Jose : "They are not the last wonder of the world like you say they are"

If the game would have been over after 60 minutes, I would agree with that. Especially the first 40 minutes were very well exectued pressing.

In the last 30 minutes you invited them in, though, and not only do I believe that on a really good day they could have really turned the heat on, you were saved twice by your world class GK, which is certainly not a compliment to Mourinho´s tactics.

Any decent keeper would have made those saves. First one was a weak shot and the second he made a meal of it by going with the wrong hand. No keeper should let a shot in from that distance at that height.
 
Funny watching as a Chelsea fan. Mourinho did this very same thing dozens of times probably and you guys slaughtered him for it. "Look at Chelski and Mourinho playing this tumescent, shite football like a small team when they've spent all that money" was the common statement.

Now he's got the most expensively assembled squad in the history of the sport and you lot are praising him. Funny how things have changed. :lol:
Yes its funny that United fans defend their manager and slaughter the Chelsea manager. More funny than when you pretended to be a United fan!
 
We are in shit form, they are in great form. They played at home, we played away.

You must also take this game into context. A loss here would have been more than a loss, it would have been a detriment to the rest of our season and most likely the squads confidence. Getting a draw against a team in such red hot form that they beat a Chelsea and Arsenal reserves away which both are better teams than them, then fine by me.

Now piss off all of you with your constant alerts, I am watching The Strain.
Fixed.

Strain, good show!
Funny watching as a Chelsea fan. Mourinho did this very same thing dozens of times probably and you guys slaughtered him for it. "Look at Chelski and Mourinho playing this tumescent, shite football like a small team when they've spent all that money" was the common statement.

Now he's got the most expensively assembled squad in the history of the sport and you lot are praising him. Funny how things have changed. :lol:
That's very true, Mourinho was slagged on here when he played for a 0-0 against Moyes at OT in 2013.
 
Wouldn't agree that he wasn't interested in the attacking third. Obviously opportunities will be limited because of how we set up but whenever we got into these areas the delivery wasn't good enough or our decision making was poor.

The manager shouldn't be blamed for players underperforming. It wasn't Mourinho's fault that Rashford ran the ball out of play on a couple of occasions or him failing to control that switch from Herrera when it went out for a throw-in...or the fact Pogba's touch was terrible all night.

Did you blame LVG for players doing the same shit? We should have kept that dude. Oh forget about him. Should have kept moyes.
 
If the game would have been over after 60 minutes, I would agree with that. Especially the first 40 minutes were very well exectued pressing.

In the last 30 minutes you invited them in, though, and not only do I believe that on a really good day they could have really turned the heat on, you were saved twice by your world class GK, which is certainly not a compliment to Mourinho´s tactics.
..by that logic we should never praise a manager winning 2-0 through world class goals as well. Also as good as those saves were, they are expected of De Gea by now. Couple of saves against big teams are to be expected. United too missed a good chance through Zlatan.
It is common sense that when one praises tactics of a manager, it is overall game, not 1-2 isolated incidents either way. Had Zlatan scored, it would not have made tactics and game plan better. Those would have been still same as they were with two isolated chances to opposition.

Liverpool 2013-14 tried more than Klopp's team today. Yet he will get free pass on tactics when for large part, his team did feck all and had no clue how to adapt.
 
For about 25 minutes of the second half yes. And you weren't exactly threatening. Coutinho's customary attempt at a worldie that is successfull 1/10 times and ShitCan tripping the ball along once. Other than that, meh.

If you were the second coming of christ like you guys seem to believe you would have blown us apart. Vintage Dortmund which was a proper pressing team would have picked us to pieces, you are just a pound shop version of them.
United fans on here seemed to believe exactly that in the build-up to this game. Liverpool fans have been much more realistic about tonight and our team's performances in general this season but of course that'll be totally ignored.

You were nowhere in the first half. Pretty rubbish and well tamed for the home team. And you can thank Ibra for the point you gained. Nicked a good one today.
I didn't say we were anywhere in the first half though, did I? You had your chance and Ibra fecked it up but to say we nicked a good one today is clearly pushing it. You controlled the first half because you nullified us and had one good chance. The second half was ours and we looked much more like scoring than you did in the first half. I think a draw is a fair result but if any team should've won it should've been us imo, fair enough if you disagree. I was just replying to a comment that you completely nullified us which is simply not true unless he turned off the TV at half time.
 
Did you blame LVG for players doing the same shit? We should have kept that dude. Oh forget about him. Should have kept moyes.

No but I blamed LVG for almost getting me to the point where I couldn't be arsed to watch us play it was that bad.
 
Absolutely Jose.

The media were making out we were going to get totally hammered all week.

The likes of Scholes and Giggs were saying we'd get beat. Red Nev was saying he was 'scared', that's a quote mind you, of Liverpool.

You would have thought we were Macclesfield going to Anfield tonight, not Man Utd. :rolleyes:

Utter garbage. We are five points off the top, with 30 games left. We are not this massive way off the Scouse like they made out.
 
We are in shit form, they are in great form. They played at home, we played away.
Ahh, I see the general consesus form goes out of the window with games like this has suddenly been abandoned?
 
Boring how negative people have to be over Mourinho. Get a decent result at Anfield and there's so much moaning here

Always the same few posters
Yup. Beat Chelsea and we can start something.
 
Wouldn't agree that he wasn't interested in the attacking third. Obviously opportunities will be limited because of how we set up but whenever we got into these areas the delivery wasn't good enough or our decision making was poor.

The manager shouldn't be blamed for players underperforming. It wasn't Mourinho's fault that Rashford ran the ball out of play on a couple of occasions or him failing to control that switch from Herrera when it went out for a throw-in...or the fact Pogba's touch was terrible all night.
That too, but I can't see a Pogba (OM) - Young - Rashford (winger) - Zlatan offense achieve a lot in tonight's team setup against an aggressive pressing team.
 
No but I blamed LVG for almost getting me to the point where I couldn't be arsed to watch us play it was that bad.
Well, if jose keeps playing like this against any decent teams.

Might as well not watching any of those matches then?
 
Good job Mou taking dig at the clown Einsteins of media :D
 
Well, if jose keeps playing like this against any decent teams.

Might as well not watching any of those matches then?

You missed the point. LvG made home games against shit teams just as poor to watch. Although even more frustrating, because we had loads of the ball.
 
The best tactician that had to rely on his goalkeeper making two world class saves?
That's a stupid statement, as he said a long shot and a rebound in the box?
That's like saying klopp relied on zlatan missing the header.....bore off
 
Parking the bus means inviting pressure. We pressed high and totally nullified them. It is called tactics against a home side which at the moment is pretty free flowing and pushing well above their weight. You do this and then you get one or two chances in the game and see it out, like we would have if Zlatan scored.
LvG did the same when we beat them, he said we beat them at their own game. Sounds almost like people who have been supporting Jose's appointment are a bit peeved that he got United to play the way he always gets his team's to play when away to the teams competing for top. We are always going to get these games, hoping for an opportunity to knick it.
I have to watch the game to have a view of how we played, but by the comments I am a bit disappointed we did not score against their defence.
 
Well, if jose keeps playing like this against any decent teams.

Might as well not watching any of those matches then?

Jose and LVG are like chalk and cheese. Mourinho gets results, Van Gaal gets us the possession champions trophy.
 
Well, if jose keeps playing like this against any decent teams.

Might as well not watching any of those matches then?

You should just take your pack of sour grapes and go to bed, you're getting very tiresome.
 
You missed the point. LvG made home games against shit teams just as poor to watch. Although even more frustrating, because we had loads of the ball.

I'm fed up of "just as poor"

Spending a record amount preseason and getting in these world class players means we need to have stepped up. Today was fine but we need to start doing more.
Otherwise why bother sacking a manager.
 
You were nowhere in the first half. Pretty rubbish and well tamed for the home team. And you can thank Ibra for the point you gained. Nicked a good one today.

Didn't Firmino have an even easier header than Ibra in our 'shit' first half?
 
That too, but I can't see a Pogba (OM) - Young - Rashford (winger) - Zlatan offense achieve a lot in tonight's team setup against an aggressive pressing team.

Young I agree with because he's just inept offensively but no excuse for the other 3.
 
LvG did the same when we beat them, he said we beat them at their own game. Sounds almost like people who have been supporting Jose's appointment are a bit peeved that he got United to play the way he always gets his team's to play when away to the teams competing for top. We are always going to get these games, hoping for an opportunity to knick it.
I have to watch the game to have a view of how we played, but by the comments I am a bit disappointed we did not score against their defence.

We basically didnt give them an inch bar Can and Countinhos chances. Zlatan then had a big chance to score. Had it even been on target it would have went in.

Basically the first half an hour we nullified them, but they came into the match then.
 
What exactly are people complaining about? If you predicted us to win 2-0 then fair enough, but a large portion of fans had us to lose by various score lines ranging from a 1-0 or 2-1 to an outright 4-0.

So we get a point and now you're complaining about the possession? If we went out and played to LFCs tune (IE go all out attack like some of you wanted) and they slaughtered us 3-0 same people would be crying.

It's not as simple as going to anfield, dominating everything and smashing them. Jose hasn't had the same time with his team Klopp has had, and had to experiment today. Liverpool were very confident going into this game and we drained every ounce of that confidence. I still expect them to do well in their upcoming fixtures but we really put them down a peg or two. We did very well given the circumstances.
 
Funny watching as a Chelsea fan. Mourinho did this very same thing dozens of times probably and you guys slaughtered him for it. "Look at Chelski and Mourinho playing this tumescent, shite football like a small team when they've spent all that money" was the common statement.

Now he's got the most expensively assembled squad in the history of the sport and you lot are praising him. Funny how things have changed. :lol:
Not much has changed, no idea what exactly is funny here.

Majority of Caf always had an obsession with Mourinho and his apparently amazing tactics to defend deep. Only since it ridiculously backfired against Atletico and 10 men PSG you read a bit more critical opinions (and by that time even Chelsea fans started complaining about his over the top negativity).

Now he is our manager shock horror the same majority who even liked him when he was at Chelsea of course is not going to turn against him now.
But there are still enough of us (albeit a minority) who didn't like his negativity and now he is managing us dislike it even more.

Still you can't expect him to be something he is not.
I'll be fine if he qualifies us for the CL and teaches our relatively young team how to defend. He can then go after 2-3 years and we can get a more attacking coach.

Not many will agree here with this but I think that's what is going to happen. I am not expecting any wonders from him.

Having said that he is right about what he said about Liverpool, Klopp actually managed to make them look worse today than they have been under previous managers. But then they actually are worse which makes it even more frustrating that we didn't even try to win.
 
You missed the point. LvG made home games against shit teams just as poor to watch. Although even more frustrating, because we had loads of the ball.
I can't deny that LVG was shit for us mostly.

But for me though, it is just the same shit. Passing without any real contribution or defending deep, absorbing all the pressure while doing feck all up front.

Like i said in another thread, it is fine that we got a point. But, is it really a positive for us at all and the manager for 'shutting them down' against a team who many of us laughed at for having shit players.
 
Didn't Firmino have an even easier header than Ibra in our 'shit' first half?

Don't think his was easier plus take into consideration their heading ability, you just expect a lot more from Ibra.

I think that saying that we're lucky with a point thanks to DDG is about as fair as saying that Liverpool are lucky with a point due to Ibra's shite form.
 
I can't deny that LVG was shit for us mostly.

But for me though, it is just the same shit. Passing without any real contribution or defending deep, absorbing all the pressure while doing feck all up front.

Like i said in another thread, it is fine that we got a point. But, is it really a positive for us at all and the manager for 'shutting them down' against a team who many of us laughed at for having shit players.

You know I'd get your point if today was the only game of the season. Because it only starts to make sense if our last two league games had never happened.
 
If the game would have been over after 60 minutes, I would agree with that. Especially the first 40 minutes were very well exectued pressing.

In the last 30 minutes you invited them in, though, and not only do I believe that on a really good day they could have really turned the heat on, you were saved twice by your world class GK, which is certainly not a compliment to Mourinho´s tactics.
DDG should make those saves though. You would be disappointed if either shot went in.
 
Jose and LVG are like chalk and cheese. Mourinho gets results, Van Gaal gets us the possession champions trophy.
We can't tell that till the end of the season or two.

There is a possibility that jose could do not much better than LVG.

Not because they are equally good. It is just shit can happen just like what happened to jose last season. You hope it is not with us.