[LazyRed-Ninja]

Poodle on a stick. What a genius you are.

He is just expressing his thoughts on the forum. That is everybody's right, right ? No need to go full sarcasm here, i think. Take a deep breath and imagine yourself being surrounded by hula dancing girls in Honolulu.

 

[lem8sh]

Don't really agree with that, we created more than enough to score (Falcao's and RVP's big chances, Fellaini's header, Rooney's free kick, should've done better, then the goal). Draw is fair enough.

Never in a million years did we deserve a draw.

 

[ChaddyP]

Blind was literally on his own in midfield. Not the best side go play away at West ham. Fellaini should have started. Clueless to why he wasn't. Just needed some strength and presence in midfield. Rooney would have buried the chances that fell to Falcao. Rather see him upfront than in this sort of midfield role.

 

[Mr Anderson]

Rooney can't be kept in midfield. He really needs to be up top with whoever, as Rooneys movement would be a major plus there. Adnan picked ahead of Herrera for a more central position also? This playing players out of position just does not give us a good shape at all

 

[Americano]

What did he say?

Something along the lines of, at the end of the match they just lumped it forward, not the sort of football you see Manchester United play, etc, etc.

Just picture Pulis having a laugh over Crystanbul. That was the look on his face.

 

[Matty7]

Allerdice haha! Sadly he's 100% true! Looks worse as Van Gaal always says about other teams just playing long balls, including West Ham!

 

[BW.k]

LVG needs to stop playing Rooney in midfield and stick him up front. Its baffling that our best goalscorer plays in midfield while we play two strikers when both of them are not mobile and pacey enough and need chances to deliver which are not going to come when you have only one or two in midfield who could consistently create for them.
With all the talk of shambolic defense , its the attackers that have let us down the most in the last couple of months.

 

[JP77]

Just like Van Gaal has done with our team.

Here we go, more embarrassing shit, oh dear

Entirely justified I would say.

Not justified what so ever with some of the pathetic comments in there. We're quick to laugh at RAWK and co going into meltdown but feck me this place on match days like this trump them all.

 

[RetroStu]

Sam Allardyce just called us 'long-ball Man United'

We are just an embarrassment, a total laughing stock.

 

[Winrar]

We're a shambles and we aren't finishing top 4 at this rate. Come March we have hard fixtures and that is where our luck will end.

March with hard fixtures is where we really struggled last season, didn't we.

Could be a deja vu in the making, not good.

 

[goin4glory]

Another awful performance. LVG out it's just atrocious.

 

[red_devil83]

Fecking hell, the state of us

Can't argue with it either

 

[Laphroaig]

Never in a million years did we deserve a draw.

Well argued...

 

[charleysurf]

He is just expressing his thoughts on the forum. That is everybody's right, right ? No need to go full sarcasm here, i think. Take a deep breath and imagine yourself being surrounded by hula dancing girls in Honolulu.

Yeah, so some sarcasm offends you more than someone calling one of our players 'poodle on stick' because he has as afro? Maybe you've a screwed up perspective on humanity.

 

[rover]

we are "long ball united" because of the "busing sam"

 

[finneh]

Terrible performance but in the end we should have won. RVP and Falcao with relatively simple chances that you'd expect them to score 2/3.

 

[RedSky]

Our attacking play from wide positions is terrible.

 

[lem8sh]

Well argued...

If you genuinely think we deserved anything from today then you're an idiot.

 

[DevilRed]

Never thought I'd see the day where we would eek out a draw against a sam allardyce side by using long balls to our tallest player.

We have gone so far backwards since SAF has left. Im not sure LVG is the right man to take us completely back to the top. He might have helped in the process, but I still think we were absolutely moronic for not trying to get Mourinho or Guardiola.

 

[Mali_Zeus]

If you genuinely think we deserved anything from today then you're an idiot.

wov.

 

[NK86]

Hey we went to 4 at the back like everyone here wanted so why are we still terrible?

Hard to believe that people say now 'we just need to play rooney up front and herrera in mf' and believe themselves.

We are shit away from home no matter what we do. We are simply not coached well enough on a strategy away from home. There's no simple solution like switching two players arround or playing a slightly different system

So playing an actual midfielder in midfield while pushing our second highest goalscorer, who has been abysmal in midfield, up top while dropping one of our two massively underachieving strikers won't make a difference? Good God, might as well just pick players' names out of a hat for the starting 11 if you think making changes to personnel and players' positions won't improve us, especially considering we have seen some decent performances with players in their right positions.

 

[Raw]

Our attacking play from wide positions is terrible.

It really is, every cross is either floated away or drilled into the ankles of the opposition.

 

[Sunny Jim]

Fellaini should start over Januzaj, I haven't seen the latter live up to an inch of his hype.

I feel your pain. I dont undesrtand the hype around Januzaj yet.

 

[Ringo 07]

We have no explosive wingers or forwards so we will continue to stutter through the season until our lack of pace in attack is addressed. New signings will be needed in every area of the pitch. Top for is looking 50/50 right now. It would be a major achievement for Van Gaal to get top 4 come the end of the season with such an unbalanced squad

 

[JackXX]

Tricky away game. Thought West Ham did well. Our strikers were just not good enough. Falcao had a great chance but the main criticism is they looked very lazy.
Personally I would start Rooney up front.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

knew this would be a hard game

my lineup started fellaini ahead of januzaj, smalling in with mcNair & rojo in wide, and planned to use wilson for the first hour of play too. is quite close to where we ended the game.

probably might lvg underestimate the difficulty of this game, or he really wanted to try if we can cope with this with some nice play.

anyway, we don't deserve to lose this game. both falcao & rvp should have scored.

SO Cambridge and Yeovil are difficult games, yet West Ham he has underestimated. No he is just clueless.

 

[Roman Bellic]

Our biggest problem is our attack

 

[Will Singh]

We have Falcao, Di Maria and Rooney playing together, if someone said that to me before we signed them I'd say your mad and that if it happens RIP PL defenders....

I'll just leave it at that as I'm fecking angry and don't fancy a ban!

 

[bosnian_red]

Carragher speaking sense. Agree completely with everything he's saying. Criticizing RvP and Falcao, and saying it's baffling that Rooney is playing as a defensive midfielder pretty much. Saying we have one of the best defensive records in the league and the problems are the forwards.

 

[starman]

Finally addressing the fact how little movement RVP & Falcao offer, not the lack of service.

 

[Mister_Stubbs]

Alex Song is still committing fouls as we speak.

 

[RedSky]

It really is, every cross is either floated away or drilled into the ankles of the opposition.

It's been our problem area for a few seasons now imo. Valencia offers nothing going forward and neither does Shaw. Januzaj puts in a decent cross now and then but he's so inconsistent much like Nani used to be. Our wing player is a shambles, really is our biggest weakness in the squad imo.

 

[One Night Only]

Just seen Big Sam on SSN call us "Long ball united" Can it get any worse?

 

[Sunny Jim]

Alex Song is still committing fouls as we speak.

 

[Crashoutcassius]

So playing an actual midfielder in midfield while pushing our second highest goalscorer, who has been abysmal in midfield, up top while dropping one of our two massively underachieving strikers won't make a difference? Good God, might as well just pick players' names out of a hat for the starting 11 if you think making changes to personnel and players' positions won't improve us, especially considering we have seen some decent performances with players in their right positions.

Point is that people have been saying these types of things all season 'we'll be fine if we just...' and suggesting some tactical change.

One lad on here said it was 'obvious' that fellaini and mata had to start' haha. People just pick the players on the bench every week and say we would have won if we played them. Can't believe nobody sees this trend after 18 months of this nonsense

 

[LazyRed-Ninja]

Yeah, so some sarcasm offends you more than someone calling one of our players 'poodle on stick' because he has as afro? Maybe you've a screwed up perspective on humanity.

Not really offended dear charleysurf. I just think its a bit off to call somebody a genius for expressing his/her thoughts. Perspective on humanity ? You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart. Enjoy your weekend.

 

[Raw]

It's been our problem area for a few seasons now imo. Valencia offers nothing going forward and neither does Shaw. Januzaj puts in a decent cross now and then but he's so inconsistent much like Nani used to be. Our wing player is a shambles, really is our biggest weakness in the squad imo.

The thing is, we genuinely don't have any actual wingers. Valencia's practically a RB, Januzaj is a #10 and Di Maria plays better in midfield. Young's our only actual winger at the moment.

Perhaps Depay could be the answer?

 

[Walters_19_MuFc]

Wasn't a surprise that we saw such a poor performance from the lads. Balance was all over the place. Striker's didn't run in behind, midfielders did too much with it, it was just a shambles.

All in all, i'm very happy that we got a point, although we need to winning these type of games.

 

[Mali_Zeus]

The thing is, we genuinely don't have any actual wingers. Valencia's practically a RB, Januzaj is a #10 and Di Maria plays better in midfield. Young's our only actual winger at the moment.

Perhaps Depay could be the answer?

Maybe ADM plays better as a mid but maybe he'd look good as a winger in the right system. Saying all that you're right, we lack wingers.

 

[justboy68]

We are just an embarrassment, a total laughing stock.

Don't be silly. It was poor but we aren't a laughing stock for drawing a tough away game against West Ham. Who's laughing at us? Teams lower than us in the league? Or City who just drew at home against Hull.