What a weird game, we got the three points which was vital, but jesus we were stomach churningly bad for the first half an hour. How Arsenal didn't score during that period of domination, god only knows. The Wilshere miss was a real howler, all he had to do was pass it into the corner of the net, instead he hit it straight at De Gea. The big Spaniard had another fine game, but there were times when he shouldn't have been given the chance to shine.
I can't say I was thrilled when the rumours of a three man defence first started to surface. We haven't got the players to make it work and the players never look comfortable in that formation. That first half an hour was just plain embarrassing, nobody played well and nobody looked as if they had a clue about what they were meant to be doing. Let's be honest, at least the debacles at home to Liverpool and City last season were against decent teams at the top of their game, you couldn't say that about Arsenal yesterday, Moyes would have been murdered for a performance like that yesterday. What got me about the reversion to a back three, was that it completely handed them the intiative, that they failed to take advantage was just pure luck for our part, ineptitude from their's. Maybe Van Gaal is a lucky general, because you just know that last season we would have lost that game yesterday. I have to be honest though, I'm starting to think that I'm never really going to warm to his methods.
At least when we managed to emerge from that nightmarish opening the game became a more even affair, as United actually enjoyed some decent possession for the first time in the game. Even so I couldn't really see a goal in us, and it was no surprise that when it came, it came with a huge slice of luck. Di Maria whilst being nowhere near as impressive as he was in those first few games in the middle, was at least far more involved in his more central position. He really should have scored when clean through, thankfully Rooney spared his blushes when the Argentine put him clean through near the end to hit that all important second goal. Important, because Giroud's blast in the dying minutes made it a bit more arse twitching than it had looked like being when Rooney had made it 2-0.
So we're back in the top four, and we have our first away win of the season, things are looking up, or is it just such a poor league this season?
I can't say I was thrilled when the rumours of a three man defence first started to surface. We haven't got the players to make it work and the players never look comfortable in that formation. That first half an hour was just plain embarrassing, nobody played well and nobody looked as if they had a clue about what they were meant to be doing. Let's be honest, at least the debacles at home to Liverpool and City last season were against decent teams at the top of their game, you couldn't say that about Arsenal yesterday, Moyes would have been murdered for a performance like that yesterday. What got me about the reversion to a back three, was that it completely handed them the intiative, that they failed to take advantage was just pure luck for our part, ineptitude from their's. Maybe Van Gaal is a lucky general, because you just know that last season we would have lost that game yesterday. I have to be honest though, I'm starting to think that I'm never really going to warm to his methods.
At least when we managed to emerge from that nightmarish opening the game became a more even affair, as United actually enjoyed some decent possession for the first time in the game. Even so I couldn't really see a goal in us, and it was no surprise that when it came, it came with a huge slice of luck. Di Maria whilst being nowhere near as impressive as he was in those first few games in the middle, was at least far more involved in his more central position. He really should have scored when clean through, thankfully Rooney spared his blushes when the Argentine put him clean through near the end to hit that all important second goal. Important, because Giroud's blast in the dying minutes made it a bit more arse twitching than it had looked like being when Rooney had made it 2-0.
So we're back in the top four, and we have our first away win of the season, things are looking up, or is it just such a poor league this season?
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