*Official Match Thread* - PSV Eindhoven v Manchester United 15/09/15

Blind's beard is shocking, looks like an Amish farmer

Originally Posted by angrydimaria

8 months? And he was never the same since...

One of the TV channels suggesting medic told LVG that it is broken fibula...

Couple of months for a broken fib before you walk unaided, another month for physio, back by Christmas

Originally Posted by armchair

Are you saying you rated him before he got injured? He's probably better post injury. He's certainly fitter and faster etc.

He was better than he has been since from an attacking PoV.

classy applause for shaw somewhat undermined by booing blind every £#%&!ing time he gets the ball.

Originally Posted by TheKitchenSink

Poor £#%&!er. As Armers said, probably better than doing ligaments etc, but still absolutely brutal. Have to assume he'll be out for a minimum of 6-9 months, if not longer, and impossible to say what the psychological impact will be on the lad.

When Cissé snapped his tibia & fibula against Blackburn in Oct for Liverpool he was back playing in April, so fingers crossed he can recover quickly.

Cissé did it again a couple of years later too, for France

As said Ramsey had a clean break too. It's a season out but they can come back better than ever.

No way thats a fibula, it's a tibia, ie the shin bone, the angle his leg was at it could only be that!

Thers really is no way to predict how it'll heal, he'll go for surgery and get some screws plus/minus a plate, that's the only certainty. He's young which is a big plus, but other than that who knows.

Originally Posted by Fat Al

But he hasn't been the same player since, IMHO.

Not because of any ongoing physical problems though. He became increasingly timid in his play, and his lack of variety made him easy to predict. Perhaps mentally it impacted him, contributed to his hesitancy but no athletic decline because of it.

PSV are shit btw, Utd should still win this.

What the £#%&! has happened to Shaw??? Just after getting in.

Originally Posted by jem

classy applause for shaw somewhat undermined by booing blind every £#%&!ing time he gets the ball.

They're not fond of former Ajax players

Originally Posted by Fat Al

But he hasn't been the same player since, IMHO.

Hate to defend Valencia in any way, but wasn't his best season 2011/12, which was post-break?

His decline more to do with cowardice in final third and lack of left foot

Smalling again. Class.

Is there a reason why it wasn't a pen on Shaw? I only saw that one replay pretty quickly.

Originally Posted by Pop

What the £#%&! has happened to Shaw??? Just after getting in.

Broken leg

Chance

Never mind, keep going lads

Ref not fancy dishing a card or two out tonight?

Originally Posted by Pop

What the £#%&! has happened to Shaw??? Just after getting in.

Snapped his banjo string.

Originally Posted by MrBishi

Cissé did it again a couple of years later too, for France

As said Ramsey had a clean break too. It's a season out but they can come back better than ever.

Forgot about that... he didn't half have some shitty luck

Fingers crossed the break is clean and Shaw will fully recover physically. It's his mentality after he's healed that will determine whether he's the same player or not.

Originally Posted by Jethro

Ref not fancy dishing a card or two out tonight?

Thought the same. These clowns are going to cause more injuries.

Originally Posted by Tiberian

Not because of any ongoing physical problems though. He became increasingly timid in his play, and his lack of variety made him easy to predict. Perhaps mentally it impacted him, contributed to his hesitancy but no athletic decline because of it.

PSV are shit btw, Utd should still win this.

Originally Posted by morgan

Hate to defend Valencia in any way, but wasn't his best season 2011/12, which was post-break?

His decline more to do with cowardice in final third and lack of left foot

Exactly, he's turned into a £#%&!ing shithouse. No point being able to run fast with the ball if every time you come up to a defender, you £#%&!ing turn back and pass the ball.

Originally Posted by Zorg

Is there a reason why it wasn't a pen on Shaw? I only saw that one replay pretty quickly.

Defender took the ball first then clattered him on the follow through presumably