Game thread: Mancs away

[acks]

Roy and his useless fucking left back cost us the game. Why did he think it was smart to take off Raul. Today proved this manager is well out of his depth. Lions led by a cowardly donkey.

[Rex Banner]

Awful management, who in their right mind would take off Meireles when he was the one linking to Torres and creating the chances.

It would be nice to have a manager who had faith in his team, if he doesn't he won't be successful. We see it time and time again, let them fucking play and see what happens, it almost got us a title when Rafa let it happen.

Cowardly, this ain't Fulham Woy we shouldn't be scared of old trafford.

[Red Mist]

All I'm going to say in this thread cause I can't be arsed with the hysterical little girls.

 

Roy's tactics were spot on today. We got beat at old toilet by a better side on the day, not the first time and it wont be the last.

Bollocks. Old Man United were there for the taking but we showed no ambition. Awful display and a gutless performance from the manager.

[col06]

I'm waiting for Roy's interview now, I'm expecting him to embarrass us even more.

 

Yeah probably something like getting 2 goals was a bonus here at Mold Trafford

[Kurt]

Agger at lb? why?? Nani is going to enjoy the last 10 mins

 

Well... I dont think he`s enjoyed the first 80 mins in his life. And I know it`s unfair picking out one individual, but I dont think I have seen a worse performance ever by a Liverpool left back. Nani did whatever he wanted...run past him...putting crosses in unchallenged. Warnock had a mare at Southampton in that famous worst match in 40 year. Insua struggled a few times last season, but nowhere near as outplayed as this.

 

He may work against Wigan and Stoke...but I fear how he will be exposed against Chelsea and Arsenal.

[Mr Nando]

We still fail at passing the ball.

[Pidge]

I JUST HATE that we always, when getting an ok result, HAVE to let the other team take the game to us -- why can't we just keep playing offensive, good fotball -- to get an even better result?!?

 

I'm disappointed in Hodgson's lack of willingness to kill of matches.

 

It's the players' insecurity that allows them to be put on the backfoot, not Hodgson's tactics. We were playing from a deep position because our two goals came from breaking attacking play, not because we were sitting off. Utd just found that extra gear that we lack and in the last 10 minutes managed to brush themselves off and close us down all over the place again.

[stevienando]

Have a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. Woy really let us down today, I'm not going to have a go at him but it was awful management and definitely not the way to win over these fans.

[moz]

OH and despite the delusion (or is it simply wishful thinking?) Konchesky is crap.

 

Totally agreed. He is awful, really awful. It doesn't take a genius to figure that out, and that's probably what Fergie has told his players before the match. He is worse than Insua by a miles, who is at least young and is able to improve. The depressing part is we have no readily available replacement (Agger is NOT a full back), having shipped out Insua for peanuts. Is Mavinga supposed to be good? How about playing Kelly on the left?

[Guest ShoePiss]

All I'm going to say in this thread cause I can't be arsed with the hysterical little girls.

 

Roy's tactics were spot on today. We got beat at old toilet by a better side on the day, not the first time and it wont be the last.

 

This is class.

 

What kind of petrol do you sniff?

[Torvald Utne]

Roy just said we were unlucky to be 2 down....

[Wor Horse]

I wish he'd drop Carragher. Liability.

[DJLJ]

Totally agreed. He is awful, really awful. It doesn't take a genius to figure that out, and that's probably what Fergie has told his players before the match. He is worse than Insua by a miles, who is at least young and is able to improve. The depressing part is we have no readily available replacement (Agger is NOT a full back), having shipped out Insua for peanuts. Is Mavinga supposed to be good? How about playing Kelly on the left?

 

Konchesky is miles ahead of Insua. He might not be a world beater and he might not be good enough for us, but he is still a lot better than Insua.

[Pidge]

Everyone too busy looking for internal scapegoats to note that the winning cross came from a player that should not have been on the pitch?

[Il Fenomeno]

'If we kept our composure we could've seen the game out' so we were playing for a draw?

[Trumo]

Had to watch a stream online. First half stream was good, the performance wasn't. There was some neat interplay without doing anything useful, and again it was a first half where we created pretty much nothing.

 

Second half stream turns to shit, and decides to come back and tell me we're 2-0 down. I have no idea who scored (until much later) but hang on! We've got a penalty? At OT? Suddenly it's 2-1. Stream crashes again and again, so all I see is a load of diving theatrics from Nani, and then the commentator saying O'Shea should be off. Not surprised in the slightest that he wasn't. Anyway, the stream breaks again, only to come back to a replay of Gerrard's free kick to make it 2-2. After that, all I saw was Meireles in the box supposedly having missed another chance (no idea what happened) and then the stream just dies completely. Until the last minute where Skrtel decided a needless shove in stoppage time is the perfect way for us to get the ball into the right end of the pitch. All the while the commentator is banging on about ManU's priceless winner. Judging by the crowd noise it had only just happened moments before, so I'm now feeling sick.

 

All I know is Berbatov got a hat-trick but no idea about the second, or indeed most of the second half. Reading the comments on here, we shitted it again.

 

I think it was Faustus who felt it necessary to tell us that he's been to OT 4 times to watch us previously, and each time we've been beat. He was there today too.

 

I am pissed off right now.

[Antynwa]

Don't know whether to be pissed off at how shit we where, or proud at the way we came back.

 

This is going to be a long season, and I've got no hope whatsoever of us doing anything.

 

Just keep going Roy, just give us the odd moment of brilliance.

[stevienando]

Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson: "I thought our second half performance was really good and we deserved to get back into it. But we've conceded three goals from crosses and we're disappointed with that. Maybe if we'd had some more composure at the end we'd have been able to see it out."

 

Fuck off.

[James Dean]

'If we kept our composure we could've seen the game out' so we were playing for a draw?

 

*sigh*

[Anubis]

All I'm going to say in this thread cause I can't be arsed with the hysterical little girls.

 

Roy's tactics were spot on today. We got beat at old toilet by a better side on the day, not the first time and it wont be the last.

 

Nonsense. Our two best halves of football have come when we've pressed teams aggressively for the entriety of both halves. When we've sat back, as we have mostly done, the other teams have created very good chances against us.

 

Today we sat back. We concede two goals. We then show some ambition and press forward getting bodies in their box and, hey presto, we drag ourselves back into it. And they were rocking. And what did we do - we sat back. And, hey presto, they score again.

 

We've learnt nothing from the previous games.

[redfromtubebar]

Cowardly tactics but not entirely unexpected from Hodgson.

 

We got back into the game thanks to two gifts and they were there for the taking but Hodgson doesn't believe in offensive football unless we're already losing.

 

It's only been 5 games but I am sick to death of these boring, shithouse tactics already.

[Guest the boy]

Played really well today. I've never been convinced by Gerrard in that role, but he's had few performances better than that at United. Torres was again toothless up front, and Cole was quiet, but far more encouraging from Meireles and Poulson. We've had a horrendous set of fixtures to start, and in a way the season really starts next week. Anything is a bonus there, but it's a real kick in the teeth the manner in which they won.

 

The only negative I draw, and it's a substantial one, is that something drastic needs to be at centre-back. Pour scorn on Konchesky and Johnson all you want, but the buck lies with Carra and Skrtel. To conceed from three crosses, from a player not particularly good in the air, is disgraceful. The second was magic, but he had all the time in the world there. Carra's stunk the place out for over a year now and it's nigh on time to bomb him out the team.

[Guest ShoePiss]

'If we kept our composure we could've seen the game out' so we were playing for a draw?

 

Yeah that's a fact, I think the reason that is being overlooked is due to the nature of the defeat.

 

We employed negative tactics and concede two goals, change that to a more attacking tactic and score two then revert to the previous (disastrous) tactics and concede again.

 

Of course them going down to 10 men would have possibly changed the game but the signs were there that we could control the outcome of the game by ourselves rather than relying on a ref's decision.

 

I know it's a very simplistic take on the game but to me it was glaringly obvious.

[lifetime fan]

OH and despite the delusion (or is it simply wishful thinking?) Konchesky is crap.

 

4 year contract.

[Trumo]

I've been to Old Trafford to see us play that shower four times in the past. Those games have finished 1-0, 2-0, 3-0 and 4-0 to those cunts.

 

Unfortunately, I'm going tomorrow!

 

Just thought I'd remind everyone of this.