[Bojan11]

A bit disappointed nobody shook the new guys hand.

 

[Maradona10]

hopefully our luck has changed today.

 

[JustinC00]

Watch us win this 3-1.

Nailed it.

 

[LeftyBlaster]

Jose.

 

[Mihai]

7 at the back

Just in case

No one cares


Just in case

 

[Ivor Ballokov]

Mourinho wandering off celebrating, brilliant

 

[Fredo]

a move by Valdes that made Stevie G proud

 

[GloryHunter07]

This will end in tears.

For Valdes.

 

[sdb4884]

Lol I was bagging Valencia for not crossing to Martial

 

[Utdstar01]

I thought Valencia was gonna boot that out of play

 

[sunama]

Mourinho fecked off. What a shambles.

Jose thought to himself, "F*** this shit, I'm out of here".
Anyway, job done, 3-1 win and I am pleasantly surprised that we managed to score 3 goals.
Our aim was to hit them on the counter attack and it did seem to work.

 

[Tom Van Persie]

Mourinho

 

[M Bison]

Not at all, the Rojo substitution made perfect sense.

 

[Revan]

And now we have 7 defenders on the pitch, protected by two defensive midfielders. 7-2-1 is a fantastic lineup.

 

[pauldyson1uk]

WOW that was tense , thought we had blown it.
Knackered team, it was all about just getting 3 points and way possible.
It was not pretty, but job done.

 

[Sassy Colin]

Guess it went well

Shoulda won it 2-0

 

[roykeane19]

Yess!!!, Finally, now to win our next PL match

 

[DevilRed]

Disappointing from Rashford. Offered no outlet when we were under pressure. Fluffed his lines all match long. Needs to improve quickly or will find himself out of the team. Especialy with the rumours of Griezmann.

 

[Treble_Winning]

Eat that Valdez you fecking cock.

I wonder why United fans hate Valdés so much. He hardly did anything (good or bad) while playing for us. The error he made was unfortunate. Wouldn't wish that on any goalkeeper.

 

[Jazz]

Thank God for that! 3 points is all I care about. Don't care how we got the win

 

[Ban]

that was the only bit of cheer in this terrible display by us.

comedy

Only bt if cheer? How about 2 more goals and a win.

 

[Dobba]

Should have gotten on his hands and knees and headed it in.

Someone did that against my local pub's team once and was on the receiving end of a Randy Orton style punt by one of the fattest blokes I've ever seen.

 

[Drifter]

Great result away from home . Tactics was lucky though

 

[Red Dreams]

Mourinho

he obviously does not respect the boro board for what they did.

 

[SwansonsTache]

Even now?

Go right ahead, Mourinho totally put me to shame there with his tactic of mind-controlling Valdes to slip. Tooootally redeemed himself, was probably the plan all along.

 

[TMDaines]

This will be one of those games that you look back on with complete confusion, ala against Blackburn with Rafael and Park in central midfield.

 

[Vaibhav Raj]

You were saying?

Dire, dire sub and we will now probably draw this game.

Oh snowflake.. You think that goal came because Mourinho made a defensive sub? One glance at his trophy cabinet and you will realize he probably saw all that pressure incoming with tired defenders and midfielders and actually limited the damage to just one goal by bringing on an extra defender. We would be sat here discussing a draw now had Mata stayed on the pitch oor had been subbed for a player who isn't tall enough to connect with headers. That's the good thing about being a world class manager. You see things that the average posters on redcafe will not.

 

[simonhch]

Darmian MOTM

 

[prtk0811]

Is it good or bad that now Jose celebratated because he scored by parking the bus for 20 mins

 

[AN17]

Thanks a lot Valdes.

 

[Red_toad]

Possible biting incident by Boro player.

 

[antohan]

Okay so that's 7 defenders on the pitch. Surely a first!

Nah, we beat Arsenal comfortably with 7 defenders on the pitch. The twins as wingers, JOS in midfield... It was beautiful.

 

[sglowrider]

I thought Valencia was gonna boot that out of play

Or play it to the corner

 

[GifLord]

Valencia 1-3

 

[manutd619]

Am i missing something or why the hate for Valdes?

 

[Ainu]

Jose wasn't trying to attack anymore at 2-0 hence why taking of Mata. Teams are always gonna bring more players forward in the final third of the game when losing. You have to react to that to negate their threat.

Even if you don't plan to attack anymore, you don't want every single clearance to come straight back, certainly not with 20+ minutes to go. You need bodies in front of the defence to accomplish that. And seriously, do we really need 4 nominally central defenders on the pitch to negate the attacking threat of Middlesbrough?

 

[iAm20Legend]

Lol at that chap in the tunnel entrance staring at Mourinho celebrating

 

[iKnowNothing]

Gif of the Valencia goal please @GifLord

Edit: few seconds ago..
Thank you

 

[TehRed]

Mourinho complains about the schedule => he is a moaner, should rotate more

Mourinho starts an emergency side => look how shite we are

Mourinho takes off a valuable player to rest him when 2-0 up => look how negative we are

The guy can't win.

Boro hadn't scored for 8 hours, you would fancy us to hold on for 30mins with a 2-0 lead, wouldn't you?

It's more about the instructions given to the players about how to play - Valencia and Young could easily have been wingers in a 4-4-2 there, with Bailly and Rojo as fullbacks, but it looks like the whole team had been told to stay deep, soak pressure and play as a back 6.

Against a team who indeed had not scored in eight hours, you'd think we would be free to attack them without much fear and still keep a solid back four considering we really had four centre backs playing.

 

[RedMaestro]

Well he obviously doesn't have these mistakes in every game otherwise we would conceede far more goals when he is playing, so you are obviously wrong.

Again, was just a question. But you can't honestly say that he's been "flawless" in every game? He's made mistakes but it's not been mistakes that has resulted in conceded goals.

Anyway, who cares now. Was a tough win, hopefully Pogba will be ready for the next match.