Tough Times Ahead for Man U

[FIFAfreak]

Just watched Blackburn draw Man U 2-2... Blackburn nearly won considering how close they came on two earlier opportunities... the best that pansy Beckham could do was sneak a free kick in similar to the Leeds incident the night before. That's the kind of underhanded stuff the Italians or Argentinians would pull! But I guess the ref gave the ok... seemed kinda borderline though... what do you think?

After Fulham played them well I think Man U will have a tougher time this year... Competitiveness is up especially among the newly promoted teams... thank goodness. Should be an interesting year.

[ 08-22-2001: Message edited by: FIFAfreak ]

 

[cypher6]

Being an avid Man Utd fan, i have to say, i'm beginning to get a little concerned that we've started the season so awkwardly.
If Fergie doesn't do somethihng about the defensive hole soon, there's a very real possiblity that we'll lose the premiership to someone like Liverpool or Leeds.
In my opinion, until you get a new world-class defender, like Hofland, then put Brown next to Stam again, or at a stretch, maybe even try Keane as a centre half?
But whatever Fergie does, for god's sake, please put Gary Neville back in the reserves where we belongs!! How many times does he have to screw up before he's scratched...?

 

[the_man]

Utd has serious back problems. the Neville brothers and Silvestre in particular. I think Silvestre is over-rated. I've watched him too many times and he is just not consistant. Most of the times he is just caught out of position, he knows there is a man behind him, but instead of drawing closer to the guy, he lets the ball fly over his head and then he turns around and looks like a deer caught in headlights, watching the attacker take a crack at goal. What the heck? Stam and Wes Brown are great defenders (Stam especially) but they need some support, they can't do it alone.

As for Sir Alex. Why did he bench Stam in the last game? was this part of his rotation system thing? Cos it sure ain't working, he better play his best always. (until they burn out hehee).

The formation they used against Blackburn was so useless. 5 midfielders and one forward, that is why they couldnt' get anything done. I saw passes from Beckham to Scholes to Veron to Keane, all of them were within 20 yards of each other as if this was training. Giggs was the only one that attempted to spread the defence, the rest were just midfield campers. I would have prefered for Sir alex to pull Scholes right up with Van Nistelrooy. How would a defence like that, two goal mouth terrors and then put veron on top for any garbage that comes back to send it back in (his specialty) and tell beckham that if he get's anywhere near the center circle, he is going to sit on the bench. He is not a center midfielder, for one thing he has only one foot. Don't get me wrong, i love beckhams play, but if he stays on the wing and dishes those killer crosses that he does oh too well, he will benefit the team alot. And tell Giggs to keep on doing what he was doing.

Man utd made it easy for the defence. Everyone knows that Van Nistelrooy is a terror so they are keeping an eye out for him, and so long as he is the only one up there, whoever is defending utd can be content.