This, I love park and always will, but his time is up.
He's also a winger that's supposed to do that. Park isn't. At least not anymore.
You're taking it too far. He's never been the 'best' player for us but he won't go down as a flop whenever he goes and to class him with that list of garbage there is insulting.
Agreed.
But he's done that role from the left wing, which has a much different impact then doing it in virtually the attacking midfielder role. That was the big problem, alongside not having played etc. I think he could have come in and played from the left and put in a decent shift, but playing in the middle took so much away from us as it inhibited our counter/attack so much.
I don't disagree with that. I thought he'd be playing as a defensive winger, not being so central. Instead he was behind Rooney, pressing City midfielders and that made Giggs pretty much pointless. Giggs wasn't on the left wing either. We just gave up that side.
Well i've cheered you up tonight
Actually one of the most idiotic posts I've encountered here in a long time. I'm in severe over reaction anger mode here myself but my god, that's just, wow.
Kin ell. That's a retarded statement. How short some peoples memories are. This man was instrumental in helping us reach the Champions league final against Chelsea.
So why play him now
He may aswell leave then cos if he's not a winger anymore he sure as feck is not and never will be a centre midfielder.
Yep, I agree. And this wasn't even his worst game this season, I think this can be called good performance after couple of his games at start of the season. He was poor, no doubt about that, but he shouldn't be starting in first place.
lol, yeah was a bit of a dead avenue. Just can't believe we lost like that. I'd rather go all out for the win then go out with such a whimper, especially as I imagine the whole footballing world was watching today. The 433 has served us well in the past but you've got to have the right players for each role and too often I think we get it wrong.
Ask Fergie.
He also probably will. But considering how short we are in central midfield it isn't a bad thing chucking him in front of Scholes and Carrick to limit the other team. But if you do that you better have wing play on both sides. Our left wing was dead.
I can't understand the team selection... it was just baffling.
I'd imagine most, myself included, are lamenting the fact Park started, or mostly in my case where he played, rather than blame Park himself. He's got his strengths no doubt but he shouldn't have played and I think most who think that way, think it was a tactical mistake rather than Park being rubbish.
4-4-2 hasn't worked well recently at all either. We're better suited to the 4-5-1 tactic than a 4-4-2. If you watch City's chances you'll see the reason why Scholes was taken off. His tracking back isn't good because he doesn't have the legs for it really. That's why a 2 man midfield with Scholes against a strong attacking side doesn't work. It's also pretty useless having him there in this game considering how he played. His strength above all other players on the pitch is that he can pass it to a free winger no problem when other players would still be figuring out where players are around them. However there was no one on the left. He had limiting options.
So what was it, anyhow how can you say it was a good performance! Don't care if he has not played for months and the bottom line is he has been poor all season and tonight he was simply shit.
I agree that going an out and out 442 wouldn't work, not with Scholes in there, but you could get Rooney to drop in to the middle and I mean properly drop, not teeter on the edge of the hole/striker. He would offer so much more than Park. Not to mention Welbeck as an out ball is better than Rooney. Rooney is good leading the line when we have the ball lots, but when we're under pressure he's not so good. Welbeck however has the physique and pace to cause real problems, not to mention the awareness and ability to hold it up for people and play others in. Or you could put Young there and tell him to drop back.
I meant it was good if you compare it with couple of those from start of the season.
Mhm. We can agree that we didn't field or strongest lineup. Park wasn't the problem. Park and Giggs and Jones was the problem. We defended fine but our attack suffered greatly. I can see why he left out Valencia. He's been declining a bit game by game lately and wasn't fresh at all when he came on.
Tbh I wouldn't have even minded Park out wide, I think others like Young will work just as hard but with a lot more threat but I can see the value of him there. As much as I like Berba though I wouldn't have gone with him. With Rooney already deep the other guy needs to stretch them and Berba won't do that. He'll condense the pitch which will reduce Scholes influence because he won't have the space to work with both for himself or his passes.
This. Fergie is having a laugh over a spirited glass after naming him to the starting line up. Might as well put Pogba in next go around.
That's something else.
Considering how many long balls we punt up the pitch having Berba would be great. Someone who can control it and not just nick it over to the next City defender. Hernandez would only be a poacher and Welbeck, I just don't like him up there. He's not that good around the box. With Rooney very deep I wouldn't want to rely on him for goals. With Welbeck up front we have been doing that.
and the king of them all LIAM MILLER
Maybe, I agree about Valencia though, said somehwere else we should have put him right back during the game and got him to drill some crosses in. I think Welbeck is a good lone striker though, he'll work hard and he's got the ability and athletic ability to cause problems. Either way I think most options would have been better than Park in a central role as much as I love him.
