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beachryan said:
Fergie set us up to fail tonight. Awful team selection, awful bench and awful tactics.

Diouf put in what may be remembered as the worst ever performance by a United forward. If he ever pulls the jersey on again I'll be shocked.

The twins were both injured in 60 minutes. Shock.

The biggest annoyance for me was Park though. My God he was terrible. Mindblowingly bad. I get that he has his uses, but he's a winger who is slow, can't dribble, can't cross and has no first touch. Also at fault for the goal, and was just generally a pub player.
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You Summed it up perfectly, I'd go as far as to say Diouf is possibly the worst player i've ever seen in a United shirt, and i remember Terry Gibson and Peter Davenport.
 
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Think the only players that came out of that game with no shame is Smalling (immense considering he was doing Evans' job as well, and then covering when Park moved to RB!), & in the second half Valencia stepped up as well.

SAF messed up with the bench yesterday, although I guess he wasn't counting on Berbatov getting injured. Chasing the game, and the only strikers in the squad are Macheda & Diouf? Was Welbeck injured? If not he's not played much recently, so would have been a great option to have...

Still, for a cup we claim to not care about, the one good thing is that it means one less game for us, & one extra for City... (I know, clutching at straws!)
 
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:LOL: :((

Terrible performance.

I think a couple of things were made clearer, Some older players need to be moved on and replaced with youth (either through promoting or signings), Morrison and Pogba are talents but aren't ready for the step up just yet.
 
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Very poor, the first half was one of the worst I've seen in a while.

The twinjuries didn't help but there were still enough internationals out there to do the job. Think Murray's winner was marginally offside as well but whatever...

Smalling was great, hopefully that'll put him ahead of Jones in the pecking order at CB. And screw Darren Ambrose, he always seems to score against us!
 
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The bit with Zeki falling over was the highlight of the match from a United point of view.

Oh and watching that Ambrose striker - my lord what a hit. It doesn't get old watching again and again and again...
 
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i watch 1st half and it was really poor football

i dont know when i watch so poor match in EPL seems like italian football :P

btw important win for u guys
 
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What was wrong with that pitch? They were all dropping like flies out there.
 
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Not sure its the best of timing, Win and City have a lot of preparation time for the League, and losing to them is just not worth mentioning.

I think the run City have got now till that fixture will be telling though, come through it and beat us would awful but drop points to Arsenal/Chelsea/Liverpool and lose to us could be the psychological advantage we could do with
 
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Well, the way the two teams are playing you'd hardly have us as favourites.

Just don't know what's happening at the moment. We've had so many injuries it's remarkable - particularly as the schedule hasn't been that packed so far this season. Our best players aren't looking that good (Nani, Rooney, Ferdinand) and our fringe players are just playing okay. Fergie is insistent on playing a different team every time out, and we're just not consistent out there.

Personally I kind of wish we as United fans could just be satisfied with a decent, transitional season - and start fielding the younger players week in week out.

I can fully accept (and really, it should be the case) that we don't have as good a team as City this year. But what we hopefully can do is develop the youth while Fergie is still around. I'd love to see this as a team:


-----------De Gea-------------
--Smalling-Vida---Jones----New LB-
-------Cleverley-Carrick--------
--Nani-------------Young------
------Roon---Welbeck----------

With Hernandez, Pogba, Morrisson, Valencia, etc all getting chances.
 
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Is De Gea injured? Just wondering why Lindegaard played, I lost points in my fantasy football because of De Gea not featuring :(
 
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:LOL:
 
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Big match today for our season. Obviously we should be able to at least draw against Basle, but who knows with our current form. We'll definitely need to score imo. I still have haunting memories of going out in 2005 via that ridiculous deflected Giovanni shot.

Given the group we have, can't believe Fergie will let us go out.

Will be interesting to see if he trusts Jones in midfield for this one, or if he'll go with Fletcher and the looking-his-age Ryan Giggs instead.
 
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Wow shades of that terrible night in 2005. Go behind, can't get back into it. The Swiss team even through in the copious diving to remind me of the Portuguese side back then. Nice of them.

Shocker. Play the kids in the UEFA cup. Shameful.
 
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Yeah, just not good enough. For all the deserved criticism that Diouf gets, I don't honestly see any difference between his contribution and Park's this season. The Korean was okay at best, but is absolutely, game-destroyingly woeful this season.

This is on Fergie/ the Glazers. We have no midfield. We're playing a defender, a 38 year old winger and a failed, over the hill kind of attacking player instead of actual midfielders.

It's pretty much known we tried to buy Nasri, but City doubled his wages. I wonder if he'd of preferred to be an integral part of our team, or a bench-warmer/ occasional starter for City.

I fear City will just keep doing this with any player we try to buy.
 
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True but it doesn't matter. City are out licking their wounds too. Napoli deservedly through! I suppose that's the only consolation for United and City fans tonight. That they failed but at least so did their local rivals.
 
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Basel was good tonight, some very good young players there..
 
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Stocker is a very good player! Can't believe he only came in 91st minute to waste time basically. We'll see more of him in knockout stage.
 
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PLF said:
True but it doesn't matter. City are out licking their wounds too. Napoli deservedly through! I suppose that's the only consolation for United and City fans tonight. That they failed but at least so did their local rivals.
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At least City have the excuse of a tough group. We don't.
 
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It's just woeful. It's just as bad as 6 years ago, when Fergie was keeping faith with Kleberson and Richardson.

If we had any other manager they'd be under real pressure. Obviously Fergie has earned the right to piss about as he sees fit, but if I hear him say one more time that we don't need to strengthen our midfield, I may wonder if he's lost it.
 
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Yeah he should've definitely strengthened the midfield. He has only himself to blame. Especially since him and the fans were celebrating pretty much when the draw for group stages was made and thought they're already through pretty much. It's never that easy! Basel was seconds away from beating United at Old Trafford so to do it at home was never mission impossible.
 
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