Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [3rd May - 7th May 2014]
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Nice, Everton losing yesterday all but assured us of our yearly 4th place trophy
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Winning today was nice, good goal from le donkey as well. Icing on the cake was Spuds losing to West Ham and Utd losing to Sunderland..first time they have won at OT since 1968 from what i read on SSN earlier this morning. Not only has Moyes broken records but seems like Giggsy is trying to out-do him too
Win the FA Cup and got 4th, successful season for Arsenal
.Winning today was nice, good goal from le donkey as well. Icing on the cake was Spuds losing to West Ham and Utd losing to Sunderland..first time they have won at OT since 1968 from what i read on SSN earlier this morning. Not only has Moyes broken records but seems like Giggsy is trying to out-do him too
Win the FA Cup and got 4th, successful season for Arsenal
Nice, Everton losing yesterday all but assured us of our yearly 4th place trophy
Winning today was nice, good goal from le donkey as well. Icing on the cake was Spuds losing to West Ham and Utd losing to Sunderland..first time they have won at OT since 1968 from what i read on SSN earlier this morning. Not only has Moyes broken records but seems like Giggsy is trying to out-do him too
Win the FA Cup and got 4th, successful season for Arsenal
No, it did assure it
Dat dive
Didn't see a dive, but there has to be a penalty at some point in this game!
Well Hazard jumped after the guys leg missed the kick and ploughed into the Norwich defender.
Real time I thought it was one of the most stone wall pens I had ever seen, on replay he has just dived into the defender and the defender missed the kick.
There is a huge difference between training sessions and actual match practise.
If Van Gaal is introducing a new system of play, which our current players have never seen, it will take a while for them to adapt. The more games the better. They need to learn to be comfortable in possession in both training AND in matches. Many players do well in training but fall apart during a real/live/actual match. This will also allow Van Gaal to identify the players who can play and those who can't.
With regards to playing too many games - the players already have the ability to play many games and compete for honours in all 4 competitions. These are not 16 year olds. They are seasoned pros, who can play and win many games every season. If they cant - they must be sold.
These players do not need to be treated with kid-gloves.
The mentality you are describing is D.Moyes, to a tee - 4th place is good enough in the league and no trophies.
4th place wouldnt be good enough for Chelsea, Man City, R.Madrid, Bayern.
And 4th place is definitely not good enough for Man Utd.
The incoming manager MUST compete for all trophies, from the get-go (unlike Moyes).
This is a winning mentality. Our target is to win...not finish 4th.
When Guardiola went to Bayern, he stated that anything less than the treble would be failure. This is the mentality of a winning manager and LvG will be similar.
Let me put it in simpler terms.
Current Man Utd squad + £150M + Van Gaal = 4th in the league in 2014.
The Glazers would likely classify this as failure.
If 4th place was our target, then we'd have stuck with Moyes.
We are going to be changing manager and back room staff in the Summer.
+ spending £150M.
The team you saw yesterday will be playing in a completely different way next season. You can't compare this season with next season, given that so many changes are due to be made in a few months.
I do agree though, there are no guarantees of a top 4 finish.
Adams does realise his team are facing down the barrel of a gun, and a draw realistically isn't enough right? He's pinning his hopes on a home win against Arsenal, and Sunderland to lose both their last 2 games, what a joker.
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Whereas if he goes for it, and potentially wins, they've got a real chance of staying up. Sure it's unlikely they'd beat Chelsea, but more likely than beating Arsenal at home and Sunderland not take a single point from home games against West Brom and Swansea.
Ridiculous, cheerio Norwich, tactics like that in the situation they're in and they deserve to go down. Norwich fans delighted and proud of the result as well? What the ****?!
Regardless, absolutely pathetic performance from Chelsea. If you can't beat Norwich and Sunderland at home you deserve sod all.
They had 6 points to play for, now they only have 3 points to play for so it's a result that all but sends them down ... I must be missing something.
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