Match Reaction vs United

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Originally Posted by Master Splinter

Squad size (strikers aside) is not a problem. Injuries are. Even if we had a squad of 50, 38 would be injured. Or ill, which is the new thing.

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Its the same thing with us. We need a squad capable of dealing with our ever present injury list. Its no use pointing our that we have key players injured when this is a permanent state of affairs with us.

Didnt see 2. half, but first half was abit "meh" from both sides, they get their goal from where merts would normally be... Sucks, but a 1-0 loss on Old Trafford isnt end of the world and we're still top of the league :bow:

Hopefully both Podolski and Walcott are back after the international break, so we can actually start playing proper football. I must say, its impressive that we've been able to do what we have done without any wingers/wide forwards :)

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Originally Posted by IBK

Its the same thing with us. We need a squad capable of dealing with our ever present injury list. Its no use pointing our that we have key players injured when this is a permanent state of affairs with us.

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Then what do we do? Buy 3 players for every position? :lol:

Nowt we can do, we just have to deal with it and to be honest we've coped well anyway.

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Originally Posted by Syn

The problem has never been about losing at Old Trafford. It's about this pyschological mental block that we carried forward to let it fuck up our form. When we went there at a similar time in 2004, we were playing our very best football. We then lost the game 2-0, lost our unbeaten run and although we were top by 5 points, we quickly started dropping silly points. In fact the very next game was this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...em/3947349.stm , where we celebrated a RVC wondergoal equaliser like a world cup win.

This time we also play Southampton at home. I can't be the only one who is not worried about this group of players letting this Man Utd result unsettle their form. We've been doing this shit since March and we can carry on building the lead at the top.

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If we have to look back nine years to make a point then I don't think it really holds many concerns for me. The difference then is that we were the reigning champions and had that feeling taken away. You could say we've had the feeling of comfortable league leaders shaken but I don't think it's going to hold much sway.

However, Southampton are going to be an arseache to play against though because they're another side that will press like demons.

Btw... Really not impressed with United, this is the champions :s They're playing like Stoke or any other mid-table team, they might win 1-0 over us on OT, but this team will not end up in top4 if they keep playing like this.

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Originally Posted by JonasTC

Btw... Really not impressed with United, this is the champions :s They're playing like Stoke or any other mid-table team, they might win 1-0 over us on OT, but this team will not end up in top4 if they keep playing like this.

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They are run of the mill but unfortunately have 2 awesome strikers to negate that.

I have often said in the past that Man Utd don't look like 'champions' and then they usually go on a ridiculous run of form from December-February and blow everyone else out the water. This puts them right back in the hunt for top spot. But while they have the same players as last year, it's undeniably true that the Fergie influence in being that ruthless in the difficult Christmas period through to early Match will be missing.

On the other hand, Gaizidis has already said we will look to buy a striker in January. Might not be a good one but it'll be better than Bendtner. Probably some decent value in the market in January. Maybe a couple of very good players might even be looking for loan moves in a World Cup year.

Wish we had signed Negredo. Spanish Bif tbh.

We're going to need a striker in that sort of mould as the style of play relies on holding the ball up and bringing others in.

Nah...United are toilet. Today was more like playing Moize's Everton. Not like they showed anything on the counterattack and that midfield is :sick:. The way they are set out they'll still have problems against a lot of teams in the league like a few of their home games so far.

COYG, tbf.

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Originally Posted by Syn

I have often said in the past that Man Utd don't look like 'champions' and then they usually go on a ridiculous run of form from December-February and blow everyone else out the water. This puts them right back in the hunt for top spot. But while they have the same players as last year, it's undeniably true that the Fergie influence in being that ruthless in the difficult Christmas period through to early Match will be missing.

On the other hand, Gaizidis has already said we will look to buy a striker in January. Might not be a good one but it'll be better than Bendtner. Probably some decent value in the market in January. Maybe a couple of very good players might even be looking for loan moves in a World Cup year.

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Moyes is a massive step down from Ferguson (or any other decent manager tbf). He had zero to do with today's result. On better form we would have eaten up that team of average players (bar that cunt RvP) he put out. They'll struggle for a top 4 spot. I think they'll get it, due to retained DNA rather than the current breed, but they are very, very ordinary and being manged by a very, very ordinary guy. That will tell over the season. I don't think Moyes will "come good" after a settling in period either. I think he's shite and I think Utd will stick with him because it would be embarrassing not to. So good news all in all.