LIVE THREAD: FC Basel vs. Manchester United | UEFA Champions League - Matchday 6
by Gene Um on Dec 7, 2011 6:50 PM GMT
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United starting XI: David de Gea; Chris Smalling, Nemanja Vidic (c), Rio Ferdinand, Patrice Evra; Phil Jones, Park Ji-sung, Ryan Giggs; Nani, Wayne Rooney, Ashley Young
United bench: Anders Lindegaard, Jonny Evans, Antonio Valencia, Darren Fletcher, Darron Gibson, Danny Welbeck, Federico Macheda
Basel starting XI: Yann Sommer; Markus Steinhofer, Aleksandar Dragovic, David Abraham, Park Joo-Ho; Xherdan Shaqiri, Granit Xhaka, Cabral, Fabian Frei; Alexander Frei, Marco Streller
Basel bench: Scott Chipperfield, Massimo Colomba, Radoslav Kovac, Valentin Stocker, Jacques Zoua, Pak Kwang-Ryong, Genseric Kusunga
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looks to be a 3 man midfield
Jones, Park, and Giggsy.
Rooney leading the line in attack.
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4-4-1-1?
They squad list looks like it can also go there with Nani/Park on the wings and Young tucked in behind Roo – they can go both depending on how the midfield is controlled.
that's definitely possible
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Young out wide on the left
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Ugh, United in the white kits...
and Basel’s kit looking like Barca’s… haunting
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COME ON UNITED!!
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United look to be in a 4-1-2-3 shape
Jones holding at the base of a midfield triangle.
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FUCK
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WAKE THE FUCK UP UNITED
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I cant believe I overslept. but I woke the fuck up. -.-'
by dingmajiao on Dec 7, 2011 8:14 PM GMT via iPhone app up reply actions
Omg!! Rooney should put that in!!!!
by dingmajiao on Dec 7, 2011 8:15 PM GMT via iPhone app reply actions
great cross...
I don’t know how he doesn’t finish…. in that mud pit
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he's skinning his counterpart Park right now
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fuck, that looks bad for Vidic... Evans on
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Good lord
Can we get through a game without having someone go off injured? It seems like there’s only been a few games this season where someone hasn’t gone off and subsequently missed a game or two due to injury.
What's worst!?
We’re on the way out!!
by dingmajiao on Dec 7, 2011 8:33 PM GMT via iPhone app up reply actions
there's still an entire half to play
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Did a quick calculation -
Believe that there have been 11 United players who have been taken off due to injury during a game in the 23 competitive matches we have played. That’s not counting players who have injured themselves in international duty or in training. That’s got to be absurd.
Young has been terrible
Not anywhere near the form he was in prior to his injury
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I'd be happy to see Welbeck come on for Young
Two up top and Park on the left
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he lost his scoring touch when he was moved back into the midfield
I’m not saying that’s the cause, but its certainly happened.
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I wish more would praise Nani when he plays well
so many others are lightning quick to jump on him when he plays poorly. He was the only bright spot in attack that first half.
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From Soccernet's Commentary...
“United think Vidic has knee ligament damage and “fear the worst” but won’t know for sure until a scan back in England."
Place Where I Don't Want to Be?
In front of that hairdryer.
I'd like to be a fly on the wall though
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Untill a stray boot catches you on the head :)
(Think Beckham)
by Sweet science on Dec 7, 2011 8:44 PM GMT up reply actions
With a translator
I can barely understand SAF when he’s calm. If he’s fired up? It would sound like verbal snot.
This 2nd half will be brutal, no matter what happens
Expect an onslaught by United. But Basel are capable of being lethal on the counter.
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I call four goals in the second half
We get two, they get one, then we get one – 3-2 and through.
… at least I hope.
Hopeful till the end
You never know when a ’99-like comeback can occur.
soooo close
great ball by Giggsy to slip Wazza through
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tremendous save de GEa
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Rooney's body language...
is terrible. He’s so visibly frustrated
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I honestly thought we'd look much more threatening to start the half
BRING ON WELBECK
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FFFS Rooney
He cut inside well there…. And then took one to many touches and dragged it wide!!!!!!!
Should have snappe dthe shot off sooner
COME ON YOU MOTHERFUCKING REDS
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Debating weather to point out...
Were playing in white :)
by Sweet science on Dec 7, 2011 9:10 PM GMT up reply actions
We're so open in the back...
which is understandable. But I’m terrified Basel is close to killing this game off
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+1
Always the risk you run by conceding an early goal
by Sweet science on Dec 7, 2011 9:12 PM GMT up reply actions
it doesn't feel like the goal is coming
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Wer keep on trying to play crosses into the box
When we have no height whatsoever in the freakin box!!!
use the last sub for Valencia
on for Park
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WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS FUCKING SHIT?!?!?!?!!!?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!
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Fucking fuck.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
by Sergio Hernandez on Dec 7, 2011 9:27 PM GMT reply actions
Well, this certainly...
Ruins my fucking day.
by Sergio Hernandez on Dec 7, 2011 9:28 PM GMT reply actions
I hope my tears dripping onto my laptop right now electrocute me as I type this
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RIGHT
We need to use this as a learning experience…. All the youngerr players can learn from this….. Smalling… Jones… Evans…. Welbeck…. Even the ones not in the squad
Fergie can use this – WE NEED A FUCKING DECENT MIDFIELDER… PARK GIGGS AND JONES ARE NOT A QUALITY MIDIELD
GAME ON
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Christ
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Fucking...
Hell.
Our midfield needs a complete fucking overhaul. We simply can’t keep up with what he have now.
by Sergio Hernandez on Dec 7, 2011 9:38 PM GMT reply actions
We can keep the ball
But no creativity What -so-fucking EVER
by Sweet science on Dec 7, 2011 9:39 PM GMT up reply actions
Exactly.
EXACTLY. As much as it pains me to say, Citeh knows how to put the goal in the net. We’re skating by on talent but that won’t fly too long.
by Sergio Hernandez on Dec 7, 2011 9:41 PM GMT up reply actions
Nani is our only winger that seems to be on form
And we have nothing in the centre of the park….. Giggs is the closet thing we have… but damm he’s 92 years fucking old.
We could drop Rooney in Midfield…. It’s not as though he ’s banging in the goals atm… but then who do we play up top…. Welbeck??
Hernandez is out for a month….
Fergie should have brough proven players and got rid of some of the dross…..
by Sweet science on Dec 7, 2011 9:44 PM GMT up reply actions
Why not this?
Fergie should have got Sneijder
No
Modric
I know Snedjer has all the talent in the world but… I just don’t think he would have fit in
Modric would have been lovely
by Sweet science on Dec 7, 2011 9:50 PM GMT up reply actions
I wish we could have advanced and drawn Inter
so everyone could see how poor Sneijder has been for over a year. I’m so sick of this Sneijder talk.
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Shell out 50M
And then find out he’s as useful as Torres
by Sweet science on Dec 7, 2011 10:27 PM GMT up reply actions
Right, Im hitting the Scotch again
Man United – I want compensation for when I have a Liver Transplant
On the bright side.....
We can win the Europa League which is the only major competiton United hasn’t won
How does that work?
Where do we come in at that then?
We come in
the KO stage I think
Some Consolation (Bashes head against Wall)
by Sweet science on Dec 7, 2011 9:46 PM GMT up reply actions
From the Europa site:
The 38 play-off winners and the ten losing teams from the UEFA Champions League play-offs make up the 48 clubs that go into the group-stage draw.
Oh yeah
There is another group stage I think
by Sweet science on Dec 7, 2011 9:53 PM GMT up reply actions
That was in August
The Europa group stages just ended. The 24 teams that finished top two in the 12 groups and the 8 third place CL teams go into a pot for the 32 team knockout round.
by Stephen Schmidt on Dec 7, 2011 10:09 PM GMT up reply actions
All knockout from this point on
Just one extra round of it than the CL would have
by Stephen Schmidt on Dec 7, 2011 10:09 PM GMT up reply actions
This all fall apart when we lost Cleverley!?
FUCK KEVIN DAVIES!!
Post-match reaction thread is up
Get your vent on there.
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