Sue me, is it really wrong I enjoy watching us win and play attractive football and not get embarrassed by these sort of teams I did end up watching anyway but hated every minute of it
FA Cup 4th Round
Cambridge United 0:0 Manchester United
Abbey Stadium
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Sue me, is it really wrong I enjoy watching us win and play attractive football and not get embarrassed by these sort of teams I did end up watching anyway but hated every minute of it
Can't stand his face really makes me want to kick the fecking t.v.
No, it is ALWAYS us. At least it feels like this since a few seasons. This is not a bad day at the office or a freak incident, this is our level of performance right now.
Cambridge plays in League 2, right? I mean... League 2. That is *counts on fingers* a lot of leagues below the premier league, where we apparently still are, for some reason. And I am just not buying the bollocks about hard away game, small ground, bumpy surface, motivated opponents and so on. League 2! Di Maria, RvP, Falcao, Carrick, maybe even some other really famous footballers I didn't notice because they were incredibly shit again today. We were not fast enough, we were not inventive enough, we were even too incompetent to get some dangerous crosses in when we had all the time in the world to do so.I blame this on Cina. And on the boogie.
We created 3/4 great chances when he went off actually. I wouldn't be surprised if Herrera completed more passes and created more chances in 20mins than Fellaini did in 70.
Keep calm and maintain the philosophy
It doesn't matter as we didn't score. Honestly you don't get the point, the point is, IF WHAT WE HAD OUT THERE WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH TO BEAT CAMBRIDGE THEN WE ARE IN TROUBLE, IT WAS CAMBRIDGE FFS AND FELLAINI IS A PREMIER LEAGUE PLAYER!Words fail me. That was horrific.Not the end of the world, and a mid week game to look forward to, it'll all be ok in the end.
It does matter as LVG doesn't seem to realise that Fellaini is a vastly inferior footballer than Herrera and a major reason we couldn't work the ball from defence to attack was due to his inability as a CM.Louis Van Gaal not amused by the result in in his post match BBC interview;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22453802
"Cambridge had a very good game, we knew that, they are a physical team and very organised. They play alot of long balls. Also they make it hard for us, by having 11 players in defense. In the last 10 minutes, I was not suprised but I was very irritated. Ryan Giggs said to "Why are you angry Louis ?" I say to him, "Because my ass is still twitching!", he says back to me "But we are balanced, Louis!" He does not understand yet, but I shall teach him with time, it is a process . Ryan says to me " The fans like it, why should we go back to back three?" I say to him, because he is my student, very nicely, I'll think you'll agree, I say "Because this is the formation Manchester deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So it's boring now but in future the fans can take it. Because it's not entertaining. It's a balanced side. A great philosophy and nobody is squeezing my ass. Don't call me Louis again or I shall show you who has the balls ". And that is my philosophy."
Well done for winning shit post of the month.Seriously, we're blaming the ref?!
Where did I say "It's his fault we didn't win today"? Right, nowhere. Doesn't mean his officiating wasn't poor.
These games against lower League sides are always a bit awkward, I don't read too much into them. The extra game doesn't do us any harm as far as I can tell, it might even be a good thing.
Yes, I agree it is a tricky fixture. I also understand why many feel the need to stand up against some of the overdramatic kneejerk posts. I'm ok with us getting a draw tonight, but the performance was unacceptable. It's been like this for many matches now, and we are showing no signs of improvement.
At this stage of the season you'd expect us to be able to keep possesion AND play with high intensity. Why aren't our players even capable of basic things like dropping deep to help out jones when he is on the ball. I expect better. From LvG and the players. I think all of us can agree on that. I'm glad to see Herrera doing well after he came on. He must start our next match.
At least in my reality.Januzaj - woeful. If you ain't got the fight in you, get the hell out. Did he even beat one player today? The is a Division two side for God's sake.
You have got to be joking right?
I don't want him out. I want him to up his game. New Giggys - not a chance from what he showed today and so far this season. What player today took on and beat a Cambridge player. None. That why space is not created. When there's 60/40 in favour of him he's pulling out of the challenge. Today, they playered with 9½ players: Januzaj and Falcao were such a waste out there only accounted for ½ a player combined. They better not sign Falcao for the kind of money they are supposed to in this deal.
An EPL side (let alone a MUFC side) should be able to out work a division two side. A nil-nil draw and their performance was embarrassing. It a cup tie and they are not prepared to fight for every ball?
I've never used the word embarrassing to describe the team before, but that's what I've been seeing since the Stoke match and match was a so-so performance.
I don't think he had his best game, but your overboard with your criticism. Your asking if he beat any players:
if i am being honest piss poor excuses, that match was just dire.
So he got through one. Did you notice how open di Maris was and he decided to have a go himself? I just love di Maria's arm movement - Hey, I'm open.
I think you are talking about the wrong winger. You typed Januzaj but you meant Valencia.Janu was average...So was ADM.. Valencia was pathetic.. The less I talk about Falcao the better.. Anyways he hardly got to smell the ball.. But there were 1 or 2 occasions where I felt he could have showed why he is a great striker..
Herrera clearly the best man in the 20 odd minutes that he played..
Ref did his job as good as Valencia did his..At least it was an away draw....
Of course there's no way for you to know that, you're taking the chance to moan at your favorite player not being selected. I have been watching Herrera for longer than most on here, but many of you are starting to be childish. They are not selected in the team to do the same things! Anyway, that's not my point, the TEAM looked disjointed, if you want to single out Fellaini for that then fine, and if you think Herrera will fix that then good luck to you.
Herrera is not my favourite player and I've followed him since Bilbao thanks. We were outnumbered in CM 4v2 last night since Van Gaal insists on playing with 2 strikers, Carrick is already slow and static so what benefit does Fellaini add? He's the least technical CM we have in a game were we're heavily outnumbered in CM and looked like a conference player. The team looks disjointed for a number of reasons firstly when we play with 2 strikers we automatically give up the CM which is arguably our weakest area of the pitch, to make it worse he starts with Carrick/Fellaini when he should be starting Herrera/Di Maria. Then we go back to a back 4 and bench both our natural full backs. Jones is taking a huge amount of stick for last night when he had no options on the ball a huge % of the time. Cambridge strikers sat deep and allowed him possession so what was the option? Carrick doesn't go forward infact he usually drops in between the two CM's so he's supposed to give the ball into fellaini whose outnumbered at least 3v1?Louis Van Gaal Post Match Press Conference:
Nope. Valencia was playing FB: the mirror position to Daley Blind and not the opposite position to AJ. Not comparable when you are talking about creating attacks.
He was still more effective than Valencia.I cannot summon the energy to be furiously critical, Last season at this stage we was out of the FA Cup and frankly I'm just grateful we have a 2nd chance because at least we'll play at home.
Ok I've posted highly critical, intense stuff about LVG only just a week ago, there comes a moment, when you start noticing everybody else is beginning to be as critical and sometimes even more outraged than myself. In that instance, I tend to backtrack and retrace my steps.
We are all complaining because of accumulation of frustrating performances, the results are forgiveable as they have not been season-defining or massively damaging yet.
I think after last season, we must not become chelsea fans or incite a managerial merry go round debate. It's ridiiculous, yes we have spent £150m, but this "project" has only just began, 4th is the minimum target, if we don't achieve it in year 1, we move onto concentrating on year 2 under LVG.
At the moment for own sake, we have to stop aspiring to Sir Alex Ferguson standards. We were 7th place last year and we are still battling to climb out of that dark pit, we must first dream smaller and slowly aim towards restoring our place on our perch. Like reputations, a good team takes a few seasons to build and a few bad decisions to dismantle. Man City spent crazy money and achieved 10th,5th, then 3rd, 1st,2nd,1st. If United finish 5th this season, i would still keep the faith with Van Gaal because embarrasingly said, this is a project and it takes a while to construct.
Yes the players have been poor, but LVG will work at it, the players that he cannot work with or improve, he will ship out faster than he gave Kagawa the boot. If 15 players have been bad, guaranteed all 15 will go. LVG is not a man that tolerates mediocrity, he won't do crazy stuff in January but he will do what it takes in June.
Keep the faith in Van Gaal even if you can't bare to see Man United. Yes there are 600 million fans and people are paying shedloads. but the meaning of support is to be a pillar,that bears the weight of something or keeps it upright.
If the club is slumping in performances, it's our role to bear that weight.
I feel strange to say this, but we must not go crazy this season if we finish outside top 3 or finish outside the CL places.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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20%
Ander Herrera
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16%
Adnan Januzaj
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5%
David de Gea
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4%
Phil Jones
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3%
Angel Di Maria
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3%
Daley Blind
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2%
Michael Carrick
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1%
Radamel Falcao
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1%
James Wilson
Player Ratings
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Compiled from 419 ratings.
Score Predictions
551,22,14
- Man Utd win
- Cambridge win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 33% Cambridge 0:3 Man Utd
- 17% Cambridge 0:4 Man Utd
- 15% Cambridge 0:2 Man Utd
- 11% Cambridge 0:5 Man Utd
- 6% Cambridge 1:3 Man Utd
- 4% Cambridge 1:4 Man Utd
- 3% Cambridge 1:2 Man Utd
- 2% Cambridge 0:1 Man Utd
- 2% Cambridge 0:0 Man Utd
- 2% Cambridge 1:5 Man Utd
- 1% Cambridge 2:1 Man Utd
- 1% Cambridge 1:1 Man Utd
- 1% Cambridge 1:0 Man Utd
- 1% Cambridge 5:0 Man Utd
- 1% Cambridge 2:0 Man Utd
- 0% Cambridge 4:0 Man Utd
- 0% Cambridge 3:0 Man Utd
- 0% Cambridge 3:4 Man Utd
- 0% Cambridge 2:5 Man Utd
- 0% Cambridge 4:1 Man Utd
- 0% Cambridge 3:1 Man Utd
- 0% Cambridge 3:2 Man Utd
- 0% Cambridge 3:3 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Cambridge
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 25% 75%
- Shots
- 5 16
- Shots on Target
- 0 6
- Corners
- 4 7
- Fouls
- 6 13
Referee
Chris Foy
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Luke Shaw
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replaced by Ander Herrera
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replaced by Robin Van Persie
