The FA CUP Fifth Round ** Spoilers ** [15th - 18th February 2019]
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Poor Brighton fans, having to go to that dump. Homophobia galore that day.
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Don’t worry, the FA will keep the Manchester clubs apart until the final.
It's not like it once was but he's still continuing to pump money into the club. Chelsea as a club put in a lot of ground work to prepare for and follow FFP but from a cash point of view they're still spending more than they generate.
Utd played pretty well tonight especially without Martial and Lingard who give us so much going forward.
Thought Mata, Lukaku and Sanchez were pretty invisible but rest of the team put in a real shift....personally thought Herrera deserves MotM (not that Pogba did anything wrong, but an "easy" choice)
Missed the 1st ten minutes but Chelsea were decent up to the last 1/3 and then did very little to really challenge our back up gk (Romero was decent but there were a couple of small cases of potentially being caught out)
Looks like our diamond midfield should be called the "London" formation from now on
Wolves could be very awkward away (especially around Arsenal away, City @home? in the league) but draw could have been a lot worse - Arsenal away, Chelsea away and then wolves away and City get three much lower league clubs in the same drawers.....and Pep still complains lol
Thought Mata, Lukaku and Sanchez were pretty invisible but rest of the team put in a real shift....personally thought Herrera deserves MotM (not that Pogba did anything wrong, but an "easy" choice)
Missed the 1st ten minutes but Chelsea were decent up to the last 1/3 and then did very little to really challenge our back up gk (Romero was decent but there were a couple of small cases of potentially being caught out)
Looks like our diamond midfield should be called the "London" formation from now on
Wolves could be very awkward away (especially around Arsenal away, City @home? in the league) but draw could have been a lot worse - Arsenal away, Chelsea away and then wolves away and City get three much lower league clubs in the same drawers.....and Pep still complains lol
Prefer to give Periera time (on the wing) rather than Mata or Sanchez to be honest, even if its just as a sub - just to rest someone else.
Im not suggesting he will ever be an absolute top player...but deserves minutes more than the other two (would include Lukaku on the wing as well if the latter hadn't done those two marvellous assists recently)
Sanchez and mata are just complete waste of spaces.
Mata and Lukaku come under the umbrella of being good enough against average sides but painfully sub-par against the top teams. Mata was fine tonight and Lukaku was crap but not to the absolute detriment of the team. Chelsea being poor and off the pace disguised the fact that both are not good enough if you have genuine trophy aspirations.
I would get rid of Lukaku ASAP before his value drops off a cliff. Mata is a lovely guy but will never be more than squad.
Sorry but just because Mata is "a lovely guy" means nothing, he is average at best now (and really has been for most of his time at Utd ) and shouldn't even be a squad player.
Mata was invisible tonight - really did very little apart from being a pair of legs.
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How do city keep managing to get lower league teams! If we do make it all the way we have done it the hardest way possible!
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Lindelof is having a great season, even under Jose he was playing very well. Ole has definitely got us defending better as a team but I feel Lindelof just needed a little time. He looks at home now.
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Go back watch the first goal. Then tell me he was invisible.
Mata played an important role tonight, he was instrumental in us taking the lead and kept the pressure on Jorginho so he was limited in his control of the game.
Yep. He rarely takes control of games but tonight he contributed a fair bit.
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Yup, I too thought Mata was good tonight, as did Ole, he was singing his praises in the post match interview.
Sorry but the player in the number 10 position should be doing a lot more than just a couple of touches that might or might not have contributed to a goal (all too infrequently) - even when he is supposed to be on the right, he still actually ends up in the same kinds of positions anyway and doesn't do that much. He really doenst justify his wages / place in the squad (not saying Sanchez or a few other players do either , mind)
Anyone who thinks he can play in cm must be having a laugh about his joke of a tackle where majority of players just waltz right past him (it happened a few times last night in the 2nd half before he was subbed)