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*Official* English Football Season 2015-16
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Furball
Evil Scotsman
Nope.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Would be fairly hilarious if Spurs won the league wouldn't it
Furball
Evil Scotsman
I'm sorry, the word we were looking for is unlikely.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
I agree. It's a two horse race now between Leicester and City. Tottenham are outsiders, while Arsenal and Man U will duel over 4th
Cabinet96
Hall of Fame Member
As I said a few weeks ago, thank God for the Europa League.
cpr
International Coach
Have to say we were all right tonight. Actually attacked well and should have had more. Rooney has remembered he's a footballer too, which is nice (lovely pass for the 2nd). De Gea totally untested. All in all a typical night a OT... about 5 years ago.
Borthwick-Jackson is starting to impress me a little. He's settled into the team alright, and likes to get down the left to support the attack, great cross for the opener. I do feel the loss of Shaw has really messed our season up (from what it looked like early on, Van Gaal wanted to use his full backs for width, letting Depay and Mata cut in - Depay and Shaw were working rather well until the injury). Hopefully having a person who understands the left back role will give us a bit of what van Gaal wanted - it seems to be giving Martial a bit more confidence to run inside at the defence.
Its nights like this that make you kinda wish van Gaal could keep it up - a comfortable 3-0 win, with lots of young players coming through the ranks into the team (Jackson, Lingard, Perreira all featured, and have started to make themselves part of the first team set up this year), it would bode nicely for the future if we kept it up and not reverted to absolute tripe next game.
Ideally it would be nice to just write off the title and make sure we get top 4 whilst trying to get this squad to settle into playing like they did tonight, however Leicester have pretty much thrown a spanner in the works by refusing to drop back like most plucky upstarts have done by the end of January and thus the pressure is on.
Borthwick-Jackson is starting to impress me a little. He's settled into the team alright, and likes to get down the left to support the attack, great cross for the opener. I do feel the loss of Shaw has really messed our season up (from what it looked like early on, Van Gaal wanted to use his full backs for width, letting Depay and Mata cut in - Depay and Shaw were working rather well until the injury). Hopefully having a person who understands the left back role will give us a bit of what van Gaal wanted - it seems to be giving Martial a bit more confidence to run inside at the defence.
Its nights like this that make you kinda wish van Gaal could keep it up - a comfortable 3-0 win, with lots of young players coming through the ranks into the team (Jackson, Lingard, Perreira all featured, and have started to make themselves part of the first team set up this year), it would bode nicely for the future if we kept it up and not reverted to absolute tripe next game.
Ideally it would be nice to just write off the title and make sure we get top 4 whilst trying to get this squad to settle into playing like they did tonight, however Leicester have pretty much thrown a spanner in the works by refusing to drop back like most plucky upstarts have done by the end of January and thus the pressure is on.
Uppercut
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I didn't see the game tonight, but I thought we were good at Derby too, even with all the qualifications. Rooney playing well makes such a difference.
Will really struggle to make top four given the form of the teams above us, but I'm confident we'll finish above Liverpool which would be nice.
Scaly piscine
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Well obviously because his usual level is absolute ****.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Southampton got completely mugged on that one.
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
How did Billy Jones (I think it was him, must admit my Sunderland knowledge isn't that strong) avoid a card for his "challenge" on Aguero for the goal today. Didn't get close to anything, stamped his calf and raked his studs down his leg. It tore his sock through in the middle ffs. Don't care if it wasn't intentional.
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cpr
International Coach
We were better than at Derby. Felt wrong to get excited at that one given the opposition, but today we looked like a top 4 team. Defended well (Stoke did give their best going forward, which helped as we weren't playing against a defensive wall), attacked with pace and getting the ball moving over distance for once. Managed to get more than one shot on target (think it came to a lofty 5). Rooney had one disallowed (rightly) and Mata missed a peach too. Roll on the weekend and a return to normal.
flibbertyjibber
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I did it, trouble is I did it in a treble with City and Arsenal.Leicester went off close to 2/1 for this match, so annoyed with myself for not getting involved especially as it was a Liverpool fan tipping it up to me
