One step forward, two steps back, with United at the moment, It's getting to the point where you don't know what to think, from one game to to the next. No Di Maria and even no Rooney, can't believe I tyrped that, and we turned into the nothing team of Moyes infamy.
And yet under Van Gaal we won, still not sure what that means, does it mean Van Gaal is a lucky manager and Moyes wasn't. There would be something in that, after watching that tonight, it was as poor as the crap we saw under Moyes. Seeing the team selected ahead of the game, you had to wonder where the vision was going to come from. Well after suffering that 90 minutes, and speaking as one who had started to come round to had started to believing Van Gaal had started to turn the corner, tonight had me lost.
We started reasonably enough, which I suppose is an improvement over the previous manager, but not the kind of standard that will have the top sides of Europe fretting about United any time soon. But the thing about English football is, the opposition will not roll over an die, whatever the rest of the right and wrongs of the rest of the premier league. Don't start me on the best league in the world, I haven't the foggiest.
The opening goal came out of nothing really, but credit to Fellaini, I thought he showed his limitations as a Utd player tonight, but it was a fantastic run and header for the opening goal. I'm Not sure it was really deserved for the play that had gone before. But saying that, you can't really say any more about Stoke's equalier, which itslef came out of nowhere. Fellaini lost the ball far too easily, showing he's not really United quality, which we already knew. It was a fantastic shot for the equaliser, but it should have never have been allowed to happen.
I can't say I was thrilled by our second half perforance or by Van Gaal's late, late substitutions. I couldn't see that winning goal coming, and when it did, it was a total freak really, happy freak obviously. But those late ten nail biting ten minutes were totally predictable and the answer to it was not to sit back and let it come. We got through it, but against a team of a better quality than Stoke and who knows!
And yet under Van Gaal we won, still not sure what that means, does it mean Van Gaal is a lucky manager and Moyes wasn't. There would be something in that, after watching that tonight, it was as poor as the crap we saw under Moyes. Seeing the team selected ahead of the game, you had to wonder where the vision was going to come from. Well after suffering that 90 minutes, and speaking as one who had started to come round to had started to believing Van Gaal had started to turn the corner, tonight had me lost.
We started reasonably enough, which I suppose is an improvement over the previous manager, but not the kind of standard that will have the top sides of Europe fretting about United any time soon. But the thing about English football is, the opposition will not roll over an die, whatever the rest of the right and wrongs of the rest of the premier league. Don't start me on the best league in the world, I haven't the foggiest.
The opening goal came out of nothing really, but credit to Fellaini, I thought he showed his limitations as a Utd player tonight, but it was a fantastic run and header for the opening goal. I'm Not sure it was really deserved for the play that had gone before. But saying that, you can't really say any more about Stoke's equalier, which itslef came out of nowhere. Fellaini lost the ball far too easily, showing he's not really United quality, which we already knew. It was a fantastic shot for the equaliser, but it should have never have been allowed to happen.
I can't say I was thrilled by our second half perforance or by Van Gaal's late, late substitutions. I couldn't see that winning goal coming, and when it did, it was a total freak really, happy freak obviously. But those late ten nail biting ten minutes were totally predictable and the answer to it was not to sit back and let it come. We got through it, but against a team of a better quality than Stoke and who knows!
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