On 8/4/2017 at 11:40, enigma said:

is it possible for the mods to close the old rivals thread? i keep getting confused which one is this season or last 

YES! THIS!

The Guardian has done their usual fan season preview thing, asking a supporter of each club for predictions and the like.

Only 2 fans out of 20 predicted their own club to finish 1st: the Man City fan and... the Liverpool one. Living up to those old 'this is our year' stereotypes.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/06/a-chance-for-huddersfield-to-develop-reputation-town-premier-league

22 hours ago, Chelsbear said:

Can't see it. They already have an an unreal forward line with Aguero, Jesus, Sane, Silva, D.Silva and De Bruyne. 

What's that old saying, something like..... 'too many cooks in the kitchen spoils the broth'.

14 minutes ago, Strider6003 said:

What's that old saying, something like..... 'too many cooks in the kitchen spoils the broth'.

I wouldn't mind our broth being spoiled a bit with a little quality. Without Hazard we look a little toothless.

13 hours ago, Strider6003 said:

What's that old saying, something like..... 'too many cooks in the kitchen spoils the broth'.

Not sure that has ever actually been the case.

This United team still look a million miles away from the big boys. Couple of good results in pre season vs no marks  made them a bit giddy. Matic, Pogba Lukaku, and their defence looking woeful.

Edited August 8, 20178 yr by ItsEssexRob

Matic been good for them. Shouldn't have let him go

Just now, Jezq8 said:

Matic been good for them. Shouldn't have let him go

Eh? He's hardly touched the ball

1 minute ago, Jezq8 said:

Matic been good for them. Shouldn't have let him go

Which game you watching, the game has completely passed him by.

1 minute ago, dkw said:

Which game you watching, the game has completely passed him by.

He was good in a friendly vs Sampdoria ;-)

 

He'll probably come good but for now LOL at that miss.

This is embarrassing for utd, completely outplayed. And lukaku missed an open net ha ha....£80m for f**ks sake.

Could be 5-1 

getting a real thumping here 

Poor goalkeeping, it's the one area I think Madrid could do better in.

Edited August 8, 20178 yr by Chelsbear

Just now, Chelsbear said:

Poor goalkeeping, it's the one area I think Madrid could do better in.

They should go for de gea again.

 

Lukaku scores, some people are going to fall asleep on wet pillows tonight

Something unnerving about seeing a grown man fixing his bobble for his pony tail! 

Matic has done okay, but nothing spectacular. He got the shot away that lukaku followed up after keepers save. Lukaku been fairly immobile and usual lukaku. You think utd would be less open after focusing more on protecting defence, but could have lost by more tonight. Pogba again been inconsistent and fairly invisible. However, it is real madrid so can't be too judgemental on utd for looking poor. 

I wonder if RM started with Bale because of JM's pre-match comment about Bale.

Matic was one of their best man yesterday. 

Isn't that damning with faint praise.

Matic you so non-beauty

it's going to be one of those seasons where every time matic has a good game we'll hear how poor a decision it was by us to sell and how much he's benefitted utd, only to then have a bad game and have people telling us how smart we were to sell and his bad form was inevitable lol. 

One thing felt quite familiar watching United yesterday, and that was how open their midfield was at times. Often Matic would, for some reason, have gone wandering halfway up the pitch and then given the ball away, meaning there were no United players anywhere near the middle of the pitch and Madrid charged straight at the quickly retreating backline. Pogba has no interest in dealing with defensive stuff, and Herrera certainly doesn't have any of Kante's defensive abilities so was nowhere to be seen either. I know we're no better off with Cesc and his defensive abilities in the middle at the moment, but hopefully Bakayoko can come in and give us some presence in there.

I've no doubt Matic will have good games and all the pundits will be falling over themselves at how stupid we've been (it happened a lot with the BT team last night), but there's no way a player of his level would go to a new team and be terrible in every single game. Jose's systems perhaps work more in his favour than Conte's, so my annoyance isn't necessarily with losing him, but with losing him to a team that can make some use of him. Anyway, if we sign another solid midfield backup, and Bakayoko comes good, then I'm sure we'll forget all about him.