[pjaya]

"It a process"

 

[Charlie Foley]

But for the ball going in a lot of our play was good. However, passing the ball back and forth with seconds left drives me crazy. I'll give a more detailed post when I'm less frustrated

 

[stevoc]

Memphis was pretty cack today. We struggle against anti football it seems.

Doesn't everyone?

 

[Bojan11]

Van Gaal has lost it if he thinks we do not need another player.

 

[Di Maria's angel]

Rooney is a no 10. End of story. We need someone to play ahead of him.

Rooney's not even worth a spot on the bench. He's clearly past it.

 

[pseudo_canadian]

It is hilarious that we didn't score in that game. It begs belief.

Oh, and need an actual striker - Rooney and Hernandez are not good enough if we want to be towards the top of the table at the end of the season.

 

[SCM]

Far too slow in the build up and possession is useless if it is at a snails pace. By time they have passed the ball about the opposition has got everyone back in defence and we struggle to break them down.

 

[Manchie]

Should have ended first half.

 

[poisson]

Unlucky.

Chicha should start next game inatead of Rooney.

Best performance so far this season.

No, chich should start ahead of janujaz, with rooney dropping back

 

[Luminous Lizard]

Annoying game, another day we would of scored early on or nicked one at the end.

Creating more than the first two games though at least.

 

[LitterBug]

Coean sheet

 

[YouOnlyLiveTwice]

We were good, best of out those three games in the PRL, very unlucky not to win. Maybe this game highlights that we need a world class striker, hard to find now though.

 

[arthurka]

We are lacking so much creativity. . Terrible game.

 

[holyland red]

Rooney needs to play off another striker. Much better after Chicharito came on.

 

[mazhar13]

I'm massively disappointed that we haven't scored. We had several chances and quite a few big ones as well, and we couldn't get a goal? This really surprises me.

What also surprised me is how sloppy we were in the final third. How were so many of our deliveries from out wide so bad? Everything else was done well, but we really should have done better in the final third for the number of times we went in there.

We really should have won, and this 0-0 draw feels like a loss. Newcastle got very lucky there.

 

[Oo0AahCantona]

We need a new starting striker.

 

[11101]

Now we've seen what we are missing. We had more and better chances in the 15 minutes Hernandez spent off the shoulder of the last man than we have had in the previous 255 of Rooney wandering around in midfield.

 

[Mciahel Goodman]

here comes the overreaction, we were good but couldn't get that goal. Shit happens, we'll be fine.

We were shite..

Couldn't break them down.

 

[Cristiano Jonaldo]

WE NEED A NUMBER 9, ROONEY IS SHITE

So, so frustrating

 

[MelvinYeo]

LVG will say we played well and we deserved to win - but that was proper shit on a stick football yet again.

No Herrera again, at this point I rather keep Herrera than LVG to be honest.

Rooney needed 5 touches to pass to a team mate again, shambolic performance.

 

[Raw]

If we're going to compare it to last season, defence has definitely improved, but we've scored the same amount of goals in 3 league games as the first 3 of last season.

It's such a major fecking concern.

 

[#07]

The cowardliness shown in stoppage time to take the ball forward and make chances...all we needed to do was load up the box. Sticking with two defensive midfielders all game. Just pure negativity.

 

[GE]

Fecking shite. Horrible boring football. We're nowhere near Chelsea, City or Arsenal.

Load of tripe. Manager is too set in his ways; stubborn as hell. I want to see us play like we did under Fergie.

 

[Reynoldo]

Positive is that this should hit home how much we need another top signing up front.

 

[Judas]

Impossible to spin that to a positive result or performance. It was the usual story sadly, just toothless where it mattered.

 

[vibe]

Said it before, will say it again. We need an answer when teams start playing the 10-0-0 against us. And the answer to that isn't Rooney.

This match should hopefully put beyond doubt that if we don't sign someone up front to replace Rooney, the title is out of the question.

 

[Galactic]

We created a lot of chances. Isn't that what you lot wanted from our first 2 games?

 

[Charlie Foley]

Also, Coloccini was excellent

 

[World Game]

Holy crap, the finishing is so bad all round. Seems like the more chances we create, the less likely we are to score this season.

 

[Sunny Jim]

Said it in the match thread...too much Holywood in their box.

But overall it was a good game to watch. I liked the pace of the game.

The ref was cnut though. Giving them every little foul and didnt see theirs.

 

[bosnian_red]

We need to buy an attacking player with pace... Way too pedestrian and no movement

 

[Sir Matt]

How about we don't play Schneiderlin and Schweinsteiger/Carrick anymore without an actual forward-thinking midfielder. Too bad we don't have one of those on the bench.

Should someone tell Van Gaal that possession doesn't win football matches?

 

[Mr Anderson]

Couldn't keep the tempo up, a lot of possession but not moving the ball quick enough. Newcastle allowed to reshape before we made another attack.

Poor result to be fair

 

[All 3 United]

Great first 20mins after that we played like an LVG team. Personally I don't like it. So slow, no movement. Memphis and Junazaj are just not at the level we need yet. Not saying they won't be but they should be being eased in, coming on for established players.

 

[Rado_N]

Thank god we don't need Pedro

Is this the new 'go to' shit joke? Seeing as it's been said about 5763593658 times already.

 

[R'hllor]

Looking forward to the day LVG walks out the door.

You should go and make a thread about it.

 

[Jippy]

Not disastrous but frustrating. At least Fellaini is back now, but feck, says it all if we are relying on him for goals.

 

[Godfather]

Should have won this. Good game overall but we really struggle to score. Need some striker to put those balls from the wings to.

 

[OnlyTwoDaSilvas]

They parked the bus for the last 30 minutes. Always awful to watch, and so difficult to pick apart. Should have been out of sight in the first half. Still a good defensive display. We look solid all over, but there's just little spark for breaking down teams who don't want to play. Need to kill it when the game is open.

The positive is that they didn't have a single effort on target, even during the spells where we looked disorganised in the first half.

Fine margins settled it though. Rooney should have been given the benefit of the doubt, Smalling hit the post, Hernandez should have finished better with his weaker foot, Carrick's shot deflected inches wide. One of those days.

 

[Freak]

We should have won but our attackers were really annoying with their end product. Memphis, Shaw, Darmian, Januzaj were all extremely poor with their end product.

 

[.Rossi]

All fart and no shit

 

[LazyRed-Ninja]

3 games, 2 wins and a draw, who would not take that ? No goals conceeded and we are only one attacking player away of becoming a real force again.

 

[Brophs]

There'll be lots more of those sorts of performances this season, lads, so I wouldn't waste all your annoyance just yet.