Manchester City v Manchester United

bring berbatov on please, hopefully he can turn the game round for us.
 
Escobar said:
The CS winner never wins the League, so there is hope
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MrMarcello said:
Losing this match never bothers me, neither does winning give me a glimmer of what's to come. United lost something like three or four on the trot just over a decade ago, including Arsenal thumping them 3-0. United went on to do The Treble that season.
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That may be the case but this is City here. They'll probably have a parade for winning this and it'll go on their list of honours with the other five.

Hate losing to this lot, even in the charity shield.

One-nil against the run of play isn't too bad but how De Gea let that shot past him I'll never know, there's no excuses for it at all.
 
Couple of frustrating moments in what was up till then Manchester United passing the ball around city for fun. It's hardly meltdown stations yet, for those blaming Welbeck - madness - glaringly obvious Carrick has been below par, Anderson has tried and then a goalie error and defensive error have let us down.

Another half of football to play yet. C'mon United.
 
devilish said:
Ball possession is useless unless you use the ball wisely. How many assists had Carrick or Anderson produced?
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Both of them have produced lovely passes for the likes of Smalling to get some good crosses in. Some of the interplay that they've facilitated particularly between Nani and Welbeck has been very nice and should've resulted in more especially when Hart left his line and Welbs snuck the ball around him back into the middle. But for whatever reason it just didn't happen for us, some crosses were over hit, some players e.g. Young repeatedly were fouled when they picked up the ball to shoot at the edge of the box. City defended stoutly it wasn't that we played badly...

...at least not til they scored. :(
 
This is what happens in football sometimes - the team who has dominated suddenly nearly out of the match. Looking at that first half, I don't know how we're losing and they're winning 2-0. That first goal just dealt us a body blow which we didn't really recover from, then bang they score again.

The next goal is crucial - if they score, then it's over. If we score, then we've got a chance.

I don't want to criticise the young lad De Gea, first competitive game for us and it happens to be at Wembley against our rivals.

We need an early goal here to have any sort of chance.
 
I know its only the community shield but hate losing to shitty
 
championo said:
11 goals concede from over 25 yds for De Gea last year. :nervous:
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Well he'll have to work on it that's for sure, and I'm sure Fergie will put him on it.

You can bet anything that right from the first game of the season all the opposition strikers and midfielders are going to fancy a pop at him from way out
 
The last 4 winners of the CS have won the League but it honestly doesn't make a difference.

I rather lose today than at WBA or in any PL match. Meaningless match really.
 
VidaRed said:
How many chances have we created ?
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I'd say we have created numerous good opportunites but have been messed up by poor decision-making. We have had several good set piece opportunities(City took theirs) such as Nani's deflected free kick and Rooney's one over the bear, I think both Nani and Smalling had good opportunities from that corner Rooney headed back in, I thought that combination and Nani's interplay which was cut out at the last second was a good opportunity and I thought Rooney could have done better from Smalling's cross and Young could have slid Nani in when he hit that deflected shot.

There have been several other times when overplaying, a poor cross or a misplaced pass or mis control has ended some very good interplay from the forwards and good one touch passing in the middle.

Conversely City have created feck all from open play but are ahead by two goals. A very odd half.

I'm not accepting anyone saying we lacked creativity in that half either in midfield or up front. If anything we have abit to Arsenal like in the final third.

Abit worried about De Gea though as it's a massive test for a young keeper. Not a great start and the defending for the second was poor.
 
Changing one or two players will not be the solution I think.The first 11 present is more than good enough to play better football and to create/take chances than that
 
It's the wrong place for it, but Carrick is the problem in our midfield. Get a more dominant player in there for him and our midfield improves infinitely.

(And as I type Carrick has come off for Cleverley.)
 
Kelvin said:
I know its only the community shield but hate losing to shitty
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Its not even that, some of the media will start saying how we are lacking some things and City are going to destroy the league.

Don't want to go into a media lockdown today based on the CS
 
#07 said:
Both of them have produced lovely passes for the likes of Smalling to get some good crosses in. Some of the interplay that they've facilitated particularly between Nani and Welbeck has been very nice and should've resulted in more especially when Hart left his line and Welbs snuck the ball around him back into the middle. But for whatever reason it just didn't happen for us, some crosses were over hit, some players e.g. Young repeatedly were fouled when they picked up the ball to shoot at the edge of the box. City defended stoutly it wasn't that we played badly...

...at least not til they scored. :(
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We're relying too much on the flanks and there had been little creativity and initiative from CM. The goals were unfortunate (De Gea and the defense share part of the blame) but at 60% of ball possession you expect better.
 
What a bunch of hysterical virgins.

De Gea will improve, not worried about that. City shouldn't scare anyone, they've been shit, and lucky.
 
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