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Manchester United – Angel di Maria Gets a Very Rough Welcome
Another match, another new big-name and big-money signing, yet nothing changes for Louis van Gaal and Manchester United. Angel di Maria seems to be the next in line of a long list of players confused as to the tactics that are being utilized and the assignments they’re required to do, resulting in bad football, hardly any chances created and still no wins under the new manager.
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Manchester United – Louis van Gaal Knows He Has Work to do
Reality hit Manchester United and it’s manager, Louis van Gaal, in the face on the opening match of the new Premier League season. Wayne Rooney did score a goal, but it was far from enough against an alleged inferior opponent. The combination of new and changing tactics, young and ill-positioned players with similar problems to those from last season resulted in a terribly disappointing performance.
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2014 World Cup: England Hitting an All-Time Low
Even in a World Cup where nothing was actually expected of the England national football team, they manage to hit an all-time low: Not making it out of the group stage for the first time since 1958. Just another example of the bad luck, naivety and especially tactical inferiority in the English game right now, which is personified by the ill equipped manager, Roy Hodgson.
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Manchester United – Wayne Rooney Shines Bright in Sabotage Aftermath
The beginning of the Ryan Giggs era, as short or long as it may become, was a great one for Manchester United, getting a win, a convincing one, at Old Trafford, which has been an issue for them this season. Wayne Rooney looked a bit better than the rest of the players, joining his brace to that of Juan Mata, and the England international might be one of the few to actually come out as winners at the club from this horrendous season.
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Manchester United – David Moyes Has No Clue About Tactics
Anyone still trying to defend David Moyes and anything he’s done to Manchester United this season is running out of excuses and explanations. Fielding a lineup with no wingers and later on stuffing Shinji Kagawa, Wayne Rooney and Juan Mata on the same pitch is yet another low in the clueless approach and desperation of a manager who is simply way in over his head.
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Manchester United vs Manchester City – Derby Numbers You Need to Know About
It’s interesting to see Manchester City entering the Manchester derby with the team that has more at stake, meaning the Premier League title, than Manchester United, who find themselves in a weird position of fighting to even play in Europe next season. The numbers suggest this has been a United fixture for many years, but times are changing.
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Wayne Rooney Nutmegs David Moyes in Training
Despite doing really badly compared to expectations, not everything is dark and sad about Manchester United in training, as it seems like Wayne Rooney having a little bit of fun with David Moyes and nutmegging the manager isn’t too out of place, with smiles all around following.
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Manchester United – Wayne Rooney & Robin van Persie Stuck With David Moyes
It’s hard to put a finger on just one thing David Moyes did in a humiliating loss for Manchester United against their biggest rivals. From the defense with Phil Jones and Nemanja Vidic which looked scared and panicked, to the non existent midfield with Marouane Fellaini and Michael Carrick. The wings, with two players not built for this kind positioning or physicality in Juan Mata and Adnan Januzaj, while two forwards in Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney are made useless by wrong tactics and zero sense of confidence and drive.
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Manchester United – Complete, Utter, Continuous Failure
There’s something to be said about a manager, David Moyes in this case, who has months to prepare in his head for the biggest match Manchester United have this season, and he decides to go with a lineup and especially a midfield combination that he knows is his worst. You can field all the Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney type players in the world up front, but when the rest of the field is in shambles, the result will be like the one we’ve come to expect from this side this season.
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Manchester United – David Moyes Continues to Misuse Juan Mata
An away draw at the Emirates isn’t a bad result, but given the wider context of Manchester United winning only twice in their last ten matches, of David Moyes not even being creative enough to make up new excuses and Juan Mata finding it difficult to understand why on earth would he be used as winger makes the result a lot worse than it would have been in previous years.