[Poe's Poopoking]

Bring Fellaini on. Get rid of Herrera and Hernandez. Mata to front, Kagawashit to hole. Just keep the ball ffs.

 

[Wade3]

As others have said, it's no wonder our central players are being rubbish when we insist on playing the ball out to the flanks and then either crossing it to nobody or playing a pass 20 yards back to the midfielders who will then do the same thing.

Swansea are packing the no 10 area and we aren't moving enough to disrupt the players marking the area, need to get some movement into that area from our wide players.

The only one who so far has tried something is yet again Adnan. The passing from Fletcher in particular has been pretty underwhelming though.

 

[KettleNeckTroll]

What are you on. We don't want marquee signings... we want signings which cover the gaps in our fecking squad

What are you on ? Players having bad games don't merit being replaced after 45. This isn't fifa 14 where you can just interchange players without factoring chemistry. Go support madrid or Chelsea..

 

[Bloxy]

the spirit of moyes runs deep.

#lessons -pre-season dont count for nowt

 

[Sammyjunn]

Typical 352 match.

 

[Jacob]

As expected. I predicted 1-1 or a narrow 2-1 win.

Swansea are not bad, and more importantly, we're slightly overrated after our preseason.

 

[Ryan L]

I hope van Gaal currently has his balls out

 

[Shamwow]

Wouldn't mind seeing Fellaini come on for Fletcher and no I'm not joking.

 

[RedDevil-85]

Mata and Rooney must do better.
Hernandez has been useless.
Shaky defence.

Sure hope we turn this around,dont want the poor home record of last season to continue.

 

[MTR]

No he isn't.

Maybe you're right. I forgot Mata. Mata then Herrera. Both to sub as quickly as possible.

 

[Dante]

Either Kagawa or Wilson on for Hernandez, please.

 

[jem]

I love how Scholes keeps referring to United as 'we'. I love that man!

 

[An Irish Red]

Can see us moving to a 4-3-3 at half time. It hasn't been good so far but people need to calm down, we're still in this.

Surprised to see some people slating Herrera as well. He's been our best midfielder in my opinion.

 

[acnumber9]

What exactly do we expect Hernandez to do when you don't create a single chance for him? He's a penalty box player.

 

[Smores]

LvG should have started with a different formation given the injuries rather than forcing his fancy on the team.

Disappointing

 

[The Taurean]

3-5-2 without penetration is a worry which is what's happening.

 

[Escobar]

Too many players have been anonymous and are not playing as they did in preseason. Really poor

 

[Blair]

That centre back three isnt good enough.

That's all we have unfortunately.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Agree. Chicharito is asking to be sold at this rate. It's unfortunate, but that is what's happening.

What's going on with James Wilson? Is he injured as well?

Wilson is injured. Unfortunately.

 

[Hed Zitin]

I don't think if RvP was playing it would of made all that much difference. He wouldn't have got the ball enough to do anything.

He might of got on the end of a set piece. That's it.

We're not good enough to play two strikers.

 

[Acole9]

Been really lacking in the final third. Hernandez has been poor.

 

[walkinhop]

Rooney - nowhere yo be found
Chicha - can't control a ball
Fletcher - brain dead
Young - under bird influence
Mata - same as Rooney

Conclusion - amateurs

 

[hobbers]

Honestly people saying Herrera's been a liability You are absolutely clueless.

Fletcher has done nothing at all to help out other than pass it backwards now and then.

Herrera is our best hope of playing that killer pass because Mata has not looked at the races at all today. If a goal is going to come today it's going to come from Januzaj/Rooney and a Herrera pass.

 

[Redarmy19]

Not a great first half.

Looking very disjointed, lack of pace and surprisingly tactically naive.

It's so glaringly obvious we need some top class signings badly.

 

[Dan_F]

Hernandez has just has no pace. His pace has become a myth really.

He does, his problem comes when he has to run onto the ball as his first touch is awful.

 

[Makaveli]

Hernandez has been so frustrating.

 

[Rado_N]

Mcmanamanamanaman makes my ears bleed.

 

[GifLord]

1-0 KI

 

[amolbhatia50k]

Blackett and Smalling were so poor on the goal.

It's worrying that united are going into the season with these defenders.

 

[#07]

Some massive overreaction about this first half. Swansea capitalised on some poor defending, that's it. We just need to turn the key a bit. I still think we'll win this.

 

[daniel9988]

1st half was pretty bad

 

[DeMono]

Just bring Vidal and Di maria.

Change formation to 4-3-3 and let the strikers battle for front striker. I just don't think Van Gaal has big enough balls to do that.

 

[justboy68]

A lot of criticism of the defence but the problem is clearly on the attacking end. Swansea haven't looked like doing anything apart from the one chance that led to a goal (with a clear foul in the build up I might add). The big issue is that we haven't created anything despite having all of the ball.

 

[poisson]

It's funny isn't it - we have one of the worlds best tactical manager in Van Gaal, yet people are still questioning his tactics already.

Not sure what to make of that - either people are overreacting, van gaal isn't as good as he's been made out to be or we're shit. hmmm

 

[hbgreg]

Why are people so surprised? LvG has said everything he could to try to tell us we'd struggle in the beginning. He even said "All my teams struggle in the first three months." He said the squad is below top quality, he's said he can't change everything in four weeks. He's said the squad is broken, why is anyone surprised? We still have Fletcher and Cleverley as our second options in the midfield, we're not dynamic and we have bad players in our line up.

 

[Sheasy_Legend]

Don't worry guys, he's still assessing the squad. We should turn it around by December

 

[DomesticTadpole]

I guess I was the only one that thinks Herrera had a decent half and Januzaj has looked strong. I think Nani will come on for Hernandez and play at RWB with Januzaj moving up top with Rooney.

I thought Herrera was fine. They just seem to have reverted to hoofing the ball into the box badly again.

 

[thegregster]

We need to switch to 4-4-2 and start getting some more crosses in.

We should have just kept Moyes.

 

[WR]

I love how Scholes keeps referring to United as 'we'. I love that man!

Of course he would!

 

[Sassy Colin]

Scholesy loves Rooney

 

[Sunny Jim]

Bring Fellaini on. Get rid of Herrera and Hernandez. Mata to front, Kagawashit to hole. Just keep the ball ffs.

I missed the Newbies. Not.

 

[gooDevil]

Swansea won't be able to keep up that pace, we'll get our chance.

 

[Fritz]

Blackett and Young worst on the pitch, both responsible for the goal.

 

[Nanook]

Paul Scholes has the smallest mouth in the world.

 

[RikRuud]

Just speechless, we look like the away team. Playing like last season

 

[legball]

Some overreaction here, we haven't been bad, Swansea came with a very good game plan that has worked so far, I think they deserve more credit for that than United being rubbish.