Nice one lad, thanks
It was a while back though, before we played WBA, so he could have been asked again recently although I do not recall it happening in the City press conference.
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It was a while back though, before we played WBA, so he could have been asked again recently although I do not recall it happening in the City press conference.
It's a nice slant to put on it, "we're nearly undefeated away from home" but in reality we haven't won any away games.
What the hell is this about?! 
Have I missed something?
Have I missed something?
It worrying and I don't know if we will break that poor run of form today. However, I still think that experimenting with 3 at the back cost us a few points. Of course this went hand in hand with our early season injury crisis.
Hopefully we can finally get MOST of our star players back healthy and start building a team that can win away from home.
Surely Blind for DM and Rojo as CB are stop gaps before us getting proper players there?
Who do you suggest?
Isn't Strootman an #8?
What's wrong with Blind? Been impressed with him lately, one of our better and more consistent players.
Going into the season with just glassboy as the only RB is a serious black mark against him. I know he had a hell of a lot of squad renewal to get going on, but this is just a killer one.
He is. He's more a box to box. Far more mobile than Blind.
Time to see if this philosophy can accommodate 10 men and still hit them with some good play.
I'm not sure. But I can't see we're going anywhere with those two as DM and CB. Maybe in other positions they'd look better.
Edit: How's Martinez doing lately?
Can't argue with that.
Hope he absolutely tears Smalling apart.
He can play holding defensive midfielder too. I'd kill for matic in our team a big presence, I don't mind blind but he's too small and weak for the prem.
The high line is suicidal. Not sure why he thinks it will work especially in the prem where there is pace and direct football is common.
Its pretty much cost us this match and had it not been for DDG we would have been down a few goals.
Its pretty much cost us this match and had it not been for DDG we would have been down a few goals.
Not as a DM.
We were looking decent in a big away game for the first time in ages until Smalling got sent off.
Not really. We could be 2 goals down if not for our big Dave.
He's dropped a clanger playing Rooney in CM in a game of this size, it's LvG's mistake and pretty much all our lack of shape and gifting away cheap possession goes back to that one decision.
You can't have a massive imbalance in a massive game at a key position and not have consequences.
It's most likely cost us the game.
No other team does this - can you imagine if City played Aguero in CM? fecking ridiculous.
You can't have a massive imbalance in a massive game at a key position and not have consequences.
It's most likely cost us the game.
No other team does this - can you imagine if City played Aguero in CM? fecking ridiculous.
Don't think we were playing well before the sending off. We weren't poor either but rather middling. Gave the ball away an awful lot after a decent opening 20 minute spell. Performance is pretty poor overall.
Yeah, that's the problem, not glassboy getting injured yet again and leaving us with no RB, not Smalling losing his mind.
It all stems from shape being given up and gifting cheap possession to a top team which invites pressure onto the weak elements that you just highlighted.
Really? LvG has cost us this game? Riiiight.
unfortunately our last manager even failed to compete for anything, pathetic
Most likely, yes.
It was mental to start a striker in CM against a top team, he's not a CM and he's not match fit. It's a massive, massive weak link and the team has collapsed under it.
Jesus. That's ridiculous.
It's not a decision I agree with but Rooney hasn't even been bad. Smalling's moment of madness is what's turned the game
Learn a bit more about football.
I'd say Smalling's stupidity was probably more costly in the context of the whole game, even though I wasn't particularly keen on Rooney playing in a deeper CM role. While it's limited him, he's not been that bad to the point where it's cost us the game.
He's been shit so far.
13 points from 10 games is fecking awful, considering the ridiculously easy start we had.
13 points from 10 games is fecking awful, considering the ridiculously easy start we had.
Really is hamstrung by these morons in defence every game.
Smalling's stupidity has cost us a million times more than LVG's decision to play Rooney there
Hardly his fault when players do retarded things like Smalling or when more defenders get injured.
I would've preferred Rooney and Di Maria to have swapped positions, but if we lose this game I don't think LVG can take much blame. Most disappointing thing was the lack of movement when we had 11 men, I'd expect better from a LVG team.
I would've preferred Rooney and Di Maria to have swapped positions, but if we lose this game I don't think LVG can take much blame. Most disappointing thing was the lack of movement when we had 11 men, I'd expect better from a LVG team.
Nobody will be learning much about football from you.
I think LVG's honeymoon period is over, this is not good enough.
Sack him?
Biggest issue is our ticking time bomb of a defence, and not addressing that is 100% LVGs fault. We need a first choice right back that is fit more than 50% of the time and we need cover so that we don't have to play valencia, mcnair, carrick and shaw at the back vs the champions. We can say that Smalling bad tackle cost of us the game, but we would have likely conceded with Valencia and Carrick in the defence and rooney in MF anyway.
We've added quality to the start 11 last summer, badly needed, but now at long last we need to sort out the squad and bring it to the level it should be at
We've added quality to the start 11 last summer, badly needed, but now at long last we need to sort out the squad and bring it to the level it should be at
He's doing worse than Moyes, but you can't actually say that or you get rounded on. Moyes was laughed at for taking the same players that won the league to seventh... LvG has taken the same players that won the league PLUS £150,000,000 in new signings to ninth...
This was always likely to be a tough game today and a loss (presuming it happens) wasn't entirely unexpected, but if things don't pick up soon then, yeah, questions will have to be asked. Luckily, none of our likely CL rivals are doing a lot better than us at the moment.
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