Best Bits
Wayne Rooney – He was just smashing today. Two great finishes (although one was discredited) and an inspiring performance from start to finish. He also had the assists for Cristiano Ronaldo and Nani’s goals.
Four different scorers – After struggling to find the back of the net at times this season, it was great to see four players get their names on the scoresheet today.
Four midfielders missing – Despite being without our four first choice central midfielders (Paul Scholes, Michael Carrick, Owen Hargreaves and Anderson) we beat a Premiership side 4-0. That’s not bad going.
Worst Bits
Ryan Giggs – Wow, he was poor today. I don’t like to get on the players’ backs, but there is no excuse for a lot of his mistakes today. His passing let him down massively. If he wants to cut it in this ‘new role‘ then he has to be able to pass the ball. With fifteen minutes or more played, I don’t think Giggs had managed to find a single United player with any of his passes. Dreadful.
The ref – With officials apparently in our back pocket, a referee wouldn’t dare disallow a goal at Old Trafford would they? Particularly a perfectly legitimate goal? Well, we saw it today. Thankfully, Rooney scored another goal anyway, but the referee made a needless wrong decision. Then, every time a freekick was awarded against West Brom, their players threw a tantrum. Sorry, is the ‘Respect the Ref’ campaign over already? On just one occasion were they booked for dissent. To think that Ronaldo got a yellow card for wagging his finger at Riley becomes more and more ridiculous with every passing week.
Lack of creativity – With no Paul Scholes or Michael Carrick in the side, we’re really struggling for creative movement from the centre of midfield.
Crowd leaving – With ten minutes to go, large groups of the crowd were walking out. What the fuck is going on?
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and dnt forget the pen aswell
Giggs poor!? Mate you need to see this match again. Yes, his start was awful, but overall he was one of our best performers on the pitch and the heart of our passing game. Just watch the highlights, the two sweetest moves which lead to goals were started by great passes from Giggs. And that was what he did all game. So I think you should edit that.
I wasn’t there today, but it felt a bit like the atmosphere was greater than usual, at least considering the opposition wasn’t a world class team (?).
“Crowd leaving – With ten minutes to go, large groups of the crowd were walking out. What the fuck is going on?”
traffic.
I think Giggs played quite well actually. Agree about everything else though. The goal should have clearly stood, the scousers and the media will forget all about it though. Rooney played a blinder, he’s in frightening form, let’s just hope he doesn’t get injured now. Rafael looked impressive again, if he keeps playing like that he’s surely going to be our future right-back. Can’t wait to see Fabio too (he’s injured atm).
Wasn’t Carrick declared fit to play?
Also what happened to Evra?
I thought Fletch at times had to the work of two CMs, so that just makes me rate his performance even higher.
Hope Evra hasn’t done his ham string
Rafael was decent and grew into the match, but maybe thats harsh for it being a first start in the Prem and being 18 and all that. In the first half they were going past him way too easily and he looked terrified when he had the ball. Then he had a few good touches as the match went on and grew in confidence a little.
Well done Wayne, should have been 2 goals and 2 assists….
Thought Ronaldo really wasn’t that great to be honest, some LB I’ve never heard of hung with the supposed best player in the world and matched him step for step
Rooney was everywhere, Rooney scored 2 goals (stupid judge) assisted in 2 other goals – he was/is/will be great
I think that Rooney will be the key for this season success like Ronaldo year ago
Watch goals from this match: http://redlog.pl/2008/10/18/wideo-z-meczu-manchester-united-wba/
If you could clone Giggsy’s legs with Scholey’s Brain and i mean this with regards to there ages… we would have a world class midfielder…
Scholesy’s legs have gone a bit recently… but his brain gets him an extra second on the ball…. Giggsy still very fast very fit, but lacks the correct pass… I aint knockin them both, just sayin that age is catchin them up.. as they are both United legends…
Berbatov…cannot argue his quality… just wish he would show a bit more urgency when a ball is 5 yards away from him.
I was impressed with Fletcher.. did very well and did carry Giggsy..
Evra felt his Hamstring tighten and it was precautionary to bring him off.
Rafael… i get a buzz about this kid… just need to improve on his tackling and awareness… but i reckon he will be first choice within 2 years.
Rio and Vida… solid and reliable as always.
Rooney… total class… say no more….(unlucky to have 1 disallowed).
CR7, was in and out of the game….but very cool finish…and still gettin back to fitness.
Ji Sung Park… good grafter as always… but similar to Wesley Brown.. .ie i mean… sometimes seems 1 second too late to make a decision.
Nani did ok seemed lively when he came on..
Gary Neville did better than recently when he came on..
John Oshea.. same again did ok when he came on.
West Brom were stubborn and worked well for each other as a unit… but when we scored that was that…
Good day at the office.. 3pts, GD improved by 4… cannot ask for more.
ps… i know scholesy wasnt playing today, i know he’s injured, i mentioned him as i was referring to giggsy performance lol
good match! enjoyed it!
slam that berndtnar guy on his face! now he knows what true class is…
I thought giggs was good. It came up on Setanta and he only misplaced something like 3 passes. Honestly its like some people want our older players to play badly
should have referred to the pass that he made to set up the chance for the 4th goal
I thought giggs was great today…his passing was really penetrative..rooney needs to continue this now for a long period
I aint slagging Giggsy off, i thinkk what we do is compare the performances of today to the perfomances of the last 15 years… and the likes of Giggsy and Scholesy are in no win situations…
They have set the bar, set such a high standard, that we expect that to go on forever…
We did the same with Robbo… and again in his last 1 maybe 2 seasons, caused a few growns from the OT crowd, as he had been so dynamic for years… but the legs just was doing what the brain was telling them to do.
I aint slagging them off…. maybe we have just been spoilt with 2 ultra fantastic players over the last 15 years that we expect the same level as always…
WAT? giggs poor? u avin a laff? bar rooney giggs was our best player.
Crowd leaving – With ten minutes to go, large groups of the crowd were walking out. What the fuck is going on?”
This has been happening for years, people say its because of traffic but if you were united through and through you wudnt be bothered about a bit of traffic. Me personally will never leave until the full time whistle. Whats the point in going if you leave 10 mins before the end of the game.
United fans come from all the globe on match day and maybe travel times dictate this, i don’t know, I doubt many of them would stay to see the full 90 minutes but need a quick getaway if you have tight a time schedule to get to the air port etc. Giggs passing for the first 15-20 mins was awful but improved as the game progressed but for that period West Brom did ok, once we scored confidence grew and again totally dominated possession, what do you guys think of Ronaldo’s reaction or lack of when he scored? he looked miserable and it will only get the tongues wagging again to whether it is an indication of his unhappiness being at the club.
I was a little gutted. I had united down to win 3-0 and Rooney to score first… 18 to 1. Damn Nani! lol
Giggs’ performance was excellent yesterday, nothing wrong with it at all
I am intrigued by how Fergie will fit Tevez in now. I thought we shoulda brought him on yesterday instead of Nani
Ste, if you had any knowledge of the game yesterday, you would have seen that Tevez wasnt even on the bench, as both him and Tevez were rested due to the travelling back from Int’l's
Yeah, Rooney will be the key to this season, just like he is every season.
I don’t care what anyone says, he is and always has been our most important player. It takes a couple of goals for the tabloids to sit up and take notice, whereas most United fans who watch him week in, week out know that he does so much more than just score goals.
Ronaldo can go and sun it up in Spain. (How come he didn’t celebrate?) Rooney is the player we need to keep.