Match Reaction vs United

[McNamara That Ghost...]

The old reactionary tag eh? In this case misapplied.

Well tell me when a defeat for us (and they will come in the league) would not have changed your feeling prior to yesterday then.

[GP]

Who - Sanogo? Says it all really. However you slice and dice it when you look at the consistent top 6 teams in the league and compare their striking options to ours, it's a bit of a joke, really.

Yeah, Sanogo.

Or, you could not be deliberately obtuse and name Podolski and Walcott.

[Marc Overmars]

Well tell me when a defeat for us (and they will come in the league) would not have changed your feeling prior to yesterday then.

This is the one game (and possibly Chelsea away) that a defeat should be brushed off with an...oh.

[Fist of Lehmann]

Had a bad feeling when I heard about the flu, it was just a bridge too far for this squad.

OF ALL THE F*CKING LUCK

Hard to know how much of this performance was fatigue, how much flu and how much Old Tranny inferiority complex. We seldom perform there, but we were better than last year (and far better than the year before), plus they are worse. I still think there is maybe little bit mental problem but impossible to know for sure.

We looked washed out but nevertheless, I thought we deserved a point.
It was a tight game and tight games are often decided by "one chance, one goal" strikers.
Utd have one, we do not (not that he scores every chance ofc) but he did that often for us in his last season.

I like Giroud, but I think the quality of his link up play is hugely variable. He can be sublime, but his pass %age is frankly crap. Suariddge are both up around 80%, RooVP are around 79%, Aguerro is 83.4%.

Giroud 66%

Mind you Torres is even worse.

Anyway, striker pls. Watching Bendtner stumble around like a tranquilised moose is just painful.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

This is the one game (and possibly Chelsea away) that a defeat should be brushed off with an...oh.

Exactly right. I even broke off my tradition of predicting a win for us in every league game on IKTS for this game in anticipation of a defeat.

[Letters]

This is the one game (and possibly Chelsea away) that a defeat should be brushed off with an...oh.

I don't agree.

Not an 'oh' but not a wailing and gnashing of teeth either. For all their troubles Utd are still a good side, going away there isn't easy and after 2 tough games and good results it's not the worst thing ever that we lost this one.

We've passed a few tests this season - we're top of the 'group of death' in the CL, we've beaten Liverpool in the league. We've gone from a side who were widely tipped to fall out of the top 4 to one who are now being spoken about as potential champions. Spoken about fairly dismissively but even a serious discussion about it would have been laughable in the summer.

I'm very disappointed about yesterday because I really do feel we're better than them this year and had a real chance to make a statement. We've already made a few this year but if we could have gone to the champions and got a point then it would have made those dismissing our title changes (me included) start to take us a bit more seriously. And maybe it would have made the players believe in themselves as potential champions too. It'll be interesting to see how we react and I think the international break this time has come at a good time for us. We've got 3 more games in November, all winnable. If we can get good results there then it'll get the momentum going again.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

Had a bad feeling when I heard about the flu, it was just a bridge too far for this squad.

OF ALL THE F*CKING LUCK

Hard to know how much of this performance was fatigue, how much flu and how much Old Tranny inferiority complex. We seldom perform there, but we were better than last year (and far better than the year before), plus they are worse. I still think there is maybe little bit mental problem but impossible to know for sure.

We looked washed out but nevertheless, I thought we deserved a point.
It was a tight game and tight games are often decided by "one chance, one goal" strikers.
Utd have one, we do not (not that he scores every chance ofc) but he did that often for us in his last season.

I like Giroud, but I think the quality of his link up play is hugely variable. He can be sublime, but his pass %age is frankly crap. Suariddge are both up around 80%, RooVP are around 79%, Aguerro is 83.4%.

Giroud 66%

Mind you Torres is even worse.

Anyway, striker pls. Watching Bendtner stumble around like a tranquilised moose is just painful.

I'm not sure there was an inferiority complex. I think there was just a lack of quality and that was down to fatigue. We were very flat and looked jaded, funnily enough because we've had a tough week.

I think we would have won with Suarez up top. We had 3-4 top chances but not the top strikers to put them away.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

I don't agree.

Not an 'oh' but not a wailing and gnashing of teeth either. For all their troubles Utd are still a good side, going away there isn't easy and after 2 tough games and good results it's not the worst thing ever that we lost this one.

They're the champions for goodness sake. People talking about them like they're an established mid-table team.

[Xhaka Can’t]

They're the champions for goodness sake. People talking about them like they're an established mid-table team.

Exactly.

It will take Moyes a couple of years before he establishes them there.

[fakeyank]

Whats the news on Walcott, Poldi and Ox? Do we have dates on when they are back or we going to be tentative forever?