[Slevs]

Dean isn't calling anything for us, typical at the bridge

To be fair he missed the handball on De Gea outside the box. He's just an appalling ref really. Even if there are previouses of refs fecking us over at the Bridge.

 

[hbgreg]

2-1 is still on if we get some penetration (hint hint Di Maria).

 

[Getsme]

First Half Ratings:


Falcao - LEAVE THE PITCH.

feck up.

 

[Señor]

We deserve to be level as neither team deserve to be ahead. We've had a lot of the ball but done feck all with it. Chelsea score with their first shot on target after a piece of individual brilliance by Hazard.

Falcao's been average. To be honest, everyone has so not sure why so many are singling him out. Only Herrera and Valencia have been anything like being good.

 

[lapassion]

Despite the result, I am pretty satisfied with our performance. Rooney should have hit the target at least. We are gonna win the league next year. At least.

 

[LARulz]

Not able to watch the game

How is ROoney doing in midfield???

I'd say pretty good. Playing box to box and looking for a forward pass, but if it's not there he won't always force it like you'd expect.

 

[OnlyTwoDaSilvas]

Di Maria and RvP in for the 2nd half?

Has to be. RVP can't be worse than Falcao, surely?

 

[Mali_Zeus]

First half ratings:

de Gea - 3
Valencia - 6
Smalling - 3
McNair - 5
Shaw - 7
Rooney - 4
Herrera - 7
Fellaini - 5
Mata - 5
Young - 8
Falcao - 3

Shaw 7, Rooney 4, Smalling 3
What

 

[Theonas]

All the space in the world, and we keep going with slow, zombie possession. Far too much going backwards or lateral.

Chelsea set the tone for the game. They want us to have the ball. All we've mustered is a few left footed crosses on Ivanovic's side. Nothing from valencia and mata.

All the space? Are you watching? José did what he usually does and is putting everyone behind the ball. They frustrated Barcelona in their glory years for goodness sake. I think it's understandable that they'd do it to us.

 

[Booyakasha]

Where is all this Shaw hate coming from? I thought he was one of our better players this half.

 

[hbgreg]

Not able to watch the game

How is ROoney doing in midfield???

Good.

 

[Dunk]

Some people need to relax. We're fine. Stop overreacting.

 

[minoo-utd]

Falcao should be more stronger. If he can't be tough then he can't play at these high standards this game requires.

Falcao off, Do Maria on any one ?

 

[MAME DIOUF 32]

Rooney upfront would be a good start.

But how do we make that happen without Carrick and Blind, and bearing in mind that Fellaini has looked pathetic in midfield and unplayable up front?

No blame on van Gaal for me on this half. We've played OK. Falcao shouldn't have lost the ball so weakly but the defending after that was pretty poor as well.

 

[Skills]

Get Young off for Di Maria. Ivanovic has Young's number. Can't get anything from him.

 

[Castia]

Di Maria on for Falcao and push Rooney upfront, we have lots of space I think Di Maria will punish them.

 

[caisenma]

Valencia's lack of forward vision is shocking. Should have connected better with Mata at the end of the half, but didnt even bother looking forward. Just back.

 

[Deleted member 78215]

Aside from the goal - obviously - we were good.

That being said, I feel Falcao's having a poor game. Rooney is just not good in central midfield.

Move Rooney up top, ADM on for Falcao. Let him run. There is so much space in the centre.

 

[Orton]

Today is why having guys like Young can cost us. He's had the ball a lot more than other attacking outlets but he's failed to deliver a decent cross/pass. Mata's corners have been terrible too, I mean there is no pace on them at all. So easy to defend.

 

[Walters_19_MuFc]

Unlikely given he even said he might play Rooney as the defensive midfielder.

I wasn't quite right, but Rooney certainly isn't playing as the holding midfielder.

 

[BringNaniBack]

This annoys me so much as this Chelsea side are so overrated. We should honestly wipe the floor with them.

 

[thegregster]

Get Rooney up top. Its our best hope.

We will have to take a gamble on Di Maria in CM.

 

[saivet]

When has he ever done anything good? The guy is literally the most overrated player ever and its now starting to get on my nerves.

Lol

 

[vibe]

Falcao off for Di Maria, put Mata central. Either way a write-off, might as well try to be aggressive and give Chelsea a run for their money.

How valuable a point would be right now. I'm sure any of us would take it.

 

[dwd]

First Half Ratings:

De Gea - 4
Valencia - 6.5
Smalling - 6
McNair - 6
Shaw - 6
Rooney - 7
Herrera - 7
Fellaini - 5
Mata - 4
Young - 7
Falcao - LEAVE THE PITCH.

Thanks for that Andy Townsend.

 

[Red Dreams]

Terry being a thug...

normal.

 

[SqueakyWeasel]

First half ratings:

de Gea - 3
Valencia - 6
Smalling - 3
McNair - 5
Shaw - 7
Rooney - 4
Herrera - 7
Fellaini - 5
Mata - 5
Young - 8
Falcao - 3

Harsh on Smalling, Rooney, Mata and DdG IMHO

 

[girish]

Only a goal in it .

And a shit load of Chelsea players infront of it.

 

[Mali_Zeus]

Negative by Chelsea, defending at home and playing on the counter as expected but they got the goal. We havent exploited all that space they left us. Need a better final ball.

 

[MoskvaRed]

Plenty of possession but doing nothing with it. We'll need to gamble on Di Maria at some point although Chelsea look strong on the counter.

 

[Devil may care]

We've played well for the most part, need more thrust in the final 3rd but our lack of pace and trickery in this area has shown. Very unlucky to be a goal down, we are the only team playing football, Chelsea are like some dogmatic side from Serie A in the early 90's.

 

[The Law of Denis]

I'd sub Falcao for Di Maria

 

[Henrik Larsson]

Nah we're playing really well. We lack that final bit of balance to completely dominate Chelsea on all area's of the game, but that's down to those damn injuries.

Rooney should've scored, that was unlucky. Chelsea play like a lower league side that has Hazard on loan.

 

[Djemba-Djemba]

We've played well but lacked that cutting edge.

It's typical Chelsea really, negative and boring but successful.

I'd like to see Di Maria in the 2nd half, and I'd like to not see Falcao playing for us anymore. It's sad to see whats happened to him but he's just so utterly feeble.

 

[Spoony]

This thread lol, following recent performances and the injuries I thought people would be content with how we're playing.

Scorelines tend to sway people's opinions.

 

[Needham]

Against a normal team you'd think there's goals in it and we've had enough possession to warrant genuine optimism for the second half. But combine Mourinhos Stamford Bridge stat against the top sides with the number of games he's lost having taken the lead and we have less chance of winning this than the Conservative Party have taking Scotland.

 

[diarm]

Quite aside from being a big girls blouse for their goal, Falcao has offered us precisely nothing in attack.
He's been truly useless. That rare kind of useless where we actually would have been better 10 men and him sat at home.

Shaw would want to cop on and get crosses in early when they're on as well.
3 or 4 times in that half he took the arse out of a quick attack.

We'd be battering these with our first XI.

I think I'd like to see Fellaini go fecking through John Terry almost as much as I'd like to see us score in the second half.

 

[Boycott]

We're playing well..

 

[Golo]

Falcao should be more stronger. If he can't be tough then he can't play at these high standards this game requires.

Falcao off, Do Maria on any one ?

Yes, I thought ADM should have started instead of Falcao. We need some unpredictability and flair in our game, we're not going to score doing this textbook shit.

 

[RetroStu]

Its frustrating how predictable we are, i don't mean in our play, i mean in the sense how it was painfully obvious Chelsea was going to sucker punch us, like it was painfully obvious Aguero would score against us after not being able to hit a barn door for weeks, etc.

 

[marukomu]

People should calm down a bit. Even at our best we usually lost to these.