Fuck me, it's a barrel of laughs watching United at the moment, there literally isn't an easy game for us it would seem. I wasn't confident ahead of the match, and the way the game went, that lack of confidence wasn't misplaced. The most damning indictment of last night's performance wasn't the fact that we got knocked out, but that it was even a contest at all, against a team at the foot of the table, and at Old trafford at that.
For long spells it was Sunderland bossing the game, seeming to spend more time in our half than we did in theirs. I'm not going to knock Fletcher, he tried hard, and didn't have a particularly bad game, but if we are to get back to where we want to be, he doesn't really look like the answer, does he. Carrick was still getting back to fitness, before that injury, and christ, was that the last thing we really needed right now. Some seem to think that we sat back, trying to catch them on the break, but that's not really how i saw it. I just thought our confidence is so shot, we couldn't get our game going at all, especially in the second half.
I went to the bog at the end of the 90 minutes, only to hear some loudmouth giving Moyes stick for taking our best player off, Kagawa? Fuck me, there are some clowns watching United nowadays, I've been a defender of the ex Dortmund man, but you can't defend performances like that, he was completely anonymous, again. I told the guy he must have been watching another game, to the one I'd been watching.
Yet again the boo boys were after Welbeck's blood, despite the fact that Hernandez couldn't have trapped a bag of cement all night, that seemed to completely pass them by. The goal at the end hid what had been another completely inept performance by the Mexican internatonal. Sure it wasn't Danny's best night, but even when he's not at his best, he keeps the ball. And once again he was sacrificed, sent over to the left, in a bid to try and get the best out of Kagawa, I really didn't get that. Sadly even Januzaj sank to the level of those around him, but we can't keep on expecting him to pull his seniors out of the shit, not every week anyway.
It said everything about where we are at, at the moment, that we were a couple of minutes from going through, after such an inept performance, when the one player who has been Mr reliable this season, De Gea, chose the moment to drop his first clanger of the season. I'm not going to get on his back for it, all keepers make mistakes, and he showed that it hadn't got to him making a couple of great saves in the disastrous penalty shoot out that cost us that trip to Wembley.
There were two trains of thought about facing City at Wembley ahead of and indeed after the game. Fist if we did get knocked out, at least it would stop us facing the ignominy of getting embarrassed by City for all the world to see. The second was that if we did get through, a Wembley final was a one off game, and anything can happen, in a one off game, Wigan in last year's FA cup final say. I veered to the latter ahead of the game, but after watching that, ahave to admit changing my mind. I can't say I'm as gutted as i would normally be, because they would have fucking annihalted us at Wembley, whether Rooney and Van Persie were both back or not. If we can't control midfield, and we'd have no chance, then that back four would be a disaster waiting to happen at Wembley.
Confidence has completely gone again, we are back to where we were after the Swansea FA cup defeat, only a win, scoring a few goals, and who knows, maybe keep a clean sheet or two is going to turn this around.
As for the signature of Mata, as i said yesterday, he isn't going to turn things around on his own, it's defensively, as a unit, as well as a back four where we don't cut the mustard. If he is the first of a fair few in and of a lot more out, then fair enough, he's a good start. At least we all know he's a quality player, and fuck knows, we haven't got enough of them. If we can get a couple of wins under our belt, then this is definitely the time to start blooding the likes of Lingard, I mean if not now, then when.
For long spells it was Sunderland bossing the game, seeming to spend more time in our half than we did in theirs. I'm not going to knock Fletcher, he tried hard, and didn't have a particularly bad game, but if we are to get back to where we want to be, he doesn't really look like the answer, does he. Carrick was still getting back to fitness, before that injury, and christ, was that the last thing we really needed right now. Some seem to think that we sat back, trying to catch them on the break, but that's not really how i saw it. I just thought our confidence is so shot, we couldn't get our game going at all, especially in the second half.
I went to the bog at the end of the 90 minutes, only to hear some loudmouth giving Moyes stick for taking our best player off, Kagawa? Fuck me, there are some clowns watching United nowadays, I've been a defender of the ex Dortmund man, but you can't defend performances like that, he was completely anonymous, again. I told the guy he must have been watching another game, to the one I'd been watching.
Yet again the boo boys were after Welbeck's blood, despite the fact that Hernandez couldn't have trapped a bag of cement all night, that seemed to completely pass them by. The goal at the end hid what had been another completely inept performance by the Mexican internatonal. Sure it wasn't Danny's best night, but even when he's not at his best, he keeps the ball. And once again he was sacrificed, sent over to the left, in a bid to try and get the best out of Kagawa, I really didn't get that. Sadly even Januzaj sank to the level of those around him, but we can't keep on expecting him to pull his seniors out of the shit, not every week anyway.
It said everything about where we are at, at the moment, that we were a couple of minutes from going through, after such an inept performance, when the one player who has been Mr reliable this season, De Gea, chose the moment to drop his first clanger of the season. I'm not going to get on his back for it, all keepers make mistakes, and he showed that it hadn't got to him making a couple of great saves in the disastrous penalty shoot out that cost us that trip to Wembley.
There were two trains of thought about facing City at Wembley ahead of and indeed after the game. Fist if we did get knocked out, at least it would stop us facing the ignominy of getting embarrassed by City for all the world to see. The second was that if we did get through, a Wembley final was a one off game, and anything can happen, in a one off game, Wigan in last year's FA cup final say. I veered to the latter ahead of the game, but after watching that, ahave to admit changing my mind. I can't say I'm as gutted as i would normally be, because they would have fucking annihalted us at Wembley, whether Rooney and Van Persie were both back or not. If we can't control midfield, and we'd have no chance, then that back four would be a disaster waiting to happen at Wembley.
Confidence has completely gone again, we are back to where we were after the Swansea FA cup defeat, only a win, scoring a few goals, and who knows, maybe keep a clean sheet or two is going to turn this around.
As for the signature of Mata, as i said yesterday, he isn't going to turn things around on his own, it's defensively, as a unit, as well as a back four where we don't cut the mustard. If he is the first of a fair few in and of a lot more out, then fair enough, he's a good start. At least we all know he's a quality player, and fuck knows, we haven't got enough of them. If we can get a couple of wins under our belt, then this is definitely the time to start blooding the likes of Lingard, I mean if not now, then when.
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