[M Bison]

Boro ticking it around like they're Barcelona circa 2009, typical.

I think we're watching different games!!

 

[Ludens the Red]

Playing really badly. Absolutely no flow. Looks like we have no midfield.

 

[Irrational.]

Bailly doesn't look comfortable at RB. At all.

Boro slicing through that side with ease.

 

[GifLord]

Rashford chance - great save by Valdez

 

[minoo-utd]

Can't find our feet.

 

[Djemba-Djemba]

Is the cup final the only game this season we were clinical in?

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Carrick just bystanding.

If the reports that Jose has doubts about a new contract he is not doing himself any favours.

 

[AltiUn]

We've not started well.

 

[Mciahel Goodman]

We're far too deep.

 

[Android1974]

Bailly and Valencia don't look like they know where they should be on the pitch.

Doesn't really surprise me. Would be better to have a symmetrical 3-4-3 with Valencia on the right and Young on the left.

 

[Bojan11]

Oh there's Lingard.

 

[Godfather]

Ah Lingard is playing as well. Good to see. Just seen him for the first time I think. Misplacing a pass of course

 

[GifLord]

Ramirez chance - great save by De Gea

 

[Android1974]

Carrick in invisible mode again

When he should be bossing it.

 

[RonaldoVII]

We need more players forward centrally

 

[pseudo_canadian]

Valencia's crosses are so bad

 

[Borden]

A top centre forward buries that. Playing out wide doesn't stop you from finishing chances like that.

Yes Suarez, Aguero, Benzema etc. have never missed big chances ever.

 

[Maradona10]

Cavani played two years on left wing and he dint stop scoring this season playing as striker. Same for mbappe. People dont admit butr rashford is very very poor. Apart from running fast he has no game at all.

 

[Irrational.]

Nice flukey ball from Bailly to Valencia.

Valencia overcooks the cross.

 

[Varun]

You know things are bad when someone uses Welbeck and clinical in the same sentence.

 

[air_mood]

Anyone has a river?

 

[Manny]

75% possession... for Boro

 

[Adisa]

If Boro score first, I think it's game over.

 

[Ivor Ballokov]

Great ball from Bailly, Valencia slow to react.

 

[Android1974]

Ah Lingard is playing as well. Good to see. Just seen him for the first time I think. Misplacing a pass of course

Creating our only chance, as well.

 

[AndyJ1985]

Yes Suarez, Aguero, Benzema etc. have never missed big chances ever.

That flippant point would be relevant if they consistently missed good chances.

 

[Massive Spanner]

25% possession, jaysus.

 

[togg]

You know things are bad when someone uses Welbeck and clinical in the same sentence.

 

[Moiraine]

Feck me, after spending 500 Million since Ferguson, this is what we have assembled. Just beyond reasoning how we are making sh!te teams look like world beaters.

 

[Moonred]

Welbeck is average. No amount of misery will change that.

 

[12OunceEpilogue]

Just woke up, hungover af. I'm also off to Wigan Warriors later so will only see the first half.

We're looking decidedly second string and Middlesbrough are predictably up for it after sacking an unpopular manager. We'll need to dig deep here, I just hope the boys are up for the battle. If we throw away yet another chance to move up the table it'll be a terrible indictment on us.

 

[peridigm]

If the reports that Jose has doubts about a new contract he is not doing himself any favours.

I hope reports are true. We need to move on.

 

[Peanut Butter]

What formation we playing not watching game yet?

 

[Varun]

Carrick's lucky, best seat in the stadium.

 

[pseudo_canadian]

75% possession... for Boro

LVG would be ecstatic

 

[JPRouve]

Cavani played two years on left wing and he dint stop scoring this season playing as striker. Same for mbappe. People dont admit butr rashford is very very poor. Apart from running fast he has no game at all.

So your benchmark is Mbappé and Cavani?

 

[PoTMS]

The pitch at the Riverside looks like the Wembley one from this camera angle. Hopefully Lingard sees it that way.

 

[TMDaines]

Doesn't really surprise me. Would be better to have a symmetrical 3-4-3 with Valencia on the right and Young on the left.

Valencia is useless as a winger nowadays. Lack of appetite to beat his man and one dimensional. He's become a full back more because he's no longer good enough to be a winger, rather than just being outstanding full back who was previously thought of as a winger.

 

[Borden]

That flippant point would be relevant if they consistently missed good chances.

They have at some point in their careers. Everybody has. Rashford is fecking 19, chill out.

 

[Ivor Ballokov]

75% possession... for Boro

Arsenal had 77% yesterday.