First 20 minutes was good. Giggs hit the bar, and we stopped playing well. Need more width.
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0 chances created and don't look like creating any either.
He's not had a good year and a half
Well that was shit.
Horrible game.
Poor performance. Hope we pick it up in the second. Only Berbatov has looked on his game from an attacking perspective. Our full backs need to work harder to join the attack.
Poor performance. Hope we pick it up in the second. Only Berbatov has looked on his game from an attacking perspective. Our full backs need to work harder to join the attack.
Teams do that all the time at OT. We're capable of playing good football against teams that spoil.
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What is this second half you speak of? I thought the game was over?
Absolutely terrible first half. No fluidity in the passing. Formation looks disjointed as well.
Wonder who the scapegoat is?
Scapegoat or you think he has offered or will offer more than Anderson/Carrick if we move to a more 4-4-2 in the second half.
Obertan
Might need to make a change for the second half if we want to win the match.
Gibson has been invisible, in saying that Rooney has also been poor!!
Gibson has been invisible, in saying that Rooney has also been poor!!
Shockingly ignorant statement.
United need width and movement. Bring on Obertan instead of Gibson, move Giggs to left and play Rooney behind Berba.
Modric?
never has been his style to change things at half-time , but this is one game he should.
OFF: Gibson
IN: Kuszczak or Neville or J.Evans or Fletcher or Obertan or Hernandez or Macheda
IN: Kuszczak or Neville or J.Evans or Fletcher or Obertan or Hernandez or Macheda
Ditto.
There is too big a gap between our back 6 and front 4, we can't sustain pressure as we can't win the ball back high up the pitch once a move breaks down, we need the back four to step up 10 yards.
What a bizarre post. Cut Gibson slack for playing out of position but have a pop at Rooney when he is stuck out wide.
Mental
A slow first half, but we usually improve once we have a feel for the game.
Gibson wasn't giving the ball away as much as Anderson, but he isn't making things happen either.
I'd leave it for a while. This is a game where we just need to nick even a flukey goal. Giggs' cross effort would've been perfect.
Gibson wasn't giving the ball away as much as Anderson, but he isn't making things happen either.
I'd leave it for a while. This is a game where we just need to nick even a flukey goal. Giggs' cross effort would've been perfect.
Why the feck have we moved Anderson further forwards in order to bring in Gibson, when Gibson's best position is the one Anderson's now playing in?
Gibson must just be some kind of practical joke? There's no other explanation for him. He's lost the ball three times from VDS throw outs, because he wasn't paying attention when the ball came to him. I mean for feck sake.
Gibson must just be some kind of practical joke? There's no other explanation for him. He's lost the ball three times from VDS throw outs, because he wasn't paying attention when the ball came to him. I mean for feck sake.
The three in midfield have been outhustled by Brum. Need to freshen things up with a change. I would take Gibson out, put giggs in the middle and Obertan out wide.
SAF has got the team formation wrong - we lack width and Rooney is wasted out wide and Berba up front on his own.
Sheep following the heard.
Carrick's played fine. As usual, the people who are criticising have no fecking clue.
The problem has been the offensive players - Giggs, Anderson and Rooney all really poor.
The problem has been the offensive players - Giggs, Anderson and Rooney all really poor.
they are preventing us from playing, which makes sense. They had some freekick opportunities which is their best hope.
Good tactics by McLeish.
We really do miss Nani.
Giggs looks the most lively. Rooney needs to be further up. Anderson has been kept quiet...
Need to push up more...
I'll echo those who would like to see some width (i.e. Obertan)
I`m not panicking. But looking at our away record, one in seven?, and the way we played the first 45....its hard to be confident.
Unfortunately hes not a funny one.
Need to get a grip on the midfield. Birmingham, the negative cnuts that they are (though it's the only way they'll get anything out the game), are making it impossible for us to play.
Some absolutely embarrassing mongishness on here. Good night.
Gibson does make me chuckle. I wish him all the best always but sometimes I do wonder how he gets games for us.
why change the keeper ????
still doesn't mean he's excused
Fletcher can get himself in a position to cross. Gibson doesn't have the skill or pace to create space. Fletch isn't blazingly fast, but he's faster than a speeding glacier. The chance to cross has to come to Gibson. He can't create one.
He's out of position so he can't be expected to create lots of crosses, but he's offered very little if anything. He sat on the ball and watched Rafael fly down the wing in acres of space.
Rooneys first touch so far is reminding me of Bebe's.
Where's Nani?
We can get a result, B'ham have yet to pressure us really. We just need to get our game on a bit. We will improve in the second half and win the game.