Vieira

[Bluemoon115]

He played because we were being outrun in the midfield, and seeing a Ireland has been having the effect of an ice cube in a furnace, Vieria was the right option.

He did his job when he came on, if the players around him hadn't bottled it the game was there for the taking.

 

[PistonBlue]

Is he leaving at the end of the season? I f**king hope so. That was a such a bad sub today it was criminal, this old french toast should be nowhere near our team, he's finished. Taking off Johnno for him with 20 minutes to go killed it for me.

Utter rubbish. We actually started to control the midfield when Viera came on.

 

[scousemanc]

are you lot joking, or does the game really look that different to different people?

I could have sworn, that for 10 minutes solid, we were pinned right back, and nani was working onuoha constantly. Viera comes on, and suddenly we had them pinned back. probably because AJ couldn't help out onuoha as much as he needed, and because, once we had three in the midfield, we could actually get out, fight for the midfield and get the ball moving forward.

I think mancini was out done today, largely because united had midfielders who could pass better than ours, and more of them. and they had genuine threats on the bench, we had swp who ran at evra pretty well, but couldn't fashion a chance. If he made a mistake it was probably the other two subs, swp and ireland both at fault in their goal.

Good observation and comments

 

[robbieh]

United were rampaging forward and something needed to be done. Patrick came on and we regained a measure of control. Johnson while seeing lots of the ball was having little impact. So good sub for me.

Stranger for me was the Adebayor substitution. Of our front three, he was the best yesterday.

 

[bennyboy]

United were rampaging forward and something needed to be done. Patrick came on and we regained a measure of control. Johnson while seeing lots of the ball was having little impact. So good sub for me.

Stranger for me was the Adebayor substitution. Of our front three, he was the best yesterday.

Thats how i saw it.I also thought it changed the pattern of the game when he came on.Suddenly we were in control of the midfield (SWP played his part as well) so it ended up two good substitutions by Mancini.Shame the third didn't involve RSC and Adebayor.