Frank Lampard kindly offered up his opinion on the current state of the league table, letting us know we can’t really afford to lose any more games. Edwin Van der Sar, Gary Neville, Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand, Patrice Evra, Wes Brown, Ryan Giggs, Cristiano Ronaldo, Michael Carrick, Paul Scholes, Darren Fletcher, John O’Shea and Wayne Rooney, have all won as many league titles or more than Lampard, coming back from lots of points behind on several occasions, yet this rent boy reckons he is in a position to explain how title races work.
If Liverpool, Arsenal or Chelsea had all played the remaining top four clubs away from home, maybe they would find themselves in a similar position to United. As it is, Arsenal have played just one top club, at home, Chelsea have played two top clubs, at home, and Liverpool have played two top clubs, one home and one away. United have played all three, away from home.
Rio Ferdinand has today said that United need to focus on the title, as just like the years in the past when we didn’t start as well, it isn’t out of reach.
“We were a long way behind Arsenal when we won the title in 2002-03, my first season at United,” said Ferdinand. “We’ve got enough quality to go on a 15 or 20-game unbeaten run and get ourselves back into contention. The team that wins the title is the one that’s the most consistent and the one that best handles the pressure. And if any team can do that, then it’s us, as we’ve proved in the past.”
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Anybody with half a brain cell knows the league isnt decided in October or November
I am positive we will finish AT LEAST second, and the Dippers will be left in the dust
Well said Scott. That rent boy knows F**K all about winning stuff. Cant wait until they come to Old Trafford.
I’d like to believe that UTD can get back into the race – five points behind (taking the Fulham match as a dead-cert 3-pointer, which is risky but what the hell) and with a very substantially-inferior goal difference to the RentBoyz, it seems an uphill struggle. But, it’s hardly an insurmountable obstacle.
What concerns me most – today’s one-sided clobbering apart – is that UTD are still not showing that drive/penetration that is leading to easy goals and decisive victories.
Too much play is sideways and too many goals are long shots. I’d like to see more running off the ball, one-twos, and running the ball into the opponents’ goal.
Too much of the play so far has been unnecessarily “cagey” rather than direct, go-for-the-throat attacking. I’d also like to see Berbatov and Rooney/Tevez playing further up-front rather than wandering back into midfield so often. And, finally, I’d like to see SAF find a way to accommodate all four of Ronaldo, Tevez, Rooney and Berbatov in the same line-up.
And, yes, I still believe that UTD are in the hunt for a third successive EPL title.