What a day that was, we win, coming from behind to victory in the last minute, City unexpectedly lose and Liverpool top off the day with a defeat, virtually a perfect Manchester United day. I suppose the big upside to the dodgy nature of our defending this season is it means we end up getting second halves like yesterday. Mind you when we started to miss chances for fun in that last ten minutes i had my doubts that winner was going to come.
I suppose you have to give the barcodes some credit, they made it hard for us, and when they had a chance they threw men forward. Of course we gifted them the first and didn't cover ourselves in glory for their second either. I'll forgive Carrick his mistake for the opening goal because after that he was superb, and anyway De Gea should have done better with the save. I'm a fan of our Spanish number one, but he had one yesterday and i wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't start on Saturday. As for the second goal, once the referee went to the linesman, you just knew he was going to give the goal. There were the usual moans about Scholes and Giggs starting, but they both did alright for me. Giggs didn't have the best first half, but the longer the game went on the better he got on, how many chances did he create late on. Which was useful as Valencia had another of his so so games.
It always amazes me that teams who trouble us, especially at Old Trafford, do so by pressing with speed and strength and yet usually United always up the stronger team by the game's conclusion. There were a few iffy performances yesterday, but Carrick, Evans and Van Persie were all immense. Evra as ever was worrying in defence, but yesterday, more than ever, he made up for it going forward, a goal and some great forward runs.
I don't know what was wrong with Rooney, but it didn't help our cause to not even have him on the bench, and no Welbeck either. There was only really Cleverley on the bench who you'd have thought could change the game. Thankfully he did just that, when he got the chance as he helped United to take control of the game. That last ten minutes was starting to remind me of last years fixture when we absolutely battered them, creating chance after chance, but couldn't get that vital winning goal. Hernandez looked to be having one of those games, missing a hat full of chances, thank fuck the radar came right to tuck the winner away after another great through ball from Carrick. The news that City had got beat was just the icing on the cake.
I suppose you have to give the barcodes some credit, they made it hard for us, and when they had a chance they threw men forward. Of course we gifted them the first and didn't cover ourselves in glory for their second either. I'll forgive Carrick his mistake for the opening goal because after that he was superb, and anyway De Gea should have done better with the save. I'm a fan of our Spanish number one, but he had one yesterday and i wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't start on Saturday. As for the second goal, once the referee went to the linesman, you just knew he was going to give the goal. There were the usual moans about Scholes and Giggs starting, but they both did alright for me. Giggs didn't have the best first half, but the longer the game went on the better he got on, how many chances did he create late on. Which was useful as Valencia had another of his so so games.
It always amazes me that teams who trouble us, especially at Old Trafford, do so by pressing with speed and strength and yet usually United always up the stronger team by the game's conclusion. There were a few iffy performances yesterday, but Carrick, Evans and Van Persie were all immense. Evra as ever was worrying in defence, but yesterday, more than ever, he made up for it going forward, a goal and some great forward runs.
I don't know what was wrong with Rooney, but it didn't help our cause to not even have him on the bench, and no Welbeck either. There was only really Cleverley on the bench who you'd have thought could change the game. Thankfully he did just that, when he got the chance as he helped United to take control of the game. That last ten minutes was starting to remind me of last years fixture when we absolutely battered them, creating chance after chance, but couldn't get that vital winning goal. Hernandez looked to be having one of those games, missing a hat full of chances, thank fuck the radar came right to tuck the winner away after another great through ball from Carrick. The news that City had got beat was just the icing on the cake.
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