In the scheme of things, last night was probably a decent point, but football wise, it was more of the same. Anybody who thought we might have turned a corner with the display at Goodison were brought back down to Earth.
He made two changes from Saturday, deciding to start Lingard instead of Mata on the right hand side and more surprisingly starting Valencia at right back. I suppose you could say that both changes worked, individually at least. Lingard was one of the more impressive performers, and importantly did the ugly stuff as well as some good forward work. Valencia rolled the clock back to overlap and cross for Martial's equaliser, otherwise he was decent.
United started the game slowly, the home team were quite happy to let us have the ball, but unlike Everton on Saturday they could and did cause us problems on the counter. The penalty was a bit of clusterfuck all round, though blaming Jones for not being alert enough after the save is very harsh for me. De Gea save rebounded two different ways, it's very hard to anticipate that.
The second half saw United pass them to death, pretty it wasn't. In fact, the goal itself never really looked like coming. It took a fabulous header from Martial to earn us the point. I know I'm not the only one to think he is wasted on the left, especially when he is there to accomadate the sluggish Rooney in the middle. Now Lingard seems to have come into the equation are we going to see Wilson also given his head or is Rooney literally undroppable.
Anyway onto Sunday and the derby, we just cannot play at the same pace as we have played most games so far this season. Even without Silva and Aguerro, we will struggle to beat them if we just pass and move as slowly as we have been doing recently.
He made two changes from Saturday, deciding to start Lingard instead of Mata on the right hand side and more surprisingly starting Valencia at right back. I suppose you could say that both changes worked, individually at least. Lingard was one of the more impressive performers, and importantly did the ugly stuff as well as some good forward work. Valencia rolled the clock back to overlap and cross for Martial's equaliser, otherwise he was decent.
United started the game slowly, the home team were quite happy to let us have the ball, but unlike Everton on Saturday they could and did cause us problems on the counter. The penalty was a bit of clusterfuck all round, though blaming Jones for not being alert enough after the save is very harsh for me. De Gea save rebounded two different ways, it's very hard to anticipate that.
The second half saw United pass them to death, pretty it wasn't. In fact, the goal itself never really looked like coming. It took a fabulous header from Martial to earn us the point. I know I'm not the only one to think he is wasted on the left, especially when he is there to accomadate the sluggish Rooney in the middle. Now Lingard seems to have come into the equation are we going to see Wilson also given his head or is Rooney literally undroppable.
Anyway onto Sunday and the derby, we just cannot play at the same pace as we have played most games so far this season. Even without Silva and Aguerro, we will struggle to beat them if we just pass and move as slowly as we have been doing recently.
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