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united to win by scoring 2 goals.valencia should have scored.
I wonder if Valencia used his left foot even once in the match, so far, but should hav scored.
P.S Scholesy was magnificent.
andsolskjærhaswonit…,
You’re right, Scholes is the maestro today
how come i can’t make any more comments on the live feed scott?
berba!!!!!
1st goal of the season!!
vishnu…he scored v wigan
Giggs will tear you apart again!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yTIpcwBTTs&feature=related
Berbs, O’shea. DONE.
ryan giggs supastar nuff said.
Easy peasy today….Nani is getting worse….
Arise Sir Ryan…….. both Giggs and Scholes are doing wonders
GET IN WIGAN!!!
Top of the league, fanx wigan.
nani is useless. where are the scholes slaggers now? he was absolutely magnificent today. giggs is a legend- he looks like he can play for another 5 years! top of the league and that’s a fact!
I wonder if Carlo will repeat Scolari’s fortune.. Scolari also strated well.
We are struggling this season, were only top on goal difference lol.
Nani played well i think. Scholes marvelous, Giggs player of the game.
Nani is a very good player. He just needs to work on his decision making. Foster had a good game. Scholes controlled the midfield . His pass to Giggs before he was substituted was amazing. Giggs should of scored. Other than that he was excellent too. Getting 2 assists after coming off the bench. Wow.
The Champions are back where they belong!
Seriously, how old is Giggsy? Maybe he was born in 83 and he has been lying to us this whole time,lol?
Oh fletcher! So tactically disciplined. Keep it up. Please leave nani alone. He’ll come better. Our best ever start in 10 years i suppose.united all the way.
Giggsy now has 7 assists n a goal in the last 4 premier league games. Respect.
Scholes might have controlled the midfield BUT he was never really pressed for time/space – it was his sort of game ‘cos Stoke gave him plenty of time on the ball which was tantamount to asking for trouble. BUT it was not Scholes but Fletcherinho who created the goal – his ball to Giggs was inch-perfect and gave Giggs the time/space to do what he did.
Once again, Valencia and Berbatov were passengers; Nani, at least, worked at it but was wasteful. He should have run directly at Huth after the big guy got the yellow card because he is awkward and slow on the turn. Rooney was damned-near invisible as the in effective long-ball/high-ball tactics marginalized him. So, a very odd game because UTD’s front four were pretty much off the pace yet UTD completely controlled the game. For that, credit has to go to Scholes/Fletcher and Evra who provided most of the thrust for TheLads.
Foster had just about nothing to do and did it OK – I did notice that he is reluctant to come out of goal when the ball is played behind the defenders which is why they have much more to do (with their backs to the opposition) when he is in goal. He needs to become more “commanding” – he does next-to-nothing in organizing his defence.
My only other point about the game is that I was screaming for SAF to take Scholes off as soon as the first goal went in. He was lucky to escape a second yellow for his hand ball adventure a few minutes later.
denton davey…
i glad you r not ferguson…half of the team will be sold by january if you are..
stop slating our player…pls sometime can u look at the glass half full instead of half empty…
we play at brittania…it always hard to get 3 point there…we got two goal today…its great…
but realistically speaking…nani and valencia not having a good game against stoke..they need to try harder…and i would love to see nani and valencia switch position more often
Fooart – I’m not being unduly critical of the players; just giving my opinion from my vantage point (on the couch, in front of the telly). Our expectations of UTD are that they will be a trophy-team, that means TheLads have a certain standard-of-performance to meet. What’s the matter with telling it like it is – when player A or player B has a less than half-full glass ?
And, I would object to your point about selling half the players by January, since I doubt SAF would sell anyone during the season but, realistically, IF Berbatov and Carrick don’t raise the level of their performances then you’ll see them get less and less playing time and then – after the season – be considered for replacement.
No player at UTD is guaranteed anything except their weekly pay cheque – and that won’t continue for long if he doesn’t produce results. This kind of “payment by results” management has been a hallmark of SAF’s reign; once he figures he’s seen a guy’s best-by date then that guy is as good as gone. He’s absolutely ruthless when it comes to cutting-and-running. And he should be – these guys are paid vast sums of money to produce; they’re not his children, they’re his assistants and if they can’t do the job then he’ll find someone else who can.
So, don’t be too romantic about “our players” – these guys play in “our shirt” but if there’s more money elsewhere then they’re likely to be out the door just like Carlitos. When push-comes-to-shove, fans put “our shirt” first but very, very few players have the team/club-loyalty of someone like Paul Scholes who doesn’t even have an agent. Even the great Keane-o (and Sir Davey Becks and Rio, too) hardballed UTD in negotiations. It’s a business to them, too, and their shelf lives are short.
I don’t disagree with your last paragraph about Nani/Valencia switching positions but that’s probably not in the team’s strategic plan and they don’t devise team strategy. Both of them are not playing up to their potential – neither glass is half-full but I do think that they both have a lot more to offer. SAF will persist with them for a while but not forever. Saying that, I’m not “slating our players” just looking at the situation with clear glasses – as opposed to rosy-tinted ones.
But I do disagree with your opinion that the Brittania stadium is a hard place to visit. Stoke hardly ventured across the half-way line; they defended-in-depth and packed the box with ten men. Their game-plan was to hope to squeeze a point. IF Valencia had scored in the 8th or 9th minute then they would have still stuck to PlanA; Pulis had no PlanB. This is the same “strategy” that Bolton, Blackburn, and most of the other non-contenders employ whenever they face a Top4 team away and at home. Stoke do it better than most but it is misguided to say that they are “hard to play against” – they might be “difficult to score against” but they really don’t try to play at all.
denton davey…
well said mate…
the carrick part…with inclusion of ljajic and emergence of gibson…and petrucci continue developing i do fear that carrick time in utd shirt is almost nearing the end…unless he show the form in his first season…
got to agree about berbatov though…man utd really playing well when berbatov play…yeah he not going to be nistelroy but he was not having a bad game at all this season…just unlucky not score a few easy chance…
got to disagree about berbatov though…actually
denton – Good evening mate. I think you are being too harsh on Valencia. He has only played a handful of games so far and needs time to fully settle in to the United way and express himself. I don’t think he should be judged till he has played a full season which is what we said we would allow Berba. So far in his second season I have to say I have seen a marked improvement. Having said that I actually thought he had a “reasonably good” first season.
Stoke have a very good home record at the Britannia and don’t think they have been beat there for some months.
manchester united is just so great.