GeorgiaGunner
#FreeClaude
Fergie time is back, and this time it’s got a video camera.
Gross.
Gross.
As a fan of a club who're United's rivals I'll be delighted if they appoint Ole over an actual manager. It'd be a signal that United just aren't serious about competing.
Uncanny. My bro said this exact same thing while we watched the game last night. Virtually word for word.The way I see United they never really were about outstanding tactics or a certain brand of football; it was money, motivation, individual quality, pragmatism and this sort of swaggering "we are United" confidence - and Ferguson being a shrewd old fox.
Uncanny. My bro said this exact same thing while we watched the game last night. Virtually word for word.
how'd that work out then?
I saw this comment today about Ole 'he has shown the ability to make bold tactical decisions and great substitutions, which was key to us beating PSG'.
What 'bold' tactics we used to get that win? It's not like they did some really nice counter attacks to score a long with good defending?
Is it just my hatred making me blind and United did well vs PSG or am I right?
@Toby Andrl what are your thoughts?
@Juan Matas Beard what was your opinion on the PSG game?
Anyone else feel free to chime in on your United thoughts.
I felt like that was a paradoxical game. PSG did very well on ball circulation but somewhat lacked the intent to score. I believe this was their game plan after all: Backed by the superior player material and ability to keep the ball as well as the away 2 goal lead I think their idea was to basically play United into their box and a goal would ultimately follow. And United played into their hands with their very deep and compact defensive pressing over short distances; it made it hard for Saint-Germain to get through but when United won the ball it was easy for the french to quickly get a grip again as Utd sat so deep and tight to each other they actually hampered their own chances to get the ball out of their own half. Lukaku was sitting pretty deep, too, and as they sat so deep as a whole they elongated the distance to the french goal. That first goal was an absolute fluke after a Kehrer mistake, and after that, tactically, Saint-Germain did everything right while United took themselves out of the game - with their mistakes and lack of urgency to score the frenchies almost coerced United into scoring and eventually winning against the run of the game.
I mean United's plan certainly was to sit deep and then counter, but most of the time they had no grip on the game, no great chances to counter or even score. Don't think it was planned to turn out that offensively toothless. Both goals from open play resulted from mistakes, their third was a penalty. I think that says a lot. This is more a case of PSG losing that game than United winning it and thus says more about the frenchies problems than United's strengths.
Thus, as for that comment, don't know how anything of that can be labelled bold or planned. Solskjaer parked his bus at the dark, far end of the lot, on the way there he gets mugged and robbed of his keys and parking ticket, but trying to get away the crook stumbles over his own baseball bat, dropping keys and ticket, and as he gets up and tries to run away again, he stumbles over passed out Solsjkaer's body, too. That's the level of inability the french and the level of uninvolvedness Utd have shown.
As for subs: He brought on who was still available, don't think there was much choice involved. Even if you say "well he could've brought on defensive players"...well what for. It's a knockout game and you're on the ropes.
Cheers for taking the time to respond.
Except my bro is a Pool fanSo Toby Andrl is your brother then..simple logic
Been confused for a while ever since Man United beat PSG. It's pretty incredible what Ole has done at United considering the circumstances they were in, but they have always had some very good players. But all I keep seeing is how well United did to beat PSG.
@Juan Matas Beard what was your opinion on the PSG game?
Anyone else feel free to chime in on your United thoughts.
Been confused for a while ever since Man United beat PSG. It's pretty incredible what Ole has done at United considering the circumstances they were in, but they have always had some very good players. But all I keep seeing is how well United did to beat PSG.
I understand it doesn't matter how you win, as long as you do and they defended well at times, but all 3 goals they scored came out of huge PSG mistakes right?
I saw this comment today about Ole 'he has shown the ability to make bold tactical decisions and great substitutions, which was key to us beating PSG'.
What 'bold' tactics we used to get that win? It's not like they did some really nice counter attacks to score a long with good defending?
Is it just my hatred making me blind and United did well vs PSG or am I right?
@Toby Andrl what are your thoughts?
@Juan Matas Beard what was your opinion on the PSG game?
Anyone else feel free to chime in on your United thoughts.
All 3 gifted goals by PSG. Manure dont deserve to be in the CL QF, except for the PSG's horrendous mistakes by Buffon and that defender. If you play this fixture 5 out of 5 times, Manure will lose all of them.
So what? Being successful in football is about anticipating mistakes and being clinical. It's usually what separates teams at the highest level.
I'd actually praise your result against us for those exact reasons.