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Thanks to this side and LVG i hate the 352, yes i hate a football formation.
 
Just play valencia and blackett or young at fullback, anything but the 352.

the moyes 4-4-1-1 for all i care.
God know any of those at FB would be terrible, I actually mean worse. LVG cant do anything if his players are unavailable.
 
Cant defend to save his life! And tbh we was playing 4 at the back when Gaby went off, and our FBs Young and Blackett offered nothing.

Well our cb's, midfielders and attackers throughout most of the games offer nothing in a 352 except sloppy defending mainly from jones and evans, poor passing throughout the team and turgid football.
 
Well our cb's, midfielders and attackers throughout most of the games offer nothing in a 352 except sloppy defending mainly from jones and evans, poor passing throughout the team and turgid football.
What do you expect with no fit FBs our best CM playing at CB because our best CBs are injured. Our most creative CM is out ill and our most exciting player going forward has been out injured and is not fully fit. Can hardly expect free flowing footy.
 
he's not really a CM though, that performance in general was really depressing, but apart from the winning results hasn't it been similar all season in reality?

To think if you beat Villa, you would have won 6 on the trot playing rather average football. It had to come to an end
 
So many mistakes today.


3-5-2 is just pathetic, at least for United. It never works and performances vs Arsenal, Liveprool, Southampton proved it and still Van Gaal persists with it. It's just baffling.


Fletcher is done. He couldn't cope with teams when he was on at 80th min mark against tired players. Starting him was a big mistake.


Evans has declined so much. I was a big fan of his few years ago but now he is not good enough to play for United. He is weak in the air, physically not strong enough.


Mata playing 90 mins was a joke. He was never in the game. Di Maria should have been on for Mata leaving RVP on the pitch.


Wilson sub just killed whatever chances we were creating as Young was moved to right. He was having very good game as LB.


3 mins added time was a joke. Young was injured for so long, Villa fans kept ball for around a min, Guzan was rolling on the ground since red card.


Van Gaal got the team wrong, subs wrong. 3-5-2 is a joke.
 
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Lol yeah backs up my point ... Hard to blame LVG though as his players haven't been fit although the line-up today still had enough firepower to put away Villa easily

Mata, Falcao, Rooney and Van Persie. As good a attack as any in Europe
 
What do you expect with no fit FBs our best CM playing at CB because our best CBs are injured. Our most creative CM is out ill and our most exciting player going forward has been out injured and is not fully fit. Can hardly expect free flowing footy.

Having proper backups would help especially at right back, the left back situation is more understanding as blind and rojo who also can play there are injured but we've had one proper right back who happens to be injured alot for years now and it's laughable.

Poor excuse and copout as far as the quality of football goes imo, we should be able to keep a good standard or better than the current even with so many injuries it shouldn't drop off just because we have fullbacks missing, playing fletcher doesn't help though which i hate saying because i like him.
 
What do you expect with no fit FBs our best CM playing at CB because our best CBs are injured. Our most creative CM is out ill and our most exciting player going forward has been out injured and is not fully fit. Can hardly expect free flowing footy.

That's wrong. Evans and Jones were fit to start. Rafael was back to training at least 2 weeks back and he posted that. Also McNair did well in a 2 CB system so Carrick could have played in the midfield from the word go.

Worst case, we could have played Jones as RB, McNair and Evans as CB,
 
Lol yeah backs up my point ... Hard to blame LVG though as his players haven't been fit although the line-up today still had enough firepower to put away Villa easily

Mata, Falcao, Rooney and Van Persie. As good a attack as any in Europe

3 man defense is a joke. We can have any number of attackers but without proper support it counts for nothing. This 3-5-2 is just a pain in *** for every single player. Hopefully Van Gaal bins it for good.
 
The midfield is lost in the 352 and offer nothing to the lonely strikers, the defenders look all over the place at times and it has fluidity to the system. Also the boring 352 shouldn't surprise anyone apart from one game at the wc holland were also boring imo.

As for someone mentioning evans declining, i agree he has massively and he isn't the only one since the moyes era.
 
Having proper backups would help especially at right back, the left back situation is more understanding as blind and rojo who also can play there are injured but we've had one proper right back who happens to be injured alot for years now and it's laughable.

Poor excuse and copout as far as the quality of football goes imo, we should be able to keep a good standard or better than the current even with so many injuries it shouldn't drop off just because we have fullbacks missing, playing fletcher doesn't help though which i hate saying because i like him.
Yes RB has been a. I would have sooner given Janko,Verjmil or Vareala a spot as back up this season. But to say our football wont be affected due to injuries is non sense.
 
3 man defense is a joke. We can have any number of attackers but without proper support it counts for nothing. This 3-5-2 is just a pain in *** for every single player. Hopefully Van Gaal bins it for good.
Im sure he will when he has players to. Or at least I hope he does.
 
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