if someone with pace and skill gets at vidic, he struggles. this has always been the case. milan baros always used to run him ragged. don't forget vidic didn't play either leg of the semi-final last year.
every time torres has faced united previously he's gone against rio who's had him in his pocket. for the first time in ages he attacked vidic instead and exposed his hesitancy.
so I can see messi being played central to get at vidic. but he'll be well protected by anderson and carrick, so I don't know how much space there will be to expose him.
rio (best defender in the world) will have to have a great game.
it's a bit of a sweeping statement to say that anyone with pace and skill troubles vidic......we've played plenty of top teams in the last 3 or 4 years and done ok thanks,and the majority view seems to be that he's an integral part of the best defensive pair of centre backs in the world at the moment.
It's funny you should say that. Did you see your boys against Arsenal the other night? Ronaldo on the half way line and the other ten players behind the ball? You were trying to defend a one goal lead and got two lucky breaks. But still, considering you won 3-1 it proves that launching the ball forward does work.
does anybody else think that's how we played the other night??
How many goals have United scored this season as well? If lump the ball forward and feed off scraps it must mean all the goals we scored this season are just lucky bounces our way. I find that hard to believe.
i didn't say that...but if you want to admit it by implication/association then that's fine with me.
Vidic is fucking awful. Him being good in the air is a myth because if we were lumping the ball forward that day, how come the arguably "best centre half in the Premiership" not win anything in the air?
1.that statement really is ridiculous.
2.he had an off day.shit happens,i and he are both over it thanks.
I thought so. Zonal marking always comes under scrutiny when we concede from corners. Man marking should come under scrutiny too because of that dog of a player's shite movement can seem to get him goals. That's luck.
i didn't mention zonal marking,so bringing it up to try and slate vidic,again seems to me like you're protecting something
you KNOW is a weakness on the assumption that it'll be attacked as one.
Without Ronaldo, they would be the same as chelsea imo.
They played more or less the same as chelsea against arsenal (except for the first twenty minutes in the first leg, they had a superior drive forward) loads of players behind the ball and hoping that ronaldo does something cool with it.
if you say so,and that's obviously why most seasoned observers said it was a bit one sided....
i'd say that we're the best of both worlds,bit of chelsea,bit of barca.
we can outfootball or outbattle anyone,and are prepared to use all of our abilities to try and win.
and wouldn't it be remiss of us to ignore the fact that we
can stifle teams if we absolutely have to??
i don't like that,but unfortunately,hypocrisy isn't illegal.
