[Archived] Rovers 0-1 United

[herbergeehh]

Haha, spot on. I wish there was a Damien Duff at 16-smily on here though

[AxesFirstTouch]

No Gally and Mokoena starts in a 4 man midfield. Whats sparky playing at, disappointing lineup.

P/s Emerton in, Gray out!

Edited November 11, 2006 by wakefieldrawks

[modes98]

So glad Brett is back! Hopefully we'll now be more solid at the back and he wil also give us the creativity down the right whilst lucas does it on the left!

Felt awful about this game after Vllla but feeling ever hopeful now.

Come on Rovers

[American]

2-1 United.

[AxesFirstTouch]

Barry Chuckle with a class bit of defending to prevent Saha

Edited November 11, 2006 by wakefieldrawks

[Exiled_Rover]

United are resorting to diving now. Judging by the commentary United should be 20-0 in front. Judging by the pictures it should perhaps be 1-0, though they've failed to break us down.

[James No. 7]

Vidic (foul) and Rooney (dissent) both have yellow cards.

[vyeo]

Is anybody else watching this game on TV with alan parry and brian marwood as commentators? Its been an absolute lovefest with man u for marwood. Everything they do is great, wonderful and superb. How can anyone, on watching the replay of emo's challenge on saha, which was shoulder-to-shoulder and completely fair, say that he was 'denying saha a goalscoring opportunity'??!?!

[Mr. E]

despite the rain it's been a great game of football so far. We're really giving United a go and trying to create chances, although we haven't had anything too dangerous yet. Nonda especially is making a lot from the little he's given. United though are very sharp and could have been in front...Rooney especially could have had 2 already.

[G Somerset Rover]

Yeh me-the commentary is awful and so biased towards Utd it's untrue...George Graham takes the biscuit though "They over achieved last year" and then went on to call us Bolton.

We have been utter pants though-when will we stop hoofing the ball to our bewildered strikers?!

[Exiled_Rover]

  vyeo said:

Is anybody else watching this game on TV with alan parry and brian marwood as commentators? Its been an absolute lovefest with man u for marwood. Everything they do is great, wonderful and superb. How can anyone, on watching the replay of emo's challenge on saha, which was shoulder-to-shoulder and completely fair, say that he was 'denying saha a goalscoring opportunity'??!?!

Yeah, it's pretty tough listening. Ronaldo needs to try staying on his feet, likewise Saha.

Nobody has mentioned that you could have bought the entire Rovers team for Carrick - they've just constantly reiterated how great United are and how much they've dominated. In fairness we've created nothing, which is worrying as their midfield has the defensive capabilities of Tugay.

[USABlue]

  Exiled_Rover said:

Yeah, it's pretty tough listening. Ronaldo needs to try staying on his feet, likewise Saha.

Nobody has mentioned that you could have bought the entire Rovers team for Carrick - they've just constantly reiterated how great United are and how much they've dominated. In fairness we've created nothing, which is worrying as their midfield has the defensive capabilities of Tugay.

Yep as usual all superlatives about Utd, I thought it was funny when they when through our injury list (completely missed Nelson btw) and then immediately after said we have struggled of late due to Europe.

Anyway to the game. The the F in Hell are we doing trying to go through the middle and long ball over the top. We need to go wide and whip the ball in behind them UNited flap when teams do that, they don't like it some nice curling crosses in behind Rio is a Rover and we can have 'em.

[Rover4ever]

Zurab misses a clean header from 5 yards

[krislu]

1-0 Saha. I did not sse the first half, but we have been pretty poor in this second half. I can only hear the ManU fans singing, no wonder, we havent created anything.

[Mr. E]

Once again Zurab causes us to concede. Instead of sticking to Saha he leaves him unmarked and the obvious happened. Time after time, our central defenders are being beaten by anyone who asks questions of them. I'm sorry, but Zurab and Ooijer just aren't premiership quality.

Edited November 11, 2006 by Mr. E

[Exiled_Rover]

  USABlue said:

Yep as usual all superlatives about Utd, I thought it was funny when they when through our injury list (completely missed Nelson btw) and then immediately after said we have struggled of late due to Europe.

Anyway to the game. The the F in Hell are we doing trying to go through the middle and long ball over the top. We need to go wide and whip the ball in behind them UNited flap when teams do that, they don't like it some nice curling crosses in behind Rio is a Rover and we can have 'em.

Marwood just went on about Giggs helping out his team and defending, covering Bentley minutes after having an attacking run. He failed to mention that Bentley had a free cross if he doesn't slip, Giggs was nowhere near him. Sky commentary is a joke, plain and simple.

Their goal was against the run of play, but you pays your money you takes your chances as they say. Eventually the gulf in quality was going to show.

[AxesFirstTouch]

Why the hell does Hughes not throw on Peter and Jeffers?!

[krislu]

  Exiled_Rover said:

Their goal was against the run of play,

What? They have been all over us from what I've seen. We are just now trying to create something

Btw, worst rovers player of the second half is Neill with Mokoena coming pretty close!

Edited November 11, 2006 by krislu

[AxesFirstTouch]

I dunno Nonda wasnt too hot, he never ever looks like scoring. Hes great at holding a ball up and linking play, but thats it.

MGP also crap as always.

Ooijer and Tugay were easily our best players.

[Mr. E]

4 losses in a row, sinking uncontrollably towards the bottom 3. Massive changes need to be made in January, and they must start from the defence.

[Exiled_Rover]

  Mr. E said:

4 losses in a row, sinking uncontrollably towards the bottom 3. Massive changes need to be made in January, and they must start from the defence.

Not the defence's fault the midfield was overran, again.

[Shevchenko]

Well that was disappointing. Fully deserved victory for the Mancs tonight and really, they should have had a couple more with Rooney missing some absolute sitters in the first half. We didn't really have any chances to speak of apart from a very good header from Zurab from a corner. We didn't look like scoring at all really and could probably have played on all night with no luck in front of goal. MGP did his disappearance act yet again and was a complete waste of space. I've not been to impressed with Nonda yet and again he didn't do much. Didn't get much joy from Bentley either but then again we didn't seem interested in playing down the wing to much.

The most interesting thing though for me was the fact that Hughes prefered a clearly injured and limping Lucas Neill at left back instead of Mickey Gray. Says alot about Gray's standing in the club right now I think...

[modes98]

I thought second half we had most of the play but for the 5 mins in and around when they scored!

As soon as we went behind i knew that was it! Without Reid or Savage we lack something major.

[vyeo]

midfield is our biggest problem at the moment. Mokoena simply isnt good enough to cover for the losses of both reid and savage. Next week its Spurs. I dont have good vibes about that game either. Looks like we're in for a long hard month until we get savage back to full fitness. I don't think that we'll get relegated, but i think that if we dont address this midfield problem as soon as january arrives, we'll be in trouble.

[G Somerset Rover]

  Shevchenko said:

The most interesting thing though for me was the fact that Hughes prefered a clearly injured and limping Lucas Neill at left back instead of Mickey Gray. Says alot about Gray's standing in the club right now I think...

I think today summed up Hughes' faith in certain squad players who were on the bench. We needed fresh legs to run at United and maybe Peter aside we had absoloutely eff all to bring off the bench to change the game and Hughes knew it.Our midfield was never going to cope against that quality with the injuries that we have, and as a result our strikers had nothing-but I was unimpressed AGAIN by Benni and Nonda. Special mention for Ooijer though-he was quality and should form a good partnership with Nelsen.

99% of us braced ourselves for defeat today, but again we didn't score and again we could have played all night and not scored. Until we get some of our key players back I can see things getting even worse before they get better-starting with an in form Spurs next weekend.

Edited November 11, 2006 by Somerset Rover!