Three points, but one to forget, would be my usual reaction to a game like that especially at this stage of the season. But is was such a lacklustre performance, again. It really is a good job that our run in is as easy as it is, bar the derby of course, because the way we are playing we at the moment, anything harder and we'd be struggling.
The first half was completely forgetable, the only moment of note the goal, that really came out of nowhere. From Fulham's point of view they must been really disappointed to have lost the game to such a soft goal after coming to get everybody behind the ball and make themselves hard to break down. They succeeded for 42 minutes and then made a right mess of defending Ashley Young's innocuos cross. Jonny Evans did well to put the ball into the path of Rooney who kept his goalscoring run going and the Ulsterman was probably our best player though there wasn't much competition for thatparticular prize last night.
United did up there game to an extent in the second half but couldn't get the elusive second goal that would have put the game to bed.
Even Valencia was quiet last night but he nearly gave us the cushion we craved with a good chance at the beginning of the second half but Schwarzer was equal to the challenge. United had other chances in the second half but never really threatened to pepper the visitors goalmouth. Which then led to an anxious last ten minutes or so. I'm not sure why Fergie took Rooney and Welbeck off, i haven't read anything about injuries. It left us with no one up front to keep hold of the ball which meant the ball kept coming back at us, i would have brought Berbatov on.
I have to admit live at the game last night i didn't think the Carrick challenge on Murphy was a penalty, TV pictures after showed that it probably was. We got out of jail with that one. Blackburn may be near the bottom of the table, but if we give a performance like that Ewood at next Moday it will make for very uncomfortable viewing.
The first half was completely forgetable, the only moment of note the goal, that really came out of nowhere. From Fulham's point of view they must been really disappointed to have lost the game to such a soft goal after coming to get everybody behind the ball and make themselves hard to break down. They succeeded for 42 minutes and then made a right mess of defending Ashley Young's innocuos cross. Jonny Evans did well to put the ball into the path of Rooney who kept his goalscoring run going and the Ulsterman was probably our best player though there wasn't much competition for thatparticular prize last night.
United did up there game to an extent in the second half but couldn't get the elusive second goal that would have put the game to bed.
Even Valencia was quiet last night but he nearly gave us the cushion we craved with a good chance at the beginning of the second half but Schwarzer was equal to the challenge. United had other chances in the second half but never really threatened to pepper the visitors goalmouth. Which then led to an anxious last ten minutes or so. I'm not sure why Fergie took Rooney and Welbeck off, i haven't read anything about injuries. It left us with no one up front to keep hold of the ball which meant the ball kept coming back at us, i would have brought Berbatov on.
I have to admit live at the game last night i didn't think the Carrick challenge on Murphy was a penalty, TV pictures after showed that it probably was. We got out of jail with that one. Blackburn may be near the bottom of the table, but if we give a performance like that Ewood at next Moday it will make for very uncomfortable viewing.
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