Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [28th - 31st October 2016]

[Tombstone]

Man city absolutely cruising. Back to the top on GD for them. Arsenal there on 23. Up to us to join them by beating Palace now

 

[Shamikebab]

It's just not our day, is it? I've thought that a few times recently, we're not playing particularly poorly, we're just not quite there.

I wonder who we will buy in Jan?

We've not played bad we just have no options on the bench, there is no plan B. Our good players are either mysteriously injured or mysteriously left out completely so when Plan A doesn't work we bring on Fellaini and Rooney. How much better would we have been today if Depay had started and we had a fresh Rashford to bring on later?

 

[Shamikebab]

Rooney misses a sitter too, he just has to go. He's utterly useless now and getting worse and worse every game.

 

[Steedie]

Just let him rot in the reserves

 

[Nate75]

Ibra missed a sitter?

There must surely be no confidence left in the team.

that was a shocker in so many ways tbh

 

[sigma]

 

[mmj_uk]

Can't even score from the penalty spot from a routine that's clearly been worked on.

 

[Fubsy]

This reminds me of the game under Moyes where we had like 100 crosses and didn't score

 

[Shamikebab]

Woeful result, should have been 3 points guaranteed by about 20 mins. It says a lot when you need a goal and you take off your creative player and bring on Rooney and Fellaini, more poor subs from Mourinho. He has a lot to answer for really.

Crap refereeing doesn't help, should never have been a red card.

 

[McBain]

lol, United, what an appalling result.

 

[cm1179]

another draw for spurs

not good

 

[Trusty]

Boo's around the stadium already, you don't get long nowadays...jesus

 

[Shamikebab]

Rooney putting more effort in moaning at the ref than playing football.

 

[Martini1991]

I don't know why Spurs didn't get Dembele (The one currently at Celtic).

 

[sigma]

 

[Robbo]

Astonishing, but ultimately it comes down to poor finishing, should have scored a few.

 

[dacads]

This reminds me of the game under Moyes where we had like 100 crosses and didn't score

Exactly, 3 years on and we still lack a clinical finisher.

 

[Tombstone]

Watford leapfrog Utd in the league. Spurs drop 2 pts in the leading pack. Now for Liverpools match

 

[Shamikebab]

The problem with starting Rashford on the wing is we can't switch things up. Ibra is going through a poor spell (in front of goal at least, his link up play is still great) so we have no other option if we choose to start Rashford on the wing. it would be far better to have someone else out there and then we can change things later in the game.

 

[sigma]

What I never understand about analysing football matches/teams is surely the managers can see what we can? There must surely be a reason behind the decisions they make that we're not aware of. They'll have access to way more stats than we do and obviously the coaches know more about the players than we do too.

So what gives?