Well the bluffer's bluff has well and truly been called, if ever an event showed that far from being in actual control, he's just making it all up as he goes along this match was it. Given the injuries before and during the game, the result on the night wasn't any disgrace, it was the other five matches that constituted that.
Let's get one thing straight, this was a piss easy group that if Van Gaal and his philosophy have any place in the 21st century, United should have breezed through. Instead we had the usual mind numbing football, questionable results, and then the real shocker, that last twenty minutes against PSV, where knowing a win would send us through, Van Gaal had us playing as if a draw was enough and it was actually PSV who looked to more likely to get a winner. And I'm sorry that PSV Eindhoven team is no great shakes, to put it mildly. I've got nothing against that club, but I'm hoping they get pitted against one of the big clubs in the next round, we'll see just how good they are then.
At least we went out with a bit of a bang, maybe United deserved a draw, the chances we had, on another night we might have won. But as I've said a few times recently, that defensive record is misleading. Part of the reason it has been so good in domestic football, is because we are set up not to concede at the expense of ceative attacking football. Even then more often than not, in most matches De Gea is called upon more often than he should be to pull off world class saves.
His substitutions once again, were borderline nuts. I'm not the biggest fan of Mata, but for once in a big game he was slap bang in the middle of things. But I think a case can always be made for taking him off, but for Nick Powell? This is a lad that has hardly played for a year, just a couple of games in the under 21's recently. He also didn't cut up any trees at Leicester City on loan. And then in such a crucial game he's put slap bang in the middle of things. Borthwick Jackson was also hard to understand! Alright the young kid didn't really do anything wrong, but at the time we needed to score and he had Ashley Young on the bench. It's as if with United actually really going all out for it during that second half, Van Gaal couldn't bring himself to follow suit. Am I alone in feeling he must have hated watching that match as much because United fucked the philosophy off in a must win game as much for the actual result. Let's put it like this, I'm expecting another possession based boreathon at Bournemouth on Saturday and none too confident that we'll get the three points either.
So Thursday night Channel 5, fucking marvellous, that's really going to help our top four hopes, you can fuck title talk off, there is no fucking chance of that!
Let's get one thing straight, this was a piss easy group that if Van Gaal and his philosophy have any place in the 21st century, United should have breezed through. Instead we had the usual mind numbing football, questionable results, and then the real shocker, that last twenty minutes against PSV, where knowing a win would send us through, Van Gaal had us playing as if a draw was enough and it was actually PSV who looked to more likely to get a winner. And I'm sorry that PSV Eindhoven team is no great shakes, to put it mildly. I've got nothing against that club, but I'm hoping they get pitted against one of the big clubs in the next round, we'll see just how good they are then.
At least we went out with a bit of a bang, maybe United deserved a draw, the chances we had, on another night we might have won. But as I've said a few times recently, that defensive record is misleading. Part of the reason it has been so good in domestic football, is because we are set up not to concede at the expense of ceative attacking football. Even then more often than not, in most matches De Gea is called upon more often than he should be to pull off world class saves.
His substitutions once again, were borderline nuts. I'm not the biggest fan of Mata, but for once in a big game he was slap bang in the middle of things. But I think a case can always be made for taking him off, but for Nick Powell? This is a lad that has hardly played for a year, just a couple of games in the under 21's recently. He also didn't cut up any trees at Leicester City on loan. And then in such a crucial game he's put slap bang in the middle of things. Borthwick Jackson was also hard to understand! Alright the young kid didn't really do anything wrong, but at the time we needed to score and he had Ashley Young on the bench. It's as if with United actually really going all out for it during that second half, Van Gaal couldn't bring himself to follow suit. Am I alone in feeling he must have hated watching that match as much because United fucked the philosophy off in a must win game as much for the actual result. Let's put it like this, I'm expecting another possession based boreathon at Bournemouth on Saturday and none too confident that we'll get the three points either.
So Thursday night Channel 5, fucking marvellous, that's really going to help our top four hopes, you can fuck title talk off, there is no fucking chance of that!
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