I don't look forward to any games at the moment, but I really wasn't looking forward to Saturday's trip to Selhurst Park, I mean how can any sane red look forward, when you know exactly what you're going to get. Even when we win it's painful to watch, Everton must really wonder where the fuck they were after that defeat to us a few weeks back. That result looks more and more what I suspected it was at the time, a freak result where the home side simply failed to turn up.
Apparently we were absolutely abysmal for the first 20 minutes, I didn't see much of that down to Halloween being apparently a bigger pull in the Eccles locality on a Saturday afternoon. And if the rest of the game that I did see, when we were apparently "not as bad" is anything to go by, I'm with the trick or treaters.
I think most reds big question ahead of the game was, would this be the day, the day in question being the dropping of Rooney. We live in hope and not much conviction that Van Gaal will do the right thing. He didn't and got exactly what he deserved, yet another performance from Rooney, where it felt as though United were playing with ten and a half men. His current game was summed up when put through by a perfectly weighted pass from Martial, he was so slow he couldn't even get a shot away before the goalie beat him to it. Oh that it would have been the other way around, except then of course the weight on the pass would have been almost certainly awry.
United did at least get a grip on the rest of the first half, without ever looking as if we were going to score, I mean if you aren't going to take risks, you aren't going to create chances. Saturday was never going to be a pushover, Palace away, is a tough place to go away nowadays. But the way United play under Van Gaal every game is a potential banana skin.
The second half saw us ride our luck a little I suppose, but a point was probably deserved, or was it, you lose the will to live watching United at the moment. Personal opinion is that this is as bad as under Moyes, yes we're harder to beat than under the hapless Scot, but to what end if you dread almost every game coming up.
Some reds think the addition of a couple players and a release of the shackles and United are not that far away. We have certainly got the players to see far more entertaining fare than we are at the moment, but I still don't see enough pace and flair in any potential line up you care to mention to see us really fly!
How big a game is tomorrow night now, I dread to think if the crowd reaction if we don't win tomorrow. I'd like to think that even if we won, but played the slow tedious crap common place under Van Gaal, that Old trafford would somehow register it's displeasure at the current state of things, but that's probably too much to hope.
Apparently we were absolutely abysmal for the first 20 minutes, I didn't see much of that down to Halloween being apparently a bigger pull in the Eccles locality on a Saturday afternoon. And if the rest of the game that I did see, when we were apparently "not as bad" is anything to go by, I'm with the trick or treaters.
I think most reds big question ahead of the game was, would this be the day, the day in question being the dropping of Rooney. We live in hope and not much conviction that Van Gaal will do the right thing. He didn't and got exactly what he deserved, yet another performance from Rooney, where it felt as though United were playing with ten and a half men. His current game was summed up when put through by a perfectly weighted pass from Martial, he was so slow he couldn't even get a shot away before the goalie beat him to it. Oh that it would have been the other way around, except then of course the weight on the pass would have been almost certainly awry.
United did at least get a grip on the rest of the first half, without ever looking as if we were going to score, I mean if you aren't going to take risks, you aren't going to create chances. Saturday was never going to be a pushover, Palace away, is a tough place to go away nowadays. But the way United play under Van Gaal every game is a potential banana skin.
The second half saw us ride our luck a little I suppose, but a point was probably deserved, or was it, you lose the will to live watching United at the moment. Personal opinion is that this is as bad as under Moyes, yes we're harder to beat than under the hapless Scot, but to what end if you dread almost every game coming up.
Some reds think the addition of a couple players and a release of the shackles and United are not that far away. We have certainly got the players to see far more entertaining fare than we are at the moment, but I still don't see enough pace and flair in any potential line up you care to mention to see us really fly!
How big a game is tomorrow night now, I dread to think if the crowd reaction if we don't win tomorrow. I'd like to think that even if we won, but played the slow tedious crap common place under Van Gaal, that Old trafford would somehow register it's displeasure at the current state of things, but that's probably too much to hope.
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