V Manchester United (A): Match Thread

[Trippendicular]

Not sure where the impression we've been better is coming from. Two poor\average sides.

From watching the first half.

[Kenneth]

We've packed our side with midfielders so we're doing well(ish) in midfield with the ball. We started with a **** defence and defended ****ly, played no strikers and not taken our chances. All so predictable and stupid.

[Leyton388]

****ing hell we need Lallana on the pitch and he takes him off.

[Gazzla]

Lallana sacrificed yet again and ****ing Allen survives.

[Tatterdemalion]

Half time changes just mean you got it wrong the first time Bren. Now we have just one sub left.

[danperkins]

Playing strikers who don't score did us no favours up to now either. At least we have pressing and movement.

But playing strikers up top on their own when they cannot play that game does us no favours.

And we have finally have a striker on the pitch now, surprisingly enough no strikers didn't work & now we are seeing 2 up top with Balo & Sterling

[McDermotX]

From watching the first half.

[chadrtc]

Don't get all the criticism. We've been by far the better side. Many of us have said ditch Lambert and try out Sterling up top for his movement. He's been in time & time again, but you see why Rodgers tried to persevere with the strikers he's had. Raheem just can't finish.

Annoyingly, Lallana has twice had an open goal and not been passed too. Raheem should above squared when through the second time, whilst. Moreno could have squared it instead of trying to knock it ahead for a strike. United..... They've had two chances. And one was offside. They've literally done nothing else and we've played them off the park. But other teams have done similar in the past few games and also lost.

That's what happens when you have top strikers. You win when you're being outplayed.

Today does show why everyone has been banging on how we'll be much improved with Sturridge back. He'd have had a hat trick by now.

It doesn't matter what Rodgers does now, the knives are out.

[Jaymo]

Joke. Lallana off, the only person who shows a bit of quality on the ball.

[G]

Lallana has goal threat, lets whip him off. Genius.

[Exiled_red]

Henderson should have done better

[Muddled]

Good chance for Henderson. Well over.

[Daniel 7]

Doesn't matter if they have been the better side, they're two down with no real cutting edge to suggest they can get back in it.

These aren't even very good, they're there to be attacked, but if there's nobody capable of finishing, its not going to happen. You can jab all night but if you have no big punch, you're ****ed.

[DannyMan2006]

With all due respect Danny, we haven't played them off the park.. it's been a case of two fairly poor sides & the difference being one side has a class GK & clinical strikers and the other doesn't.

Teams don't have to play well to beat us this season, bad team setup, wrong personnel & bad individual performances are what is costing us.

With all due respect, we have played them off the park. We completely dominated that game. We created more clear cut chances in this game than we have in the last five. In 45mins. It may be because they're ****, but we're still killing them. They had a few minutes where they passed it square a few times with no cutting edge, that's it.

I'm sure as we tire they'll come into the game more. With this approach we needed to be leading by the last 30mins before we ran out of legs. But hey, there you go.

[BootRoom]

**** it i've had enough now get rid of him. His own ego has proven his downfall. He's leaving players out he didn't want in the summer just because they wernt his picks and he keeps playing the ****e. He's not putting the club first. He's blinded by his ego.

Bollocks. No players are signed without the Manager's approval. It's his poor judgement that's at fault. If he doesn't like a player he can refuse to sign him - it's that simple.