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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe 90 View Post
    Ffs the Chitty curse...

    You blue wanker.

    Never in doubt.

    Viva Ronaldo. OLEgend. UNNNNIIIIITTTTEEEEDD!


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    Past Mao’s bedtime, I guess.

    Gotta be up early afternoon for his manicure.


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    Great subs by Ole tonight. The legend.

    Emery has done a job with Villareal.

    Cracking game.

    Why don't we just set the scoreline to 1 down every game though? Well, we pretty much do already.

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    The night wasn't a total loss with Juve beating Chelski.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallelujah View Post
    Cracking game.
    Wasn't it just.


    Cometh the hour, cometh the Ron.

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    Ronaldo’s winner fuels Solskjær myth but success seems as far away as ever
    How much time does love buy you? That Manchester United fans want Ole Gunnar Solskjær to succeed is understandable. It’s not just that he scored vital goals, it’s that he embodied a golden age. Who would not want a returning hero to restore the club to glory? But wishful thinking will not organise a midfield.


    The win will part the clouds a little. Solskjær has survived another mini-crisis, but each one leaves him slightly weaker. And this one comes with Cristiano Ronaldo. It may not be fair, given Ronaldo is 36 and, for all his goalscoring ability, increasingly an anachronism, but his signing has increased the pressure on the manager.


    There is now an expectation of success and that seems as far away as ever. Three defeats in four games had reawakened the doubts. Defeat in the League Cup denies United one of the two trophies they might realistically have had a chance of winning. Defeat to Aston Villa in the Premier League highlighted the improbability of a title challenge. And defeat to Young Boys in the Champions League made what always looked a potentially tricky draw look distinctly awkward. A win over Villarreal eases the threat of Champions League elimination to an extent but the performance will have done nothing to soothe anxieties.


    The complexity of the problems at the club have always offered an excuse: however justified the doubts about Solskjær, it must also be acknowledged that, despite a net spend of £0.5bn over the past five seasons, he has been working with an imbalanced squad; similarly it is not unreasonable to wonder whether a better manager might not get more out of this squad.


    Whoever the manager is, though, the problem of the midfield is not going to go away – and is not helped by Ronaldo’s reluctance to press. There is a widely held view that Solskjær feels, at least against proactive sides, that he has to play two of Fred, Scott McTominay and Nemanja Matic, but to do that means leaving out at least one of his big-name creative players. Although it is a structure that draws accusations of negativity, the statistics suggest United are better with Fred and McTominay in tandem.


    With them, their win percentage is 62%, with 2.00 goals per game for and 0.93 against; without their win percentage is 52% with goals for 1.73 and against 1.15.


    As against Villarreal in the Europa League final, though, Solskjær went with a midfield three of McTominay, Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes. When he has fielded a single natural holder in the league, United have been vulnerable.


    They were extremely fortunate not to concede against Wolves, while a more composed side than Newcastle might have made more of a number of decent opportunities to break. It was after McTominay had been withdrawn on Saturday that Aston Villa scored their winner.


    The problem in the Europa League final was less the lack of protection offered to the defence than the stodginess of United going forward. That seemed to highlight an issue more to do with management than with personnel: the lack of a coherent plan of attack with too much left to individual inspiration.

    Jadon Sancho’s struggles to settle back in England, perhaps, can in part be attributed to the fact he has been used to a more structured approach. There was a slight change of approach here: rather than a 4-2-3-1, Pogba and Fernandes operated effectively as shuttlers either side and just in advance of McTominay.


    But Villarreal, a team noted for their ability to sit in and dig out results, controlled the first half once the initial storm had blown out, pressing high and laying into an extremely rickety United. Protecting the defence was perhaps all the more important given three of Solskjær’s first-choice back four were absent.


    Diogo Dalot, deputising for the suspended Aaron Wan-Bissaka at right-back, struggled against Arnaut Danjuma, whom Villarreal signed from Bournemouth for £21m in the summer. If Danjuma had been a more confident finisher and had Gerard Moreno been fit, this could have been a humiliation.


    And that perhaps was the problem with the 4-3-3: with Fernandes pushing forward, there was no natural cover for Dalot. Solskjær, as so often, seemed frozen with indecision: there was no tweak – dropping Pogba deeper, pulling Mason Greenwood back, or having Victor Lindelöf cover behind him – to help Dalot out. When the opening goal finally arrived, eight minutes after the break, it would have surprised nobody it was created by a Danjuma run behind Dalot.


    The equaliser was undeniably brilliant, but while a full-back volleying in from a free-kick may get you out of jail, it is hardly a sustainable long-term plan. And while the last-gasp winner will fuel the Solskjær myth, Villarreal could have been out of sight by then and had their own chances in the final 10 minutes. Any win will do at the moment for Solskjær, but this was a scramble against the side 11th in La Liga in which they had 12 shots to Villarreal’s 15.


    So far this season, United have faced a string of opponents who have not been ruthless. They have, to a large extent, got away with their mistakes. But that, surely, cannot endure. Aside from a half against a Leeds side whose approach suits United, and 20 minutes late on against a beaten Newcastle, United have not played well this season. For long periods they have been unfeasibly open. Something, sooner rather than later, will have to give.
    Nail on head.

    Ronaldo’s winner fuels Solskjaer myth but success seems as far away as ever | Champions League | The Guardian

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    Yawn. Fuck off Wilson, you embarrassing twat. Every fucking week, you pathetic wanker.

    Does you wife sometimes shout Ole's name out? Is that what it is? Still hurt that he's been proving you wrong season after season?

    C.U.N.T.

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    9 consecutive games at Old Trafford without a clean sheet... The worst run in 50 years

    #RecordbreakingOlegend
    #Titlechallengeover
    #Halisacockend
    #OleOut

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    Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttttttttttttttteeeeeeeeeeeee

    Too many players out of form. Simple passes going astray and vulnerable to any counter attack.

    Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttttttttttttttteeeeeeeeeeeee

    Oh, and OLEgend, why did you leave Ronaldo out? He's fit as a fiddle!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Reg Dingle View Post
    9 consecutive games at Old Trafford without a clean sheet... The worst run in 50 years

    #RecordbreakingOlegend
    #Titlechallengeover
    #Halisacockend
    #OleOut
    Fancy seeing you here, you miserable bastard. Do you not have an Internet connection when we win?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallelujah View Post
    Fancy seeing you here, you miserable bastard. Do you not have an Internet connection when we win?
    Sometimes I'm sat on the fucking M6 in 6 minutes of bastard injury time, typing out a long anti-Ole hatefilled post when the real Legend pops up to paper over the cracks and I don't know whether to laugh or cry.... so just hit delete

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    Viva Ronaldo

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    Dil's posts are all on mod preview these days.



    Or is that always the way for new posters?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallelujah View Post
    Simple passes going astray and vulnerable to any counter attack.
    A four letter word that begins with F.



    Ends in d. Has r and '50 million quid knobhead Brazilian' in the middle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edmond View Post
    A four letter word that begins with F.



    Ends in d. Has r and '50 million quid knobhead Brazilian' in the middle.
    Why the fuck didn't he (or anyone else) bring the lad down for the goal? So fucking naive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallelujah View Post
    Why the fuck didn't he (or anyone else) bring the lad down for the goal?
    Be the boss.




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    Quote Originally Posted by hallelujah View Post
    Why the fuck didn't he (or anyone else) bring the lad down for the goal? So fucking naive.
    Who cursed it today then?

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    Jadon Sancho - 73 million pounds.

    Had a role in a very structured set up at Dortmund.

    This season's Alexis Sanchez.

    How much more laughably crap can Man U get?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    How much more laughably crap can Man U get?
    Christmas panto season soon.



    Heeee's behind you.

    Oh Fred. He isn't.

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    Just seen the highlights and Everton were robbed!!!!

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    Disgracced former Man Utd Mr Solskaer appears to be in hiding in Pattaya.

    A Mr Slimline-Piemeister BeerOcock claimed the reward saying there's

    An Ole in my bucket

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    Away to Leicester.
    CL
    Liverpool
    Away to Spurs
    CL
    Man City
    Away to Watford
    Away to Villareal
    Away to Chelsea
    Arsenal

    Gonna separate the Oles from the boys.

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    I reckon if the play in the ladies league they "might" bounce back.




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    It's just like watching Oleball.

    These are fucking amazing...


    After 16 of them, you feel great, even believing United can finish top 6

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    Kai Rooney scores all 4 goals away to Liverpool U12s.

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