[Hellboy]

Hernandez should start ahead of Rooney.

 

[Varun]

Bizarre reactions. Thought we were good in the 2nd half and excellent in the 1st 25.

Fully deserved the win. Some bad first Al play, some bad luck, a goal wrongly disallowed and collocini doing well cost us 2 deserved points.

We do need a striker but that was obvious before the game.

 

[K2K]

Rooney is a no 10. End of story. We need someone to play ahead of him.

He played there last season..when he played poorly, the calls where to play him at 9..I remember the usual calls whereby when anyone questioned his poor goal tally , the reply was always "Play him up top, he'll easily score 20-25"...For how long will the narrative keep changing?

 

[Annihilate Now!]

Anyone who thinks we don't need another forward is living on another planet... And I include LVG in that

 

[Ludens the Red]

Continuing to leave out Herrera when nobody is showing enough creativity is mind boggling.
Playing every game with a cone as captain isn't helpful either. We'll struggle for goals all season if Lvg continues to ignore these things.

 

[bananaman]

This is awful to watch. I don't like this van Gaal stuff. It's boring. We lack quality up front. Rooney worryingly off form. He'd be dropped if we had anyone else. Mata too slow for counter attacks.

 

[Hoof the ball]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hadn't Newcastle LOST their last 8 away games in a row?

 

[prarek]

Rooney is a no 10. End of story. We need someone to play ahead of him.

Doesn't have the qualities to be a no .10. First touch and technique?

 

[stepic]

Newcastle defended well. We created plenty of chances. Not a bad effort today, just unlucky that one of those chances didn't go in, hernandez's particularly.

 

[JTW95]

Looking forward to the day LVG walks out the door.

Yes. It is LVG's fault that Memphis and Januzaj gave the ball away at every opportunity, that we didn't score when we dominated early on, that the ref was shite and it was also LVG's fault that the Newcastle defense put their bodies in front of everything.

 

[Crackers]

We were pretty decent in defense and midfield. No surprises from the strike department, they were gash. Chico was good, but the creativity apart from Memphis(only at times) was gash. Rooney was fecking awful. LVG is setting us up to play well, our players aren't delivering what he's asking.

 

[Mrs Smoker]

First half was cool.

 

[Kopral Jono]

The game definitely belongs to the 'one of those days' category. That said, we didn't do enough to break Newcastle down. Herrera needs to play. Reinforcements needed.

 

[Mister_Stubbs]

I don't want to accept this is the "United away" from here on. I want us to play with urgency, with pace and width. Not this shit.

 

[Beachryan]

That was really pretty good. I can't remember us creating that many chances for absolutely ages.

There'll always be days like that. We looked good today, just couldn't finish.

 

[diarm]

There'll be a massive overreaction to this but that first 25 minutes was as good as anything we've seen in years.
A competent linesman and we're a goal up with them having to chase the game and leaving more space.

Then in the second half you have to give credit to an absolutely heroic effort from Newcastle at the back. Wijnaldum, Coloccinni, Mitrovic, Thibaut and Perez were incredible.

Van Gaal needs to say something publicly about referees protecting players like Januzaj, Mata and Memphis. We can't expect to see football played when fellas can just kick lumps out of decent players up and down the pitch.

 

[kouroux]

3 games, 2 wins and a draw, who would not take that ? No goals conceeded and we are only one attacking player away of becoming a real force again.

Not just one, we need a better striker than what we currently have and a wide player. There is a serious lack of quality in attack.

 

[Aporkalypse]

Rooney isn't a threat on his own up front, especially when he's barely actually up there.

LVG will say the usual post-game but I bet he's onto Ed to get a striker in ASAP.

 

[seaNNN]

Man it sucks to be a united fan this boring football is relentless van gaal better find us a decent attacker or 2 as we've been pathetic all season up top.

 

[Ballache]

We were shite.

We absolutely were not shit. It's a game of fine margins, we could have easily won 3-0 and you'd have been ecstatic. Ball didn't want to go in, it happens! We were much better today compared to our first two games.

 

[Ixion]

A Rooney/Januzaj partnership just won't cut it, said it before the Villa game and since.

Other than that Newcastle did alright and we were a little unlucky. One of those days.

 

[Mrs Smoker]

Also, never bet on United.

 

[DatIrishFella]

Doesn't everyone?

Worded that poorly. Meant we have no plan B it seems against teams who play with two banks of five.

 

[Lewis.no.9]

Feck me this result pissed me off. Un acceptable not to beat these today

 

[PlayerOne]

Once again far too blunt in attack. Shocker.

 

[the hea]

Poor petformances from Mata and Memphis today still we had one goal wrongly disallowed and created enough to score atleast another one it was just one of those days.

 

[Raees]

Rooney is a no 10. End of story. We need someone to play ahead of him.

How did you determine that based on this game.

 

[quethenoo]

poor decisions in the final third and some bad luck, but the performance really wasn't that bad. Defenders and keeper look solid.

 

[devilish]

3 games, 2 wins and a draw, who would not take that ? No goals conceeded and we are only one attacking player away of becoming a real force again.

Well the games were Spurs (were OG scored), the mighty Club Brugge (Championship level?) and Newcastle at home

 

[thegregster]

Fellaini cost us this game by getting a red V Hull.

We need a new CF who is good in the air.

 

[nistleloy]

Horrible performance, and illustrates how lucky we are to have 7 points. We've played like relegation fodder for four games.

Calm down and stop talking shite.

 

[holyland red]

So we scored one deflected goal and another own goal in 270 of league football. We are not going to play many easier games this season. Decent performance alright, but if we can't score against that lot...

 

[NK86]

One question which bugs me even more is the constant need to have two holding mids when we need to go for the kill. Should have brought on Herrera for Schneiderlin instead of making that meaningless Valencia switch.

 

[McUnited]

Rooney - 10 games without a goal.

 

[Spoony]

Why do I fall asleep watching us play thesedays?

 

[amolbhatia50k]

Continuing to leave out Herrera when nobody is showing enough creativity is mind boggling.
Playing every game with a cone as captain isn't helpful either. We'll struggle for goals all season if Lvg continues to ignore these things.

Fair point. He was the spark in the middle last season. You'd think that he'd be a natural choice for home games or at least further into home games when teams park the bus.

 

[hungrywing]

We are like a shark with no teeth and our intention is to gum teams to death.

Nice.

 

[championo]

Why sell RVP? Why? We have a bunch of midgets. We need a bit of height. I am also not feeling Mata, he looks like he is doing something but end product is meh.

 

[JinnerJamie]

Should have buried them in the opening 20....

 

[Sereques]

To the moaners, which one would you rather have? This one or the Spurs game?