FA Cup 5th Round

Blackburn Rovers 1:2 Manchester United

Ewood Park

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Sun, 19 February 2017 @ 4:15pm GMT
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    We've been a bit sleepy but not too bad, I reckon Jose will steam them at half time and we'll get 3 more in the second half, perhaps a couple of subs at half time to send the message.
     
    Maradona10 said:
    Things that are obvious to me but people here are blind to it-
    • Rashford is a championship level player right now
    • Lingard is a championship level player
    • Carrick slows our play down far too much. He is now playing like rooney played the role
    • Darmian aint good enough
    • Smalling needs selling
    • We only have two good midfielders in Herrera and Pogba
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    Calm down ffs
    We just played Europa game
    And we will have another game in 4 days
    And a cup final next week

    I think we played ok at the moment
    Just need to step up a gear and we will win
     
    Put Darmian behind Ronaldo and watch him suffer. Their defense isn't even bothered to focus on Martial being a danger to them with Darmian being his supplier.
     
    Emnes has just dropped into CM and had the run of the game. The midfield has been crap. Haven't screened the back four properly at all. The CB's are in panic mode when the ball comes near them.

    Far too many sloppy passes.
     
    pjaya said:
    Calm down ffs
    We just played Europa game
    And we will have another game in 4 days
    And a cup final next week

    I think we played ok at the moment
    Just need to step up a gear and we will win
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    I agree.
     
    So many of you are complete oblivious about Lingard on the damn goal! You say you don't know what he does and there he does something that's so key to the goal.

    Lingard supports Rashford up from immediately after Romero cradles the ball looking to release someone. Lingard runs straight to the left channel, who dragged his defender with him and opened the huge passing lane for Mkhitaryan. Lingard's defender is the man who kept Rashford onside.
     
    DomesticTadpole said:
    Is he a Pokemon?
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    Yeah, he evolves into Dragnil (Similar to Ekans evolving into Arboc - backwards name). He's a grass pokemon because he spends much of his time splayed out on it.

    His special move is the 'Cringe Dab', worth an estimated 34HP against enemies. Although common to see, it's rarely effective.
     
    Maradona10 said:
    Things that are obvious to me but people here are blind to it-
    • Rashford is a championship level player right now
    • Lingard is a championship level player
    • Carrick slows our play down far too much. He is now playing like rooney played the role
    • Darmian aint good enough
    • Smalling needs selling
    • We only have two good midfielders in Herrera and Pogba
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    :lol: Dramatic much?
     
    I'm on the 18th row and getting rained on, but it's been good crack so far... We've been a bit crap, need to use the ball better and shoot more.
     
    prtk0811 said:
    He like 19 years old. Better be skinny than to be overwheight like Rooney or Shaw. Ronaldo was skinny when he arrived but with the gym work he became a horse.
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    There's a middle ground between being skinny and overweight though, they aren't mutually exclusive, it isn't good to be either especially when you're so weak you have very little impact on their defence.
     
    Maradona10 said:
    Things that are obvious to me but people here are blind to it-
    • Rashford is a championship level player right now
    • Lingard is a championship level player
    • Carrick slows our play down far too much. He is now playing like rooney played the role
    • Darmian aint good enough
    • Smalling needs selling
    • We only have two good midfielders in Herrera and Pogba
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    Harsh imho. They were good enough to win the FA Cup and secure at least a 5th place finish at the Premier League. Mind you, that a handful of our players are vastly inexperienced (Lingard, Rashford and other youngsters) and some are playing almost week in week out, others have hardly featured this season (Young, Schweinsteiger). I'm talking in general and not specifically about this match
     
    United should finish this today
    United haven’t been at their best but it’s still been enough to create a few good chances. Mourinho will be annoyed at some of his defender’s positioning and some slack passing.

    But he will know that he has enough on the bench to finish this today. He would prefer if his starting XI do the job - but that will need Lingard and Martial to offer more on the flanks.

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    Mkhitaryan has looked good and Rashford took his goal well. Young has done well down the right, too but Darmian hasn’t offered much on the other side.


    This sums us up in a way. If we have a good RB, nothing comes from the LB. If we have a good wide left forward, then nothing comes from the right side and vice versa.
     
    prtk0811 said:
    It's not non sense . Zlatan scores when others feed him on the plate. When teams park the bus zlatan can not stretch the defense like rashford does.
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    Ok so why are we level with a lower division side?

    Zlatan has proven that he can guarantee goals. No one else has that kind of guarantee.

    We need goals. Goals win games. Zlatan scores goals. Do we want goals, or do we want fancy attacking play?
     
    edcunited1878 said:
    So many of you are complete oblivious about Lingard on the damn goal! You say you don't know what he does and there he does something that's so key to the goal.

    Lingard supports Rashford up from immediately after Romero cradles the ball looking to release someone. Lingard runs straight to the left channel, who dragged his defender with him and opened the huge passing lane for Mkhitaryan. Lingard's defender is the man who kept Rashford onside.
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    Lingard is excellent in his movement and ability to pull defenders out of position.

    It is such an underrated ability of his.
     
    We'll win this providing some of the players get their heads out their ass. Lingard, Carrick and Herrera have been particularly poor. I'd bring Mata on for Lingard in the second half. He's just not good enough when he's playing like this.

    Rojo and Smalling look very iffy and nervous whenever the ball is in and around the box - very poor defending all round for the Blackburn goal. I didn't even realise Darmian was playing, and Martial and Rashford have been pretty average besides a few good runs and for that goal. The only two that look up for it are Mkhitaryan and Young.

    I'm pretty we'll win this in the second half but the worst result will be a replay. The last thing we need is more games.
     
    edcunited1878 said:
    So many of you are complete oblivious about Lingard on the damn goal! You say you don't know what he does and there he does something that's so key to the goal.

    Lingard supports Rashford up from immediately after Romero cradles the ball looking to release someone. Lingard runs straight to the left channel, who dragged his defender with him and opened the huge passing lane for Mkhitaryan. Lingard's defender is the man who kept Rashford onside.
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    Don't even bother....so many fans don't know the off the ball tactics...but hey....
     
    Triple.Threat said:
    Put Darmian behind Ronaldo and watch him suffer. Their defense isn't even bothered to focus on Martial being a danger to them with Darmian being his supplier.
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    True, every time Martial plays well, it's with Blind in left back, it's so infuriating watching Darmian play, he is bad with the ball, suspect defensively, even CBJ would be better
     
    edcunited1878 said:
    So many of you are complete oblivious about Lingard on the damn goal! You say you don't know what he does and there he does something that's so key to the goal.

    Lingard supports Rashford up from immediately after Romero cradles the ball looking to release someone. Lingard runs straight to the left channel, who dragged his defender with him and opened the huge passing lane for Mkhitaryan. Lingard's defender is the man who kept Rashford onside.
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    Agreed.
     
    Apart from the first 20 mins, I think we controlled the game well and had opportunities to score another goal. Lingard is obviously not a first team player. Shame we didn't give a chance to more youngsters in this game. Would've liked to see Shaw and Fosu-Mensah starting today.

    Hopefully we up the tempo a little bit in the second half and score another.
     
    AltiUn said:
    There's a middle ground between being skinny and overweight though, they aren't mutually exclusive, it isn't good to be either especially when you're so weak you have very little impact on their defence.
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    I think you mean it's not binary. I don't know any skinny overweight people!!
     
    Maradona10 said:
    Things that are obvious to me but people here are blind to it-
    • Rashford is a championship level player right now
    • Lingard is a championship level player
    • Carrick slows our play down far too much. He is now playing like rooney played the role
    • Darmian aint good enough
    • Smalling needs selling
    • We only have two good midfielders in Herrera and Pogba
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    The only thing that's obvious is you ain't maradona
     
    Bunch of overreaction in here. We just have to keep at it. Need to get martial involved more.
     
    Treble_Winning said:
    Ok so why are we level with a lower division side?

    Zlatan has proven that he can guarantee goals. No one else has that kind of guarantee.

    We need goals. Goals win games. Zlatan scores goals. Do we want goals, or do we want fancy attacking play?
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    Youre seriosuly asking why we're drawing with a championship side in the FA cup at half time, like this has never happened before or will again?
     
    DomesticTadpole said:
    Martial has been very quiet.
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    They hardly give him the ball tbf. Mostly playing through the centre or the right. I've seen him have some space a few times and they choose other options
     
    Escobar said:
    Weakened side? These players should be doing so much better!
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    Playing the likes of Smalling and Young always leaves us at a disadvantage.

    And Darmian and his Illuminati sideeburns aren't good enough for United. End of
     
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Henrikh Mkhitaryan image Henrikh Mkhitaryan 29% of 690 votes

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Score Predictions

531,14,19
  • Man Utd win
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Detailed Results

  • 34% Blackburn 0:2 Man Utd
  • 22% Blackburn 0:3 Man Utd
  • 11% Blackburn 1:2 Man Utd
  • 10% Blackburn 1:3 Man Utd
  • 7% Blackburn 0:4 Man Utd
  • 4% Blackburn 0:1 Man Utd
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  • 1% Blackburn 0:0 Man Utd
  • 1% Blackburn 3:1 Man Utd
  • 1% Blackburn 1:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Blackburn 2:1 Man Utd
  • 0% Blackburn 5:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Blackburn 2:3 Man Utd
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  • 0% Blackburn 3:2 Man Utd
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Match Stats

  1. Blackburn
  2. Man Utd
Possession
34% 66%
Shots
8 13
Shots on Target
6 3
Corners
5 5
Fouls
12 11

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