want him to be sold...

 

[minoo-utd]

We need back four a midfielder and attacker. So many shit players we have in this team.

 

[Gbenger]

In what universe Rashford is better than Martial

In the universe where running a lot hopelessly and being a local lad are greater attributes than superb close control or dribbling skills, clinical finishing, and excellent technical ability.

 

[Bubz27]

Hasn't rashford made about 100 odd appearances under jose

Numbers don't matter, apparently.

The Rashford apologists in the media are amazing. He can not lose.

Linekar has tried to speak some sense and gets shut down by Shearer and Wright.

 

[Skills]

Hence I have no idea what the feck Jose is doing

I don't think he has a clue what he's doing himself.

 

[GloryHunter07]

It absolutely baffles me that the BBC cannot get commentators that know the rules of the game. Keown kept saying Jones was lucky not to get a red. Is the job that hard Martin?

 

[Donnie Brasco]

The blame is on Mourinho for picking him when it was obvious this would happen (because it happens every time Rashford plays as a striker).

Which we all knew would happen with Jones and Smalling. Jose should get sacked for starting Jones in this game.

 

[An Irish Red]

Personally, I’m amazed that Rashford looks mentally destroyed mere weeks after his manager blew his already brittle confidence to smithereens.

It's not confidence that he lacks, it's ability. He's overconfident if anything e.g. shooting from ridiculous distances, taking set pieces etc.

 

[Bojan11]

Rashford and Lingard leading our line up.

Whilst Smalling and Jones in defence.

This is our issue.

 

[drdoityourself]

Rashford has been woeful and what has Lingard done except needless fouls and going bananas every five minutes at the ref. His month of glory early in this season has just completely taken the heat off him. The truth is he isn't contributing nearly enough in attack.

 

[cj_sparky]

We are awful.

We look devoid of ideas, I often wonder if we actually do any attacking preparations in training.

Our players seem frightened to make a forward pass. Pogba's pirouette summed this up.

 

[Maradona10]

Rashford needs to feck off to the championship. Always has been a championship level player. This academy nonsense and pressure to keep rashford is fecking us up. It will cost us martial, he must think he would do much better than this idiot.

 

[Morpheus 7]

Martial couldn't have been any worse today up front, even the most critical people of him can't argue that.

 

[redom]

They could put Courtois up front and we still wouldn't score playing like this, the quality you would hope for in the final third is completely absent.

 

[donkeyfish]

Nice highlights from BBC on Rashford. Absolutely no sense of where to run.

Mourinho shouted 'run in behind' to him I think on footage during that half.

 

[Stadjer]

Phil Jones has been here since 2011. This depresses me more than the scoreline.

tbf he has only been fit 50% of that time so we dont see him play that often...

 

[Ace of Spades]

No one is playing well, agenda driven posters will pick certain players, but not a single one of them has been good.

 

[mitchmouse]

we haven't yet given giroud the free header we always do, whether he's playing for chelsea or arseanl

 

[bosnian_red]

You are talking nonsense. We are losing because of individual mistake by Jones. Chelsea have actually parked an armoured tank in this game.

Nonsense? Chelsea is fecking trash this season. They are outplaying us and have looked better all game. Mourinhos tactics is always ease into the game, keep it safe, keep it tight, have a slow game and kill momentum. That's his trade mark. That's also exactly the way to give an opposition who is low on confidence a huge boost and let the other team build into the game.

 

[simonhch]

About what I think as well.

Far from lost, been an even game with one critical mistake.

I even think we’ve been much the better team. One mistake at the back, and a poor final ball is what’s cost us.

Rashford should’ve equalised at the death too. I’d be surprised to see him come out for the second half.

 

[Vidyoyo]

Bit negative in here. We've been the better team by far.

 

[careca07]

Been saying this for months and months now, we are a painfully average side and need an enormous injection of cash (about five or six players and get rid of the same amount) to get anywhere near City and be competitive in the champs league.

I was a massive Mourinho fan and wanted him here but I’m not convinced anymore that he’s the man to be given the money. If he is desperate for Fellaini for example to be kept then he is clueless

We have been abysmal since fergie, mainly because the moyes appointment is one of the most disastrous sporting and business decisions in modern history

 

[Dobba]

It absolutely baffles me that the BBC cannot get commentators that know the rules of the game. Keown kept saying Jones was lucky not to get a red. Is the job that hard Martin?

To be fair to Keown, he still hasn't got to grips with fire yet.

 

[WelshManc]

It's an unpopular opinion no doubt but Rashford is so fecking overrated, take him off and get Lukaku on as soon as possible.

 

[Canagel]

Hazard and Giroud are occupying our entire back 4 and Herrera. We are a coward team under Mourinho. Will never change.

 

[Hellboy]

No one is playing well, agenda driven posters will pick certain players, but not a single one of them has been good.

Rashford has been the worst though in attack, that you can't deny. garbage

 

[shamans]

Any Jones Smalling apologists still want to defend them?

We will never be a force if we have this back 4 play for us regularly.

Doesn't matter. They will keep few clean sheets in boring games and they will be world class again

 

[Oscie]

Personally, I’m amazed that Rashford looks mentally destroyed mere weeks after his manager blew his already brittle confidence to smithereens.

The problem there isn't Mourinho's comments it's the fact you're playing up front for Manchester United and have brittle confidence.

 

[Drainy]

Having watched Rashford since he was a kid. He was forced to learn positional disciple at age 16 when he was instructed to learn how to play close to the goal, he seems to have unlearned this and needs a kick up the arse.