Utd v City post match

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Van Gaal having a go at Mourinho now for playing defensive football! Ha ha. Just gets better and better this.

 

[Jesus Cheekbone]

Pep changed Sterling's position after 5 minutes to counter Mourinho's plan and give KDB more space.

Pep was always destroying Mourinho by changing plans and formations during games. If you remember El Clasicos from their period, Madrid would always start very strong, often would got a lead or at least be better side in first half. They were strong and fast side and Barca often couldn't cope in start of the matches. But pep would change things after half an hour or in HT and come out as winner.

Moaninho is really his bitch.

 

[Jesus Cheekbone]

I actually think yesterday was more convincing than the 6-1 the only difference is we didn't tuck away our late chances to make the scoreline more embarrassing for them.

In terms of overall control of the game that's the best derby ive seen we were playing next level football to them.

Agree. They were better team on that day until Why always me moment. But not sure this was the most dominating derby though. 1:0 on that "title decider" was at least as dominating, they didn't come close to our goal and 0:3 when Dzeko scored in 1st minute was taking the piss.

 

[citytill1die84]

Was quality stuff that we were pissing ourselves in the ground haha

 

[TravisBickle]

I'm a bit annoyed that Kevin hit that last one high and gave away a goal kick.

Yeah I would’ve loved them to stay in that corner until the full time whistle blew.
It was very funny and showed what a tricky little customer Bernardo is.

 

[talkativesprout]

That little shitbag was pushing into the back of our players off the ball every time he "pressed", a few times this included going knee up into Ota.

I watched it again last night and thought i saw this too, but we was on the counter and its right on the edge of camera. It does look like Dino marks his card early doors but the horrible sly little ladies wee thing still bites a few ankles

 

[The Colonel]

Agree. They were better team on that day until Why always me moment. But not sure this was the most dominating derby though. 1:0 on that "title decider" was at least as dominating, they didn't come close to our goal and 0:3 when Dzeko scored in 1st minute was taking the piss.

People forget the 1-0 and how negatively Baconchops set his team up. The amount of times in the last day that pundits and rag fans have said Fergie would never go into a game trying not to lose is incredible.

 

[himalayan_blues]

It look as if united didnt have any clue for the match. Mourinhos team are never like that. He must have planned for something. It was down the sheer brilliance from city they werent able to play. Not even the defensive play or parking the bus play. But city werent ruthless either. They should have played beter at final third. They left city spaces. We couldnt capitalise more. We should have scored by open play. This complain is just for making the boys improve. Otherwise i am v v pleased with the performance.

 

[Vienna_70]

There was much hand wringing on here when our last few opponents did this time wasting.

This was genuinely funny. Young was made look an even bigger twat

Keeping the ball in the corner is incomparable to taking an age over every goal-kick and throw-in.

 

[Manncity]

We should keep singing park the bus song,lets put more nails in moaninhos coffin,so we can take some credit for getting him the sack..love it..

 

[Blue Smarties]

Van Gaal having a go at Mourinho now for playing defensive football! Ha ha. Just gets better and better this.

He's waited 18 months to stick the knife in, fucking brilliant. PEG is trying to deflect it away from the football but LVG has put it back on him, hahah.

 

[Paladin]

I’m not sure you’ve got that right, mate.

Kevin has 8; the two rag twats you mention both had 6.

And how the fuck did Nico only receive 6? Absolutely ridiculous!

Haha. They have changed it. It was this originally.

 

[Ed68]

Keeping the ball in the corner is incomparable to taking an age over every goal-kick and throw-in.

Not in my mind...the ball is still in play and the emphasis is on them to get it off us.

At Goalkicks and Throw ins it’s just ‘dead time’.

 

[M18CTID]

For as long as I can remember, every team with a bit of nous has taken the ball into the corner in order to run the clock down. Anyone skriking about time-wasting when a team does that needs to give their heads a fucking wobble. I remember the European Cup Final in 1982 when Villa beat Bayern Munich courtesy of Peter Withe's one-two off the post. As the clock was ticking down, even that football purist Brian Clough - who was co-commentating - was screaming at the Villa players to "take it into the corner". If it's good enough for Cloughie and good enough for Pep then it's plenty good enough for me. It was fucking hilarious seeing us do that on Sunday and right in front of us lot in the away end too. United fans crying about it need to man the fuck up and ask themselves how City managed to pull that off for the best part of 3 minutes while we were outnumbered by so many of their players.

 

[SilverFox2]

Post 1443 on this thread helped me understand how Pep has started playing chess whilst other teams continue with a simple game of draughts. Many thanks for that video.

I see the Pep way of changing the shape of his team as a natural development to overcome the park the bus strategy because our possession game is not now being matched by so called top teams in PL after the Napoli game so Pep has to find a way round the tactic that effectively compresses play into one half of the field of play.

The ability to actually change our shape in realtime during a game is not easily learnt by individual players but playing the Pep way simplifies things so opposing defences had better prepare for the uncertainty of a continually changing City formation together with trying to explain these formation changes to a more rigid defensive setup that is likely to make many mistakes particularly when using man marking.

My concern is still with our inability to convert chances. We make things harder for ourselves by missing the target with shots but hopefully the developing tactical changes we have seen v Utd will cause confusion in defences that previously could simply put the shutters up.

 

[domalino]

For as long as I can remember, every team with a bit of nous has taken the ball into the corner in order to run the clock down. Anyone skriking about time-wasting when a team does that needs to give their heads a fucking wobble. I remember the European Cup Final in 1982 when Villa beat Bayern Munich courtesy of Peter Withe's one-two off the post. As the clock was ticking down, even that football purist Brian Clough - who was co-commentating - was screaming at the Villa players to "take it into the corner". If it's good enough for Cloughie and good enough for Pep then it's plenty good enough for me. It was fucking hilarious seeing us do that on Sunday and right in front of us lot in the away end too. United fans crying about it need to man the fuck up and ask themselves how City managed to pull that off for the best part of 3 minutes while we were outnumbered by so many of their players.

What we did wasnt time wasting, which is running down the clock during stoppages and against the rules.

What we did is kill time by keeping hold of the ball and they didn't have the bollocks get it back. Completely different. They're essentially complaining about us not giving them the ball.

It was probably my favourite part of the match too.

 

[Paladin]

Van Gaal having a go at Mourinho now for playing defensive football! Ha ha. Just gets better and better this.

I liked Louis Van Gaal. Mainly because he never disrespected us, but also he was comedy gold and gave us many highly entertaining moments. Who can forget the classic 'Louis Van Gaal’s Army', or the time he deliberately fell over on the touch line to make a point to an assistant referee. Very funny guy.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Haha. They have changed it. It was this originally.

I think you’re being a somewhat unfair here. Rashford doesn’t do much and gets 7 but KDB does much more and gets a 6. On a ‘what are they capable of’ system KDB can play much better than he did whereas I didn’t notice any difference in Rashford or Lingards performances, when compared to what they do week in and week out. Therefore, KDB only a six, because he could do better. The other 2 get 7’s because they probably can’t.
It’s actually fairly damning if you think about it. Most of ours can play much better, some of theirs can’t and yet they got mullered. The salty tears are getting sweeter and sweeter by the day!!!!

 

[Tuearts right boot]

This season we're showing a never say die attitude that's on another level to anything I've seen before - despite the lack of height in our squad. David 'Chopper' Silva's leading the charge!

The word ' Chopper ' worries me

 

[Paladin]

I think you’re being a somewhat unfair here. Rashford doesn’t do much and gets 7 but KDB does much more and gets a 6. On a ‘what are they capable of’ system KDB can play much better than he did whereas I didn’t notice any difference in Rashford or Lingards performances, when compared to what they do week in and week out. Therefore, KDB only a six, because he could do better. The other 2 get 7’s because they probably can’t.
It’s actually fairly damning if you think about it. Most of ours can play much better, some of theirs can’t and yet they got mullered. The salty tears are getting sweeter and sweeter by the day!!!!

I'm not being anything. I am merely posting the Sky player ratings from after the game, so that they can be compared with the updated version of the Sky player ratings.