Januzaj needs to pass and not run head first into a group of defenders. And Cleverley has been fecking anonymous.
Cardiff City vs. Manchester United
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Not sure how we're winning this.
Must improve our passing in the second half. I wish we'd move Valencia to RB and bring on Nani. Midfield has been useless. Januzaj's trying too much, not his best half.
Must improve our passing in the second half. I wish we'd move Valencia to RB and bring on Nani. Midfield has been useless. Januzaj's trying too much, not his best half.
Absolutely chronic in possession yet again. Clueless. We look like a mid table team relying on set pieces and the odd bit of individual class. I love Evra.
He is only 18 years of age ffs!! Can't you shut up about Kagawa just once. Kagawa played in a great Dortmund side, but since his transfer he has been average to say the least.
Rooney best player of the half with Hernandez having some decent touches. Januzaj wants to dribble each time he has the ball which is good but theres no end product which is bad.
Once he's finished his Dave Gorman style presentation about QPR he'll be back on it.
Harsh to slate him, he's 18 for chrissake. And it's been a tough game and Cardiff have played very well, fought for every ball and pressed us crazy.
Wayne Rooney - the first player to ever escape a red card and go on to score.
Just going to add to the talking points. He will get rightly banned for a few games.
Again, the midfielders not doing anything to try and open themselves up leaves him with no choice but to dribble past players. He has literally no other option, because everybody is closed own always, and nobody apart from Rooney tries to receive the ball.
Oh and Evra kissing the badge gave me warm feelings in my tummy 
He reminded me of Ronaldo in his early years with some his decision to try to dribble past several players instead of choosing the wiser/safer option.
So what if people emphasize his age. He's got more courage than half our team. Yes he's made mistakes, but maybe there's too much pressure on him to create for us because we've got a few passengers (and they aren't kids either)
Smalling has the lowest pass success in the team at 66%, then Adnan at 75%.
We need those injured players back soon or this season will collapse pretty quickly. Bayer Leverkusen will trash a United playing like this.
Jesus how badly does Tyler want us to lose.Good finishes but some of our play is well below par,Smalling's passing is horrendous, need another goal quickly in the second half.At least the papers have their story for the week in Rooneys kick.
Go on Pat! On a side note if Cleverley is the standard then Giggs should keep getting one year contracts till he's 50. As he can't tackle, isn't creative, doesn't score goals and struggles to run and you can add that he is also physically is weak! Would rather have Powell or even Gibson in there than Cleverley.
The whole team have been poor, Cardiff pressing well and the distribution, especially from the back, has been very poor and too laboured. You often get these type of performances after an international break though and we're leading so I'd say we should be pretty happy. Most of you won't be though.
I don't know if City winning 6-0 at home warps peoples expectations but let's not forget that they lost at Cardiff and we'll happily take 3 points without 3 of probably our 4 most important players. Neither Fellaini nor Cleverley has been particularly poor, in fact, other than being overly penalised by the ref, Fellaini has done his job perfectly well.
He won't though.. He got booked. He won't get anything retrospectively. It wasn't bad enough for the FA to step in.
Only if they change the rules, which would be a far bigger story than Rooney.
2-1 ht! Slightly undeserved lead.We just can't keep the ball and enjoy confident, sustained possession.Movement off the ball is not there and the midfielders are not good enough to play the game we're attempting to play.Happy we're winning but like recent yrs, we are just doing enough and rarely anymore than just enough.
Yep he is annoying but Rooney deserved to see Red!
I reckon Cleverley has been alright. He's tidied up the play a few times, played the ball out to Evra a number of times. He lost Mutch for the goal though.
Need to give credit to Cardiff there, they've pressed very well and their passing has been very good. We don't have Scholesy in our side and Carrick's injured so it was always going to be difficult in midfield.
Smalling hasn't done too well in attack but then .. everyone knows that.
Fortunate to be ahead.
This game has been devoid of quality bar one pass...
Lucky to be ahead right now. First 15 minutes was great. Then after we scored the goal it went downhill. We are having major problems keeping possession of the ball when opposing teams press us in our own half. This needs to be rectified quickly because its been the root of one of our major problems all season long. We just can't seem to get the ball away from our half under pressure without giving it away again. Gone are the days where we were feared on the counterattack.
Fellaini and Evans have been poor for me. Evans completely beaten for pace by Campbell although the midfield didn't do any favors in screening mutch for him. Fellaini I will never understand. His passing and positioning has been ok but on defensive duty he seems to be outdueled by every tom dick and harry in the box. Sometimes he doesn't even jump! Its a fecking travesty.
We are lucky to be a goal ahead and our top performer so far is either Rooney or Patrice Evra. Chicharito really really needs to improve his first touch because its just appaling. He has no ability to hold up the ball whatsoever. Even receiving a simple pass seems a large task for him.
Young Januzaj seems to be believing in his own hype and I think its high time we took him off for a few matches and let him reflect. Too much running with the ball into crowds. Needs to play the simple pass and put in a good cross.
Hopefully we can keep it tight at the back in the second half because we're not playing well.
Fellaini and Evans have been poor for me. Evans completely beaten for pace by Campbell although the midfield didn't do any favors in screening mutch for him. Fellaini I will never understand. His passing and positioning has been ok but on defensive duty he seems to be outdueled by every tom dick and harry in the box. Sometimes he doesn't even jump! Its a fecking travesty.
We are lucky to be a goal ahead and our top performer so far is either Rooney or Patrice Evra. Chicharito really really needs to improve his first touch because its just appaling. He has no ability to hold up the ball whatsoever. Even receiving a simple pass seems a large task for him.
Young Januzaj seems to be believing in his own hype and I think its high time we took him off for a few matches and let him reflect. Too much running with the ball into crowds. Needs to play the simple pass and put in a good cross.
Hopefully we can keep it tight at the back in the second half because we're not playing well.
I see Cleverley is playing the little boy lost routine again. Clueless, gutless, pointless. Even Anderson is a better option. Most ineffective player at the club.
Rooney was magnificent 1+1.. Red card for that??! feck off, go watch the Portuguese League if you think that..
Dreadful football to watch but at least we lead
Rooney should have been off...but him scoring after will drive all the ABUs nuts...especially our lovable scousers. hope a number of them try and kill themselves by diving into the filthy Mersey.
about time they had a shower anyways.
about time they had a shower anyways.
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