Manchester United Banter Archive January 25 2019

25 Jan 2019 22:26:10
I thought ole got his tactics spot on. Knows that coalsack pushes up too far and leaves space behind and got lukaku to sit in the space and attack it and it worked perfectly. Then second half the subs meant as it became more open chances were there for quick breaks.

26 Jan 2019 08:48:25
Coalsack, love it Mort.

26 Jan 2019 10:18:53
Couldn't spell it went with something close.

25 Jan 2019 22:06:19
Bloody brilliant! Chuffed for Lukaku and Sanchez. Fully deserved. And we didn’t sit back and protect our lead. Brought martial and rashford on and the bold substitutions paid dividends. 8 in 8 now for ole. I’m leaning towards him now. Have a great weekend all.

25 Jan 2019 22:23:24
Just brilliant.

25 Jan 2019 22:45:03
Quite refreshing to see 2 attacking substitutions to go and kill the game off opposed to bring on defenders to see the game out. Great performance Shaw and lindelof especially.

Also Romero save shouldn't go unnoticed could of easily been a different game had that gone in.

25 Jan 2019 22:26:42
Amazing how these plastic trophies become important in desperate times pmsl.

25 Jan 2019 22:28:46
It was a vintage performance by our recent standards of the last few years. I feel we had them rattled once we started knocking off their centre backs though! Great attacking play for the most part. I did notice Pogba not making much of an effort at times: he needs to come looking for the ball, in order to help his teammates and get on the ball. Good result! Well done the lads!

25 Jan 2019 23:09:53
Ahh mighty reds is back. Its funny how rival fans come onto this page when we start to look more like the old united. Downplaying ya because they are starting to get fearful that we are coming back. We aren’t there yet but huge improvements.

Might red, You guys have won anything in over a decade. Even in our worst period we have one more than you. Still lots of the league left to play. Seems some scousers are celebrating already. Pressure is a funny thing. And Liverpool have shown in recent years they don’t have the bottle when it comes to it.

26 Jan 2019 02:00:42
Mighty reds is just overtired as it’s past his bed time, which explains his delusional statements.

26 Jan 2019 03:30:46
Funny to see so many thumbs down after a great away win. The trolls must be back.

We can smell the fear.

25 Jan 2019 21:40:58
Even tho were winning why is it every time the opposite team attack I've got to change my boxers 😀😀 and I love the way lingard always sticks up for Rashford.

25 Jan 2019 22:19:13
Arsenal created two chances bar the goal. I thought we were very good defensively tonight. Shaw wasn’t excellent and bailly grew in confidence. Special mention for Victor Lindelof. He looks a player. Hopefully get him a settled parter.

25 Jan 2019 22:30:50
They came on in the same old way and we saw them off in the same old way.

25 Jan 2019 14:28:04
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new player profile about, Marcus Rashford

25 Jan 2019 15:14:05
Great article ed. You seem to rate rashford very highly. I’m a massive fan and think he can be very special. I do think martial is more talented but rashford’s application gives him the edge for me at this current moment. You are spot on about his somewhat lack of ability to take instructions. Perhaps that’s down to playing under Jose/ lvg where the teams have been more rigid and defensively orientated. Under an attacking manager I hope to see his tactics understanding improve leaps and bounds.

{Ed001's Note - I think Rashford is much more talented personally, but Martial is much more clinical. They make a good pairing. I really rate Rashford a lot. I believe he is already close to special personally.}

25 Jan 2019 15:25:32
The big question is, can he take it to the next level? Can he be a guaranteed 25/ 30 goal a season player? Under Jose he was missing 1v1 chances quite regularly. Under Ole he seems to have his mojo back. But which one is the real Rashford? Somewhere in between I'd imagine.

The negatives in his game that he will try to beat a player 2 or 3 times. In his first year he was very direct and in worked in spades, now he slows down the play before taking on a defender, almost in a cocky way. And someone needs to reef him off taking free kicks. Other than that, the boy has the footballing world at his feet!

25 Jan 2019 16:43:08
Theres only really been two brief periods where he has played up top for a significant period of time, when he burst onto the scene in february under lvg till the end of that season (15/ 16) and this season under ole (7 games)

The rest of his time at united he has to play left wing or back up to zlatan or lukaku.

Stick him up top for a whole season and back him to be the main man and i am sure he will be a regular 20-25 goal a season striker.

25 Jan 2019 17:01:29
Ed,

Where do you see Lukaku fit into all of this.

Id rather let Martial and Rashford fight it out for strikers position.

Do you think Lukaku will be happy to play second fiddle to Martial and Rashford? .

{Ed001's Note - I think Lukaku is not good enough but he will never be happy being a back up as he believes he is world class when he is far from it. Get rid.}

25 Jan 2019 17:11:36
That is exactly how i feel about him. He doesn't suit the way we want to play and we would have to play to his strength for us to get the best out of him.

25 Jan 2019 18:36:03
Rashford is the future if we want to play fast offensive football. Lukaku is a perfect professional, yet I doubt he'll settle for being second choice. I suspect he'll leave, but probably not until the end of next season.

25 Jan 2019 18:46:54
We had 2 very very promising youngsters yet chose to spend £75M on a striker when we desperately needed to strengthen the defence and enhance the midfield. Madness.

25 Jan 2019 19:19:34
We then spent £X million on Fred when we could have soent that to buy a competent centre back. Comedy of errors.

25 Jan 2019 22:33:47
Ed001 very good assessment.
I thin k his tactical awareness as well as his decision making will improve with experience.
At 21 he has had a huge amount of top class exposure. I both those aspects of his game should improve with time and make him a much more rounded player.
The same applies to martial. I think he is selfish and often ignores runners over lappers and his concentration is bad. At this point a better and more clinical finisher than rash but i'd back rashford to become the better and far more effective player over the next 10 years.

{Ed001's Note - I agree with you. Rashford has so much potential it is scary.}

25 Jan 2019 07:29:01
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Review Of The Day 25th January 2019

25 Jan 2019 13:24:14
Great read Ed. Thanks.

25 Jan 2019 15:35:25
Should be a good game full of goals, both teams good going forward both not great at the back (bar DDG) I might plump for a high scoring draw, 2-2, 3-3 hopfully as a neutral.