[Niall]

United come away from Moscow with a point. It wasn't looking good at half-time, 1:0 down and CSKA the better team. The Reds gradually worked their way back into the game in the second-half and started creating chances. Martial netted a crucial equaliser after 65 minutes, his fifth of the season.

As CSKA tired United had chances to go for a winner, but never quite went for it. A point is a decent result, but they'll need to keep winning their home games to get out of the group.

Wolfsburg are top of Group B after beating PSV 2:0 in Germany, with United and CSKA joint second on four points.

 

[Rado_N]

Garbage.

 

[walkinhop]

Fecking ugly brand of football

 

[El Zoido]

Well it says a lot that I'm disappointed we didn't win.

 

[ivaldo]

Not a bad point really, toughest game of the group.

 

[Hostekule]

We got what he wanted.

 

[17 Van der Gouw]

Hard fought, deserved a point. Much better in the second half, could have won it.

 

[Stringer]

I hate the way we play football. Zero risks.

 

[DOTA]

Really poor first half. Decent second half but not great.

Okay result. We should still qualify. We have two home games to go.

 

[Nickosaur]

Could only watch the second half. Happy with that result. United looked very comfortable after Martial's goal. Confident that we'll beat this lot at home easily.

 

[sizzling sausages]

Shit performance, okay result.

 

[Mrs Smoker]

Boy, are we dull or what?

Liked Valencia the best tonight.

 

[the hea]

A very important point but feck me that was boring.

 

[bubbles_]

A lot like the PSV game. Our opponents a complete non-entity but sucker punched us.

Infuriating the way we played in injury time with Fellaini and Rooney just stood there like lumps.

 

[Getsme]

Those last 10-15 seconds summed up our game, no risk taking whatsoever

 

[dannyrhinos89]

Couldn't care less about the point it was dire, negative nothing football.

 

[.Rossi]

Will be slaughtered by the first decent team we meet in this competition.

Blind over Rojo any day!
Schneiderlin is starting to show his class
Lingard was solid
Martial is going to be amazing.

Rooney is woeful
Terrible football at times.
Jones and Rojo are liabilities.

 

[imperi]

Good result and in the end thats all that counts when playing in fecking Moscow on the end of October.

 

[Raoul]

Boring stuff. Glad we got a point, which was by no means guaranteed.

 

[mu77]

a point but no balls. LVG culture firmly entrenched.

 

[IhabX7]

Absolutely gutted that we didn't try to win it in the last minutes against a very poor side.

 

[prateik]

Rooney stinks the place out.. again.
Memphis did nothing in his 10 minutes..

 

[Bestie07]

One of the games which we will struggle to remember six months from now, never mind six years.

 

[Flying_Heckfish]

Awful to watch. Right result though

 

[Varun]

Shit performance, okay result.

4 words. Says everything.

 

[hbgreg]

Good point.

 

[rednev]

Is there any way to view the player ratings without having to rate the players?

 

[Siorac]

Awful first half, I don't even want to waste words on that.

Credit to LVG and the players for turning it around after the break, creating chances and getting a deserved equaliser. So that's a positive.

But it's concerning that after that, we barely created anything again. Lots of possession far away from their goal. We really couldn't capitalise on the momentum we built up before the equaliser.

At least we still have a good chance of qualifying. Need to win the next two games, they're both at Old Trafford so no excuses.

 

[sammsky1]

Was that the most boring match I have ever watched us play? Was painful , at least we got a point.

 

[Brophs]

Always nice to see a side get into half decent positions and then just let it peter out to the point where they're being pressed on the halfway line.

Decent enough result, though, tbf. Gives us a good chance of qualifying now.

 

[Cheesy]

Not a dreadful result. Ideally would've been looking to win that one, but obviously a tough game away from home. Martial should be playing centrally ahead of Rooney. No doubt about that.

 

[Livewire1974]

An absolutely excellent.........................cure for insomnia.

 

[The Law of Denis]

I don't think we played badly, but wow our style is mind numbingly boring.

 

[facund]

What's the Russian word for insipid?

 

[AltiUn]

I really think Rooney is just taking the absolute piss now, LvG grow some balls and bench him, he's shit now.

 

[VanGaalEra]

I'll take a point, means we need to win our next two home games to qualify.

 

[Leg-End]

I don't enjoy watching us play.

 

[worldinmotion66]

We looked better second half with 1 deep midfielder and two runners in Herrera and Fellaini, and it seems to get the best from Schneiderlin and certainly Herrera.

 

[LeftyBlaster]

Why do we spend 45-60 minutes out of 90 pissing around like all is good in the world before remembering there's a game to be won?

 

[LazyRed-Ninja]

A point in Russia. Control your female hormones. Good position in the group.

 

[FC Ronaldo]

Poor first half. Better second. Decent result considering the rotations and performance in that first half.

Key comment:

This Rooney centric focus is hurting us.

He's had worse games this season than tonight's performance but it's his presence in the team as a striker which forces Martial further away from goal and it's not working, too often. Throw in Herrera, who excelled as a 10 just a few days ago, also being moved from position and it makes no sense.

It was no coincidence that when Martial got close to goal, we scored.

Just don't get why the need to pacify one man is insisted upon at the clear expense of the full capability of the team. It's not pragmatic.