Im the light in a sea of darkness Mikey.
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Im the light in a sea of darkness Mikey.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
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
Somebody like Bolasie you mean?
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
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.
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
Im sorry Mikey, but Dave and I try not to let facts get in the way of our agendas.
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
well why let Delboy go when he was crocked????
Cos hes not a team player.
He has pace and sends in great crosses so when did Bollassie ever do that?
Woolverhampton_Blue
Player Valuation: £35m
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?
Very good point mate!
blue76
Player Valuation: £6m
What did the Romans ever do for us, eh?
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