I know van Gaal gets results but Jesus id sooner watch moyes's utd.
Anyone else sick of watching this boring rubbish?
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Jesus Christ....
Inb4 da lock
We had a lot of boring CL away matches under Fergie as well
Erm no.
I rather enjoy possession football. I just hate how risk averse we are with it. We are so close to being a great team...
I rather enjoy possession football. I just hate how risk averse we are with it. We are so close to being a great team...
Januzaj alone was more fun to watch than most of our players. We're a better team now, but possession football just makes us so boring to watch at times. We dont have the quality to like really make it work, as Barcelona, Bayern, Real and to a lesser extent City and Arsenal do.
We play some lovely football at times.
I don't mind the patient approach when we're level or winning, it's when we're losing I get anxious and inpatient but overall I like our football.
I don't mind the patient approach when we're level or winning, it's when we're losing I get anxious and inpatient but overall I like our football.
Nope
It was a pretty awful game. But most games away in Russia are a bit shit like this. Although at times we were frustratingly slow tonight
It was a pretty awful game. But most games away in Russia are a bit shit like this. Although at times we were frustratingly slow tonight
Well that's what I mean. No risks. Pass pass pass lose it. Defend. Win ball pass pass pass repeat.
It's just boring to watch.
Its all part of the philosophy
We are miles off being a great team.
Any of the top European sides would slap us like Arsenal did.
You think is slowing recycling possession would bother Madrid?
The style of football is okay, but it's those last 10 or 15 minutes. Passing the ball back to the half way line when we're in the process of bombing down the wing with 1 minute to go. Why? Why is there no urgency to win a game of football? It often seems like not losing the ball is more important than getting a win. They were out on their feet and there for the taking in that last 15 minutes, and we didn't even try to get at them. We bring on Fellaini and we put the ball in the box about 2 or 3 times, tops.
I don't mind it if we're winning a game. I find it oddly comforting when we're winning and we're patiently passing it around in midfield giving the opposition no chance to get it back.
The first half v CSKA though, feck me it's irritating.
The first half v CSKA though, feck me it's irritating.
I'm more sick of the whiny threads and negative attitude from so many posters here. What do you really expect from a European away game? We were shite to watch under Ferguson away from home too. Particularly weird when you consider how we played just 3 days ago.
No. This was a typical away match in Europe and we got what we needed. Quit whining.
Nothing wrong with tactics like this in tough away games in Europe. Only four days ago we beat Everton 3-0 and would not call that performance boring.
Spot on! With a bit more adventure in our play we would be almost unplayable.
There's a 16th placed side in Spain you can go support instead then.
But I also hate watching us being attacked. Id much rather watch us passing the ball slow than watch a team run us ragged.
Honestly mate, you're an idiot.
this is what football is and always has been. We played like this under Fergie.
You just don't like football because today was fine.
Ffs, some of you are so so spoiled. Not even spoiled on memories but on FIFA and FM and what you expect it to be.
this is what football is and always has been. We played like this under Fergie.
You just don't like football because today was fine.
Ffs, some of you are so so spoiled. Not even spoiled on memories but on FIFA and FM and what you expect it to be.
Most away matches in Champions League have been like this for the past decade. And in today's case, you have to take into account the traveling as well.
Thought it was a great away performance myself.
Dominated the ball and nullified them when they tried to go forward, this style always looks boring when the opposition have something to hang into.
Some of our interchanges and triangles were beautiful
Dominated the ball and nullified them when they tried to go forward, this style always looks boring when the opposition have something to hang into.
Some of our interchanges and triangles were beautiful
I dislike watching possession football but ultimately only care about results.
Also, this.
I wasn't being serious about that. But can you imagine what fergie would do with this team.
As said, away games under Fergie weren't the most exciting. It's all about getting through the group.
Let's not go too far here...
it's LVG football not man united football. dull no heart get the point away football.
Arsenal arent the benchmark. After the horror 30 mins or so we were okay.
Madrid would tear apart most teams, they are the best counter attacking team in the world.
This was basically exactly how our away's looked under Fergie. Boring, grinding out a result, and then taking care of business at home.
Considering the amount of money spent, who should be held responsible for the lack of quality to play the kind of football the "philosophy" requires then?
I almost fell asleep watching today; I think that may be the only way to get past our opponents. When people say we had a good second half, it says too much.
Feck me!
We had like 78% posession or something and home team was playing on the counter while both created about equal chances and drew.
Was hardly a typical away match in europe which is more or less the other way round.
What do you want? We ran them ragged keeping the ball off them. Especially after going a goal down to a stupid penalty.
Obvious van Gaal tho, but thats another discussion.
This. We weren't too bad in the 2nd half, there was some good stuff there. We just need to get some consistency with our good spells imo.
That's because it is our style now. Barcelona also have that kind of posession away, I would imagine. It was a typical away match in Europe in the sense of the team being a tad risk averse and being ok with 1 point.
If they win the two home games then we got 10 points and are golden.
No! It's perfectly fine to play it safe away from home. Fergie did that and any sensible manager should do that; however, CSKA were quite poor and there were opportunities to exploit, but we kept playing it back and forth, back and forth like a lullaby. At least Fergie would try to risk a counter attack from time to time. Now we just keep the ball, not luring them into attack or creating spaces - just back and forth, back and forth.
Problem is that this isn't limited to the CL. But on the other hand, there has been some great matches under LvG. Can't say that about any performances under Moyes.
You'd be amazed at the number of other TV channels that are running at the same time as our matches. There must be approaching 50 of them at this point.