Manchester United vs. Liverpool

Best thing about the first half was watching Torres and Mascherano compete for the "first red card of the match" award.
 
Scholesy said:
They are technical gods.
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Indeed, in a game of high intensity the ability to keep the ball under pressure and a good first touch is vital.

Scholes/Giggs/Berba to come on late and change the game.. or Park to transform after the break after a rollicking.
 
Also, credit to Pool, they've been executing well per their set-up (keep ball moving to counter Park, contain wingers and leave it all up to a marooned Rooney) Which means SAF might change things up tactics-wise.
 
We are in control for the most part but they still look dangerous on the break.

Let's kill it off quick. Give it 10 mins for Park to run their defence around a bit and then put Giggs/Scholes on for Park imo.
 
Would be funny if Liverpool got a penalty this half and missed it because of the bobbly penalty spot that Torres did.
 
FlawlessThaw said:
Not sure we would have had to "split" the Cole Yorke combination as I doubt we would have signed Sheringham and then later Yorke who were both Cantona replacements if the great man himself was to carry on.

I would have like to have seen Cantona carry on but Yorke and Cole were magnficient together and a larger reason why we won the treble. A similar comparison might be if we win the Liverpool 84 treble this season, then was selling Ronaldo the right time last summer given how much we have won..
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Cantona and Cole were a perfectly balanced combination on paper that never quite hit it off in reality. I hate to even mention this, but for whatever reason Cantona generally failed to produce at CL level. Maybe it was a case if a slightly immature team relying too much on him to make the difference (seems absurd to describe the 93-94 team especially as immature, but we didn't have much nous at European level), but for whatever reason it rarely happened for him in Europe.

If we had signed Yorke and Cantona hadn't retired, I still think Yorke and Cole would have made themselves undroppable pretty quickly. Fergie wouldn't have missed the telepathy Yorke and Cole showed from the outset, and he'd have had the courage to do the necessary and slowly phase out Eric into the sort of role Giggsy has now. And Eric would have been man enough to accept it. Cantona would have taken the Sheringham role - coming on as sub if we needed the same bit of poise and magic around the penalty area that we need right now - and would have done better at domestic level at least. Teddy was underwhelming that year until the last week of the season. And Ole would still have been Ole. You can't really improve upon the perfect season, but throwing Cantona into that mix is borderline sexual...
 
Pat_Mustard said:
Cantona and Cole were a perfectly balanced combination on paper that never quite hit it off in reality. I hate to even mention this, but for whatever reason Cantona generally failed to produce at CL level. Maybe it was a case if a slightly immature team relying too much on him to make the difference (seems absurd to describe the 93-94 team especially as immature, but we didn't have much nous at European level), but for whatever reason it rarely happened for him in Europe.

If we had signed Yorke and Cantona hadn't retired, I still think Yorke and Cole would have made themselves undroppable pretty quickly. Fergie wouldn't have missed the telepathy Yorke and Cole showed from the outset, and he'd have had the courage to do the necessary and slowly phase out Eric into the sort of role Giggsy has now. And Eric would have been man enough to accept it. Cantona would have taken the Sheringham role - coming on as sub if we needed the same bit of poise and magic around the penalty area that we need right now - and would have done better at domestic level at least. Teddy was underwhelming that year until the last week of the season. And Ole would still have been Ole. You can't really improve upon the perfect season, but throwing Cantona into that mix is borderline sexual...
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That's quite romantic. I doubt Cantona would have accepted being a bit-part player and I doubt SAF would have seen him as droppable. Much in the same manner as Keane. Cantona retired because he didn't feel up for it. Yorke would never have been signed IMO. Sheringham for that matter as well.
 
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