PICTURES: Tonight’s Impressive Victory Over Wolves

Good overall performance, with some real quality from Welbeck, De Laet and Neville. Great goal. Some problems highlighted but f**k that. I’m happy.

I thought that Kuczszak did well in goal – some communication problems with Wesley, apart. Two very good saves – especially the salmon-leap and punch on the free kick right after the red card.

Hello there Eddy!

WTf are you doing here?

Actually when I saw the celebration live I thought exactly the same thing – Usain Bolt!!

forty five fucking quid for that shit. Poor slow game. It was like a practice match. Crowd were getting very frustrated with Nani and rightly so. He can beat a man with ease but his final ball tonight was shocking. Really starting to lose patience with him. Thought Wes played well and Josh King looks excellent. If I was new to the game I would have thought Gibbo was the experienced midfielder not Carrick. Kuscak’s kicking was awful, simply awful. However a great save from the free kick.

Still a good result considering we played the majority with 10 men.

Anybody see Wes Browns backheel on about 27 mins? Caught it nicely in the air and it went straight to Evans.

Joshua King (Norwegian, wouldnt know it by the name) had a positive impact, couple of attempts on goal, and not scared to have an attempt.

Darron Gibson was good again, and isnt afraid to shoot, which is what most of our midfield seem to be like.

The defence was decent tonight, and De Laet did excellent.

Tomasz Kuszczak was great in goal.

Shame Owen didnt get much of the ball.

its in my blood

United only had 51k, 25k short of full, which is about 1/3rd of the ground empty.

Its nothing to do with the clubs, its the fact the competition is essentially worthless.

Completely agree with king eric (bar the 10 men comment,1-0 against wolves is not a good result), there was nothing impressive with this performance whatsoever. Easily one of the dullest matches i’ve seen in an united shirt.

Carrick (16/18mil) attempted to control a game against a what is pretty much a championship side and pretty much failed if you consider his ability, this was the game for him to take control and bar a few nice passes becasue of the space he was given he didn’t deliver. Nani, again, was awful. For a right winger to have no vision when it comes to crossing, let alone beating the first man on any corner/cross/freekick is not good enough-there was at least two times gary ‘the legend’ neville showed him how to do it.
I get that this was a mix-matched side but that shouldn’t matter if these boys are training with the first team, it’s wolves for fucks sake against united, with expreienced players thrown in.

Impressive? We’ve all seen impressive-don’t put this match up there with them.

@mattayo what the hell are you talking about, mate?

We had our second XI up against another premiership side and were 10 against 11 for over an hour. This was undoubtedly a very impressive performance and result in a competition that Fergie really wants us to go far in as it allows him to use his squad and blood his kids.

If you want to watch exhibition football all the time go follow La Liga or MSL. What we saw at OT tonight was how a professional football club grind out the performance and result they need despite the sort of adverse circumstances that would see other teams fold.

Did you see the team City put out and yet just bearly got the job done?

HAve you seen Kuszczak’s save? Confident and calm in the goal… Its his time to prove something, let’s just hope that SAF will give him a chance in the league…

Fantastic finish from Welbeck. I also thought Gibson, De Laet and King when he came on looked impressive.

One major gripe though – if Tosic can’t get in ahead of Nani, is he really that bad?

He should have been sacrificed instead of Macheda.

The match was quite poor in bits and pieces, but at least it wasn’t as poor as Nani.

actually Myq, he was telling Fabio to hurry up and get off the pitch and get on with it – he said as much in the interview after the game!

Perhaps I am used to watching champiagne football from United’s first team, week in, week out, but last night I nearly quite literally fell asleep watching that performance, and it was littered with groans and sighs of frustration – as King Eric said, I would be bloody mad if I had to pay £45.00 to watch that.

Nani – I want him to do well, I really do, but the amount of times he kicked the ball straight at the player in front of him was preposterous, I fear if he continues in the same vein he will be shipped out. I know he is young, I can appreciate that, but there was virtually no pressure last night, and a professional footballer of his supposed ability should thrive in those situations.

Carrick – I liked him, I really did, but he just doesn’t seem to have any heart or gumption… severely lacking in testicular fortitude. I know he can play killer balls, I have seen him do it, but the lad needs to get his head right, and quick smart, because United don’t have any room for passangers, and he is quickly becoming one.

Like I said, perhaps I am too used to awesome football from the stars of United, but last nights performance did not instill any faith in me for our future, 10 men or not…

rachelreddevil – I know Stoke away won’t be easy but don’t forget last season we played them Boxing day having only just returned from Japan. My main concern is the keeper flapping at the crosses at long throws.

Stephen,

Gibson could have played wide right. The ball boy could have played wide right, or even Tosic

I wouldn’t call it impressive as Wolves were absolutely shocking. Never got a real clear chance on goal.

But, it would have been nice to see Owen and Macheda finish the game – shame that it was Owen taken off really. King looked good, Gibson was woeful and only managed one shot on target from memory, the rest were cack but nothing as special as Da Laet! J Evans was anonymous, never saw him during the game and Neville showed his endurance – impressed with him.

Looking forward to Saturday as I was a bit bored last night.

rachelreddevil – Is Fuller out? Beattie was on the bench last week.

supposedly both are doubts for 2moz. they still have dave kitson still to catch fire at stoke bt still a threat