Me too. Hence the post.
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The game they created as many chances as this year and couldn't finish leading to 3 undeserved points for us? I am far from someone that can remember individual performances that far Back Hut I'd be amazed if he kept Sanchez in his pocket while out entire defence was having their assets handed over to them.
What did Sanchez do in the game?
By all means, go back and have a good look. See what proper defending against Sanchez is all about. And then rewatch the first half of last week´s debacle. Compare and contrast. It won´t look pretty for the Italian. Luckily LVG saved him and United from further embarrassment by taking the poor lost lad off.
I'm not going to so i'l just ask you this. Valencia was having a stellar game while our defence was repeatedly being torn apart?
But our defence wasn´t being torn apart last year against L' Arse, so what´s the point? Mainly cause we had some proper fullback defending on Sanchez which made a massive difference. I do know though, that in the F.A. cup loss, LVG had rued that his best player in that match had made the unfortunate back pass.
A lot of that is bollox, which I can't be bothered to unpick in detail but let's focus on the last bit. Isn't "even" in the same league as Shaw. That implies being in the same league as Shaw is an unimpressive achievement. Shaw's form this season has been exceptional. Being "in that league" would be quite an achievement.
Re Darmian all I can say is that he's put in a number of unequivocally impressive performances in a United shirt. Anyone who ignores those to slate him as a poor player/signing is either terminally biased, blind or unbearably negative about everything like the other person whose post you quoted.
I am talking about the league game which we won while being clearly the worse side, not the FA cup match. Even in that game, LvG's comments about Valencia being the best player was mocked.
Terrible back pass aside, Valencia played well in that game. Something noted by Van Gaal in interviews afterwards. Unfortunately he was a victim of the standard redcafe trope where a single bad error is enough to ensure that it will be all that 80% of people on here can remember about the performance.
Talking about the league game Pogue, not the FA cup match.
Oops. My bad. Ironic that my feck up occurs in a post where I accuse other people of having bad memories
Slating players and managers is a cool thing to do. It builds up your rep.
Oops. My bad. Ironic that my feck up occurs in a post where I accuse other people of having bad memories
You can accuse me of having a bad memory about individual performances and be right every time.
I am genuinely asking how it's possible for Valencia to have such a good game when I vividly remember our defence being piss poor that night.
Feel free to show how a lot of that post was bollox, or even a tiny bit of it. I think I was proved rather correct by my previous criticism of the Italian. Glowingly correct in fact
Could you address this as well. I just don´t get it either. Help me out here. An unequivocally impressive performance by a United fullback with zero attacking skills does not compute. I thought the 1970s were thankfully dead.
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Basically, what Nobby is trying to say is that he doesn't like him because he is no Valencia.
This is what´s called Valencia-is-shite-no-matter-what-happens memory. It´s actually quite a common occurrence here.
That's just noodle being noodles. He can never see positives, in anything. Darmian has shown plenty of good attacking skills. Over-lapping runs and very good passing. No idea what you mean by the 1970s. I wasn't born then so can't comment. How about an easier era to remember. John O'Shea and Wes Brown at fullback. I guess they didn't have enough stepovers for you either?
I seriously think John o´Shea had as much or better attacking skills as Darmian. That´s how dire he is. And Wes Brown was far better. Go back and watch the 07/08 season.
I remember being very upset with him at HT because was being dragged all over the place and they had a number of chances from his area. Well before the backpass. LvG's praise mystified me, what he did vs Sanchez was win a few headers and a sprint or two. Otherwise Sanchez was cutting inside with no resistance, and was opening up the space with simple runs too.
Knew it would be a problem when Shaw got injured that we wouldn't have enough attacking play from the full backs. Darmian singled out.
As someone who criticised Darmian in another thread pointing out in my view he was no full back, it's rather refreshing to see some support for my view in this thread.
Nobby style insofar as this is concerned talks a hell of a lot of sense.
Nobby style insofar as this is concerned talks a hell of a lot of sense.
This is great for his confidence !
Goalie though
Goalie though
It's all very well making a clever interception and scoring a great goal but what's he actually good at? The caf needs to know.
you don't think that it's easier to look better when you have cristiano ronaldo in front of you then juan mata? With sir alex ferguson as manager compared to Van gaal? Darmian has done well overall. Nothing spectacular, but his overall game is very good and just had an off day against sanchez and arsenal. It happens.He's had some very good games and a couple of very bad games. Clearly the talent is there. People forget he's still adapting to a new league, country etc. Remember how long Evra took to adapt to English football. I say cut him some slack for now.
How about that Martial though? He isn't even in the same league as Messi. Our transfers are like bloody amateur hour here.
anyone using this kind of language to describe football isn't really worthy of any time
Yeah basically this. We could do with actually playing two CBs in the middle so he has more support from Smalling who always has to push to the left side of our defence.
Hope we got a couple of more matches with Azerbaijan! . . . Azer wuz whoo??? . . . Azer been Badin???
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Darmian is a very good player, but ala Memphis I think the move to two matches a week for us has been a struggle this far.
An obvious dislike for Darmian as he displaced his favorite Valencia. I don't know why people grace it with a response. That post is so blindingly biased it makes no sense to even take note of it once you read the first couple of sentences.
Jesus Christ, arm chair and FM managers, give this lads time to settle before judging them. Everyone want 7-8 players signed every summer and they won't give the signings time.
After such a good start, it is perfectly reasonable to see him struggle now. It was easily predictable, the same will happen with Martial too.
He's just tired. He's taken a massive step up in intensity coming to the Premier League. In his first few games he was worn out before 90 and subbed, but since then he has been playing every minute of every game and its caught up to him.
He was one of our best players until recently and he will be again when he gets a rest. Everyone using Shaw as a stick to beat him must be forgetting the goals we conceded because Shaw was getting caught out of position and leaving his flank wide open.
He was one of our best players until recently and he will be again when he gets a rest. Everyone using Shaw as a stick to beat him must be forgetting the goals we conceded because Shaw was getting caught out of position and leaving his flank wide open.
Geography really isn't one of your strengths is it? We will put that in the pile with 'talking sense' and 'football knowledge'.Hope we got a couple of more matches with Azerbaijan! . . . Azer wuz whoo??? . . . Azer been Badin???
P.S. looking forward to reading some more of your Valencia fan fiction.
Let me know when Darmian goes into Buenos Aires and comes out man of the match, instead of showing up less-than-League 2 laughable defending.
Watch this impressive, lightning quick display of defending against the big bad Azerbajian attack. Impressive.
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