'Even allowing for inflation, this thread is not worth 198 Terry Francises' - EPL 2017-18

if fellaini keeps playing like this, we'll never see ander again :(

Rashford's looked great today

...and now looks crocked

what was his problem? looked like he'd taken one in the nads

Don't know, my commentary is in Russian. Young looks very good too.

Imagine spending £130m on fullbacks and choosing to play Fabian Delph there instead. When there are children starving in Africa who would love an attacking left back.

Rooney benched, Niasse starts.

Nyasssss

Everton still wretched without him tbfttl.

Everton are still wretched without me I'm not nicking two grand a fucking hour out of it am i

that is one of the jammiest goals I've ever seen. Great stuff

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-41473443

Coutinho makes it...just

http://team-picker.files.bbci.co.uk/liverpool-manutdxi-ceb8600afc7f7362caf3aaaaa3c02c35.jpg

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/41547303

that was meant to be

http://i66.tinypic.com/dxka5j.jpg

there's just no point in those things

unless you want to sink ilx football chat to the level of idk the fucking bbc livefeed

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carrick in the #10 role surely

just a bit of fun you irritant

Think I'd prob swap Blind in, he's been decent recently. Shame there's no place for Salah, he good.

Salah certainly has a case, but Martial has been absurdly effective on a goals/assists per minutes played this season

That's true.

What do you make of Blind? He's in/out of the squad a lot isn't he? How does Mou rate him?

I have a lot of time for Blind. But I don't think Mourinho does particularly

I've put Young in there because he's the only full-back we have who's a reliable crosser from open play. It's an indictment of both squads that the two best FBs are aging converted wingers tbh

Yeah that's def the case. The funny thing about Blind is that he never grew up playing one position. He's been used at so many places (last week at Holland he played DM iirc).

that one cross that blind put in for van persie v. spain! then he joined united and it's been 5 assists in 87 appearances

you accidentally put mane and coutinho in

De gea
Valence Jones bailly blid
Matic
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Lallana coutinho
Salah firmino mane

^^^a bit more like it I'd say

Team is based on this season

Firmino's been shite, Lallana non-existent

H/t for no Lukaku or something A+ challop

He wouldn't see which way it went in our attack

true, tho he might do even better if his own fans weren't racially abusing him

Says a lot that Phil Jones is still getting in this combined team and I can't really argue.

I could have basically picked any 4 man u defenders at random

Easy there moyesey

can't beat a London derby

lol

many a true word said in jest!

Mourinho with a revolutionary 7-2-1 formation

salah is so enjoyable to watch. years since liverpool had a player like him.

if I were choosing a combined XI based on this, there would not be 9 united players in it, just saying

Yeah he's great. He's got determination and the skill to match.

Wholly unimpressed with United so far. xp

yeah but this is a fine gameplan for them, liverpool not actually making many chance and the defence is always ready to hand a goal to the opposition.

plus a draw is a good result for man u.

Lukaku is a target man today. Him sending a cross in front of goal while he should be there heading it in.

Xp it is a fine gameplan, just really uninteresting to watch (says this ManU afficionado)

Liverpool will get frustrated at some stage then mourinho will hit klopp from behind with a steel chair, game over

preposterous save: check
awful miss to follow: check

Liverpool have obviously been the better side but de Gea wonder save aside they've mostly been reduced to pot shots

this Utd team tends to get better as the game goes on

That's true. Liverpool will get tired if they keep this up, and not seen any sign of improvement in their defense tbh, so shoddy.

united, one of the most expensively assembled teams of all time, the richest club in the world, are incredibly redolent of martin o'neill's ireland.

Their worst performance of the season tbf, some really sloppy play all over but especially darmian and young