Michael Owen scored three goals against German champions, Wolfsburg, last night, to confirm Manchester United’s place as top of the qualifying group.
Owen now has now scored seven goals for United and says he is enjoying playing for the club.
“I am enjoying playing for Manchester United,” said Owen. “There are only a few teams that you can play in and expect to get chances. This is one of them. Scoring them is a different matter. As everyone knows, scoring goals is probably the hardest thing to do in the game. But given the quality you are playing alongside and the amount of chances you do get, it is easier here than at most clubs.”
Owen plays the modest card, heaping praise on his team-mates, whilst also claiming he doesn’t like talking about himself. Really?
“I have never liked talking about myself too much,” he added. “I always prefer to talk about the team. It is nice to score a hat-trick and the last one was probably the best but you can’t do something like that without the team playing really well and a big credit must go out to the other lads, especially in defence given we had so many injuries.”
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Now I like Owen and all that but that last paragraph makes me laugh..
But the kid has talent!
jesus hes scored a hatrick against a decent side.. i think we should be heaping praise on him, he could of ended up getting 5 or 6.. well fuckin done!!!!
Well said Owen.He was dropping deep and defending too at times yesterday. Read Some Newcastle Supporter was slating Owen today for not showing the same form at Newcastle? how on Earth can you compare that relegated joke of a club to Man Utd?There is a massive gulf in class between class in the 2 clubs. It is also about Owen enjoying himself and he clearly is feeling at home here.We are also not pressurising him and playing him selectively so that he can avoid injuries.Plus we have agreat medical staff too.The third goal yesterday was brilliant. The pace and calmness to chip the ball over the keeper. we expected 15 goals from him and he has already got 7 and we are not halfway through the season.With games coming thick and fast in the 2nd half of the season he can get 20 goals as he will get more starts. he ahs started just 8 games so far. Better get a hat trick against the German Champions away than Blackburn in the carling cup, eh Carlos?
well done indeed
he is on seven goals this season nearly double berbaflops amount
i think fergie’s “15 goal objetive” will be achieved…
Soon!
For fucks sake,Scott..Is this even a headline?The Scouser has already said this a dozen times already!Offcourse he enjoys playing football for the best team in the world,with some of the best players in the world feeding him!And so long he get his paycheck to do so,he wont say anything negative!
fuck off spencer
The lad’s doing well, keep it up Micky!
good job owen….. u are the very best player…
A very humble and modest man. Love his personality, keep knocking ‘em in Mikey. He deserves more starts in the league.
The Jackal you saw the headline yet still read the article, then complained – you twat.
We’re enjoying having you here Michael!! So nice to have another forward who has the same attitude as Ole – doesn’t moan when not picked, scores goals when he is…Perfect option, please teach Welbeck about being calm in the final third too!
I can imagine the FSW peeing in his pants as he watch the game!
didn’t manage to catch the match yest, i blame exams.
anyway, watched the highlights and HOLY SHIT OWEN. 3rd goal was absolute class, and did anyone else think that obertan’s work for the 2nd goal was massive?
I know i did.
Obertan, Gibson and Welbeck are coming along nicely
They are improving with each match they play
Bring on the Villa
TK
Flecther Carrick Vidic Evra
Valencia Anderson Giggs Obertan
Rooney Owen
http://www.dirtytackle.net/2009/12/dt-exclusive-nepotism/#more-11927
Hilarious.
@Fze123 that was hilarious. I almost fell out of my chair at mr pussyface roflmao
@Stretford Ender: Offcourse I read the article!How else would I know what to complain about,you knobhead!!!
Mickey has said the same things every time he nets.Im glad we have him in our club,thats not why Im complaining,rather that if you interview a youngster or a first team regular the same words come out of theyr mouths “Im so happy here,bla bla bla”.Nothing revelutionary,and therefore nothing to make an article for.
Obertan’s work before the second goal was amazing, but look at the run Owen does to get the tap-in. That’s truly the work of a real goal scorer.
Owen.. future united hero maybe legend in the making? who knows.. all is well for him now, lets see what he brings to the table after this.It is gonna be an interesting season!
AL – Lol. I fell out of mine at ‘Othello it is’, Laughed so hard at it
Obertans set up for the second goal was class and whilst I wasn’t sure what we were getting for £3.5m he looks like he will turn out hopefully to be a class player. I think the future with the young’uns we’ve got is looking rosy
@ AL: Obertans assist was amazing, pure class! I really like the style how the lad plays the game!
@ theJackal, get a life mate! So Scott should ignore positive interviews?? He is a medium and if does his job well, whether we ‘want’ to read it or not! What about Pat’s interviews?? Should we just ignore them TILL he says if wants to leave?? Some people are so righteous it’s unbelievable…
I am glad to be eating my words regarding Michael. I have reached the point where i want him to start more often. He has 7 goals having started 7 games. At this stage last season a certain Argie had 7 goals and 13 starts…Not to mention how many opportunities Michale has missed.
Off topic, (sorry!) but
I got a song for Evra!
Ever fall in love with Evra,
Ever fall in love, in love with Evra,
Evra fall in love, in love with Evra, Evra fall in love with!
ad lib!
Pretty simple and catchy me thinks!
And the Buzzcocks were a seminal Manchester band, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bif2q_Zo3-4
I think that puts Dzeko’s reported move to United on the back burner. Fuck me. If he cannot do it against a three man defence of which two are midfielders would he cut it in the premier league? Could have course just been an off night. What can we say about Owen? Some of the blogs today are hilarious. The bitterness is laughable. comments such as “it was a shit defence” and “anyone could have scored those goals”. Yeah right. Unsurprisingly I have not heard one media cunt give United credit for last night. An absolutely immense performance. Like people said last night all the talk is about shall Ingerlund take him to the World cup? I ain’t remotely bothered but yes of course they fucking should, who is better? Defoe? No. Crouch? No Bent? No fucking comment. United> England.
As the red machine rolls on!
Aig – The geordies are idiots mate. He probably got one chance every three games
Well done mickey owen i was 1 of the doubter’s, ill happily admit that, but im also happy to be proved wrong. @king eric He did score home and away against us mate i think he wud give us a differnt option up front, if saf thinks he’s good enough to be signed ill accecpt that.
@King Eric:
I wouldn’t write off Dzeko just yet. He just didn’t get much service last night because our midfield was excellent at preventing Wolfsburg from going down the flanks a lot. However, i just don’t think he is a United striker. How many like him has Fergie signed down the years? Very few. He prefers strikers shorter than Dzeko who can play outside the box. With Dzeko, i think our attacking play would be quiet limited and predictable. However, if a Premier League plays with high balls, Dzeko would fit in pefectly there. If Crouch can still make a living in the Premiership, Dzeko can too.
That being said, i wouldn’t trade him with Owen.;)
Crouch cant head the ball at goal to save his life! He does better with bicycle kicks
King Eric- Agreed about Dzeko, though as you said, might have been an off night. However, I am baffled at how he did not take the game by the scalp… a 3 man defence, double digit injuries, and the best chance you’ll ever get to not only beat Manchester United, but potentially to dismantle them. As for Grafite, I think he wasn’t a factor since it was so difficult for him to see while in Fletch’s pocket.
By the way:
Liverpool goals scored Champions League 09-10: 4
Michael Owen goals scored Champions League 09-10: 4
Love it. Bring on Villa.
Why would we want Dzeko if we have Owen? I bet many prem managers and fans are currently banging their heads on the wall out of frustration and regret.
Where are all those people who were babbling about Sneijder, Van der Vaart, etc. over the summer? I’d like to see those players slot into a back three in an away fixture for the Champions League. Laughable. Guess that midfield of ours isn’t so useless after all, huh?
For someone who come in for free,he’s done very very well indeed.
I thought grafite was poor last nite didn’t test our makeshift back 4.
Sorry back 3.
@willierednut
Like I said earlier, it’s tough to make an impact when you’re stuck in Fletch’s pocket!
@ sanj
Not even carlo’s so-called-’diamond’-best-midfield-out-of-the-top-four would have coped last night if they had to slot in the back four positions.
Ive heard vida’s back for the villa game, be interesting to see who partner’s him.
i really enjoyed the game last night, it was very interesting to see how the defence would hold up. they did well. those idiots at the sun gave anderson a 5 and scholes a 6. seriously do they even watch the games?
owen is a class player. totally different to other strikers we have at the club. last season when we had tevez, rooney and berbatov, i thought we were crying out for an owen type player because the other three are very similar, they like to come deep to receive the ball and be involved in the build up play. its good to have the option of a player just wants to finish.
i also had a little bet last night on utd to win and owen to score in 90 minites of play. couldnt beleive i got 6-1 odds on it!!!! ill be going down to collect my winnings later. thanks owen and the lads!
@fze123
thanks for the link, it’s brilliant!
gill: oliver. his name is oliver.
fergie: sure it is.
i think i pissed myself laughing so hard!
Okay he scored a hatrick in the last match again germany’s champions
will he be able to score another hatrick in the premier league? or it was just his day? Congratz United
Bob Koh: “I can imagine the FSW peeing in his pants as he watch the game!”
That occurred to me, too. When TheVermin had their “injury crisis” they just lost and drew and lost and lost again. No squad depth; too much reliance on the Gerrard/Torres axis – not to mention the appalling central defence featuring OctopussyCarragher.
UTD miss more than a dozen first-team players and just win and win and win again. I believe that this is the point at which I type: “that’s why we’re champions !”
Obviously, UTD’s transfer “policy” is to splash out on youngsters with real up-side potential to be truly special (like CR or Anderson or Nani [stop laughing !] or Obertan or these three Italians they have recently signed) or else – as with Berbatov – to spend on a guy who might be the proverbial “last piece of the puzzle”.
Getting someone like LittleMikey was a no-brainer in my estimation – he cost peanuts (for a club with a multi-multi-multi-million quid annual salary-budget) and the up-side was exceptional: IF (and, let’s be honest, it was a big question in the summer) he could regain his match-fitness and sharpness. LittleMikey is not a great footie player like Rooney or Fletcherinho or Patrice Evra or Ryan Giggs – he’s a fox-in-the-box/poacher. He’s always been a goal scorer, the surprise has been that he’s been forced to be more than that by SAF and last night he was good at both ends of the pitch.
About Dzeko – no thanks. He’s good but that’s not enough. In two years’ time I expect that KikoTheKid will be a much better player. In the interim, I don’t think Dzeko would be an upgrade on, say, Emile Ivanhoe Heskey who I can envisage as a short-term, stop-gap in the new year.
Here we go again…
That donkey Durham belittling Owen’s hattrick
If that was Fat Frank, Stevie Me or Beckham he would be calling for the Queen to knight them
@ rooninho, lol. I have to say the funniest bit is Gill suggesting his 10 year old nephew. Jeez, we can’t have been that desperate.
Owen 2nd top scorer In Utd, played less game And started less game than Rooney, Berbatov, even that wanker carlito In wasteland. SAF knew What he was doing, all the fuckin journos can eat their own shit and die!
@ denton davey
agreed on everything. remember you saying about the possibility of Owen coming to United long before even Saf thought of it. =)
denton – Yeah so do I mate remember you championing Owen and Heskey for United. I laughed you out the place. You were right about Micky, not sure about Heskey though but him and Rooney do link up superbly well for the ingerlunder’s.
Sayyid – Heard Durham, the man is below contempt. He must be THE ONLY person saying today that Owen is shit and should not go to Africa. He isn’t worth a response. The same man who was tipping the dippers to piss the league pre season then changed to the Rentboys in October. The same man that said last November that the Dippers were now the “Real Deal” and the same clueless mug that in 2005 said Fergie shoul;d call it a day and United were finished!
Sanj – Spot on mate about Van Der Vaart, Sneijder and the other over rated pricks. Liked to have seen them cope last night like Fletch and Carrick.
King Eric – Wesley Sneidjer is NOT over-rated, he was an inspired signing by Jose Mourinho and will lead InterMilan to another scudetto. that said, Inter are not a very good team and I can’t see them getting into the last eight of the CL unless they get a very, very easy draw – assuming, of course, that they do enough tonight to qualify !
On the other hand, Rafael van der Vaart and Andy van der Meyde aren’t fit to carry his jock-strap. Arjen Robben is a sick-note but, when healthy, he’s a terrific player.
The problem the Dutch have is that all these players – and others, too – are competing for the same two jobs; they don’t have similar quality elsewhere since Edwin retired and Ruud got old. Argentina are kinda similar in the sense that they have all those smurfs – Carlitos, Messi, Aguero, Lucho, Maxi Rodriguez, the guy for Lyons, and many many others whose names also escape me – but no defenders, no keeper, and – unless Gonzalo Higuain can replicate Hernan Crespo’s game – no centre forward.
off the topic on here I was watching the damn united what a movie best football movie I have seen and damn that leeds side were bastards and dirty.
that don revie a great manager by having his side try and break players legs my ass.he was a cheating manager and managing dirty cheating players.that was not quality championship winning football leeds were playing it was cheating thug prison football.
that leeds football side was even worse than seeing bolton play long ball. brian clough agrees so I go with the great man. shame clogh did not manage man utd in the 70s lets see how great liverpool were then wth brian clough managing united.
“There are no easy away games in the Champions League but our back four has been very solid for a few years now, long before I joined the club”.
Owen talking about the defence. Notice how he says “our” and “for a few years now”, even though he hasn’t even been at the club for one year yet. You can’t help but warm to the lad.
@Fze123 it goes to show when mickey started seeing himself as a true red. If United>England, every team in England is smaller, meaning United is even bigger than itself. ’tis the truth and who wouldn’t want to be a part of our family. Express yourself Mickey.
Any help, mates? Have all previous United no.7s hat-tricked? There’s something in that jersey.
em.. i still cant find the words for that performance by LittleMickey. Impressed from the start.. his off-the-ball movement is the best in our team. I was like “how the hell is he there?” all the time yesterday.. Awesome. And when he moves, he goes invisible, until suddenly he reappears in front of the goal. That was really a “hat trick”.
@jackal mate, i dont know how u bcame a manutd supporter anyway i wish u being one of us. a red devil supporter i wont wish a red devil player wearing a scouser top even in my death but i will pray to see a scouser wearing a manutd top and will die for that also if he comes and praise my beloved club i wouldnt ask more. so SCOT have all the rights to put a article whenever owen praise our beloved club go on scot. i never doubted this guy since he joined with us and i wont doubt at all in the future, come on mikey score another hatrick and kiss the red devils batch front of the scousers while they r watching us on tv. hmm they way he likes the club not far away from kissing the batch. how about a scouser become a legend in OT hall of fame?