Manchester United [2012-2013]

[Pogba4Now]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxwpgh_epl-manchester-united-vs-norwich-city-2-1_sport?start=150

2:14 min is an example of how Carrick has been this season.

There was a chant for him years ago when he arrived but fans have not been singing it for obvious reasons. They have started singing it again for the past few games.



"Hard to believe its not Scholes it's Carrick, you know..."

EDIT: In the first video I posted, you can hear the Carrick song at 3:36 min.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Saw the highlights of your win again last night, and jesus christ WHAT A CLASSY hat trick from Kagawa. I honestly still have no idea how he scored that third goal, every time I see it I think he's touched the ball too far, but he somehow scoops the ball over the keeper from about 1-inch away with enough pace on it to go in the net. And that second goal was just beautiful. What a player.

 

[Pogba4Now]

He was good with his passing as well, not just his goal-scoring. He made 70/76 passes which is 92%. Not bad for an attacking midfielder.

Jones has been ruled out of the Real Madrid game. We shouldn't have played him just after the first leg in the first place. Now we are left with no one capable of playing defensive midfield against Ozil, Ronaldo, Coentrao, Benzema and Di Maria.

I think we probably should play with Smalling rather than Rafael at right back. Rafael is obviously better but Smalling is taller and better defensively. Smalling played well at RB in the last game. With absolutely no defensive midfielder, Rafael would have difficulty dealing with Ozil, Ronaldo and Coentrao.

 

[1966+2006]

My team has organised a friendly match tonight on short notice and I can't watch the Utd match. I probably want to try and watch a rerun afterwards without knowing the score. Anyone got any tips where I can find that? If it's dodgy content/links you can PM me. I would really appreciate it.

 

[Pogba4Now]

I usually just google "Manchester United vs _________ torrent" lol. They are usually up by 2-3 hours and take a few hours to download depending on your connection speed (700 mb to 1 gb usually)

 

[ShiftyPowers]

There might be a TV station that rebroadcasts it during the night too. You could try to stay up and watch that. A lot of the torrents have scores in the titles I think.

 

[Pogba4Now]

lol yes most of them have the score in the title.

 

[Pogba4Now]

Starting lineup confirmed:

De Gea, Rafa, Rio, Vida, Evra, Carrick, Giggs, Cleverley, Nani, Welbeck, RvP.

Giggs in and no Rooney. that's strange.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Very odd. Would think he'd use Rooney instead of Nani at least.

 

[Pogba4Now]

I have a bad feeling about this game already. Who the hall will contain Ronaldo? Valencia, despite being useless for ages would at least help with defense.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Nani has experience at denying Ronaldo goals



You're parking the bus. Accept it.

 

[Pogba4Now]

LOL. Yeah I can see us parking the bus like we did against Barca in 2008-2009.

I think we will definitely concede though. Real is in excellent form. They scored 5 against Barca.

 

[Pogba4Now]

Our passing has been crap so far. Madrid is pressing hard, putting pressure on us.

 

[Mandieta6]

Some cross from Giggs there.

 

[Pogba4Now]

Certainly not "parking the bus" so far. We have had better opportunities including hitting the woodwork.

 

[Pogba4Now]

At least we are in excellent position to win the league now. 12 points ahead and in the FA Cup QFs without having to worry about midweek champions league games. The domestic double is within reach.

I think we should be proud of the team. Despite being 1 man down (unfairly), we continued attacking and got close to scoring time and time again.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

You didn't "continue attacking" as much as Real Madrid retreated to defend their 2 goal cushion (note how well you attacked and fought before the 2nd Madrid goal), but cool whatever.

 

[Mandieta6]

I think it should have been a yellow, but, Nani should have been smarter. Ignorance does not absolve from the crime and intent or not, it was very dangerous play that hit and could have seriously hurt Arbeloa. It's not far-fetched to hand out a red.

 

[Pogba4Now]

You didn't "continue attacking" as much as Real Madrid retreated to defend their 2 goal cushion (note how well you attacked and fought before the 2nd Madrid goal), but cool whatever.

OK, what I meant is that we continued going at their keeper. We were playing on the counter.

 

[Help?]

We were bound to get a bullshit game like that, we were flying way too high