Match Thread Man Utd v Everton. Saturday Oct 2nd.12.30 pm

[nsno-chris]

The blame lays with Benitez innit

Never said that fam, just stating fahcts

 

[bag a yoko]

Decent performance. Especially in the middle.

 

[Kev The Rat]

Yeah a proven professional but he has a kid i never heard of till 2 weeks ago and simms who played a few championship games. An embarrassment of riches and he won't even use them.

Saaaaaack

Keep saying it - don’t play an out and out striker then

 

[Gabagool]

Play a false nine

haha no way you're not on the windup here fella

 

[lungo]

Play a false nine or something .

¨That worked well against Aston Villa!

 

[Goat]

We played reasonably well there, sucker punch at the end, but cant be too down about the performance.

 

[blueconverse]

If only we had bought a RB and a backup striker who's actually ready to be backup and not need a month or 2 to get up to fitness

But there was no one. Brands tried for a whole hour to sign a right back but it just wasn't in the cards

 

[Drumblue]

Very unlucky imo we played well

The effort is there...the quality isn't.

 

[Kiwi]

Rondon not as awful as people off here have made him out to be. Could have done better with a chance or two but link up play has been decent.

 

[bluerobert]

They did at Villa.

First goal opened the floodgates

Villa was also the first game we’d lost pretty much most of our injured players to though. QPR aside since then those that have come in have grown into the team.
It’s annoying the chances we’ve created but we did enough in that first half to have belief we can get something out of this game. United were pretty much toothless that first half, a centre back playing right back and not aware of the player he should have been marking and an unfortunate deflection is the only reason they’re ahead here

 

[TyphooToffee]

A slight deflection then. Pickford would probably have palmed it over or away otherwise. Just a touch of class from Fernández

 

[BlueToff]

his inability to run 10 yards is what makes him so crap

Any striker at PL level takes the chance he had from Doucoure's cut back first time.

That touch for the first chance, Christ.

I want him to come good but this is more than just a lack of sharpness. He's got 2 years of being in China to catch up on.

 

[cooperman]

We've done ok considering the team we've put out.

I'd rather have Dobbin than Rondon though. I'm not writing him off completely, just looks way off the pace.

Is Sims not on the bench?

 

[zukai12_]

I still think we can get something here

Fast start boys

 

[UltraVires]

Question I have now is if hes so unfit why?

He's been here training for a few weeks and played 4 games for us now into half of his 5th.
What's he doing in training ?

Btw I think he's fit, this is just the player he his now, can see flashes of what he used to be good at, protecting the ball, winning the odd.header etc.

I think he is getting better gradually. I was listening to an ex pro talking about the adjustment period to the PL when you have been away.

It has to be remembered that not only has he done no proper training for 4 months, before that he was playing in a league that is in no way comparable to the PL. i am sure he developed bad habits in that league that he managed to get away with over there and he is having to adjust now that he has to be better all around.

I don’t think he is going to be a world beater but he does look like he has the potential to be what we expected which is an option off the bench after 70-80 mins when DCL and/or Richy are fit