Sir Alex Ferguson watched his team secure victory in his 1000th league game as Manchester United manager in typical fashion for us, leaving it until the last few minutes to turn a 2-1 defeat in to a 3-2 win.
“We never give up,” he told MUTV. “Of course, it’s in the history books. Well done to the lads for coming back. We do that all the time at our club and I expect 10 like that a season so that’s one out of the way! It’s unbelievable – it really is. But we didn’t start playing until Scholes came onto the pitch with his range of passing, his consistency of passing and his presence turned the game for us. I thought we had reasonable control in the first half but lost a goal to a back-post cross, something we worked on all week, but credit to Southampton as they are good at it and put us on the back foot. We got the equaliser through a fantastic goal from Robin and I thought it would give us the opportunity to get our act together in the second half. Credit to Southampton, they kept loading the ball forward and played some nice football in midfield. They were the better team when they went 2-1 up but, when Scholes came on, the game changed. Robin has got four goals in two starts, which is a great statistic, and he’ll get better. Chicharito also came on and made a difference. He started stretching them with fantastic runs off the ball and I was delighted with his performance.”
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Of course. But not too many of those again please. My heart nearly.. Phewwwww
Well done Sir Alex! 1000 games and still winning and thrilling us all.
Great three points, next it’s Wigan at home.
Scott is on fire. This blog has long transformed into something more than a simple blog.
But i don’t remember RoM having so many blogs after the games against scousers etc.
With the international break i think we will see a much quieter blog.
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I would love to taunt Arsenal fans with this right now. But since they beat Liverstool I forgive them
Yea, very little said about Chicha after the game. I thought he did well after he came on. I think he can combine well with RvP.
Still a poor effort though, glad we got the three points!
has there ever been a season where man utd have made it easy for themselves
, guess thats what seperates united from the rest.
Dr Dread spot on
1000
3 points
Next!!!!!!!
I must say after a very critical afternoon from myself was is rare i must congradulate our away supporters again…best in the world by a mile and i always wish i was in the stands with them…about the performance i thonk we covered up a lot of cracks with that result..look we do what we do and we did it again because of players like rvp but our midfield was again exposed and this formation shuffle and steange team selection by fergie is baffling.. 442 is our best formstion always has been because we play our best footy with 2 wingers…that was proved when fergie went with that sustem at 2 1 down..playing players out of position when u have the players for that position on the bench is also frustrating and im refering to wellbeck playing were nani should have been…carrick again had a poor performance and scholes proved he should be tgere with his outstanding display…kagawa had a bad day at the office but that will happen…chico mad a difference his constant running in behind gave them problems…and why the hell was de gea dropped!!!should never hace happened..last werk was vidic fault mot his and apart frim that he was outstanding…like i said im concerned with fergies constant change we cant get real consistancy that way…hopefully he keeps the 442 altjough no doubt that will change for the big games
I did not know anything of this guy until we signed him. RSVP?? No I was told he is Robin son of Cedars.
Ah Panda that Alex guy just does not know what he is doing.
1000
I see come February
Back 4 and keeper
—–Carrick–Clevs/Scholes
Tony V–Kagawa–Rooney
————RVP——
The 3 of Rooney, RVP and Kagawa rotating.
4-3-3
Back4 keeper
Tony V–Carrick–Kagawa/Young
Nan/ Lil Peai–RVP—Rooney
Scholes is in a class of his own. The passing was brilliant. Glad to see rio contributing at a corner for once. Its been long since he has done that. Still think our tempo was too slow even when we wanted a goal. Loved the wai chicha celenbrated the third goal. The kid is so enthusistic.
SAF might go with Evans at LFB.
Never give up Really? What would you call the game versus City at the Etihaad.Battling?
@parry you cant always get last min goals , and go gung ho when playing football. has football manager ( the game) not taught you anything ?! :p
RVP is a good aquisition but no one can deny that we still lack a midfielder who can hold between defence and attack. We had a chance to get one last week, but we lost it for good.
Today caption!
Neva dropped the right men!!
Why was chicha on bench?
Why did our best midfilder (scoles)did not start when we don’t have strenght of ando in middle
Why did we have to play on one flank when we have nani?
Why did we have to play welbeck all time when he can’t score, he can give goal assist or move defenders out of the position for other to come in?
Why did we have to play with evra all week? and he always fail nowadays!
We need some comments on Anders as well.. I think it is fair enough to bench David, but Linde looked unsettled at times. Guess we need them both for the season. But I don’t think it is doing us any favors to have to swap out the entire defense in league games.
We are shipping away goals like nobodies business. Has to stop. Sure didn’t stop today.
Lol, Parry cynical but to the point.
It’s nice to have that fighting spirit back. It’s something we lacked last season. Of course, it would be nice if it didn’t take conceding a couple of goals to get us going.
Something tells me we will struggle to keep clean sheets this season.
We have to remember last season’s 8 goals deficit to Shitty. So , Wigan next at OT, clean sheet please & another RVP hattrick is too much to ask? No!
jus a neutral, whose fergie’s 1st 11 I guess no one knows, against fulham he made some subs that confused the team set up!
u r a moron
I was there yesterday and as usual our away support was superb. We never gave up and got right behind the team and got what we deserved. Top support.
Anyone see this? http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/sep/03/dimitar-berbatov-respect-alex-ferguson
If it was coming from anyone else, but from the class master himself, Fergie must have really been crap to him which we all thought he was so…
Not cool and sad.
Good 3 points.But not impressive at all..Yeah !the manager may want to be altering the line-up to make everyone happy.But the team and the fans suffers..It baffles why DDG was dropped..Why was Anderson left out when he and TC was our best chemistry in the midfield..Fergie refused to sign a midfield enforcer to protect the defence because of his love for carrick..We need energetic players who can quickly break attacks and accelarate with the ball forward.But what we have is a Carrick who is always static,slow,and a poor marker..When the midfield is hard pressed it crumbles,thus isolating the attack..How long can we continue relying on the aged scholes to provide the magic?Fergie love for risks was always our greatest undoing..He knows it but as usual was always adamant..During the last season campaign,he paired Giggs and Carrick in the midfied in many games.He knew it wasn’t working,but he remained adamant.Park was given the nod in our match against the noisy neighbours,even thought he was match rusty..Whilst,our best player,TV was benched..Fergie need to take into consideration millions of fans everywhere in the world.I almost died on sunday as we were heading to another lose of ground..My headache only subsided on Monday morning.We have a team that is better than the 99 era..But our midfield is pulling me down..Fergie should stop his risky game..
“We never give up”. Nor do our referees. Fergie’s collection of ‘made men’ continue to serve him well, the investment in time and effort, has served the team well, just giving that edge when all appears lost. It didn’t work so well during the latter stages of last season but I am sure it will this year. Special rewards have been mentioned!