On this day in 2015: LvG's finest hour, dunk destruction day

Originally Posted by Crumps

Was strangely liberating. Kept thinking 'someone will arrest me pretty soon' nope.

Turning point chief?

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

Was Falcao on for Herrera with tens mins to go iirc. The balls on the man

fair play, going 10 v 10 at the end - he'd already tried mass defence to let liverpool back in

Originally Posted by Tumescent Throb

fair play, going 10 v 10 at the end - he'd already tried mass defence to let liverpool back in

Natural reaction for a team to drop off a bit when defending a lead at Anfield. Hence the Falcao sub to encourage otherwise.

Different to dropping off when defending a defeat of course.

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

Turning point chief?

Big time.

i preferred the 4-2 against city. that result was long, long overdue. we let them take the piss too many times in recent years, and then whoomph!

that (very brief) period saw us play the best football in years. it was a genuinely exciting time because after the moyes debacle and then van gaal's dud of a start it looked like van gaal had finally cracked it. previously dubbbed shit@#%&!s like fellaini, young, valencia and smalling were suddenly key players for us, over van persie, falcao and di maria, and i thought it was brilliant management how he had managed to get the best out of seemingly hopeless players.

then it just came to a stop all of a sudden, and we regressed since. no idea what actually went wrong.

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

Natural reaction for a team to drop off a bit when defending a lead at Anfield. Hence the Falcao sub to encourage otherwise.

Different to dropping off when defending a defeat of course.

tbf he did manage to defend 10 of them as well that season

Originally Posted by MagnificentSeven

i preferred the 4-2 against city. that result was long, long overdue. we let them take the piss too many times in recent years, and then whoomph!

that (very brief) period saw us play the best football in years. it was a genuinely exciting time because after the moyes debacle and then van gaal's dud of a start it looked like van gaal had finally cracked it. previously dubbbed shitc***s like fellaini, young, valencia and smalling were suddenly key players for us, over van persie, falcao and di maria, and i thought it was brilliant management how he had managed to get the best out of seemingly hopeless players.

then it just came to a stop all of a sudden, and we regressed since. no idea what actually went wrong.

Teams stopped playing wide open against United like the vermin and city did, and sat deep knowing United would just keep passing it sideways and backwards until they lost it and could be hit on the break. Mourinho showed how to do it first IIRC.

Though that was still a typically spawny Chelski win against us.