*Official* Fulham v United Match Thread - Teams and Value

Originally Posted by magic_cantona

Still dont know why Nani didn't start.

And why O'Shea did.

What did O'shea do wrong

Should fo started smalling instead of evans. If we are going of performances.

Originally Posted by marlo

i would have thought our 30m striker or even our 'experianced' striker would take penalties.

as i said the other day...only an idiot would think this squad is good enough to win the league.

Blaming Berbs for Nani missing a penalty?

Good lad.

Originally Posted by Switching Off

Made a real difference when he came on, but that penalty was woeful. Not even a walk up ffs.

He did the start-stop, which is well and good if you get the goalkeeper to move, but you're £#%&!ed if you don't. Since this is 2010 and no goalkeeper has been fooled by that for 3 years, the goalkeeper playing his second ever league game simply waited him out and then reacted to a shot that was neccessarily poor, since he had no run up.

still an improvement from last season I suppose. a draw at fulham better than defeat at burnley

Evans was shite.

Originally Posted by History

What did O'shea do wrong

Should fo started smalling instead of evans. If we are going of performances.

Apart from giving the ball away every time he had it?

He just offers nothing.Nowt.

I keep saying it, you start O'Shea and you invite pressure and the oppo on to you.Start with one of the twins and they're bombing forward and holding their wingers/midfield back.And they're better on the ball.O'Shea is a dreadful player.

Originally Posted by Grimson

He did the start-stop, which is well and good if you get the goalkeeper to move, but you're £#%&!ed if you don't. Since this is 2010 and no goalkeeper has been fooled by that for 3 years, the goalkeeper playing his second ever league game simply waited him out and then reacted to a shot that was neccessarily poor, since he had no run up.

Agreed.

Originally Posted by marlo

i would have thought our 30m striker or even our 'experianced' striker would take penalties.

as i said the other day...only an idiot would think this squad is good enough to win the league.

yep. why the £#%&! didn't giggs take it ffs?

anyway it's academic now. A dreadful performance. at least we didn't lose - that's a step up from last season.

first even remotely difficult game of the season and we play like that. we were a shambles at times.

The squad just isn't good enough. simple as that.

reasonably upset at that result, should have buried them with the pen


got to be more brutal up front

Originally Posted by Switching Off

Made a real difference when he came on, but that penalty was woeful. Not even a walk up ffs.

Yes Nani should have started.

If you look at the team that did start today, it was very reliant on Scholes (oh yeah and Berbs) producing any creativity because Nani and Rooney were missing.

LOL at the people saying Smalling should have started - hasn't he been slated on here the past few weeks? Don't think anyone could have predicted Evans would have been that bad.

Yeah, we've drawn at a place where we lost our last two games. Of course we're not good enough to win the league

Cop yourselves on.

We were missing Rooney and Rio tbf.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Brilliant stuff, what a top red you are.

Nope. Just a grown up.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Brilliant stuff, what a top red you are.

He's got a point, with the epic toy-throwing performances being given here.

Centre backs were all over the show, both wide men were ineffective, it wouldn't stick up front and i haven't a clue what that fella was doing at right back. Thought Fletch and Scholes were decent, but it was still a case for 3 in the middle.

Tough fixture anyway, more than a few teams will come unstuck there and hopefully it will give us a kick up the arse.

Originally Posted by magic_cantona

Apart from giving the ball away every time he had it?

He just offers nothing.Nowt.

I keep saying it, you start O'Shea and you invite pressure and the oppo on to you.Start with one of the twins and they're bombing forward and holding their wingers/midfield back.And they're better on the ball.O'Shea is a dreadful player.

No he didnt, He had a good game for O'shea. Considering Fulhams threat upfront with Zamora and the other steriod pumped giants, O'shea was the only option.

O'shea is a dreadful player. He is a good defender though.

You invite pressure onto you, when you get caught with the ball upfield and allow the opposition to run in behind your midfield. O'shea is not the only one guilty of that.

oshea was at the heart of alot of our problems today, gave away possession so needlessly it was untrue

dont see what Park can offer against a footballing side like Fulham and Valencia ALWAYS struggles in games were he can get out wide and put balls. lacks the footballing brain to do anything else, ala 360 degree turns into nowhere when he cant hit the barline

Evans was always gonna struggle against Zamora, he's a good player, literally had evans on toast

Nani and Giggs should have started imo

Thought sticking with o'shea was strange. Completely isolated valencia with his inabillity to get forward.

Originally Posted by dunk

Nope. Just a grown up.

Yeah alright.

Originally Posted by Fatboy Shrek

Centre backs were all over the show, both wide men were ineffective, it wouldn't stick up front and i haven't a clue what that fella was doing at right back. Thought Fletch and Scholes were decent, but it was still a case for 3 in the middle.

Tough fixture anyway, more than a few teams will come unstuck there and hopefully it will give us a kick up the arse.

Yeah, and we still scored twice and could, should really, have been three. Nail the penalty and it's game over.

Not the end of the world. I'm far from happy but I'm not about to jump off a bridge either.