Vidic or Wes Brown?
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ever since the return of vidic, wes brown had to be on bench more often
give a choice, who would you choose to play on?
teaming up wes brown and vidic on central defence?
teaming up ferdinand and wes brown on central defence?
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wes brown to replace gary neville on the right-back, and ferdinand and vidic on central defence? -
i want neville, rio, vidic, evra and strickly no fletcher!
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Gary Neville, hard to say sometimes he's like dependable maybe cos he's experienced but most of the time he can go and die. Terrible passes. SLOW. Wes Brown is a hard tackler, this guy is good. Vidic seems soft with quite bad passing too. Ferdinand erratic but not bad a dribbler haha.. Heinze superb. Evra superb but sometimes too attacking minded.
Fletcher seems to be improving. Not exactly say that he is good but he improved from last time. He can hold the ball but passing sometimes horrendous. And he's work rate and tackling quite commendable from what I have seen so far. If he improve at this rate, give him a few more years, he can be potentially a quality player. Can't believe I'm saying this about Fletcher.
Ronaldo has improved his passing a bit. He was brilliant in Newcastle match. Rooney was disappointing. =( -
Vidic was on fire today.
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vidic is solid man. but i think the best central partnership will sitll be heinze and ferdinand, these 2 really complement each other well.
but heinze normally gets played at left back, where i feel he doesn't offer much in attack.. -
Red Devils crush sorry Magpies
By Alex Livie - Created on 01 Oct 06
Manchester United returned to the top of the Premiership table with an impressive destruction of Newcastle United at Old Trafford.
The Magpies showed little by way of attacking intent, but they did not possess the defensive quality to keep Sir Alex Ferguson's men at bay and a brace of goals from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer hardly did justice to the home side's superiority.
Only the woodwork, some good keeping and profligate finishing kept the scoreline respectable, but this should in no way detract from a performance which confirms United as genuine challengers to Chelsea.
Glenn Roeder's decision to leave Obafemi Martins on the bench gave an indication that The Magpies made the trip to Old Trafford in a mood to stifle and it was the home side who started much the brighter, with Gary Neville nearly embarrassing Steve Harper with a cross-shot and Wayne Rooney almost nipping in between Steven Taylor and the Newcastle keeper.
Harper has had a couple of shaky moments since replacing the injured Shay Given, but he proved his class 15 minutes in as he arched his back to tip over a powerful header from Nemanja Vidic who had beaten Craig Moore with ease at a corner.
Rooney has yet to hit form this term and he flattered to deceive on 20 minutes when striking a shot wide from 20 yards.
The England striker was involved in a quicksilver move which almost yielded the first goal. Solskjaer, Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo combined to play in Darren Fletcher on the edge of the box and his shot thudded against the post.
Newcastle's defensive approach had reduced Red Devils keeper Edwin van der Sar to the role of spectator for the opening 30 minutes and his first piece of action was a routine save from James Milner.
Harper, in contrast, was far more busy and he was relieved to collect a deflected free kick from Ronaldo on 37 minutes.
The keeper could do nothing to prevent Solskjaer from opening the scoring on 41 minutes as the Norwegian was on hand to tap home from six yards after a shot from Ronaldo had bounced off a post and into his path.
Solskjaer effectively put the game beyond Newcastle two minutes after the interval with one of the most fortunate strikes of his illustrious career.
An awful defensive header from Taylor fell at the feet of Vidic who shot towards goal but his effort spun off the heel of Solskjaer and into the net.
Newcastle looked like rabbits in headlights and Ronaldo should have added a third a minute later, but his drive from eight yards crashed against the crossbar.
The woodwork was proving a real thorn in the side of Ronaldo as it came to Newcastle's rescue once again after the Portuguese star had slid in a shot after mesmerising Stephen Carr inside the Newcastle box.
With Paul Scholes orchestrating play like an experienced general and Ronaldo's box of tricks tying Carr in knots, the only surprise was that The Red Devils failed to rack up a cricket score.
An arm from Taylor denied Fletcher a third and to rub salt into the wounds the incident was not picked up by Mike Dean, while van der Sar ensured he would keep a clean sheet when pulling in a drive from Peter Ramage.
Harper had made a number of fine saves during the 90 minutes and he was on hand to push away a powerful drive from Scholes with nine minutes remaining.
Solskjaer came within inches of registering a hat-trick, as his deflected shot drifted just wide of the far post with Harper well beaten, but it mattered little as Ferguson's charges fired out a title warning to Chelsea and co. -
in terms of technical ability, brown is better as he has pace. Vidic is quite suspect. However, he seems to cope well with the lone striker that clubs are now playing against MUFC, 4-5-1.
as for heinze, I hope his injury is light considering he walked off himself.
Evra is attack mind but he need to, cause that will draw defenders away from Ronaldo, and then he will have space, else he is always looking at two bodies in front of him.
Yes Fletcher is improving. His workrate and positioning is gearing up. And given that he is also in his early twenties, I believe if he keeps playing like this, he will do better.
In the newcastle game, the commentators said two points that were quite accurate.
1) Rooney is trying too hard. He lost the confidence and thus, he will snapped at everything.
2) the way Rooney is going, perhaps he may want to take a rest for more games are not doing him any good. -
i will take wes brown la....
he is from the youth product....
he also physically stronger....
can take on strong forward like harewood and drogba...
while vidic is faster
so fast opponent will be his field....
while neville is no doubt the best in defence....
come on...
who whipped in more crosses than neville...
somomore he is the 2nd right winger...
gave man u more options in attack...
unlike carlos and cicinho...
he does not attack all the time.. -
you must be kidding me, vidic is faster??
have you watched vidic first game? he was grapping onto faster players going by him. -
vidic quite strong?
maybe when neville retire, brown will replace him.. and vidic will continue to play.. -
Freak Neville la.Originally posted by uncle_abc:i will take wes brown la....
he is from the youth product....
he also physically stronger....
can take on strong forward like harewood and drogba...
while vidic is faster
so fast opponent will be his field....
while neville is no doubt the best in defence....
come on...
who whipped in more crosses than neville...
somomore he is the 2nd right winger...
gave man u more options in attack...
unlike carlos and cicinho...
he does not attack all the time..
Who cares about crosses when a defender's job is to DEFEND?
And i believe that he attacks ALL THE TIME, leaving his post exposed.
He's too slow and weak at defending.
I think he could have easily collected a yellow card per game for his dirty defending, holding opponents back and making late tackles, but because he's the skipper, referee tend to "give more chances".
I seriously think that he should call it a day and retire.
My preferred back 4:
RB Wes Brown
CD Rio Ferdinand
CD Nemanja VIdic
LB Gabriel Heinze/Patrice Evra
I believe that Evra has improved tremendously since joining United. He defends relatively well and likes to attack. Reminds me of a certain Cashley Cole.
Cheers.
C.K -
you must be joking.
I believe StevieG is getting away with much worse tackles.
he needs to go up and attack cause it puts pressure on the other side. -
Ckeer, why u hate neville so much?
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Originally posted by Dead_Man_Inc:Ckeer, why u hate neville so much?
3 words to describe him: Slow, Weak and Short.
What do you think?
Physical players like Kevin Davies and Didier Drogba can get past him anytime. Even if they're 50 years old!
Cheers.
C.K -
Erm, In my opinion, Neville's plays are more dirty.Originally posted by iceFatboy:you must be joking.
I believe StevieG is getting away with much worse tackles.
he needs to go up and attack cause it puts pressure on the other side.
I believe that United are the more pressurised side when United attack cos Neville is ALWAYS out of position.
Cheers.
C.K