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Originally Posted by RS8MB0R8
As for the whole Neuer bromance you've got going on there, I can't agree. United were looking at him after he put in that unbeatable shift against us when we played Schalke (I think) in the CL a few years back and then he followed that up with a string of bizarrely poor performances which put United right off him.
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Yes - it was against Schalke in 2011, not 2009. And the reason ManU was 'put off' was because he had already signed for Bayern. String of bizarrely poor performances?
Hilarious. Right after that game, he basically announced he is moving to Munich. That was the semi-final of the Champions League when ManU went on to lose against Barcelona. Next season he was in Bayern's goal, losing the final to Chelsea.
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He's not the best keeper in my eyes and in any case, even if he was, you still always fancy the forward to score in one-on-ones. The Welbeck chance has so much emphasis placed on it because it was the clearest opportunity either team had to score all night (including the goals that were scored which were arguably harder efforts to convert). He has so much pace, all he had to do was feint to shoot and knock it past him and he'd have had an open goal to tap into. He allowed himself to be closed down too quickly and should have either taken the shot on sooner or gone past him. His disallowed goal was slightly dubious as well and I've seen those sorts of incidents go unpunished by the ref many times.
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Again - have you seen Manuel Neuer in real life? What you are saying is factually right but 1 on 1 against Neuer is a horror scenario for any striker and in most cases the striker does actually NOT score. I can't back it up right now :P but will do (once I remember what the damn statistics site is that shows those figures....)
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Personally, I'd never give Fellaini another chance to prove how utterly useless he is. 6ft 4in ad he only won 14% of his aerial challenges. Most of those headers won went to opposition players as well I think. He's pish!
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He did look very insecure in defensive midfield. Very interesting knowing how strong he was at Everton...but there you go.
Anyhow - gutted I am not seeing the second leg. Will be a great game....