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Annoying, if our defence was anything like first 3 games would of not made those mistakes. Darmian shouldn't be LB for me.

But Stoke is probably one of the harder outside top 6 places to go, so guess can't complain too much.
 
still dont know what happened to jones,i mean to be tripping over his own feet how does he get himself in that position??
 
djs1 said:
still dont know what happened to jones,i mean to be tripping over his own feet how does he get himself in that position??
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Because it's Phil Feckin Jones! Look, I get it, he is good at times. But way too unorthodox and these little errors are costly.

I know Smalling isn't a saint, but Jones should be dropped for such wank marking at a corner.
 
zzeezzy said:
Because it's Phil Feckin Jones! Look, I get it, he is good at times. But way too unorthodox and these little errors are costly.

I know Smalling isn't a saint, but Jones should be dropped for such wank marking at a corner.
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Bailly was equally as poor the first goal, playing the fella on-side then being the wrong side of him. So it wasn't just him today.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
Bailly was equally as poor the first goal, playing the fella on-side then being the wrong side of him. So it wasn't just him today.
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True, drop them both! :P Nah in all seriousness, I think they'll have a week to recover anyway as can't play midweek.

So onto Basel, a nice win to start off CL would be good.
 
zzeezzy said:
Annoying, if our defence was anything like first 3 games would of not made those mistakes. Darmian shouldn't be LB for me.

But Stoke is probably one of the harder outside top 6 places to go, so guess can't complain too much.
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yh you are bang on,i think the LB position could become a problem if shaw doesnt take his chance
 
zzeezzy said:
True, drop them both! :P Nah in all seriousness, I think they'll have a week to recover anyway as can't play midweek.

So onto Basel, a nice win to start off CL would be good.
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Lol. Sure Stoke are saying the same about their defending. Terrible defending the corner your opener. Then leaving Lukaku unmarked the middle the equaliser after Butland did all he could.

Not sure why Mourinho blanked Hughes the end. What's gone on there?

Yeah, winning start at home is vital the groups or you're playing catch-up from the off.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
Lol. Sure Stoke are saying the same about their defending. Terrible defending the corner your opener. Then leaving Lukaku unmarked the middle the equaliser after Butland did all he could.

Not sure why Mourinho blanked Hughes the end. What's gone on there?

Yeah, winning start at home is vital the groups or you're playing catch-up from the off.
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Not sure about the Mourinho and Hughes thing, I think Mourinho didn't take kindly to Hughes calling over the referee when Mourinho approached him for a chat in his technical area.

Yeh, this is why I hate international breaks, any kind of form you built kind of goes out the window and you start from scratch.

Not that this is an excuse, I mean I still expected a win. But I know Stoke have a pretty good team and they make it as difficult as possible.
 
Frustrating result, the only small positive we can take away is it was a 2-2, not a 0-0 or a 1-1; we haven't gone goal shy again. I'd much rather see a Jose team have an off day defensively instead of front of goal, as you know it isn't going to happen often and he'll be furious. Fair play to Stoke for going at us instead of being an 11 man punching bag. Lukaku needs to net that winner, but that's football. On to the next.
 
Fair result. Terrible defending from Bailly and Jones. Bailly simply watched his man scoring a first one XD
 
Jones - Bailly terrible today, also hated that we changed team/formation for this game, could even feel it before the game.. hope people realise Pogba needs to play deeper in a 2 man. :'(
 
Bailly and Jones were both poor today but at least it doesn't look like we've got problems scoring anymore. Lukaku missed what could've been a winner at the end of the game but oh well, onto the UCL.

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RedUnited said:
Jones - Bailly terrible today, also hated that we changed team/formation for this game, could even feel it before the game.. hope people realise Pogba needs to play deeper in a 2 man. :'(
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Dont think the team or formation was the problem. Just **** defending! Something I didn't expect tbh with our usually good defence. Should of won it at the end with Lukaku but meh fair result.

**** knows what the ref was doing at the end though. We had the ball just outside there box and ended up with it back at DDG, after a stupid drop ball. Stupid rule!
 
Great to see Zouma having a great game as well. He needs to play regularly to improve.
 
Disappointing but fair result. Darmian days look to be done. Shaw has played 3 reserve games in 2 weeks now, they are clearly ramping him up for a return. Blind should play left back till then. Once Rojo also returns, Darmian becomes 5th choice
 
Mike. said:
Disappointing but fair result. Darmian days look to be done. Shaw has played 3 reserve games in 2 weeks now, they are clearly ramping him up for a return. Blind should play left back till then. Once Rojo also returns, Darmian becomes 5th choice
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Thought Darmian would start. But was surprised when he did tbh. Didn't really need to change the defence. And Blind had just had a great game, arguably MOTM performance for Holland.
 
Just seen a star not surprising though tbh. Had 67 attacks down the right and only 19 down the left against Stoke. Which for me highlights the left side problem. In which Rashford was as much to blame as anyone. Spent more time uptop near Lukaku. Also that somebody on the coaching staff or the team didn't identify Stokes biggest weakness in defence, which was a STR in Diouf playing at RWB. Martial exploited that loads more when he came on. Staying wider and skinning him numerous times. For me till Shaw comes back Martial needs to start over Rashford to give us that more natural width and ability to beat a defence that will sit deeper and more compact. Which will happen more often than not against us in the Prem. Really hope Shaw gets back soon and him and Martial build a great partnership down the left. And eventually balance the team!
 
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