Manchester United vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[ez]

Peoples opinions on the goals:
All 3 looked to have an offside element, or am I seeing things?

First 2 were. Hard to tell about the third. Not that sky will dwell on it.

[Greg N'Ash]

Lunacy from Lambert, to try and go toe to toe with United, tonight of all nights. With the defence we have, embarrassingly naive.  Not another manager in the country, outside the top 5 would have started with that lineup. Second half was better, but lets be honest United could have scored at will. It's like someone playing FIFA on the XBOX in easy mode, one or two passes and our defence evaporates. N'Zogbia shows absolutely no interest in defending. 

My worry is that if we stay up, will we address the obvious flaws in the team or will we just hope the players improve?

spot on. Don't know what he was doing starting with that line-up

[PaulWinch again]

Bennett becoming the new Bannan on here I see.

I actually don't think he did too badly after first few minutes and he wasn't the biggest culprit in defence.

[nigel]

Peoples opinions on the goals:
All 3 looked to have an offside element, or am I seeing things?

First 2 were. Hard to tell about the third. Not that sky will dwell on it.

Didn't think they would

[paul_e]

No shame in tonight's performance - Manure are just better at the football thing than most others - at least we had a couple of shots. Maybe being a bit of a sideshow to the main event will mean any negative vibes pass us by.

Were the three goals really all offside?

Yes they were, and there was plenty of shame in the first half. We recovered a lot in second half and KEA massively helped that, his best 45 minutes in a Villa shirt.

In fact here you go make your own mind up

From that the 3rd looks pretty clear cut and you see the other 2 given more often than not in my opinion.

We were outplayed and would've still lost but I find it insane that teams like united who are now 16 points clear at the top get decisions like that go their way so often.

[Ads]

Oh well.

At half time I thought we were up for a real drubbing and I think the way we stabalised and created one or two things was pleasing enough.

Just out classed really; the second goal was very good in fairness. I thought the defence got exposed and we needed an extra man in the middle.

Some bellend in their end had a framed picture of Van Persie; plastic, cockney twats. Also, anybody that buys a half and half scarf with another Premier League team is a wanker and should have their plastic, modern, following the brand neck wrung with it.

[JUAN PABLO]

forget to mention Nzogbia . Get rid in the summer please

[Lizz]

Relieved it was only 3-0. Doubt I'll watch SSN tomorrow, or listen to R5.

[Jockey Randall]

It's fair enough saying we shouldn't have been so naive but with the players we have at our disposal I think the only way to go is to play to our strengths, and that's going forward. Try and sit back and we'd just be delaying the inevitable as we can't defend for toffee due to having too much inexperience. We were very unlucky not to score tonight and if that benteke chance goes in early doors who knows what could have happened? When you go to places like tonight you need everything to go your way to get a result, not dodgy offside decisions and goal of the season contenders flying in.

[mal]

We kept them and their champagne football (TM Sky) down to 10 shots at goal 4 on 6 off. There wont be many games this season where they have had so few. They scored three from those four all from situations where they gained advantages from being offside - from such tight margins etc. We had the same number of attempts on target - Gab And Benteke both should have scored and 4 off target. This is a tonking?

[ez]

Peoples opinions on the goals:
All 3 looked to have an offside element, or am I seeing things?

First 2 were. Hard to tell about the third. Not that sky will dwell on it.

Didn't think they would

My mistake. 1 and 3 were offside. 2 was arguable.

[olaftab]

I wish it wasn't so predictable. I hate them and how I wish this wankfest of  Fergie's coronation had not involved us.
The patronising tosser is going to come out with some cringe worthy words for us,.

[neo_Villan]

I did also say when the line-ups were revealed that I'd have rathered N'Zogbia dropped for a proper CM. He does just that in the second half and we are much better. N'Zogbia isn't the sort of player you want in a game like this. Also we look much more balanced playing 4-3-3 and I hope we stick with it until the end season.

[olaftab]

Relieved it was only 3-0. Doubt I'll watch SSN tomorrow, or listen to R5.

Same here. I won't even listen or watch mainstream news.

[Mortimer's Bear]

Bennett becoming the new Bannan on here I see.

I actually don't think he did too badly after first few minutes and he wasn't the biggest culprit in defence.

Agreed but he's getting pelters on here