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September 12, 2017 at 8:30 am #1530833
Nice to be back and competing, in theory at least, for old big ears.
Not ideal to have two centre halves with no minutes in their legs starting but the flip side is Basle’s number 9 is Ricky van Wolfswinkel. They haven’t been tearing up trees in their domestic league either.
Looking forward to seeing Marcus Rashford and Romelus make their Champions League debut. Not expecting fireworks, I’m going for a hum drum job done 2-0 victory.
September 12, 2017 at 10:10 am #1530879Basle always seem to give us a spook when we play them; with a new centre back pairing I’m expecting us to be a bit frail at the back.
Going for a tough 2-1 win.
September 12, 2017 at 10:38 am #1530880It’ll be tough, bound to be some first night nerves. We should be able to get past them though. They have some internationals on the squad so they’re not completely short on quality. Granit Xhaka’s brother Taulant plays for them, perhaps he’ll play as well tonight as his brother has for the Gooners. If so, he’s likely to get a red card… we can hope
September 12, 2017 at 12:27 pm #1530904Yeah nice to be back in but feels strange the fact that we’re not expected to do any real damage in the tournament. Making up the numbers in the knock out stages is not something we’re used to. But i guess its baby steps while we build a squad to challenge. I think its a positive that Bailly and Jones are out after Saturday. A lack of concentration from both cost us the points on the wkd. We really need to up our defensive organisation and play if we are going to have any chance in the CL or PL. Worrying thing is i’m not sure we have the players at the club to be able to do that at present.
September 12, 2017 at 3:51 pm #1530973Basel won’t be easy but I see us winning relatively easily. As for making up the numbers, if we are in the last 16 hat not many teams would want to draw Jose’s Utd team. We lack flair but we ain’t pussies like the noisy neighbours.
September 12, 2017 at 5:19 pm #1530994One good thing about tonight is that Phil bloody Jones won’t be featuring.
September 12, 2017 at 7:37 pm #1531026Surprised Young is getting a start.Seems like Mourinho is going for it.
September 12, 2017 at 7:37 pm #1531027Would have also preferred Rashford instead of Mata
September 12, 2017 at 8:23 pm #1531046Every woman every man…
September 12, 2017 at 8:37 pm #1531052Mkhitaryan had 2 opportunities to play Martial in but chose not to by over-playing tring to dribble the whole Basel players. Lack of awareness on his part.
September 12, 2017 at 8:56 pm #1531059Crosses crosses thats more like it!!!!’ Get in
September 12, 2017 at 9:01 pm #1531061No thoughts on anything positive that might have happened tonight mmi or do you just want to focus on any negatives you can find? Just for a change.
September 12, 2017 at 9:09 pm #1531063I did mention a positive earlier you seem to have missed. Phil Jones not playing.
September 12, 2017 at 9:17 pm #1531066Paul Parker and whoever is co commentating with him have to be the worst commentary I have ever had the displeasure of listening to… Absolutely horrible
September 12, 2017 at 9:31 pm #1531072How gregarious of you mr misery.
September 12, 2017 at 9:50 pm #1531080Get over yourself. You are not here to police the forum. I can say what I want, when I want about whatever I want. If you don’t like it you can go jump off a cliff. Joker!
Meanwhile, Fellaini man of the match for me. Is that positive enough for you?
September 12, 2017 at 10:16 pm #1531094Seriously though…half time and that was all you had to say for yourself, pick out two mistakes from Mhkhkrhytryan? Not policing anything, just pointing out what a misery you sound like. No need for anyone to jump off a cliff.
September 12, 2017 at 10:18 pm #1531095@Tommy – You’ve been giving it large with all this ‘top red’ bollocks for bloody years now under various different disguises.We get it,so how about you put a sock in it for 5 minutes at least!.
As for the game,thought Young,Fellaini,Lukaku,Matic and Mkhitaryan all did really well but I couldn’t really understand how Mata (who was poor) stayed on ahead of Martial.Defensively we weren’t at it again and gave away far too much space to a poor opponent with a mixture of hesitancy and a general lack of concentration and I don’t know about you lads but it consistently amazes me how we can have so many giants in the team yet still cough up so many free headers from crosses and set plays,That needs to be urgently addressed by Jose and his coaches.
Massive shame with Pogba’s injury and it’s not the first time he’s had hamstring issues, hopefully he’ll be back quickly because we will certainly miss him.September 12, 2017 at 10:44 pm #1531102Never once played the top red card blacky, that’s all tied up in your own insecurity because you can’t handle anybody who stands up to you and pulls you up for the offensive, inaccurate shite you spout time and again.
I think the defensive hesitancy you are worried about can be explained by Young, Lindelof and Smalling playing their first competitive games for months and it being a completely untested back four that will
most likely never play together again. A clean sheet was a positive but I agree more work needs to be done about the marking and headers.Martial had a great game but I would have a wild guess he kept Mata on as he wanted to lock the game down and keep possession as at that point Basel were still having a go and Martial was starting to fade and give the ball away. Not saying I agree with him, although I think Mourinho probably knows a bit more about what to do than you and me.
September 12, 2017 at 10:51 pm #1531106Thought that was a flat performance tonight. Team seemed to switch off and the atmosphere was lacking in the ground. Not sure what to make of us at the moment. Getting results but just don’t seem to have a lot of belief or conviction. Hopefully it was just because it was Basel and the crowd and team weren’t that up for it. Time will tell!
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