I picked Jones. He added great stability, won so many important challenges. Positionally sound, didnt give them a sniff. Showed true grit. Pogba was very very good too, adds a touch of class, but can be a bit wacky at times.Someone tell me who to pick as MotM. I'm not sure. No-one was bad but it was just a determined team effort, the tryers did as much as the boys who actually had some success. Pogba?
Part of me wants to pick Bailly for having Vardy so firmly in his pocket all night.
I joked about it last week, but maybe SAF wasn't that far off when he said he saw a great defender in Jones. Here's hoping this will be the season where it truly begins to show in him.His timing of tackles. His marshalling the area and reading of the game. All top notch.
Loved a couple of his runs up field. And that was foul when he got stopped.
Just stay fit Jones. Solid professional. The fact he is English makes me even happier.
Mahrez is crap.Great win. Good performance. Only down side was Lukaku missing the penalty. We really do need a wide right sided player with a little bit of pace and trickery. Anyone notice how long Fellaini and Pogba were talking to Mahrez at the end. Was it just because they speak the same language, or was there something else.
His problem was always fitness.But he does not go blind into tackles anymore. Sure Mourinho and his team have spoken to him.I joked about it last week, but maybe SAF wasn't that far off when he said he saw a great defender in Jones. Here's hoping this will be the season where it truly begins to show in him.
Still better than the creativity that came from our right side of the pitch, with Valencia now reverting back to his usual timid self attacking wise.Mahrez is crap.
He wanted to take it to score a goal. I wonder if he even knew about no player scoring in first 3 for us!Lukaku wanted to score the penalty so he could break some record. Bad judgement from him, Pogba and Mata for letting. If we were already winning, then ok, not when it's still 0-0.
Or was it the other way around, Mahrez trying to get Mourinho interested in him by tapping up Fellaini and Pogba?Fellaini and Pogba tapping up Mahrez
He's always been a good defender. People seem to have mixed up a lot of injuries with being crap.I joked about it last week, but maybe SAF wasn't that far off when he said he saw a great defender in Jones. Here's hoping this will be the season where it truly begins to show in him.
Couldn't see us signing him, as it'd in effect be the end of Mata, and all of Jose's signings are pacy, physically powerful players or both.Great win. Good performance. Only down side was Lukaku missing the penalty. We really do need a wide right sided player with a little bit of pace and trickery. Anyone notice how long Fellaini and Pogba were talking to Mahrez at the end. Was it just because they speak the same language, or was there something else.
Minus from lukaku for missed pen! I have him as captain so im screwed.Nothing from Pogba or Lukaku. FPL week ruined. That aside, good win.
Not always a good thing when one of these dreadful breaks kills momentum.Happy with that, we showed resilience to keep probing away after the penalty miss and 5-0 wouldn't have been flattering.
PROS
- 3 x clean sheet from three games.
- Bailly and Jones look a formidable partnership.
- Midfield was dominant.
CONS
- Lukaku had one of his off-days, there will be a few of them.
- We could've easily scored more.
Onwards and upwards again, shame it's an international break next weekend.
He's a great playerMahrez is crap.
Some weekends are bigger picture material. The win in real footy is way more important!Minus from lukaku for missed pen! I have him as captain so im screwed.
Nah both made bee lines for him and were in his ear with hands covering their mouths.Or was it the other way around, Mahrez trying to get Mourinho interested in him by tapping up Fellaini and Pogba?
Pogba clearly tapping him up at the end of the game too.He's a great player
This whole post was ruined by the Lukaku line.I predicted 2-1 to us, so pleased to have a clean sheet. Don't know what we were doing for that last-minute chance that De Gea saved but IIRC it was their only real opportunity.
I'm pretty certain this would've been a 0-0 draw or a loss last season. The difference this year is that our bench is delivering and our quality is finding a way to win games. And we've also had some luck - Schmeichel wasn't far from saving Rashford's goal. That's also something we didn't have in similar games then.
Martial I thought put in a good 1st half. He seemed to fade from the game but he was a menace earlier on and played an excellent ball to Pogba that he should've scored with. Mkhitaryan didn't look at the races today and frankly, there have been stretches of the first 3 games where he's looked kind of listless. He seems to perk up when everyone around him is starting to get space to play in, which I think has helped to pad his record so far this year. I rate him highly, but he needs to put in a full 90.
Lukaku was awful. I don't expect the guy to score every time he touches the ball but how many times in the game did he lose the ball in his feet? He also kept holding the ball too long when he could've shot and I don't understand why he took the penalty - his penalty record has never been good and it gave me flashbacks of the FA Cup semi from a couple of seasons ago. It may be true that Schmeichel false-started but I don't think Lukaku took it particularly well.
Defence, I have no complaints about. Vardy was never a threat in the game and we did well to contain Gray after he came on. Everyone in the backline knew their job. Matic very good again, as was Fellaini.
So we're at an interesting point now. We won our first 3 matches last season when the international break came and then we had the City defeat...
That's how I remembered it live! Yet looking at my foot mob app, it seemed to think Blind took the corner, and Pogba flicked on![QUOTE="Lucky McLuckerson, post: 21401781, member: 106294"
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And that's such a huge transformation vs the post SAF feeling of not knowing what response we would pull out at all.Bit of the old feeling that the goal was inevitable today.
Also very positive sub's and encouraging that we're going in to kill teams off rather than shit ourselves and try defend a one nil lead.
And I wasnt concerned at all as I was totally confident our class would show through.We'd have 100% drawn that game last season, the fact that we didn't makes me very very happy
Also, pretty sure Damarai Gray is the fastest man on the planet
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