[sizzling sausages]

Smalling is getting a lot of praise here but with another ref he could've given away 2 penalties. His hands have been all over Lukaku a couple of times and on both occasions we couldn't really have complained had the ref called it. He's playing well other than that but he has to watch out he doesn't undo all his hard work by giving away a silly penalty.

Which are the two incidents? The one where Lukaku actually went down was never in a million years a penalty, there was minimal contact.

 

[itso 7]

Our best performance so far in the league, we just need to shunt Rooney out to the left and put Martial upfront. Rooney has been better but he is still poor.

 

[Hostekule]

Lingard is on.

 

[Ainu]

I do expect Everton to come out and attack like mad in the second half.

Absolutely, conceding anywhere in the first 10 minutes of the second half could be deadly here. We had pretty easy control after the second goal as Everton were clearly a bit shell shocked. That'll probably change now.

 

[LeftyBlaster]

Lindgard

 

[Rado_N]

Rooney holds up the ball, lays it off to BFS, shortly after we score. The most important control and pass to retain possession of the entire build up and how many people commented on that? Two, myself and one other person.

What were you saying about ignorance?

ffs

 

[limerickcitykid]

JESSE!

 

[shivab]

Rooneys been alright. Doesn't seem to always know when he has time on the ball and when the CB is tight. Needs to turn and run at the defense a couple of times to keep them guessing.

 

[JTW95]

Lingard???

 

[Ish]

Mata injured? Good chance for Jesse.

 

[podurban2]

Jesse!

 

[Raoul]

Fantastic to see Lingard.

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

Good to see Lingard.

 

[diarm]

Just tuning in now - what a start! What's the deal with Blind? Benched for tactical reasons or injured? How have Rojo and Jones played?

They've been very good. Defence has been really solid with Smalling and Schneiderlin in particular looking top class.

Rojo has been good at the back and very good with the ball and pushing on. His cross for Herrera's goal was world class.

 

[Drifter]

Mata off?

 

[KM]

Lingard on and Mata off. Must be an injury.

 

[m1y2]

fecking hell its Jesse on!

 

[sizzling sausages]

it was 4-4, even worse

The 4-4 was at OT, the 3-3 was here the season before that.

 

[RonaldoVII]

Is Mata injured then?

 

[Nucks]

He controlled it AND passed it? Give that man a medal, these are basics of playing the striker role. He's playing for the biggest club in the world being paid in excess of 200k a week, I think we are entitled to expect Rooney to manage an occasional moment of excellence, maybe the odd goal, heck, even managing to avoid going SEVEN passes without finding a United player.

All I am asking for is people to be actually honest about his performance. The hyperbole and exaggeration is disgusting. There is a reason I've avoided the match-day threads for the better part of a decade. Negative front runners bashing our players beyond what they actually deserve. The fact pubbies are allowed to post in this thread is even worse.

 

[Someone]

Lindgard

No, the other gard.

 

[Sassy Colin]

Wtf?

 

[Maestro14]

Just tuning in now - what a start! What's the deal with Blind? Benched for tactical reasons or injured? How have Rojo and Jones played?

Probably just rotation, with two more important games coming up and Blind having played alot of football already this season. Rojo and Jones have both played very well, although in typical Jones fashion he got a bloody nose halfway through.

 

[Rado_N]

I love Herrera.

 

[The Law of Denis]

Lingard firs appearance since Swansea at home last season I believe

 

[LeftyBlaster]

No, the other gard.

Woops

 

[SqueakyWeasel]

I'm sure he'll get lots of hugs off the lads if he's taken a knock

 

[crimsonife]

Alright let's see what Lingard can do

 

[minoo-utd]

Is Mata injured??

 

[Ainu]

Which are the two incidents? The one where Lukaku actually went down was never in a million years a penalty, there was minimal contact.

He had two hands on him, that's giving the ref an opportunity.

 

[Amethyst]

Lingard? Bit random but OK. Would have thought Depay would have been on.

 

[Irrational.]

Mata off for Lindegaard, according to Setanta.

 

[carlosp]

Herrera giving orders to everyone before the second half starts.

 

[SuperiorXI]

Mata injured?

 

[mav_9me]

Was worried Martial came off.

 

[Varun]

It's called being balanced. I don't think he has been good, but he hasn't been awful. Why can't people be honest. It just bothers me to see people get hysterical and slam a player when they haven't actually been that bad. He's had some good touches, he's had some important touches. He's given the ball away a couple times, and he's broken up possession a couple of times.

However there are people in this thread who are spewing tripe about "HAS HE EVEN COMPLETED A PASS???!!!111"

Dishonesty is ugly.

How can you even say that when there was a period in between when he misplaced 6-7 consecutive passes? Let alone all the moves he broke down before and after that. He did start pretty well, I agree, most posters said as much though.

 

[The Mitcher]

FFS Setanta, its LINGARD not Lindegaard

 

[berbatrick]

it was 4-4, even worse

Nah, this was at Goodison. Berba scored in the 80th or 85th to make it 1-3, I was so happy when I went to the loo, I came back it was 2-3 and we were defending with everyone in the box.

 

[Will Singh]

I love Herrera.

Me to

 

[Sky1981]

yay, 9 miss pass by rooney! Keep it up boy!