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Lukaku been world class today. Complete CF. Does so much for the team that goes under the radar when he's not scoring. That was a class run/relieving of pressure
 
Exciting stuff.
Horrible first half from United, but at least I can head out for a walk with a smile on my face.
 
I destroyed my TV controller because of Martial today, his decisioning and mentality sometimes.. :'(

But I am so God **** happy for the win and the performance of the rest of the team!
 
Fecking huge win that! Players really stepped up 2nd half. Lukaku what a beast so much unnoticed work for this team! Great impact from Lingard made great runs and stretched Chelsea. Thought the CM 3 especially in the second half were dominant!
 
Now can we please stick to that 4-3-3 please Jose? With Pogba as the sole attacking 8, not some bullshit "Lingard was 8 not 10" malarkey.
 
Huge win and massive 3 points, even if somewhat lucky after horrendous first half and Morata having correct goal disallowed late in the game.
 
RhQQ said:
Now can we please stick to that 4-3-3 please Jose? With Pogba as the sole attacking 8, not some bullshit "Lingard was 8 not 10" malarkey.
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Pretty sure we played some kind of 4-2-2-2?

Martial(Alexis) - Lukaku

Pogba - Alexis(Lingard)

Matic - McTominay

Young - Lindelöf - Smalling - Valencia
 
Tyton said:
It's good that Mike assured us Sanchez won't be competing for Martial for the same position, because that's clearly isn't happening.

*twists the knife*
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Not my fault Jose likes making life hard for himself.
 
That pass from McTominey to Lukaku was amazing. Him and Matic working very well together. Hazard was invisible most of that match. Well played lad keep up the progression and you will go far!
 
Is it only me that thinks Matic has been absolute ***** for weeks? Whenever hes going forward with the ball, and actuaslly has a chance to play to our strengths on the counter by playing it forward quickly to Sanchez/Martial, he always turns 180 back towards our goal and either turns into an opposition player and loses the ball, or then turns 180 again facing forward and plays a pass without looking properly and giving the ball away again. Pogba been getting a lot of stick recently but if Matic played the ball to Pogba first time when going forward on the quick break, or didnt turn into trouble (again exposing Pogba) we wouldnt have had half of the trouble we have had. Thank god for Messi Lingard.

Sanchez is wasted in this team the way we are playing. We should be breaking quick on the counter using the pace of Sanchez and Martial to get in behind but we are far too slow. Again one of the big problems being Matic always turning 180 on the ball when going forward and completely killing and fast counter.
 
I thought Martial was the only problem today, slowed down most attacks and took so many bad decisions and his mentality off the ball ****** me off..
 
Matic was probably our best player after Lukaku I thought. We knew what we were getting when we signed him, and that was never going to be a line-breaker. He keeps it simple, circulates/recycles the ball, smells danger and adds some composure/calmness to the midfield.

That's all you want from your DM. It's the 2nd CM of the 3, which today was McTominay, that needs to the one controlling the tempo and breaking lines. Hence why we're looking at Kroos, Weigl, Jorginho etc.
 
RhQQ said:
Matic was probably our best player after Lukaku I thought. We knew what we were getting when we signed him, and that was never going to be a line-breaker. He keeps it simple, circulates/recycles the ball, smells danger and adds some composure/calmness to the midfield.

That's all you want from your DM. It's the 2nd CM of the 3, which today was McTominay, that needs to the one controlling the tempo and breaking lines. Hence why we're looking at Kroos, Weigl, Jorginho etc.
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Well said.. even tho McTominay was brilliant today we do need even better players to compete in CL and PL
 
RedUnited said:
I thought Martial was the only problem today, slowed down most attacks and took so many bad decisions and his mentality off the ball ****** me off..
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One thing Martial doesn't do is slow the game down, if anything he's too direct (which isn't the worst complaint). He was our bright spark for 45 of the 60 mins he was on, which coincided with Alexis Sanchez's invisibility.

We need to play him at LW always, with Shaw as they have a nice understanding.
 
RedUnited said:
Well said.. even tho McTominay was brilliant today we do need even better players to compete in CL and PL
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I agree that was by a country mile his best performance. I didn't read that article Scouse shared the other day, but the title summed up his performance today; doing nothing is exactly what we needed. Just some stability to provide Pogba the platform.
 
RhQQ said:
Matic was probably our best player after Lukaku I thought. We knew what we were getting when we signed him, and that was never going to be a line-breaker. He keeps it simple, circulates/recycles the ball, smells danger and adds some composure/calmness to the midfield.

That's all you want from your DM. It's the 2nd CM of the 3, which today was McTominay, that needs to the one controlling the tempo and breaking lines. Hence why we're looking at Kroos, Weigl, Jorginho etc.
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I get that but hes been nowhere near the player he was for the first 10 games or so of the season. He was bossing midfield and bringing the ball forward confidently. Now he gets the ball, runs forward a couple of steps then turns round to look for a backwards pass. Then either turns into trouble or turns again and plays a sloppy pass. All our problems seem to start from him either not getting forward quickly enough when a break is on or giving the ball away sloppily by playing blind passes.

Carrick had all that what you say, but still managed to get the ball forward at the right opportunity. Something Matic was doing consistently at the start of the season. Which in turn made Pogba play a lot better. Its no coincidence Pogba has been **** while Matic has been doing this for weeks.
 
steveorobbo said:
Is it only me that thinks Matic has been absolute ***** for weeks? Whenever hes going forward with the ball, and actuaslly has a chance to play to our strengths on the counter by playing it forward quickly to Sanchez/Martial, he always turns 180 back towards our goal and either turns into an opposition player and loses the ball, or then turns 180 again facing forward and plays a pass without looking properly and giving the ball away again. Pogba been getting a lot of stick recently but if Matic played the ball to Pogba first time when going forward on the quick break, or didnt turn into trouble (again exposing Pogba) we wouldnt have had half of the trouble we have had. Thank god for Messi Lingard.

Sanchez is wasted in this team the way we are playing. We should be breaking quick on the counter using the pace of Sanchez and Martial to get in behind but we are far too slow. Again one of the big problems being Matic always turning 180 on the ball when going forward and completely killing and fast counter.
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Matic was class today especially the second half. He’s been 7/10 all season apart from the first few weeks when he was dominating everyone. ***** lol!
 
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