As Churchill might have said, I think that was the beginning of the end, Davey boy. If there were any doubts about Moyes unsuitability for the top job in British football, there surely can't be any now. It's not even as if it was that unexpected, I have been dreading this run of games for weeks now, and that dread was not misplaced, was it. We've had mares against Liverpool before, and at Old trafford too, but to be so totally outclassed from virtually the first minute, to look utterly clueless, to be second to almost everything, that was definitely a first.
A lot of reds were reasonably happy with the eleven that Moyes selected, i remain mystified as to why. Mata wasted out on the left, Rooney and Van Persie selected together again, Fellaini in the middle of the park, Vidic selected at centre half alongside Evra at left back, giving Liverpool a a slow ageing right hand side to attack us down, which they did. The team just cried out, slow, and from minute one, it was.
As per, United adopted a rigid 4-4-2, where, once more, Rooney seemed to be playing alongside Van Persie too much of the time.The amount of times United players found themselves isolated with no real out ball, was off the Richter scale. When you watch all the best teams in Europe, their players always have options, in the rigid Moyes 4-4-2, our players just get ganged up on, all the time. They are a good side, I don't like saying it, but there you are, but they are not better to us, to the extent that yesterday would have you believe. Our players must feel as if they are going out with one hand tied behind their backs at the moment. The rumours that Moyes has lost the players are all very believable, and whilst, I'm not generally in favour of players turning against the manager, it's hard not to sympathise with them, at this moment in time.
I've thought Moyes was pretty weak, almost from the moment the season started, but yesterday he surpassed himself. We saw the change to the team, that removing Van Persie during the second half instilled into us last week at West Brom. And yet after the world and his dog also seeing that last week, when Moyes was given the chance to show who was the boss, he goes back with the misfiring option of Rooney and Van Persie. Predictably it didn't work, but then, when both were having shockers, for differing reasons, Van Persie never in it, Rooney's lack of mobility being continually shown up, he chickens out, leaving both on the pitch whilst removing almost anybody else, but said two. I've said enough times this season that I think Rooney is a shadow of the player he was, and that the contract given him was a terrible blunder, but if Moyes is going to risk his career at United by backing him through tick and thin, then he is going to have to upset Van Persie, because they just are not working together.
I've read journalists describe Rooney as one of the more popular players of the squad, he may well be, I have no idea, I did notice his attempt to gee up the rest of the players after the second goal though, it was met by his colleagues, shrugging and looking anywhere else, but at him, captain material?
It's pointless to go on about the contentious refereeing decisions, we were second best from start to finish and the best team won. I'm not sure it's really fair to pick on the players, but I can't let yesterday go without mentioning Fellaini. A Manchester United player, I think not
A lot of reds were reasonably happy with the eleven that Moyes selected, i remain mystified as to why. Mata wasted out on the left, Rooney and Van Persie selected together again, Fellaini in the middle of the park, Vidic selected at centre half alongside Evra at left back, giving Liverpool a a slow ageing right hand side to attack us down, which they did. The team just cried out, slow, and from minute one, it was.
As per, United adopted a rigid 4-4-2, where, once more, Rooney seemed to be playing alongside Van Persie too much of the time.The amount of times United players found themselves isolated with no real out ball, was off the Richter scale. When you watch all the best teams in Europe, their players always have options, in the rigid Moyes 4-4-2, our players just get ganged up on, all the time. They are a good side, I don't like saying it, but there you are, but they are not better to us, to the extent that yesterday would have you believe. Our players must feel as if they are going out with one hand tied behind their backs at the moment. The rumours that Moyes has lost the players are all very believable, and whilst, I'm not generally in favour of players turning against the manager, it's hard not to sympathise with them, at this moment in time.
I've thought Moyes was pretty weak, almost from the moment the season started, but yesterday he surpassed himself. We saw the change to the team, that removing Van Persie during the second half instilled into us last week at West Brom. And yet after the world and his dog also seeing that last week, when Moyes was given the chance to show who was the boss, he goes back with the misfiring option of Rooney and Van Persie. Predictably it didn't work, but then, when both were having shockers, for differing reasons, Van Persie never in it, Rooney's lack of mobility being continually shown up, he chickens out, leaving both on the pitch whilst removing almost anybody else, but said two. I've said enough times this season that I think Rooney is a shadow of the player he was, and that the contract given him was a terrible blunder, but if Moyes is going to risk his career at United by backing him through tick and thin, then he is going to have to upset Van Persie, because they just are not working together.
I've read journalists describe Rooney as one of the more popular players of the squad, he may well be, I have no idea, I did notice his attempt to gee up the rest of the players after the second goal though, it was met by his colleagues, shrugging and looking anywhere else, but at him, captain material?
It's pointless to go on about the contentious refereeing decisions, we were second best from start to finish and the best team won. I'm not sure it's really fair to pick on the players, but I can't let yesterday go without mentioning Fellaini. A Manchester United player, I think not
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