The previous one was sarcasm, genius.you're coming out with some crackers tonight!
Moyes was puzzled to feck as to why they werent attacking
The previous match may have had an impact on that.
Yeah, Rio'a best performance of the season. By quite a margin.
Called it, was 9/1 before kick off.Apart from being in the prem?
0-0 this will end, considering the weather conditions.
Maybe you really are a comedian!? You're on form tonight. You, of all people, lecturing people on how to handle differences. Classic!
Pretty much... ending was meek but you can appreciate the players caution - we've been stung late so often this season and that can't help but damage confidence.
well that certainly lived up to the hype.....0-0 bore at its best , suppose we didn't lose ....In a way this game has damaged Arsenal's confidence more than ours.
The BT effect?
Wounded Arsenal? What about a wounded United???
Yes. I agree with all of that. I think the players were so shook by the late goals this season they just lost their bottle in injury time. Not ideal but understandable.
The problem with our midfield is that they're not expected to attack. Cleverley was solid defensively and played the ball around, basically he did everything that was asked of him. People forget we have 4 out and out forwards on the field, the role of the midfield today was give them the ball and allow them to do something with it. Our midfield is like our situation with Mata and Kagawa. We basically put them out wide and ask them to play in a system not suited to their strengths. You could stick the most attack minded CM in the world and ask him to do what Cleverley and Carrick did tonight and you would get the same result.
Martin Keown & Townsend saying that Vidic "push" on Giroud was a penalty
I think Arsenal had more at stakes than us by winning the match. We have basically nothing to play for this season and they're competing for the title.
I'd say so... Big games in FA cup and CL going badly could really ignite the typical February disaster for them, they look a bit done.
yeah agreed, the right games for him are games where we aren't in control, and he won't be stretched
I think we needed not to lose just as badly as them. That result will give the players a badly needed confidence boost. Going for broke and conceding another late goal would have been catastrophic for the team, mentally. This at least gives them something to build on.
Humourless? I've been laughing my arse off at you all night!
Yeah, you could tell by the way Arsenal gave up an easy chance to RVP right off the bat that they were on form and not effected by the thrashing.
And on ignore.
Errrrm....
This was when Young was hoofing the ball up after clearing it and having no one in front of him. It isn't about the last 20 seconds.
It is sad that we are working on damage limitation at this point of the season. At least Cleverley played well. Him and Carrick are too similar in their roles though. I think that the performance was just as tumescent and disjointed as most of the others this season. The only plus being that we did not concede so couldn't lose.
Harsh on Cleverley. He protected the defence brilliantly. It was clearly his job tonight, alongside Carrick.
