ritchboy:

tkb
what did you tell me??
do you still think Nani is sh.t? i still do

Ask Gael Clichy. . . . he saw 7 demons from Portugal yesterday!!

~Sauron~:

Prophetic!!!!

tkb417:

Emperoh
Clichy,Nasri and Verma saw demons!!
They should thank their stars SOl Campbel didn't play
It would have been another Newscatle episode

debosky:

Great game scumtwats. You guys took your chances (early on anyways) and denied Arsenal when Arsenal weren't denying themselves.
That said, it was still just ONE game. I maintain that if Arsenal can get 6-8 points from these evil 4 games then we have a chance - given our run in is the easiest of the lot.
While that seems nearly impossible considering we have to beat Chelski and Liverpool, it can still happen.

Oddly enough, I felt no grief in the loss yesterday - nothing like what I felt in the CL last year. I think we were beaten so fairly I had absolutely no grudge against the scumtwats.

Fair play to Fergie for wishing us victory against Chelski. Just loan us VDS for the game and we'll deliver the goods. 

Manchester United are to appeal against the four-match ban the Football Association has handed to Rio Ferdinand.

The defender was originally given a three-match ban by the FA after video footage showed him lashing out at Craig Fagan during United's 4-0 win over Hull earlier this month. The sanction was then extended after Manchester United made what the governing body described as a "frivolous appeal".

That makes United's latest appeal risky, particularly as Ferdinand will miss the Carling Cup final against Aston Villa on 28 February if the FA comes down hard on the Premier League champions again.

The 31-year-old centre-back missed United's 3-1 victory over Arsenal yesterday and will also sit out their match against Portsmouth on Saturday and the visit to Villa next Wednesday.

MrCrackles:

I laugh in Gworro. . . .
Demons ko, Dipo ni. . . . .
Clichy had a nightmare but to suggest Vermaelen and Nasri saw demons, is a load of "shoki shakes"

dayokanu:

Beating Assanal is no feather to your cap, they are the whipping boys of the top teams.

Can someone remind us of their aggregate vs Chelsea in the last 3 meeting?

dayokanu:

Beating Assanal is no feather to your cap, they are the whipping boys of the top teams.

Can someone remind us of their aggregate vs Chelsea in the last 3 meeting?

Eastbay:

Just watching the game all over again:I think my MOTM was Carrick.
His passing is phenomenal.
H e has to be the best mid-to-long range passer in the league right now.
Once he gets into that ice-cold mode,nothig ruffles him

Eastbay:

Sauron,
Everybody did well.
But I think Carrick's composure edged it for him in my opinion.
We all expected Rooney to do some damage,which he did.No surprises there.Nani came good too,though from recent form,it wasn't a surprise either.
Carrick on the other hand,damaged arsenal with his vision and range of passing.When United got the ball and had Carrick in possession,Arsena always looked to be in serious panic,not knowing what to do.That gave him time and space to throw those quarterback passes left and right,picking out anybody and everybody on United's team.He made only one wrong pass in the first half,and that was as a result of a 50-50 tussle with Song and ??(Can't remember-who cares?).
I still think he will re-enact the San Siro episode in about two weeks time.

Eastbay:

Sauron,
Everybody did well.
But I think Carrick's composure edged it for him in my opinion.
We all expected Rooney to do some damage,which he did.No surprises there.Nani came good too,though from recent form,it wasn't a surprise either.

chamotex:

I think the key to Nani's form is the fact that he's playing on the right rather than left.
Looks like he felt more comfortable and confident on the right side and does not have to cut in.

We wouldn't have scored that second goal if Nani was breaking from the LEFT.

@Sauron
Please don't ever question/doubt Fergie's team formation/selection like you did prior to kick-off yesterday.
He's been doing it for decades and he rarely gets them wrong even when he does.

The only itch was Scholes playing deeper at first which he later rectified by swaping him with Carrick.
FERGIE is a genius!!!

I think we should change the title of our thread and add "IN FERGIE WE TRUST" at the end. _{makes more sense}

~Sauron~:

Isn't that what i criticised in the first place?
Playing Scholes so deep to man mark Cesc Fabregas was a cardinal sin but Fergie quickly saw the flaw and swapped Carrick to keep tabs on Cesc.

chamotex:

I didn't think we had any other option anyway . . . . Ando musta been crocked not to even be on the bench.
Scholesy was our best option . . . Me thinks Fergie wanted Carrick to play higher up the pitch the way he did against Citeh where he caused damage and grabbed a goal plus the fact that he prolly thought Scholesy cant linger up and down any more. So he decided to play him deeper where he can spray passes like there's no tomorrow.

But less than 10 minutes into the game, Fergie showed his effective reading of the game and judged that Scholesy vs Fab didn't work and made changes accordingly.

There was atually a situation where Fab just ran past Scholesy like a wind . I thought that was when Fergie decided to change things.

Me also think Berebatov's omission in this high intensity game was another factor for our success. He woulda slowed down our counter-attacks and prolly might not even be able to catch up with the pace of it. Did you see how fast Rooney ran to catch up on that second goal? He breezed past all the Arsenal players with minimal effort. At one point, it was like Linford Christie was on the pitch. Usain Bolt must be proud.

~Sauron~:

This is a bit harsh on Dimitar.
He finished off with a beautiful goal in a sizzling counter attack against Hull.
Berbatov is deceptively quick.

chamotex:

I wouldn't have been comfortable seeing Berba play yesterday in a 4-4-2 formation.
It could have been disastrous

Isn't that what i criticised in the first place?
Playing Scholes so deep to man mark Cesc Fabregas was a cardinal sin but Fergie quickly saw the flaw and swapped Carrick to keep tabs on Cesc.

tkb417:

no sir!!!
u started your criticism as soon as you saw the line up cos Anderson wasnt there

stop twisting; yeah you were spot on about scholes when the game was underway but wrong when you predicted Rooney would go home fraustrated and red carded

and pls dont tell me you knew Scholes was gonna mark Cesc by looking at the formation on your tv b4 the ball was kicked. i can swear you would have thought carrick or fletcher would do that