Post match Chelsea v man united

Twigginater

I'm emotionally drained


So proud of our fans and players!

SteveJ

Feels like a win.

Neo_Mufc

Biggest result for us so far. The lift that those 3 goals will gives us will mean more than that point.

I hope for our sake we absolutely annihilate Liverpool on Saturday.

RedSky At Night

I have a terrible headache!

Snow

Onward to a glorious victory against Liverpool!

Varun_Utd

A mixed if there ever was one. from 3 goals down, it is a great result and a crucial point specially with how tight things are.

that said, we were so much the better team, chelsea are dire atm. 3-0 after 50mins was a joke really.

ha_rooney

AVB was upset when they cut off his interview. Geoff would never try that with SAF.

cinc

The neighbours came over to see if I was alright after Javier's goal, because of the noise. I was.

Lynk

Thoughts -

- Giggs was really poor in the middle today, yet as usual he provides the crucial assist. I said it last week, he really is wonderfully inconsistent at times
- Scholes grabbed the game by the bollocks when he came on, aided by carrick
- Evra was poor defensively
- Torres is shite
- Taking Sturridge off was similar to Wenger taking off Oxlaide-Chamberlain, baffling
- Hernandez is a fantastic striker, give him service and he'll score for fun
- Rooney showed great nerve for the penalties
- De Gea is fucking fantastic.
- Cocks.

Edmeiste

I went mental at the third goal. This team is unbelievable. This is the first time this season that we've come back from a losing position. Brilliant. Just brilliant

Robin

De Gea will gain a lot from that performance, he had one dodgy moment in the first half when he chose to punch what should have been an easy catch, but those second half saves should give him a run in the side now

Neo_Mufc

Have we come back to win from a goal down yet?

I'd say we always have one of those down our sleeves around March/April.

Man-United

When was the last time we got a pen against Chelsea away before today?

Jaap

First time any team in the Premier League has come back to level at the Bridge after being three-nil down, Ed.

Astonishing game, our never-die attitude was amazing!

Badunk

I stayed away from the matchday thread, for the most part. The likes of Commadus and Cold Boy must've been revelling in the misery at 3-0 down

Unam333

We are today's moral winners. GET IN!!!

Eriku

When Rooney took his penalty and smacked it like he did, I hit my hands together and shouted "Yes!". I was expecting to be happy that we got a goal to possibly start something, but the fervour with which Rooney struck that penalty I felt that he was ready to go, to play a good part in our comeback.

So he did

It's a hell of a message to send, being able to turn that around.

Name Changed

Great point. I think taking Welbeck off when we were on top and bringing Park on gave them the initiative. We should have kept going and gone for a win.

Mr Anderson

I was more devastated when we went 2-0 down away to Newcastle than when we were 3-0 down today. Always felt we stood a chance if we got a goal asap. Felt Chelsea were there for the taking. We played some lovely stuff under pressure to come back into the game aswell.

Tribec

A huge boost to the confidence for this team, as we've sort of forgot how to come back like this of late. Hopefully some of the younger, newer players take note of how we perform our trademark comebacks.

On a slightly negative note, poor show by the club, no black armbands worn by the team, considering tomorrow is the anniversary. Though the team put on a show that the Babes would have been proud of.

Magnus

haven´t thought about that rip you great Busby Babes. And why didn´t we wear black armbands??? I will wear one at work tomorrow

AttackingFlair

Best decision was bringing Scholes in midfield and moving Giggs wide.

Orton

There was a moment in the game where Giggs chased back and tackled Sturridge. Couldn't believe it at first. Sturridge who is one of the quickest players in the league

johnmufc

Not at all. Sturridge was really poor. Good work to set up Chelsea's first goal, but that was due to Evra's awful defending. Other than this incident, Sturridge consistently made the wrong decision and typically shot from stupid positions. He was a liability defensively too, as exemplified by the penalty he conceded.

Lynk

"Play well or not, but the fighting spirit and that of q makes the United comebacks during the year is incredible." - Fabregas on twitter.

Mr Anderson

It is just the fact they brought on Romeu who created more problems for Chelski than Sturridge did. Essien was shagged aswell in the end, so he should have being replaced. He could have left Sturridge uptop and pushed Torres wide. They went too defensive and aloud us to play like we were the home team.

Evra would have being under pressure on a yellow with 20 minutes to go aswell, Sturridge could have tried to suck him into a challenge or 2 before shooting the ball out for a goalkick....

Devil may care

We were the better team, played some great football and showed tremendous spirit to mount a comeback away from home against a side who have been a bogey side away in the league for a decade.

It was a weird feeling to sit back after the game actually be a bit disappointed, simply because we were so clearly the better team and were victim of two flukey goals.

I don't see much blame on the second goal, it was just a great ball and a great strike and the third was good movement and a shoulder deflection. I do think Evra needs to shoulder some of the blame on their first though as Rio had the inside covered so he should have showed Sturridge outside.

Plechazunga

That was fecking great

I don't really agree that we were far the better team. We looked the better team early in the first half but then went to sleep for 20 minutes or so till they scored. We went back to sleep early in the second and they could have had about 5. We then started fighting back, and the spirit was great, but it was end to end with both sides having chances.

I thought it was a sloppy, complacent performance redeemed by United spirit, not United class.

surf

That's about right. Apart from Mata, Chelsea don't show much quality any more. United definitely have the better footballers.

The second penalty was soft, but Welbeck might have had one in the first half. Two of Chelsea's goals were somewhat fortuitous.

fatboy

To be honest, I thought Chelsea was poor and were there for the taking. Had the ref had the courage to make the tough but right decisions against the home team in the first half, we would have had the lead we deserved. Also we were extremely wasteful in the final third, especially Rooney. It was only when we quickly went 3-0 down when the ref suddenly decided it was safe to award penalties against them.

I thought were so much better that I wasn't even surprised we got back to 3-3. I was very proud of the way we fought back, but it was a hole we shouldn't have been stuck in in the first place.

Oh, and I think Evans and Rio make a poor combo in central defence, they are both a bit too passive and too slow. They should each either be partnered with Vidic or Smalling.

Laphroaig

Pretty much agree with this. It seemed like we were so surprised by how shite Chelsea were that we took our foot off the pedal.

And how the fuck Cahill was not sent off after ten minutes... Webb had a shocker throughout.

Art

Wasteful in the final third? Obviously!

The final third is where every football player is most wasteful. If Rooney converted every chance, then it wouldn't be a football scoreline would it. Both Essien and Rooney coming from injury, Essien was chasing Wayne's shadow.. So the lad scores two penalties under tremendous pressure and was in the heart of most of our attacks including the third one but people here question why he is given MotM and says Rafael(who played 60 minutes) should've got it instead?Ofcourse players lose possession all the time. Happens in every match, but did Rooney's loss of possession result in anything against United? Really says a lot about people's ability to judge a player's contribution during a football match.


The match was very end to end from what I saw.Both teams playing good attacking football. Excellent performance from us and a fantastic match of football given to us from Manchester United and Chelsea.Can't wait for Liverpool.

Commadus

why the fuck would I be happy being 3-0 down? Disappointed - sure. Happy? What you smoking?

sammsky1

I was travelling so never got to see the game and when I got on the plane I just saw we were 2 don and thought 'bollox, game over' only to land a few hours later and see on my iPhone that it was 3-3 ..... sounds like it was an amazing 2nd half? Can anybody please PM me a link where I can either download the match or watch or replay stream? Is that possible?

Astounding result which I think will fill the side with alot of confidence that our DNA is still there when we need it.

I think SAF needs to get back to brass tacks for February and concentrate on establishing a tight, solid back 5 and then build from there. If we can do that, I think we will be in a very good place come mid march. With our defenders coming back from injury and the Lindegaard injury meaning DDG will get a stretch of games, that should be possible.

The Europa cup will be good for us to ensure all our squad gets game time to be in form for our priority which is to win the PL so the rotation required should work out.

77

Even at 3-0 I felt we could get back in it. To the point I feel we could have nicked it.

That being said, De Gea's saves were epic.

Some of our passing is electric, almost perfect to the point where there'll be goals at the end of them.

Scholes, words can't do him justice. Carrick has his mojo back.

Neutral

Completely agree with Fergie...despite the huge comeback(what an effort!) it didn't feel like a point rescued, rather two additional points dropped.

Seemed like, we didn't really want to push for that 4th goal(comments Rooney made post match, certainly back up that point of view), but we could have also suffered heartbreak and lost right at the death. Brilliant save from DDG from Mata.

Overall impression - disappointment, we have a tough run of fixtures coming up, and already dropped points at the first hurdle The match against Racist FC is essentially a must win now.

Edmeiste

Been watching the match again. On second viewing, we were pretty good in the first 45 but just wasteful in the final third. Chelsea made a lot of mistakes in that half but we never made them pay for those mistakes. Now for the second half

Edmeiste

After watching the second half again, I think we really should be kicking ourselves for not getting a win there. For mata's goal, Rafael was marking Malouda while Valencia was in no man's land leaving Mata wide open on the right. The third was just due to poor marking and trying to compensate for that lack of marking a little too late. I said in another thread that it was another case of just self-inflicted mistakes. It's those fine margins that determine getting the 3 points or not.

On first viewing, I thought SAF was wrong in bringing off Rafael (he was my MOM). Yet after watching the game again, it worked a treat as it gave Valencia more space to attack Chelsea which ended up leading to our goal. I also thought that if Welbeck had stayed on, we would have won that game. No disrespect to Park but he seemed a few openings that we could have exploited in the dying minutes.

Interestingly enough, if we had taken care of business in the first half, we would have been home and dry by the time the second half came around. Unfortunately, we couldn't make Chelsea pay for their sloppiness but the fact that we dug deep, stayed calm and showed our character to come back just simply made my day. That match is definitely a keeper for me. Although we didn't win, it was just a memorable comeback. Hernandez. What a gem. Cant say enough about DDG's shot stopping ability. He's going to be top class.

If I were a Liverpool fan, I'd be worried about the upcoming visit to OT.