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Romelu Lukaku

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The Oviedo game we got smashed for 90minutes, hit them once on the counter and scored a lucky goal.

But hey, lets pretend we went toe to toe.

lollollol
Oh here he is. The worst football pundit of all time.

Take a look at the stats from that game against the then English champions and come back and tell me we "got smashed" for 90 minutes.
 
Oh here he is. The worst football pundit of all time.

Take a look at the stats from that game against the then English champions and come back and tell me we "got smashed" for 90 minutes.

Moyes and United were out of luck as both Wayne Rooney and Danny Welbeck hit the woodwork - but nothing should take away the significance of this victory for Martinez and his players.

Everton followed the Spaniard's instructions to the letter, with captain Phil Jagielka and midfielder James McCarthy outstanding.

United, after a hesitant start, worked their way into the game and keeper Tim Howard twice came to Everton's rescue with good blocks from Rooney and Shinji Kagawa

And as pressure mounted on the Everton goal Ryan Giggs glanced a header just wide from Rafael's cross and Rooney was desperately unlucky to see a shot deflected off the post via Jagielka and Sylvain Distin, allowing Howard to clear with his feet.

The biggest escape of the night came at the other end almost immediately as Howard first saved brilliantly from Patrice Evra and Welbeck could only hit the bar with a header on the stretch from the rebound.
 
We lack pace in the midfield when KM started the game it was fleetingly there - Lookman, Delboy just now cast aside - look at other top teams the attack so faster than us - Lukaku would suit this in his game as he cannot trap a bag of cent - but the ball passed quickly with faster support he would be an even bigger danger also with a midfield playmaker
 
We lack pace in the midfield when KM started the game it was fleetingly there - Lookman, Delboy just now cast aside - look at other top teams the attack so faster than us - Lukaku would suit this in his game as he cannot trap a bag of cent - but the ball passed quickly with faster support he would be an even bigger danger also with a midfield playmaker

Somebody like Bolasie you mean?
 

Moyes and United were out of luck as both Wayne Rooney and Danny Welbeck hit the woodwork - but nothing should take away the significance of this victory for Martinez and his players.

Everton followed the Spaniard's instructions to the letter, with captain Phil Jagielka and midfielder James McCarthy outstanding.

United, after a hesitant start, worked their way into the game and keeper Tim Howard twice came to Everton's rescue with good blocks from Rooney and Shinji Kagawa

And as pressure mounted on the Everton goal Ryan Giggs glanced a header just wide from Rafael's cross and Rooney was desperately unlucky to see a shot deflected off the post via Jagielka and Sylvain Distin, allowing Howard to clear with his feet.

The biggest escape of the night came at the other end almost immediately as Howard first saved brilliantly from Patrice Evra and Welbeck could only hit the bar with a header on the stretch from the rebound.

It was well contested but we edged it and we shook off that monkey from our backs. That was the main thing....now it's right back on again.
 
Im the light in a sea of darkness Mikey.

We weren't "smashed" mate, nor did we go toe to toe for 90 minutes either

We defended when needed, and got lucky when Rooney hit the cross bar, but we also didn't just sit back for the 90 minutes and also had a proper go at winning

Basically, we did what we did on Tuesday, only we scored earlier which gave United a chance to get back in it

Had Lukaku or Ross taken one of the other chances we probably would have won it
 
We weren't "smashed" mate, nor did we go toe to toe for 90 minutes either

We defended when needed, and got lucky when Rooney hit the cross bar, but we also didn't just sit back for the 90 minutes and also had a proper go at winning

Basically, we did what we did on Tuesday, only we scored earlier

Im sorry Mikey, but Dave and I try not to let facts get in the way of our agendas.
 
It was the 'perfect game plan'...they hit the bar twice, scored a perfectly good goal, and scored an equaliser.

I'd hate to see what you consider an imperfect plan.

We scored and then sat off and waited for the inevitable to happen when you do that.

Poor management. The only time we've won at OT for decades was when we took it to them toe to toe till the last minute.

Fortune favours the brave...not cowards who orders his team back.

We could have scored 4 or 5 on the break, that's a point blank fact. We absorbed and countered, they score once, in the 94th minute from a pen.

And lol at the "toe to toe" with them when we won. That did not happen at all
 

I take your point but at the same time, it's easy to see why Ross Barkley or anyone else in the team wouldn't be arsed to waste their effort to push up to support him because they know fine well he won't be arsed to pass.

As much as I appreciate strikers want to score, in situations like that there is no excuse for not passing. Is his decision making terrible, or is he so arrogant he thought he'd have a better chance of scoring from there than Ross would from a well placed pass playing him through on goal?

People say imagine him at Real Madrid etc but he has similr struggles playing for Belgium and has DeBruyne, Hazard, Carrasco and Mertens behind him - thats up there with any midfield in terms of creativity.

Very good point mate!
 

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