Liverpool were beaten 4-2 tonight by Tottenham Hotspur, after getting totally battered during the first half. United loanee, Frazier Campbell, scored two and assisted one, claiming the Man of the Match award.
Chelsea were knocked out at home by the ten men of Championship side Burnley, with former United midfielder, Chris Eagles, scoring in the penalty shoot out. In the end, it went to sudden death, with another former United player missing the crucial penalty. Well, I say ‘United player’, but he never played a game for us, desperate to get out of the contract he signed for the trophies he was promised at Stamford Bridge. Blame the agent, Mikel!
Didier Drogba, making his first appearance in weeks, is set to face the wrath of the FA after sticking his finger up at the travelling fans and chucking coins in to the crowd that had been thrown on to the pitch. Tut tut.
Hilarity aside, this means fewer games for our title rivals to play in now, which might have negative repercussions for us. We were fortunate last season that Chelsea had the distractions of other cup competitions, reaching the final of the League Cup, the 6th Round of the FA Cup, as well as the final of the European Cup.
That’s one trophy less for Chelsea to think about, meaning less opportunities for injuries and fresher players. Considering we’re already going to have to work bloody hard to make up the points we’re lacking, whilst it’s amusing to see our rivals get dumped out of a cup, I’d rather they had the same distractions away from the league that we do.
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great news dippers and rent boys out
Talents like Rafael, Evans, Fabio, Possebon, Welbeck and Manucho needs to be nutured. If this makes us play our “reserves” more often, then okey for me! i enjoy watching them play and the more, the better!
I’m happy to still be in it, it’ll give the fringe players a chance to play and keep them match fit and happy too, it gives the youth a chance to prove themselves and an insight for the fans as to how good they are, so long as we don’t use any first team players, a cup run is fantastic for the team.
how it affects us ?…we have a 67% better chance of winning one more cup!
Having your rival relieved the way you were will only make the competition tougher because,u both now have fewer trophies to compete for. Chelsea can’t afford to end the season trophiless, at least a substantial one. God bless Nigeria, God bless the “True Blues.”
http://www.thespoiler.co.uk/index.php/2008/11/12/ray-wilkins-may-be-regretting-his-pre-match-confidence
Read this hilarious stuff
Most Chelsea players are indisciplined & this is one more example.
Yes, Scousers and Chelski have 1 less distraction but our fringe players should be in for a good run and may be able to prevail against the so-called young Gunners along the way. This Y.G.hype is just overboard..
I agree with Red Devil it gives the youth and fringe players an opportunity. God knows we need to get the attempts on goal to read goal.
While I was glad to see Campbell and Eagles score against, and effectively help knock out The Dippers and The Rent Boys respectively, it did occur to me that these teams usually stay in the competition a little longer than us and sadly the teams who are going on to lift the ‘real’ cups are out early on. That may not be true but that’s what I thought. Chelsea look serious this season and Liverpool are continuing their decent run in the league, they seem to have that luck about them and never say die attitude that you get after having your house robbed so many times.
I think Chelsea will finish above Liverpool so they are the ones we are battling.
We must stay hungry and not have players relaxing and resting on last season.
It is good to see the younger lads get games in though, and as Evans said “Bring on Arsenal”
Look at this as a positive – not a negative.
I agree scott, okay we will play our reserves but who would liverpool and chelsea put out in the quater’s and semi’s. They now have full weeks rest to prepare for games in the league which isn’t a bad thing for them. Look at last night chelsea picked up 2 injuries, the more games the more likely you are to pick up injuries and suspensions but ultimatley it’s about winning and it gives united a chance to gain a trophey. I was dissapointed leeds got knocked out was hoping to knock them out in the next round.
You Utd supporters make me laugh. So its you and Chelsea battling for the title??
Unless you are blind you are in 4th place & struggling to hold on to it at that . There are 2 places between you & Chelsea so get into 2nd place before you start talking about the title race being just you and Chelsea because this season Man Utd have shown nothing to suggest that you even stand a chance of battling for the league let alone winning it as your manager Old Whiskey Nose said himself.
Maybe you should learn how to beat a team superior than 5th place before you start thinking about challenging because so far every Top 4 team you’ve played this season has either dispatched of you or drawn with you with relative ease. Before you say how Liverpool have to come to Old Trafford and son on blah blah blah. We dominated a solid Chelsea team and beat them at their ground (something which you couldn’t do) so don’t think for one second we cant come to OT and do the same to you either.
Your team is pansy in central midfield and we will just drive through your soft pansy centre at OT like we did at Anfield only this time Man Utd are now aware that even if you take the lead we can still dominate you & take 3 points. Until you replace Roy Keane in there you will not win any league title. Giggs , Scholes ,Van der Sar are all liabilities against quality opposition . If these players are the best that you have to offer this season then you are in serious trouble. No wonder you cant beat Arsenal , Liverpool or Chelsea no matter how hard you try.
Oh!! how i cant wait to see Gerrard , Monster Masch & Alonso drive through your soft pansy midfield at Old Trafford, hehe.
“Oh!! how i cant wait to see Gerrard , Monster Masch & Alonso drive through your soft pansy midfield at Old Trafford, hehe.”
Like they did last year right? Oh wait…
I Bling Red – Anfield, did you stick your tongue out after making that insightful comment?
Haha that was a pure fishing comment by the dipper! and he wants a bite!
Sad, but true. I looked at it as now we have a better chance of raising the first piece of silverware for the season. I was excited.
The point raised here is a serious issue. With all my love for United, at the start of the season I thought that it was going to be rough to win the league for the third year on the trot because of our commitments arising from winning the Champions League. With both Chelsea and Liverpool out of the Cup, and both leading on points, this just might be further problems for us.
With that said, if our youngsters get more games, such as Possebon, Rafael, and Wellbeck, and confidence under their belts and belief from SAF, this can turn out to be a benefit. We will bring at least those three notable youngsters along further and possible give other first team players rest as the season wears on and Chelsea stick to the same constant line ups over and over again.
Giddy Scousers, nothing makes me smile more.
I Bling Red- Anfield: “Until you replace Roy Keane in there you will not win any league title”.
OMG! What exactly have we won the past two seasons then? You can’t wait for the return at Old Trafford, well, neither can we. And for the record, with that midfield you boast about, you still needed lucky deflections to beat us and Chelski, and you lose to a bottom club. Well done, you dippers, living in your past.
Guys, Bling has a point, we cannot deny that we have struggled to compete against all of the other Top 4 teams this season. There is no gaurantee that we will win when we play them at OT either. It is also true we lack a midfield general to marshal our midfield.
This season Man Utd have done nothing to show that they can beat the Top teams , until we actually do this in the league & Europe i dont see how we can win a major title. We have some significant problems at the moment.
We`ve come from behind before but weve never come from behind after being beaten by all 3 of our rivals.