I was working last night so only caught the second half so I cant rally give a match review. What I can say is though we dropped two points after leading twice, I'd sooner have watched last nights match all day long than what passed for entertainment on Saturday.
Going off Van Gaal's reactions on the bench he must have hated having to have watched such an attacking game. His reaction to Lingard's miss, said it all for me. Yes it was a bad miss, but everybody misses chances like that, the thing is to create enough of them so that you score enough to win more games than you lose. We know that just isn't his philosophy at all. It was laughable that he then brought him off to be replaced by Memphis thereby leaving us far more vulnerable to attacks from our right, where the last minute equaliser came from. He didn't really think that through did he!
Rooney has been basking in long forgotten praise from press and pundits alike last night and this morning. I'll hang fire on that if you don't mind, four goals in three games, two of them penalties against a division one team and two teams struggling relegation. That's sounds a bit premature to be telling us the old Rooney's back. Saying that, the second goal was very much the old Wayne Rooney, a superb shot.
It seems every time we do get a half decent attacking performance from United we found out what a fair few of us have always suspected, defensively we are not improved at all under Van Gaal. It's all down to the defensive midfield cover and the possession tactics. We have missed Shaw badly, he looked the real deal. But going forward, we need at least world class or at least potential world class centre back and a quality right back.
Anyway I ain't grumbling too much about last night, at last it was entertaining, as for Sunday.....
Going off Van Gaal's reactions on the bench he must have hated having to have watched such an attacking game. His reaction to Lingard's miss, said it all for me. Yes it was a bad miss, but everybody misses chances like that, the thing is to create enough of them so that you score enough to win more games than you lose. We know that just isn't his philosophy at all. It was laughable that he then brought him off to be replaced by Memphis thereby leaving us far more vulnerable to attacks from our right, where the last minute equaliser came from. He didn't really think that through did he!
Rooney has been basking in long forgotten praise from press and pundits alike last night and this morning. I'll hang fire on that if you don't mind, four goals in three games, two of them penalties against a division one team and two teams struggling relegation. That's sounds a bit premature to be telling us the old Rooney's back. Saying that, the second goal was very much the old Wayne Rooney, a superb shot.
It seems every time we do get a half decent attacking performance from United we found out what a fair few of us have always suspected, defensively we are not improved at all under Van Gaal. It's all down to the defensive midfield cover and the possession tactics. We have missed Shaw badly, he looked the real deal. But going forward, we need at least world class or at least potential world class centre back and a quality right back.
Anyway I ain't grumbling too much about last night, at last it was entertaining, as for Sunday.....
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