Comments on: SAF’s European Headache

By: manutd jaluo

manutd jaluo — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:19:22 +0000

anderson should play and i dont like the he’s not experienced crap, so whats going to give him more experience if not this kind of matches, and so far he has shown that he is capable of rising to the occasion unlike ronnie who disappears in the big matches.

my prediction, man utd 4 lyon 0

By: manutd jaluo

manutd jaluo — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:12:22 +0000

there is all what all of us as fans would like to see, but i honestly thing fergy will play OH and scholes in mid field, after what he said to sky sports that he got a dillema for whom to play after jus watching the first half of the fulham match,,

i think reason anderson was out,is coz saf was saving him for lyon,but after seeing OH and scholes, he pretty well changed his mind..

By: karl

karl — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:09:50 +0000

I personally don’t particularly care who SAF picks, I just so want Anderson to score his first goal.

By: SHANNON

SHANNON — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:37:07 +0000

vds

brown rio vidic evra
hargo carrick
anderson
ronadlo rooney tevez

By: t_reason

t_reason — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:37:58 +0000

I see nani starting the game tomorrow….i think SAF will prefer 2 wide players in ronaldo and nani; his crosses are way too important for our goals…and carrick and hargo in the midfield…although i wouldnt be surprised if it was scholes who partnered hargo…

EVDS
brown rio vidic evra
ronaldo hargo carrick nani
rooney tevez

i am convinced MU will beat Lyon by a couple of goals…in SAF we trust

By: millz

millz — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:01:37 +0000

Frankly, I couldn’t give a toss who starts in midfield. we have four capable players who could do the job in any combination. It should be clear by now that whomever we pick will answer our questions. we spend half a season saying Carrick isn’t “United Material” and he reveals himself as one of our best players. it was when we were worried about their maturity and decision making that Anderson and Nani blossomed. Scholes was supposed to be washed up but he played excelently against Fulham. Just when people started calling Hargreaves a bust he scores a beautiful freekick. Furthermore, i remember a couple weeks ago people started fretting about how we can’t get goals unless Ronaldo’s involved. since then we’ve had goals from Carrick, Park, Saha(!) and even Darren bloody Fletcher scored a brace.
Really it could be any combination of the four. i would also assume that we will play somme variant of a 4-3-3/4-5-1. That seems to be SAF’s preferred european formation, especially when we’re trying to protect an advantage. I’d figure that Scholes would be the first name Sir Alex puts on any united european team sheet. Sir Alex still has a lot of faith in the Ginger Ninja, and has constantly reaffirmed the importance of the aging maestro’s experience throughout the season. I’d say Carrick would be the most likely midfielder to start against lyon he’s been on top form, and he was rested against Fulham. that to me is a clear indication of Ferguson’s intention to start michael tomorrow. this leaves Anderson and Hargreaves to battle it out for the final spot. Hargreaves would be useful in this match, and it’s no secret that Owen was purchased to help us primarily on the european front. I think that Anderson will be favoured over Hrgreaves anyway. Why? Firstly because he was rested against Fulham. Second, because he is our best central midfielder. his skill makes up for his lack of experience, and remember Andy played in the CL for Porto too. Personally i’d also trust the fitness of scholes, even in his thirties over that of Hargo at this point.

With Anderson Scholes and Carrick we have three players who can all go forward, defend, and keep hold of the ball in equal measure.

my team:
Van der Sar
Fredinand Vidic
Brown Evra
Carrick
Scholes Anderson

Ronnie Nani
Rooney

By: MDAWG

MDAWG — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:35:26 +0000

I’d have to go with Hargreaves and Anderson. This partnership has time and time again proven to work (although not in Europe)
Hargreaves will definitely start because we need someone to contain Benzema. Anderson will probably start because i wouldn’t put it past Lyon to just flat out attack the whole game and Anderson’s really quick on the counter

By: manuforlife

manuforlife — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:51:43 +0000

My team would be
vidic
brown
rio
evra

Andy
Carrick
Hargreaves

rooney
ronaldo
tevez

By: manuforlife

manuforlife — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:50:45 +0000

Fergie seems very keen on winning another european title before he retires and probably
he feels he hasn’t won enough titles in europe as he would have liked and everyone in the
media feels united dont have a better chance of winning the title like this year since we are firing
on all cylinders but again its Europe and we have consistently underperformed over the years
apart from 99 so im keeping my fingers crossed this year and hopefully our lads can give fergie
his long awaited wish….

By: james f

james f — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:30:42 +0000

Reading the comments of this post, it suddenly hit me! How can Lyon stop us? In fact, how can any team stop us? I mean, don’t get me wrong but I kept reading names like Rooney, Ronaldo, Scholes, Hargreaves, Nani, Tevez, Carrick, Anderson etc. and I got carried away. We seem unstoppable this year!