Manchester United vs. Cardiff City

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Hoping to see Rooney and Adnan coming in for neither van Persie nor Mata.
 
Nothing will change until we get 2 proper centre midfielders. Not a 40 year old winger and a centre back. RVP and Mata might paper over the cracks.

This. It is like having a racing car with flat tyres, potentially brilliant but thats all it is until you pump them up.
 
Young and Valencia have zero penetration
How they keep starting games is beyond me.

Also we look to be playing so much narrower today relying on Rafael and Evra to give us width and we still stick with Young and Valencia for that?!
 
Its going to take Mata a little bit of time to get in sync with his team mates, thats about the 6th lofted ball that has missed its target

They probably aren't expecting such an idea from him. "Attack through the centre, you say, what is that?"
 
What will it take to make Giggs retire in the summer? He's just a complete passenger in midfield.
 
Need to get that second or they will score a jammy late goal.

You can see this as well? Feels like one of those jammy 88th minute equalizer games. We need a second goal.
 
I don't like how narrowly we're defending.
 
Valencia is playing so narrow, what's the point in him being out there? Put in Adnan or Shinji. Someone for Mata to link up with.
 
Moyes looks like he's going to explode on the touch line. At least we know this shit isn't tactical.
Actually I'd say most of it is tactical. Our line of defence is so deep, which makes a huge gap between the defenders and midfielders, leaving the attackers isolated. There's no pressing at all from us. Those 2 issues have probably been our biggest problem this season. Push the defenders up 10 yards and we'd have better pressing as a team, we wouldn't have to watch Evans and smalling sit on the ball all the time and Cardiff would have less space to pass it around like they have.
 
It's been a bit meh and as weird as it seems, Mata despite being rusty hasn't touched the ball enough for my liking. I don't understand why we're dominating Cardiff a lot more clearly in terms of chances created and of possession too.
 
It's like they've told the team to only play down the left because Valencia offers feck all other than to be a target for crosses.
 
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