While David Moyes, Antonio Valencia and Ashley Young managed to prevent those 5 hours from going on any longer.
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While David Moyes, Antonio Valencia and Ashley Young managed to prevent those 5 hours from going on any longer.
Courtois' a top quality keeper to be fair and made some good saves today, but it'd be nice to see Neville give De Gea some more praise.
He really does love Courtois. More or less every cross he caught, Neville was praising him. De Gea plucks a few corners out of the air and nothing is said.
He definitely is however there were a couple of moments where all he did was catch the ball (I'd have fancied my chances) and suddenly it was proof that he was the best goalkeeper to have ever lived.
It is beyond absurd. De Gea was arguably even better than Courtuis today and made some unbelievable saves, including a perfect one to one save. He was also great on the air, catching the ball there but no praise at all, while on the other hand Courtuis was getting praise for the same things.
Can't stand at all Neville commenting. It seems very personal with quite a few players (on both praising and criticizing). He was great on his first year, but since then he has been so bad that I have to change my stream when I see him as a pundit.
probably SAF said that he loves them more then he loves him.
Neville has something against him. Courtouis superior to him, let alone MOTM? Give me a fecking break.
yeah it was a bit ridiculous. I think that the Liverpool's legend Rawkish magic dust is starting to rub on him
Thought both GKs were excellent but a bit weird by Neville to give one without the other so much praise! If DDG had been Hart then you get a feeling Neville would be praising him! Bit pish by Gaz!
Courtouis is not better than him, and certainly not superior. I love Neville but somethimes it's like he's on something!
Neville giving Courtois MOTM today was bizarre. If you exclude everyone else for a second and just compare the two goalkeeping performances, De Gea was better, he made the better saves today and didn't put a foot wrong either.
I loved LvGs comment at the end regarding the MOTM award: "But their keeper did not do what DDG did"
I think Nev was just trying to big up United's peformance. Good on him really. Might give us a confidence boost if the media narrative has their keeper as MOTM.
He's definitely on something when it comes to de Gea. It goes way back to that Spurs game in January 2013 where he crucified him for their last minute equaliser.
I haven't been taking Neville seriously for over a year now. With ppl like him England will get nowhere, but couldn't care less. I am sure DDG doesn't take what he says seriously either, I just hope also in future Neville stays as far away from United as possible.
De Gea eh? He's certainly proved Ferguson was right to take a punt on him and have total faith in him even when things were not going so well. I truly hope we hang on to him because he's going to be the top goalkeeper in the world in the not too distant future.
You think it was that contrived? He did praise our performance in the studio, calling it our best of the season against a strong Chelsea (which I'd agree with), so perhaps. I still think it was an odd choice, mind.
I think we need an outing of the clowns who suggest he's not good 1vs1
Yep, very odd decision. I dobut either goalie deserved it, but in a straight shoot-out between the two, it was only De Gea who had made a true world-class save.
Just very unfortunate for De Gea that his wonder-save led to the corner they scored from.
they compare him to Neuer and Courtois, so he is good but not as good as them basically.
Saves one 1vs1 and we need an outing? What? He has to do this more often.
He's not goot at 1vs1. It was a fantastic save (actually I can't remember a better one on these situations) but generally he's not as good in these cases as the likes of Neuer, Courtuis and co. On other aspects of defending he's every bit as good as them (or even better when it comes to shoot stopping).
Nah no way, he was blowing smoke up Courtois arse all game and belittling everything DDG did.
Makes no sense otherwise. Neither keeper did enough to be MOTM.
When Hazard went through, I just sank and my eyes closed as I didn't want to see the ball hit the net, when I heard that De Gea saved it, it felt just like a penalty save. He is still proving just what a great keeper he is.
I don't get why people think Neville praising Courtois means he is belittling De Gea. Courtois did have a very good game today and looks a very good keeper. He made 3 good saves and was really commanding in dealing with Di Maria's crosses. He just kept coming and claiming them almost from every delivery. Until the goal, he did not put a foot wrong and in a game where there was no real outstanding player I could see why he would give him MOTN. He also made the MOTN decision before we equalised.
Who else was there? No one outfield player from Chelsea or United had beyond a decent game. I thought Shaw, Smalling and Fellaini all played relatively well for United but there were large parts of the second half when United were hardly in the game. I'd say the same for Chelsea as well.
Who else was there? No one outfield player from Chelsea or United had beyond a decent game. I thought Shaw, Smalling and Fellaini all played relatively well for United but there were large parts of the second half when United were hardly in the game. I'd say the same for Chelsea as well.
True or false statement? I say true.
Because when Courtois did pretty much anything, Neville praised him. When de Gea made some good saves he either didn't say anything at all or detracted from it saying, for example, that Drogba shot too close to him. If it was Courtois in goal and van Persie making that shot, he'd have praised Courtois.
That save from Hazard was as good as that one vs Everton for me.
Reminds me a bit of Moscow
That split second is pivotal. Get into the head of the player coming in on you and it can make an impact.
Fantastic save v Hazard and felt he well for there set pieces today. Came of his line and good hands. Certainly glad he is at United 
The 1v1 against Suarez last year was a better save (for the reflex). However, what's being discussed on this page, that he may have actually influenced Hazard, would put it just above.
Don't care about Neville's agenda with Courtois, I was just pleased to see Van Gaal giving him the praise he deserves.
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Is that the only example? Neville saying Drogba shot to close to De Gea when he had that chance. I seem to recall Neville praising the save against Hazard which was a fantastic stop and he did not criticise anything De Gea did.
He praised Courtois because Courtois looks a really impressive young keeper. He's commanding, imposing and he made some good saves today. I was impressed by the way he kept taking crosses out of the sky as well.
Gary Neville praised De Gea against Everton when he was fantastic. Why would he do that if he has something personal against him.
Do you honestly think Gary Neville, life-long United fan and one club man has something personal against against the current very good United keeper to the point where he would actively belittle him? It just sounds ridiculous to be honest.
Another fantastic match where he's bailing us out, him hugging RVP after the final whistle was fantastic to watch as well. He's such a goat.
He clearly likes some players more than others and has almost no objectivity when it comes to United and not in a good way.
Thought he was great today, one save I particularly like was the long shot by Willian, I think, that he catched brilliantly.
I will ask the question again do you think Gary Neville, life-long United fan and one club player, has something personal against the current United goalkeeper to the point where he would actively belittle him?
Can you give an example of where he has no objectivity towards United here?
Praising Courtois for his performance today is what an objective pundit would do. He had a good game and looked impressive.
He didn't so much as actively belittle him. He just hardly said anything when de Gea did something well.