[Raw]

The dives were utterly embarrassing too. Just shocking.

 

[Aporkalypse]

Completely fecked over by those half time subs. What was he thinking?

 

[sullydnl]

Subs weren't good (though Herrera had been poor anyway).

Ultimately this is on our players though. Valencia's terrible back-pass, Di Maria collapsing like a ton of bricks after the slightest touch, Di Maria stupidly getting himself sent off, Januzaj diving....

Ref should have probably given Arsenal another yellow but really he didn't do much wrong.

 

[Sam]

Did you miss the first half?

The first half where Arsenal looked like they would counter at every opportunity?

 

[bosnian_red]

Great first half. We handed it to them with that clanger from Valencia. Dreadful. We missed Herrera in that second half IMO. Weren't creating anything before that. Blind was shite I thought.

 

[FujiVice]

Our players diving about like a early 90s German side made this defeat sting even more.

 

[Moonred]

Just braindead. Gave away two goals on the plate.

 

[SteveJ]

We should really stop playing Fellaini. He gets a free kick awarded against him every time he goes near someone. Regardless of how justified it is, it's just not smart to keep playing such a liability.

He's the poor man's Peter Crouch.

 

[Spark]

LVG should bollock everyone bar a few. Then someone needs to bollock LVG because he sabotaged us.

Arsenal were pretty poor and there for the taking.

 

[Hed Zitin]

Hardly created anything in the second half after a good first.

Stupid mistakes finally cost us.

Oliver gave them everything. Went down, "whistle"

 

[Eriku]

How on earth does Rafael not get a look in? First Valencia unsettles our defence with some Luiz-esque rampaging around, then he gifts a goal to Welbeck... Surely it's time to have a look at other options, Louis?

 

[Sunny Jim]

Just a quick preview of how our season is going to end

Our FA Cup run was a hoax with all these easy draws anyway.

 

[matt23]

Fellaini just manged to complete 90 minutes without doing anything useful and should have been sent off at least twice.

Gutted, thought arsenal defended well in the 2nd half but we just thew a trophy away.

 

[LARulz]

Van Gaal subs
Stupidity defensively
Stupidity through Di Maria and Januzaj

All cost us

 

[OnlyTwoDaSilvas]

Man, so many BOOMs from Piers Morgan right now. That guy needs a bullet.

Murphy had it spot on. Too many subs killed the rhythm. We looked all over the place after an enjoyable first half.

 

[chriswt]

I wonder how much Michael Oliver took in bribes to decide to end his career so early?

Not sending off Bellerin was a huge joke, it was the clearest second yellow you'll ever see. Not to mention the numerous amount of 50/50s he gave in Arsenal's favor, refusing to book Coquelin, refusing to caution Ramsey a second time for throwing the ball away after a professional foul was called against him, booking 2 United players for "diving". Absolute fecking joke of a performance.

 

[Bilbo]

I thought we were the better team. Best we'd played in a while up until the hour mark. All in all a really entertaining game which I haven't been able to say too often this season.

Disappointed with the diving, but the players showed a lot of fight.

We have a lot of work to do this summer.

 

[montpelier]

Didn't like the pairing of Carrick & Blind

Terrible mistake Valencia

Too much diving

 

[diarm]

Great first half.

Van Gaal should step forward and take responsibility for an appalling decision at half time.
If Shaw and Herrera weren't injured, then he took the impetus and cohesion away from a very good 45 minute performance.

Di Maria and Januzaj were shameful. Embarrassing and not worthy of Manchester United.

Why was Welbeck not shown a yellow card for the very same thing?
How did Bellerin stay on the pitch?

Januzaj, Di Maria, Valencia and Oliver should all be taking long and enforced breaks after this evenings performance.

 

[Ludens the Red]

Poor subs.
Embarrassing defending.
Embarrassing diving cnuts.
This is what our defence does against quality attackers.
We've got four teams better than arsenal to face this season, it's gonna be painful to watch.

 

[Amadaeus]

My dead nan would have scored that.

He did well to round an on rushing De Gea. I doubt your dead nan has that such of spatial awareness and speed to reach that ball.

Nevertheless, we looked unbalanced and we should have done better. Like I mentioned 100 of times on here, Fellaini should be a plan B. We lacked team cohesion and our defense looks like they have played today just for the first time. Our last chance of a trophy gone.

 

[NinjaZombie]

I'm pissed off right now so this won't truely reflect what I feel as a whole, but feck right off Valencia. Both goals thanks to him. And Rafael is supposed to be the ticking bomb.

 

[Sunny Jim]

How on earth does Rafael not get a look in? First Valencia unsettles our defence with some Luiz-esque rampaging around, then he gifts a goal to Welbeck... Surely it's time to have a look at other options, Louis?

Rooney will play right back. He can play anywhere you know.

 

[gooDevil]

Welbeck finds a shot he can finish off!

 

[ForlansHair]

I don't blame van Gaal for that.

The subs were obviously to control the game, which we were doing until Valencia's brainfart.

The team that finished the game was not a United. The amount of average players we have accumulated is unbelievable. Valencia, Jones, Smalling, Young, Fellaini, Januzaj. I mean come on, it's a minor miracle we are where in the league when you see the state of our squad.

 

[Manchie]

LVG is overrated manager

 

[Outremangeur]

The diving, the hoofing it to Fellaini, the comical stopping of the ball, the stupid substitutions... Atrocious!

 

[.Rossi]

Thought that was an absolute disgrace personally.

Players diving, awful subs and tactics, ballooning the ball up to Fellaini with nothing else on show most of the time, big money players either not doing it or not even on the pitch, defensive shambles, needing De Gea once again to stop it from becoming an embarrassing scoreline.

It's getting worse

 

[Nate Dogg]

Not only we need a RB, CB, CM we also need a new manager!!!

LVG is out of his depth, his substitutes in the second half can only be described as criminal and I'm not even gonna talk about tactics!

 

[Will Singh]

I'm pissed off with the ref, he was shit and overshadowed the game with his biased decisions, but I'm even more pissed off with Di Maria, where does he think he is RM? This is UTD son get your fecking ass in gear or FECK OFF!

 

[Wade3]

Just watched the second half, but if you gift another team a goal like that, you can't expect to win.

 

[Roboc7]

We just aren't a very good team and whatever team we send out we either look too lightweight or we end up being one dimensional by trying to compensate.

Di Maria was a known diver in Spain and it's even more noticeable here, it's a huge blow he will be banned for a few games, even at his worst he at least injects some pace and dribbling ability, big blow to top four hopes.

Arsenal weren't great but we were worse, they have so much more pace and are so much more dynamic than us though.

 

[poisson]

Arsenal were the better team then us!

My god I didn't realise how bad we are, I sort of knew it against Newcastle but the last minute goal perhaps clouded my judgement. Today has just confirmed it. We are bang on average, no heart or desire from the players.

Arsenal simply wanted it a lot more then us. Expect us to finish 7th, Liverpool, Chelsea and City will beat us comfortably.

 

[vibe]

Good first half, stupid substitutions and puff, everything goes down the drain. I've had enough now. And do we have the thickest set of players in the PL, what was Di Maria thinking? You have just taken a dive [like always], rightly gets called out for it with a yellow and you've hit the referee from the back? Lost for words!

Stupid post if I've ever seen one.

We played well. Yes, very stupid from Di Maria to get himself sent off. A well deserved 3 match ban and he won't be doing that again any time soon. But not only could have that decision gone either way (he went down VERY easy, but there was a tug of his arm), but the match was officiated with massive double standards. Welbeck didn't get a yellow for diving first half, but both Di Maria and Januzaj did. I won't even mention the mandatory second yellow for Bellerin.

No excuses for Di Maria. You're a professional and you should not be losing it at a time like that.

But we could have easily gotten a draw, more even had that match been officiated objectively.

 

[Bilbo]

I wish I wish I wish we had Danny Welbeck. Might cost us massively.

he was poor tonight

 

[Mystry]

Well at least it was exciting.

Seriously though, the first half was good from us. Second half not quite so much considering the two big incidents but at least we still kept trying to go forward at every opportunity despite being down to 10 men. Isn't that what most of us wanted? I enjoyed watching us play tonight even with the way it all just crumbled.

And continuing with the positives, thank god Carrick is back.

 

[Nights]

I wish I wish I wish we had Danny Welbeck. Might cost us massively.

Anyone could have scored that goal. That was just a massive brain freeze by Valencia. That bad mistake and ADM's petulance cost us the game.

 

[Gannicus]

Losing always hurts, but this is a completely irrelevant competition in the modern English game, except for clubs going for the glory of a double or treble or small clubs making their name in an FA Cup final.

The focus has to be on the league. A cup run any further would have only undermined that focus.

 

[Revan]

I would prefer to make De Gea player-manager. He's the only one (probably Rooney too) who deserves to get paid. Van Gaal should donate his wage for charity considering how awful are his decisions (especially those within the game).

 

[fallengt]

So we lost FA .. I didn't care anyway.
Top 4 should be only priority this season. Next .