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***Official Soccer Discussion Thread*** (5 Viewers)

44 min: The camera cuts to Louis van Gaal and Ryan Giggs on the Manchester United bench. They have about them the air of men who are in charge of a Premier League side that’s being beaten by third tier opposition in the second round of the Capital One Cup.

lol

 
Eephus said:
Steve Tasker said:
guru_007 said:
shader said:
Capital one cup today. Can Man U finally get a win?
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doubt it

saw that Dons expecting a record crowd tonight, 29000+

United probably going to throw a #### lineup out there (what else could they) and lose 2-1
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I know one person who'll be pulling for United today: Germany Jones.
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I'm rooting for lightning strikes and sinkholes
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Update The List, Tasker

 
So on an epic scale of being a really ####ty team, on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the worst loss imaginable, where would today's potential loss rank for ManU?

 
gianmarco said:
So on an epic scale of being a really ####ty team, on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the worst loss imaginable, where would today's potential loss rank for ManU?
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Earlier in this thread I was told that the early stages of the cups aren't important, and that looks obvious by the lineup ManU put out there.

It's hard for me to understand the thought behind these cup games for managers. There is no precedent in American sports that I can think of. I mean, you want to win, but you also don't want to tire players for the main games. But if I were ManU, I'd be trying to win everything I could, especially with no UEFA this year.

 
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gianmarco said:
So on an epic scale of being a really ####ty team, on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the worst loss imaginable, where would today's potential loss rank for ManU?
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Normally, it wouldn't be THAT bad. Add in the start to their season, and the fact that LVG doesn't a win that counts yet, and this result can potentially be huge. The fans are going to start vocalizing discontent starting today, despite Di Maria coming in.

 
shader said:
gianmarco said:
So on an epic scale of being a really ####ty team, on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the worst loss imaginable, where would today's potential loss rank for ManU?
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Earlier in this thread I was told that the early stages of the cups aren't important, and that looks obvious by the lineup ManU put out there.

It's hard for me to understand the thought behind these cup games for managers. There is no precedent in American sports that I can think of. I mean, you want to win, but you also don't want to tire players for the main games. But if I were ManU, I'd be trying to win everything I could, especially with no UEFA this year.
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It's the League Cup in particular that gets glossed-over. If it was an early-round FA Cup game, they'd field a first-choice team. People care about the EPL and the FA Cup, and the League Cup is a distant third. Arsenal often fields a team of a bunch of 18 year olds who I've barely heard of for League Cup games, even as it gets on towards the later rounds.

 
SmoovySmoov said:
gianmarco said:
So on an epic scale of being a really ####ty team, on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the worst loss imaginable, where would today's potential loss rank for ManU?
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Normally, it wouldn't be THAT bad. Add in the start to their season, and the fact that LVG doesn't a win that counts yet, and this result can potentially be huge. The fans are going to start vocalizing discontent starting today, despite Di Maria coming in.
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It just hit me...I bet that when Van Gal said "We need to get A DM" Woodward thought he meant Angel Di Maria

 
shader said:
gianmarco said:
So on an epic scale of being a really ####ty team, on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the worst loss imaginable, where would today's potential loss rank for ManU?
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Earlier in this thread I was told that the early stages of the cups aren't important, and that looks obvious by the lineup ManU put out there.

It's hard for me to understand the thought behind these cup games for managers. There is no precedent in American sports that I can think of. I mean, you want to win, but you also don't want to tire players for the main games. But if I were ManU, I'd be trying to win everything I could, especially with no UEFA this year.
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These are games for youth/back-ups. The problem for United is they should still be man-handling these teams.

They have a real disaster on their hands if this is any indication of the upcoming quality. They have an inmense amount of rebuilding to do.

I think a lot of this falls on Ferguson though.

 
And it's also important to remember that even if United aren't playing with their A-team, their backups should still be able to take care of business against a team like Milton Keynes. There are some no-names in the squad, but there's also De Gea, Evans, Kagawa (before injury), Januzaj, Anderson, Chicharito, and Welbeck. We do bash some of these players plenty in this very thread, but that's still a strong pedigreed lineup....a lineup that should in theory be able to get past Milton Keynes, even though it features mostly backups.

It's not that the early rounds of the cup aren't important, it's that the manager has a balancing act...do I want to play Rooney and RvP on short rest after the weekend's games, potentially jeopardizing them for this upcoming weekend? Or do I want to give Chicharito some playing time and hope that he can get us past a third-tier team, and save Rooney and RvP for the more important league game this weekend?

 
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