Anderson scored a great freekick against Boca Juniors in the Audi Cup this summer and scored a goal for the Reserves last week, but yesterday he bagged his first competative goal for Manchester United at the start of his third season for the club. Whilst it became a standing joke amongst the fans and players, Anderson was quick to remind people of a vital goal he did score for us in Moscow!
In March 2008 Anderson confessed he had been praying for goals and already had his celebration planned. We got to see that celebration yesterday but Giggs’ says his teammates weren’t impressed.
“He’s had a bit of stick about his celebration,” said Giggs. “But we’re all pleased. His performances have been really good since he’s come to the club. He’s a top player. He knows he needs to add goals to his game and hopefully he’ll score a lot more.”
Rio Ferdinand reckons that the players have been anticipating a goal from Anderson and hopes this will kick-start his goal scoring.
“I think the lads have seen it coming,” Rio added. “The international break gave him plenty of time to train and we’ve seen glimpses of what he can do. He scored a good goal for the Reserves and I think he’s got the knack now of scoring. Hopefully he can go on a good run now and score more because if he does that he’ll be a top-class player.”
Sir Alex Ferguson has also praised the young midfielder and explained why he hasn’t played much this season.
“I hope that drives him on to get more because he’s capable of that,” Ferguson confirmed. “He hasn’t played a lot of games but he’s part of a squad, we have so many midfield players and we have to rotate it at various times in the season and Anderson will play his part. He had a marvellous performance for us today.”
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What was wrong with his celebration, lol? Although i remember his saying that he would strip if he ever scored!
did anyone else think he looked shocked lol
the look on hi face when he started the machine gun thing was priceless. just watch him kick on now…………..and remember, he’s much better than kleberson
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what was wrong with the celebration
it was cool too me.
i love this lad… great man… i think he’ll be a top player playing for us
More goals to come!!! Maybe against Citeh next week ^_^
Why are the pics in RoM articles just linked to the same small pic?
He said he would strip if he scored at OLD TRAFFORD!
omg. Then I wont watch him score at old trafford.
I thought the stripping celebration was for the CL final ?
Good to see him score though. Fletch played a blinder again too.
Bring on Citeh. Look for me in the NE quadrant !
Yeah, i think he meant that he would strip of he scored his first goal in the Rome final. Maybe the floodgates will open now! Just like they did fo Forlan after he got his first goal for us.
i was more freeked about the way rooney positioned himself
yeah…rooney stand in front of ando and holding ando head…from rooney behind it looks totally awkward…hahaa
In March 2008 “Anderson confessed he had been praying for goals’…… that link is broken….errrrr
Thats my boy…. mark my words, yesterday was the first of many for that young man.
Talking about celebration, any historian able to remind me about Neville’s VLiverpool? He got banned for it. I ask cos I want to know how long Man City will lose their guy for.
I’m guessing they weren’t impressed because he’s had this celebration planned for so long, and it wasn’t all that impressive, like a back flip or something?
Yeah. A bit of stick cause it look so bad for his first goal. I thought he could run like the city player who run the full length of the pitch. He should run to united fans at the opposite fans.
Tonka Norris – Nev got a two match ban so therefore set a precedent. Why the fuck are all the media brushing Adebayour’s celebration and hideous tackle on Van Persie under the carpet? You can rest assured if that was Rooney there would be uproar. Got to be a three match ban. Everyone just seems to be saying “you can’t blame him after the stick Arsenal fans gave him” and “he was caught up in the moment”. Bollocks. No excuses. Hope Vidic fucking nails the cunt next week.
Oh yeah…with all the balance in the world and all the place in the world to land his feet, RVP’s little cheekbone is the only place Adebayor found. And the running across the pitch was sad to say the least. He is at city because of arsenal and he needs to respect that. Cunt. Not that I love arsenal. But my hate for ade exceeds that for arsenal.
Vidic to take out tevez’s share of grudges on this oaf!
I dont understand what was so bad about Ando’s celebration…
It was his first league goal. If it was me I would of run round the pitch twice singing fuck you spurs…
anyways, Ando is great!!! I think playing him next to paul scholes is a match made in heaven. They are very similar players. Im sure Anderson has and will learn alot from him.
Bring on those blue citeh cunts!
Keep it up Ando.
Scored one last week with the reserves and now with the first team.
Looks like Sir Alex was right again to drop him for some matches and this has had a positive impact on the player.
Very pleased for the lad. Hope that he plays against Citeh with Fletcher in central midfield just to keep the momentum going.
All these pre planed Goal Celebrations do nothing for me..
I prefer to see the players run wild for a few minutes..
My favourite goal celebration has to be Giggs after his wonder goal against arsenal.. He ran away ripping his shirt off and swinging it round above his head!! awsome!
I agree with trevor.
And with Anderson scoring his first competitive goal after 2,5 years you’d except something more memorable.
he said he would strip if he would have scored in the UCL final..
What would have been the punishment for stripping? go Ando!
DELIGHTHED FOR THE LAD ITS GONNA DO WONDERS FOR HIS CONFIDENCE EXPECT TO SEE MANY MORE FROM HIM IN YEARS TO COME NOW
I went bananas…absolutely awesome that he scored
Agree with you trevor,
ronny’s celebration after scoring the third against spurs last season was brilliant!!
thought he played awesome on saturday, looked really up for it
Finally his first goal! I’m sorry, but Anderson is more-or-less useless… besides his goal, he gave crappy passes, and hopeless tackles… very disappointed with this guy since day one.