Sunday, March 3, 2013

Manchester United 4-0 Norwich City

With quarter of an hour to go, most of us would have just have been happy with a second goal to kill the game off, so to walk away from the ground to sink a jar or two to celebrate a 4-0 victory was very nice indeed. Norwich didn't really deserve that scoreline, they had come to do a job and for the most part, had done it. But in getting everybody behind the ball they had hardly bothered De Gea's goal at all, so it's hard to feel too sorry for the visiting team.
The closest they came was in the second half, with what looked like a chance that couldn't be missed, only Russell did miss it, scooping it over the ball. It wouldn't have counted though as the referee had already blown for a push on Evra.
United had huffed and puffed for most of the first half, playing nice stuff in the build up, but not being able to find the finishing ball. Carrick was at the heart of everything that United did, Kagawa on the left was doing alright, but as he comes in a lot from the left, the only real width we had came from Valencia and sadly he is still not on top of his game. It didn't really help him having Smalling behind him though, the tall centre back can fill in at right back, but he's not the best going forward.
A goal didn't look like coming as half time approached, only for Van Persie to tap the ball into the path of Kagawa who made no mistake. That was obviously a bit of a kick in the balls for Norwich who would have felt like they had done a good job in restricting our chances.
The second half plodded on with United looking for that second, but not really looking like getting it, until Van Perise and Anderson went off and Welbeck and Cleverley came on. The injection of pace and energy did the trick and after the second goal went in after fine work from Rooney and Kagawa, United became rampant, looking like scoring from almost every attack. The hatrick goal was a fine team goal and Kagawa's finish was the icing on the cake. I still wouldn't start him myself on Tuesday, but a display like that wouldn't go amiss against Real Madrid. The fourth, a wonder strike from Rooney, where he basically just put his foot through the ball, just topped of the day. Three points and four more goals to the goal difference represented on excellent afternoon's work. Now to Tuesday for a game i can't wait for.

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