Well after losin agaisnt M City its kinda sad, the players look tired, and Sir Alex doesnt change or spice the line up to make impact, i guess we have to go now for the UCL, because Arsenal sadlly its playing great...and Adebayor... is on fire

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YASS! 3-0 going on 10. Right up yah Arsenal.

Great performance and a joy to watch. I know Arsenal were hardly fully strength but you simply can't take away from how fantastic we were today.

Brown, Fletcher, Nani were the special standout players for me. Brown an absolute rock at RB, Nani just destroying them down the flanks and Fletcher just so amazing everywhere.

Carrick was fb aswell, his passing was nothing short of immense, Anderson looked great too and Rooney of course had a great game although he had at least 4 good chances to add to his tally.

Park had a good game, too. That's all I will say about him

Everyone played great.

Other moments of mention were Rooney playing keepball, got himself booked but it was amusing.

Nani juggling the ball but it was so obvious that someone was going to try and rape him for his efforts.

Adebayor with a disgraceful dive and rightly getting booked.

Gallas somehow not getting booked for blatantly kicking out at Nani.

Ronaldo and Nani are just going to destroy teams down the flanks for years to come and with a midfield future of Carrick, Anderson, Hargreaves and Fletcher (Who I have always wanted to stay and am disappointed he hasn't played more this season, but it's obviously a hard postion to make your own, and played at the very least 9/10 today) Things are looking pretty much spot on. Also Park, though he needs to improve further to be more than a fringe player. and we'll need another squad player in for midfield..

 

 

 

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great day against Lyon, the players have really bounced back well from the derby debacle. well impressed with Carrick lately, unrecognisable from early season and should probably be part of our first-choice pairing in the middle at the minute (not least because he's shown his ability to play well alongside any of the other four). Nani making several people look really really foolish with his last few performances too. happy days.

great chance to push on and heap the pressure on Arsenal over the next few weeks now, especially looking at our fixtures. Fulham and Derby away, Bolton and Villa at home ahead of grand slam sunday (ergh) number two (i think, not sure if Boro away is before or after that) - have to be looking at maximum points from them, Villa the only real obstacle to that (famous last words, yadda yadda). what a difference a fortnight makes.

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vs. Lyon

MOM: Fletch - clearly our best player last night, pity he'll probably never get the credit he deserves. Played with the desire that the game deserved.
2ND: Rio - Out of the rest of the team who looked as though they were quite content to stay in 2nd gear rather than take Lyon apart since they were clearly so far from being up for it, he was probaly the next most influential.

Anderson nowhere all night for me which is a pity. Nani, Carrick, Ronny & Rooney all sloppier than I'd like overall. Wes made one great tackle on Grosso. Evra didn't force the issue in an attacking sense. Vida didn't really have to do a whole lot really & therefore his influence on proceedings was minimal.

Just so I'm clear after all that, I'm not utterly dissatisfied with last night, Lyon looked like they were nowhere near giving us any sort of game, so we didn't have to push in the strictest sense (although there were a couple of Benzema moments that showed his quality) but just because we could win and get through without pushing does that mean we shouldn't?

There are games where I think making a proper statement of quality and ability in higher profile games against full-strength teams matters a lot as far as providing a future basis for strong top level performances rather than sitting through a performance just because the situation dictates that we can & working on the theory that when pushed we will definitely step up.

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YES quality thread.

Im Man United Till I Die. United Through And Through.

lol i go up there almost once a month (Old Trafford) and love it. Id prob go everyother week but its too far to travel.

They have been playing some quality football but was a little shocked with the Portsmouth FA.Cup game this weekend. How we didn't score i do not know.

We had chance after chance and SHOULD have had a penalty for the foul on Ronaldo. I also think the sending off was a little harsh as we had 2 players behind the keeper.

Anyways thats gone now and we have to get back on it for the prem and champs league.

COME ON UNITED

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Manchester United is My best Team, Ive Been Supporting them since i was 5, Man U all the way.

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Here's my take on todays game versus relegation bound Derby County at Pride Park.

hahaha what a horrible game

knew it was gonna be one of those when i realised we had ****ing thompson commentating on our game. every bloody time. loads of negatives to take from it but it really is reassuring that we didnt let it get us down (could have been easy given the pompey game as well) and were just determined to get a goal. ronaldo complete legend, more desperate to score than Dean Gaffney. great to see foster pulling off some top class saves even if its a bit embarrassing that he had to, so convinced he will be a brilliant number one for us.

3 more points closer to the title.

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Yes this game was a huge 3 points. With Arsenal drawing 1-1 this is a big weekend for us. We now need to get the 3 points against Bolton on Wednesday and that will put us 3 ahead of Arsenal and thats good as were coming up to the big weekend when we all play each other so to speak.

The game at Derby was messy and i thought we would struggle as i didnt think they whould be that bad after getting thumped 6-1 at Chelsea last week. Were starting to struggle in front of goal again in the last few games and i hope it don't continue like this.

We should have won the game by 3 or 4 goals but it just didnt happen. You know what they say the best teams always grind out results even when there playing bad. Ronaldo had a good game but on another day he would have had 3 goals. He was trying to hard after he missed a few chances but he took his goal well. Foster looked a little dodgy at first with his kicking but he soon showed how good he is when he pulled off that save from Kenny Miller that was pure class. He looks good given a chance.

Next up Bolton like i said a must win game before we play Liverpool on sunday.

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...Back on track thanx to Mr C.Ronaldo... the best player nowadays thanks to Kaka`s injury...

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