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Two bad defensive mistakes, due to lack of concentration and quite possibly two weeks not playing together due to internationals. Ultimately, we scored two goals against a Stoke team that (expectedly) played with most of their team piled around their box. We snuffed them out on their...

Quite all right with that. Admittedly, Real didn't really get out from second gear, and when they did they cut us open easily, but as many people have said - they're the best team in the world and have been playing together for a few years, so it was to be expected. Thought we gave a good...

I dunno, there's nothing about him that says to me "yup, he's a Man United quality midfielder" . . . Even though, on recent evidence, he's exactly our level of midfielder . . . Somebody early said as much - he doesn't take up good positions, doesn't ask for the ball, apart from one decent cross...

If my memory serves me correctly, a lot of people used to swear by one of his games against Newcastle, but I can't recall what year. In general though, the thing about Scholes is that while he rarely had a dominating midfield performance, like what Xavi would do or what Modric did against...

What the . . . a player who's been, agreed, pretty darn good for an amazing real side for all of two years, compared to one of the best midfielders of all time, a mainstay in the most successful domestic English club side and arguably in Europe as well. Scholes was so clearly a different class...

I don't follow Bayern and german football all that closely, but I think the aging first team is more an indication who Ancelotti trusts, rather than a representation of the entire team. Honestly, apart from having to replace Ribery and Robben (and they have Coman on the bench, who I still rate...

Maybe wants to rest players for the league and champions league ? Sad, but reasonable, unfortunately. Shame, cause I was quite looking forward to this, guess I'm watching Bayern - Dortmund. How unfair :D

Only if it was a sandwich.

No, but a leader is expected to instill confidence into the three young defenders around him who were clearly shitting themselves throughout the entire game, calm them down a bit - something Rio and Vida have done countless times for us in the past. Yet for some reason Silva keeps getting called...

Not at all. In fact, as far as I understand it season one has parts of the first and the second book, so reading them will spoil some stuff for you from the upcoming season. Plus, it makes complete sense without reading the books and it's not too difficult to keep up with it :)

Switched it on around 5 minutes in and until the 20th we were looking well sub-par. Wigan had more desire, were chasing and closing us down everywhere and we couldn't do anything. And then we turned it around - maybe they got tired, maybe we actually thought it'd be a nice idea to stop sitting...

Agree with the statement, haven't read the article itself. We have big issues all around the field - our defense is shambolic (as seen in the Arsenal game - concede one chance = concede one goal; was the same in the Stoke game, we let Chelsea stick 4 past us for f's sake). Chris was good last...

Yeah, because Zlatan (50 goals in 51 games last year, 30 in 37 the year before), Rashford (8 in 18 last year as a debuting teenager), Mata (1 in 5 last year, 1 in 3 games the two years before - playing as a midfielder/winger) and Pogba (on average 1/4 - 1/5 player as a midfielder) are clearly...

We absolutely needed that. Brilliant second half, great to see that much intensity from all of our players. Sure, it was a City side without their big guns, but it's still City and it's still a big win confidence wise, particularly after the last game.

Really annoying, cause it was probably our best performance. So many clear chances, wonderful play. I dunno whether to chalk it down to it just being one of those days, or - much more worryingly - being due to fatigue from the Europe League game. That second half did look like we were running...