Manchester United vs. Everton

Seriously impressive display from Anderson. His passing has been incredible.
 
I can see us dropping pts today

So can I.

But if we play like that in the second and be clinical then we can even win this by a few goals. Need to be fired up for this second half. It's a huge 45 minutes in our season.
 
5 halfs without a goal now...

Bring on the Giggs robot instead of Gibson.
 
Gibson off please, the guy might aswell not be on the pitch. Andersons been mediocre and if we are to score then it'll probably be down to something through Rooney. Really frustrating half.

Anderson has put 2 or 3 great throughballs to create the only goalscoring chances in the half. WTF you talking about?
 
Did we step on a black cat? Where is our luck. If we drop points today I will be too nervous.
 
Nani and Rooney have both made some terrible decisions

This. Our play has been so good until the final 3rd. It's almost like we've forgotten how to score off late. Very very poor decisions in the final third.

If only Hernadez had got himself out of the way of Nani's shot :mad:
 
Ok regroup and come out the second half blazing.We should come away from the game with at least 1 goal.
 
Seriously impressive display from Anderson. His passing has been incredible.

Hardly

He's shanked as many as he's completed...although it is much improved and he's played 2 stunning balls. No complaints, but I don't think he's been 'seriously impressive'. As I say, alot better though.
 
Frustrating half from Hernandez and nani. Rooney needs to influence himself more. Hope we don't regret not converting all that possession into a genuine advantage as Everton will get a 10 min spell in second half

Hernandez hasn't been half as frustrating as he'll be frustrated with Nani and Rooney, he's been in space numerous times only for them to fanny around and take too long over it
 
Nani and Rooney have both made some terrible decisions

Everybody gets the ball and the ball is moving, Nani gets it and he stops moving, for such a quick guy it is puzzling. Rooney appears poor because no one seems to understand Hernandez today. I don't really know whose fault it is but I know Hernandez is frustrated. He just does not know what to do for his mates to pass him a good ball
Just a real shitty half.
Gibson too left his shooting foot in the locker room
 
Anderson has put 2 or 3 great throughballs to create the only goalscoring chances in the half. WTF you talking about?

I said mediocre. He's played some cracking passes and followed up with some shocking ones. Typical Anderson display really, and off the ball he needs to work more.
 
Seriously impressive display from Anderson. His passing has been incredible.

I hope people who say he 'can't pass' learn from this.

The kid has a natural gift from the through ball. It's just a case of maximizing the enormous potential. Everytime he has had the ball today, I felt comfortable and expected us to create something.
 
Seriously impressive display from Anderson. His passing has been incredible.

Agreed, if only the United players would stop standing still when he is running with the ball it's like they have never seen a stocky Brazilian run before:D

Had one decent corner too.
 
Frustrating first half, we have not really troubled everton..we are so useless at corners.

Gibson is fecking shite.
 
I said mediocre. He's played some cracking passes and followed up with some shocking ones. Typical Anderson display really, and off the ball he needs to work more.

Nonsense. No player can go through a game without a couple of 'shocking ones'. Rooney's pass at the end of the first half was awful. That's what happens when you have the license to play those passes and the ability. How often does Giggs give the ball away with little flick and tricks, but it's worth it because for every 5 missed you can get one beauty like the three that put on a plate to put Chelsea away.
 
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Nani and Rooney have both made some terrible decisions

Yeah, have been very disappointed ESP with nani's choices today. Thought he had completed that part of his development given his amazing number of assists this season, but he can still improve greatly in that area.

Hernandez also needs to find a way to communicate to his team mates where he is going to make his run ...... Too many times his runs have been out of sync with the team mate who made the pass.
 
Why would he?

I can't see any reason to. Only Valencia has seriously underperformed and Baines is not easy to play against. And he's one of our two best wingers anyway. Just a case of being more clinical in the final third.
 
One thing we need to make clear here. Nani is playing against Hibbert. That's Tony "can't outrun a snail" Hibbert. Why he chooses to come to a standstill whenever he gets the ball is beyond me. Just knock it past him and run.
 
Anderson is doing well but Gibson has wrecked 3 good attacking positions with his eagerness to shoot. Nani has made the wrong decsions in the final 3rd as has Rooney at times. Overall though our attacking play has been very good, until the final ball. Nani has been far too slow getting the ball into the box. He has his man beaten then waits for them to recover so he can beat them again!
 
Could have done with Berbatov today. He's the King of scoring at OT this season.

If we drop points today without scoring yet again I'll really fear for our title challenge tbh. Anyway we need to improve the ball in the final 3rd and get a bloody goal somehow.

Giggs needs to come on.