[QuackQuack]

Martial seems a little wasted on the left.

 

[Beachryan]

If we're going to criticise, lots has to be reserved for Martial. If we hadn't gone 1-0 down, they might be pushing a few men forward.

As it stands, they can defend incredibly deep, often with all 10 outfield players. It's almost impossible to break down that down, or look particularly good.

 

[ShakeUnBake]

I like Herrera and Lingard today. I think Rooney might score one today, too.

 

[Silverman]

Martial up front please.

 

[LeftyBlaster]

Absolutely shocking? Really? You're easily shocked. Blunt, I'll grant you. Lacking incision, certainly. tumescent? At a pinch. But I remain unshocked. This will turn out ok.

Seconded. Shock requires an element of excited-ness. We're so dull.

 

[Irrational.]

CSKA following the Arsenal blueprint.

 

[Nucks]

I suspect he knows.

I'm glad at least one person watching this un-tumescent display has had at least one laugh today

 

[Hammerfell]

The passing has been woeful, which is obviously what you want when you play a possession system.

 

[minoo-utd]

The sad thing is there is no fighting spirit.

 

[Riz]

I despise watching Valencia play now.

Gets ball in space, turns around, passes back. Repeat.

He's been doing that for years. It's alright when we're the team 1-0 up and conserving possession is fine by itself. Times like this though it's horrible to watch.

 

[Kraftwerker]

I sense Fellaini coming on.

They're very well organised and the football thing isn't working.

Need to bypass their lines of four and just bulldoze through.

Not ideal but there you go.

 

[Ish]

Smalling needs Blind

 

[buckooo1978]

passing very poor - Schweinsteiger especially wasteful

only Herrera looking bright and creative

how many games will Van Gaal feck around with Martial on the left when he is 10 times better than Rooney at 9?

 

[Livvie]

Its ridiculous.

Against Everton we were so fast and direct and they couldn't cope.

How can we have gone from that to this.

Simples. We changed a winning formula.

 

[JinnerJamie]

The sad thing is there is no fighting spirit.

We haven't had much of that since Fergie left?

 

[pseudo_canadian]

I'm going to fall asleep any minute now.

 

[Hellboy]

Most boring half of football ever

 

[Riz]

We're doing ok. They've just sat back since the goal and we can't break them down.

We haven't made a single chance in 43 minutes. We are not doing ok.

 

[kouroux]

passing very poor - Schweinsteiger especially wasteful

only Herrera looking bright and creative

how many games will Van Gaal feck around with Martial on the left when he is 10 times better than Rooney at 9?

It's only his second game there ? Actually it's not even finished yet.

 

[charleysurf]

We're doing ok. They've just sat back since the goal and we can't break them down.

saying something relatively positive!

 

[Joemo]

Solves our right wing woes.

Time to move Mata central with Martial going up top. If only.

 

[VP]

I haven't seen anything bombastic about LvG football since the World Cup tbf. Bombastic seems like a positive adjective

Dictionary tells me bombastic is inflated rhetoric - LVG's philosophy then.

 

[sunama]

The sad thing is there is no fighting spirit.

Yep

We are 1-0 down. There is no urgency. All players are relaxed.
Its like before the game started, the players accepted a 1-0 scoreline and now that we are 1-0, they are now content to play the game at minimal intensity.

There appears to be no urgency or desire to score.

 

[Pyroblazer]

Simples. We changed a winning formula.

We didn't really change much? It seems like the players are just performing ten times worse than they did at the weekend.

 

[Djemba-Djemba]

Appalling performance. Absolutely woeful.

 

[RonaldoVII]

Complete borefest. Was heading for a 0-0 excluding that penalty. Now we're up against it and don't even look like getting a clean chance.

 

[Gandalf Greyhame]

The sad thing is there is no fighting spirit.

Exactly. This was evident when we went down to Arsenal, too. There is no response at all to being on the losing side.
Just sterile impotent passing. Like nothing ever happened.

 

[gregwar]

can't wait for the half time highlights.

 

[Stainz]

Really missed Valencias crossing..

 

[Raw]

That was just shite.

 

[Irrational.]

One word to describe our performance this half: dithering.

 

[Fergus' son]

Not doing too badly IMO, Martial and Valencia have been terrible though.

 

[Getsme]

Plan b coming on

 

[Rado_N]

Looks like Fellaini will be coming on.

 

[hbgreg]

Herrera seriously needs to do something else than turn and pass out wide whenever he gets the ball in a good spot.

 

[AltiUn]

We aren't even playing that badly.

 

[JonDahl]

Not created anything.

 

[Bastian]

Time to move Mata central with Martial going up top. If only.

+ 1

 

[Adisa]

We've been shit. Hope we pick it up quickly.

 

[RonaldoVII]

Fellaini getting instructions from Van Gaal? He looked a bit chilly.

 

[Cpt Negative]

So many levels of shit this season