By the time the final whistle blew today I was wondering when United were going to get started. That’s the measure of Champions isn’t it, being able to win when still in first gear? Well that’s all fine and well but with Chelsea and Arsenal building up their goal differences each week, we could do with battering the teams we totally outplay. And that’s what happened today. We totally outplayed Blackburn because like their fans, the players just didn’t show up today. We’re just down the road, where were all their fans? I swear we had more in the away end at the bloody Luzhniki in Moscow the other day!
Still, we carved out several good chances today and Gabriel Obertan will be holding his head in his hands when he watches Match of the Day tonight, christ! I was too busy celebrating his goal before realising he hadn’t even got it on target. Dreadful miss but an encouraging start in his home début. He used his pace to beat his opponent down the left wing, something I wish Nani had done more of. I still stand by my defence of Nani but I wish he would make my life easier! I don’t mean that he was dreadful, because he wasn’t, he was fine. But he can be so much better. The ball would come to him in space and our attacking players would be racing forward and Nani would have a little jog. Come on, you’re one of the fastest players in the whole squad, you’ve got brilliant feet, bloody run at that left back!
Michael Carrick had a surprising game today. His passing wasn’t good enough, again, but he was sticking the boot in a lot more usual and winning challenges I wouldn’t have fancied him for. We’ve got to be looking at him to replace the creativity of Scholesy in the centre of the park and since signing him, he’s shown he’s more than capable to fulfil that role. But this season he’s been so below par. He missed a cracking opportunity to play Rooney in during the first half but he bottled it and went for the wide ball instead.
Will the Stretford End please stop telling Anderson to shooooooooot. The one chance he did take today was woeful and even brought about chuckles from the crowd. You have to wonder about him shitting on Fabregas when you see goals like the one Cesc scored today. Will Anderson ever score a goal like that for us? I would settle for him hitting the target to be honest! All in all he had a good game though and his ball to Wayne Rooney for the goal was absolutely perfect.
Rooney had a quiet game and didn’t do too much to impress. His problem is he thinks of things other players don’t even dream about which means he tries stupid balls which don’t always work. But I suppose that’s something that sets him apart from so many other players because when it does work, it’s sublime. He took his goal really well though so I hope that is just warming him up for Chelsea next weekend. When is Colleen going to pop by the way? Would you let him off the baby rocking celebration if it came after putting the ball past Petr Cech?
Dimitar Berbatov, you are a genius. With every magical goal you score I look around to try and find the fans who were grumbling and complaining about you. How many other players in this league would have scored that goal? It was a half-chance at best and he turned it in to an unstoppable effort. Keep it coming please Berb.
Evans and Wes put in a good performance in the centre to give the manager a headache for our next match. Whilst Blackburn didn’t attack our box in a traditional sense, they opted for set pieces from every freekick they won, whether it was outside our box or theirs. How bizarre to see a goalkeeper pumping the ball in to the box from a freekick their team won for offside! Still, none of those balls posed any problem for Van der Sar because our defence dealt with it. Still the only team not to concede from a set piece. Really, it’s unbelievable isn’t it?
I’m saving the best until last though. Antonio Valencia was my man of the match. The two goals he’s got under his belt have really added to his confidence and whilst having the weaker full-back to support his runs, he really posed a threat to the Blackburn defence. He’s still not the finished product and I think we’ve got a lot of improvement still to come, but he is running at defenders and taking on two at a time and it’s great to see.
So, not a great performance but it was good enough to get the three points. Do we have it in us to raise our game a few levels to get a result against Chelsea? Well, we have to and I’m relying on the return of Ryan Giggs and Darren Fletcher to help us with that.
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carrick was classsss
brilliant article scott
bring on chelsk
Glad Wayne scored but thought his overall performance was poor. Not as poor as last week but poor none the less.
Obertan — who knows really after one game. I’m worried about Bellion the sequel.
Come on United!
carrick was not class.. berba was tho..
nice one again Scott and congratulation to the guys for the 3 points,but we need to be much,much better and accurate against Chelski.Ando and Carrick did well today,but we need Giggs and Fletch as well,I think we’ll do the job
Caught the second half of the game, thought we played some of our best passing game of the season to be honest. Ando’s coming along nicely. His passes were amazingly accurate throughout the night. Like you said Valencia, Berba and Rooney played the most important parts in that victory.
But woah, that kid Obertan! He is quick! At 20, I think this kid could go on to great things. The one thing that stood out was his willingness to run at the opposing full backs, something Nani isn’t doing as well. I hope he gets a few game under his belt this season. He looks more comfortable at the right wing than Nani, that’s for sure. It seems to me that now we have two right wingers in Valencia and Nani and two left wingers, Giggs and Obertan.
I know it’s a bit early, but how do you think we are going to line up for Chelsea?
I would go for
VDS
Brown Evans, Vidic, Evra
Valencia, Anderson (or Giggs), Fletcher, Giggs(or Nani)
Berba Rooney
Subs
Rio
Fabio
Obertan
Scholes
Owen
Would like to see Obertan, Owen and Nani get a start against CSKA though. Also Rio. Not to mention the prospect of Rafael and Fabio playing alongside in Europe is a tempting one…
valencia was great, but motm must go to berba
viva dimitar
After watching the Blackburn game I doubt if Chelsea are too worried. United are riding their luck at the moment and not far from Liverpool type crisis. It’s a two horse race on form. I’m picking Arsenal, Chelsea second and Utd to keep out Citeh for third.
Looks like we are in for a great season.
although we won 2-0 and we did play some good football, i just feel like we are missing something, something creative in the midfield, rooney and berb are world class strike force, valencia is improving every game, but are left side is missing some one nani has had enough chances for me, i dont think he will get much better, i want to keep him in the squad but fergie really should be looking at getting in a solid attacking left sided player in january!
spriter
was
it wouldnt be great if you are picking like that
you rate that as our first gear??
I watched the game with non-football mates, and with non-MU fans. They were all mesmerised by our moves… We played beautifully.
The only blemish was…Obertan.. lol when he came on, i said to my frens, “watch this guy, he has lightning speed and a box of tricks.” LOL his first contribution was…running with ball out of the field. Then his hesitations with the balls. He looked really out of place because its his first game with Evra, Rooney, Berba and others; he didnt know what to do, who to pass to.
But after the game, my frens all agreed, he is an interesting prospect. They said his style of running is similar to Henry.
Again, Scott, i thought that was a beautiful game by our lads. Anderson was marvellous, he is my MOTM. I cant remember if he ever misplaced his pass today, his through passes and long balls simply put me in awe. We wont miss Scholes if Ando plays like he did today.
And two great goals. Berbatov’s will compete with Fabregas’ and Torres’ for the goal of the week.
Fair assesment Scott, I thought Berba and Valenica were superb and also Evra was impressive.
Overall a decent performance and a good result but we need majoy improvement to get a result at the bridge on Sunday.
I watched the match with my brother and made a shocking realisation today, my brother doesn’t get berbatov . Well that’s him off the Christmas card list. The guy is magic
We really need to start hammering weak teams and bury all those chances, we had about a dozen in the first half and deserved to win 5-0. Agree with Scott about Nani, he wasn’t rubbish but could’ve played better. Shocked at those who were saying “we need to get rid of him” during the match, seriously get behind the player because he needs tons of support. Ando has to be motm for me, he was excellent, kept winning back the ball and rarely lost it.
Rooney will only hit top form when his child is born, why is baby roo taking so long in there?!
I thought it was a lot better from Carrick today, he got tackles in and his passing was OK… my main problem with him recently has been his positioning – by that, I mean that previously, his main strength defensively was to be able to intercept opposition passes, while Ando/Hargo/Fletch would always chase after the ball and harrie the opposition… It was good to see the team generally getting more tackles in today…
Great finishes from Rooney and Berba, which covered up for some incredible misses… I must have celebrated at least five goals before realising only two of them hit the back of the net… And Obertan looked good after an initial nervous first five minutes… Like Scott, I’m also a fan of Nani as I also think he’s got loads of potential, and I think he did OK today… Still needs to improve his crossing though… My only slight concern (as Scott eluded to in his penultimate par) is that I wish JOS would overlap on the wings a bit more when he’s playing full-back… there were a couple of occasions today when Valencia had the ball and was trying to take on the full back when you just wanted JOS to charge past him and give Valencia the option to slip him in… It’s something Evra does very well on the left hand side…
I always like a decent away support at OT. It gives you more incentive to get behind your own team. That begs the question, where the fuck were the Rovers fans? I didn’t hear a single chant from those who did show up. Poor show.
No mention of Brown in the reaction. He had a solid game, although it would be hard not to against such a negative side. He’s big, he’s bad, he’s Wesley Brown… five minutes didn’t go by without that getting an airing. Message sent?
Obertan running the ball out with his first run brought a few chuckles, but you could see the intent was there. A lot more than the casual Nani looked like doing. It looks promising.
Much credit to Berba. I had to defend him elsewhere after last week, when in reality the entire team wasn’t good enough. You’ll always get your share of cynics, but I’m amazed he still has as many as he does. Job done as far as today is concerned.
My apologies, Brown clearly was mentioned. Oops…
i think scott you should do a pool about the motm for this game and any other united games , because there are a lot of diferent opinions and it will be good to see % for motm from the fans
i am just happy liverFOOL lost
A fairly average display tonight just doesn’t merit the write up you have given it Scott. I expect many of the players should be hanging their heads in shame from last week but with such liberal praise that you are willing to give, for middling displays against mediocre opposition, I don’t know why they’d bother in the big matches.
Dimitar Berbatov getting his usual spectacular goal to make up for his rubbish flicks, terrible misses and general inconsistency. He is a conman.
I thought we were average there is a lack of pace in the side both in the speed of the players and the speed of our game.
Can’t wait till we get hargreaves and fletcher in the midfield and we some bite and drive from there
for next week
vds
evra vidic (if fit) evans brown
giggs anderson fletcher valencia
rooney berbatov
i’d take a draw myself
Hi- fellow devils- Ive been reading this site for 3-4 months and a UTD fan since I was 10 (1985).
Im really depressed by UTD this season. With the exception of parts of 2 or 3 games this season, I thought they have been absolutely shite. Reminds me of how they were in the late 80′s- absolute crap. How we are still second and only 2 points off chelsea is a miracle. I for one, would much rather see UTD play like arsenal- inconsistent but playing some unbelievable stuff, than how they r playing now, grinding out 1 and 2 nil wins, with most of our goals coming the final 10 minutes. As bad as blacburn were against us today, thats how bad UTD were against LVPL and Arsenal. I’m very worried we will get stuffed by chelsea. I hope I am talking absolute shit. Time will tell.
@GHTT……..There are many people (United and non United fans alike) who don’t get Berba.
A bloke i work with who’s well into his football (a Forest fan!) often comes in and says to me “Berbatov was shit yesterday weren’t he.”
Its a shame that others can’t see the genius in him. They look at the workrate of a player and judge him on that. Berba DOES work his arse off but it doesn’t get noticed.
It as a wonderful goal today from a wonderful player.
Was very impressed with oberton when he came on… granted he was shitting it but who wouldnt be its the BIGGEST club in the world… he showed great pace… good feet in the box ( bar his finsih ) great dummy over the ball for owens chance fingers crossed the best is still to come…
Good article, you forgot Patrice though.
Anothering stuttering performance from Utd but another win, I’m not too concerned that that rent boys! 1 & 2 are scoring more at present and seemingly looking to be on their respective games. We shall see what’s happening after the Xmas break as to who will start to look more like this season’s Premiership elect. Remember although Utd could play worse, they will in all probability start to play their A game with more consistency as they usually start to find their rythym around the Xmas period. The other 2 will find it increasingly difficult to keep their present form going over the next few months. As for the Dippers I will look forward to hearing what Mickey Quinn will have to say on Talk Squawk tomorrow, Saggers will have a field day baiting him!
I’ll confess to not being sure about berbatov, he has a great touch, is good i the air and scores some quality goals
But sometimes the game just passes him by and he looks (i know its a cliche) like he isn;t even trying.
look at the impact torres and drogbha have comapred to the impact berba does and he has all the ability those two do
I hate to say this and don’t want to sound negative, but I don’t think we have a chance at the Bridge if we repeat tonight’s performance. Playing United is the highlight of the season for all teams, as we saw at Liverpool last Sunday, and they all seem to raise their game on those occasions. I just wonder why can’t our players get motivated enough for the big matches at least (we were lucky against Arsenal, and did not really show against dippers, not to mention the Rome final). Have we become too complacent having won three times on a trot? We should not have problems with likes of Bolton, Sunderland or Blackburn at home even if we played reserves let alone our first team.
We may have scraped past Blackburn, but most performances this season have not been good enough for defending Champions. We expect far more from United than hard fought wins. Where is the high tempo we used to play in? Why over complicate things with too many passes that lead to nowhere. What has happened to our defense that broke nearly all records on the book last season (and actually won us the title)? For a team like United absence of one or two players should not be an excuse! I know that as much as we would like to, we cannot win every match, but at least if we must lose, I’d rather we lose fighting.
I really do think that we are lacking a true leader on the pitch. Someone who can inspire and push others just a little bit further.
Finally, we are overdue a great performance from lads. I truly hope it comes against rent boys.
PS Berbatov has been one of our better performers this season. We should give credit when and where is due.
@willo
i don’t understand why you have to be negative. i think that we can still win the league this season. valencia was great today. berba was world class he scores hard goals and misses easy ones if he can score easy and hard ones he’ll be a complete world class striker. wazza was quiet today but produced a wonderful goal with a delicate glance. ando needs put on his scoring boots on. owen spurned a chance. obertan was decent and should’ve scored on his debut he looks more direct when running towards defenders unlike nani that being said i feel nani should compete with valencia on the right wing as i feel he is more suited on his more dominant foot which is his right foot. guys i feel that john o’shea needs to attack more and help out valencia cos it seemed today he was at times isolated.
@brett1985
mate at times you should understand that the team may not play well i think you should’nt point the finger at berba. tbh the guy is a class act and he needs service to score you all types of goals. looking forward to the chelski game and hope we can beat them it’s not a long shot you know. hope vida and rio are fit as soon as possible. great to see hargo at the stands today talking to vida. hope you make it to full fitness soon we at ROM and united fans love your curly hair!:-)
What an anti climax at the top of the North Stand after Oakwell in midweek. Like a morgue today.
Poor first half, was the goal offside? Ain’t seen it again yet. Brown and Evans had decent games today. Thought Carrick was probably our best player today actually along with Ando. Rooney was below par, his first touch was in fact shocking. Great finishes. Thought Berba was quiet to be fair. Valencia played well and is fit as fuck. Never stops. Obertan looked promising if a little over rawed by the occasion but in my opinion he caused more trouble than Nani. Anyway job done and the dippers situation really is amusing!
willo – Arsenal? Get on pal. They haven’t got the balls mate. Lets see how both them and the rentboys are doing come January when we hit top gear. Needed a sending off today didn’t they to break Bolton down?
brett1985
Hear hear. Berbatov was again SHIT. He is Mr 50/50. Past 2 games he has been appauling. I knew he would be shit last week cuz he is a huge big game bottler. Shouldn’t play next week. Against the lesser teams, the majority of the games he will make it look simple and will be brilliant, but in big games he is non existent.
Valencia wasn’t man of the match no way. Fuckin use his left foot for once why don’t he. More predictable than FSW saying “compact”.
Obertan will be a great player though. Hopefully an even uglier version of Terry Henry but less of a smug French rapist.
Evans and Brown can cope with anyone. Superb back-up.
I hope to god next Sunday we are at home, cuz if were away we may as well forfeit.
We did batter them today, but we’re to slow in attack. Giggsy, Fletch, Ando and Valencia should be our midfield against the Chavs. Lots of pace and energy.
Anderson was my MoM. Has to start most games, especially when Hargo is back.
Nani out. Tosic in the first team. Why isn’t Tosic starting, pace, delivery, set pieces. Discuss.
Xyth – We didn’t “scrape” past Blackburn mate. We were the much better team. Some of our passing and movement second half was excellent. Anyway I am looking forward to the rentboys with Giggsy and Fletch raring to go. We usually perform well against them.
Also. Why the flying fuck do United let the Rugby be played on our pitch. Totally kills the pitch and slows our play down bigtime.
red army – Yeah got to agree about the pitch but mainly about Tosic. I was quite critical of him for a while but he has really bulked up and worked hard. He has a sweet left foot as witnessed again against the dippers on Thurs, pace to burn and can dribble superbly. The ball appears stuck to his foot at times. Looking forward to seeing him get a run out soon.
While my weekend is always 100% better when we win, I am still not that happy.
In my opinion, we have played like the typical United once this season and that was against Tottenham. Every other game has been a mixture of the sublime and the ridiculous.
Didn’t deserve it against Arsenal, scraped it against City and defeat to Liverpool. Our record in recent seasons at Chelsea is poor and I am beginning to worry we might add them to our list of ‘if only’ moments so far this season.
Let’s not pressure Obertan. Awful miss but you could tell how nervous the kid was. All eyes now on Sunday – it’s Chelsea’s biggest game of the season and the first time they will be tested.
King Eric @ 23:58 – we are usually in agreement BUT not today. I thought that Carrick was “anonymous”, as well as “abysmal”. Anderson, on the other hand, looked like he’s rounding into the player we all imagined when he stuffed Fabregas and Gerrard as a rookie.
Obertan – it’s not clear if he’s a sprinter or a football player.
I also thought that Rooney’s contribution was pretty inconsequential for most of the game until he finally came good with that second goal.
What was most remarkable about this match was the sense of calm in the defence knowing that Edwin was there to mop things up and calmly distribute the ball. That calm was clearly evident in the play of Evans and Brown – even if they had next-to-nothing to do.
How did Chimbonda escape a second yellow card for his assault on Nani ? A knee in the small of his back when he wasn’t playing the ball ! Do these guys have “previous” – Chimbonda was on the far side of fair play the whole time Nani was on the pitch.
Obertan looked very very good today , his link up play with Wayne Rooney for the second goal did not look like a guy making his debut. Rush of blood to the was when the ball was gift wrapped for him in front of goal but he won’t miss another one of them , the pitch is getting fuckin wrecked with the rugby. Berbatov is magic. Spot on Scott about shouting shout at Anderson. First shout of shoot came and wasn’t listen to as Anderson passed to evra who crossed to berbatov for the goal. By the way what a goal when king Ericade his own volley and scored te goal is still played today . Rooneys goal ……… He is the only person who could score that
red army
must be why his scored v chelsea twice and liverpool before..
“Arsenal, Chelsea second and Utd to keep out Citeh for third.”
And why would anyone pick either Arsenal or Chelsea to win the title?
Arsenal have played two ‘hard’ games away from home and lost both – at OT and City. Although they’ve won all home games, they haven’t played any decent team.
Chelsea have had it even easier than Arsenal. Their away opponents have all been rubbish and the only hard home games they’ve had were v Spurs and ‘Pool. And as we all know everyone except UTD can beat ‘Pool.
Chelsea will have a hard game v UTD next week and with a trip to Spain in mid-week might find the going beyond them. A win for UTD will really get the alarm bells ringing at the Bridge.
berba could of had 3, had a clear header from 6 yards out and a couple of decent shots stopped
owen shud of had his chance
obertan could of had 2 with his 25 minutes!
anderson looks great this season nearly every game he plays, surely he’ll start to get picked for the big games?
what impressed me with obertan is that he had made alot of good decisions on and off the ball with the limited amount of time he had, the finishing well he probably didn’t even dream of such a chance like that so probably more surprise than anything!
n i see what u mean about wes browns chant being the most popular! they sang it every 5 minutes
A lot of plusses with the form of Ando, Carrick, Valencia and Berbatov and glimpses of things to come from Obertan. I’d be very frustrated if I was in Michael Owen’s shoes because the game was crying out for him and he only got 15 mins. Still, very frustrating was what appeared to be a lack of urgency although some might call it a “patient build up”. Main thing is, 3pts in the bag but we’ll need to step up a few notches to get anything from the Chav$ next week.
Dont see how everyone thinks oberton was great today. He showed he has pace and thats about it. He was clearly nervous on his debut but he really didnt do anything. Im not saying he shit but i cant say he looked great either, its going to take more than speed to make it in this team. Berba scores great goals but hes not a great goal scorer for Utd anyway. Id cut my right arm off for him to start knocking in the amount of goals he did at Spurs.
I thought it was a really good performance.Obertan looks an interesting player,all legs and runs like basil falty.I think he’ll be good.He missed a sitter though so hopefully that dosen’t knock his confidence.He definately gives us another attacking option.
i disagree on both points, obertan played some simple stuff and thats all u can ask for in a debut
with berba he came close to heading a goal, great cross and he shud of buried it but previously has shown good range with his head
then if nani released rooney instead of dithering (argh) maybe then he’d of been onside and berba goal stands again
but what u have to take ur hat off is when those little chances dont go ur way he is there to bring some extra magic to score.
@Jack
Get your facts right first. He scored a third against Chelsea last year, we had already won by the time he scored, go back and look at that match, Berbatov was shit.
He hasn’t scored for United against Liverpool. Never came close. Who gives a shit what he did for Spurs against the big teams, when he was at Spurs the games against the top4, except Arsenal, didn’t have anywhere near as much importance as what they do to United.
I’m just getting sick of Berbatov getting defended more than anyone else. If he was doing what he’s paid to, Scoring and creating goals, he wouldn’t need to be defended would he hhhmmm? I’m aware it’s only Halloween but 4 goals and hardly any link up play. Not £30 mill.
Obertan was nervous today. So i don’t look in to his miss for the goal too much. For his first game in such a big crowd of course he will be nervous. Till the end, i thought he settle in and did well. Nani did okay today. Just like scott say, he can do better. He did some good and some bad today.
I see this thread is driffting into another people for and against Berbatov discussion. Fact is different people rate certain players differently but at the end of the day they are all Utd players so we support them no matter what. For me ive always said id like to see him to score more goals, others are happy with his goal return because of his link up play. I think when people state a certain opionion of him the other side automatically thinks they are sying hes shit. Theres a big difference between saying someone is a shit player and wanting more from him in a certain area.
@ Red Army
A couple of points to pull you up on. How you can say Berba was shit today i do not no. Ok it was not his greatest game for us but he bagged a cracking goal and was involved in almost everything when going forward. Did you not see the pass to Valencia with the outside of his boot in the first half? Pure class.
We are away next week and to say we may aswel forefit is Fucking ridiculous. What kind of fan says shit like that. If we get in there faces and dont let them play they dont like it. Im confident going into next week. At the end of the day we have WON 13 of the last 15 games but the way everybodys going on you would of thought we would of lost that many.
As for todays game we totally dominated and never looked under pressure. The great thing about this team which alot of people don’t seem to realise is the patience that they have. Like somebody said in 04/05 we would have drew games like today. The way the team plays now they always feel like a goal will come at some point. I feel some team is going to take a hell of beating with the amount of chances we are creating.
And at the end of day if any of you think we are not playing well which you are entitled to do as that’s what make’s football so great, Just think it could be worse and you could be a dipper.
red army
explain to me, what facts did i get wrong………….?
yes he scored the 3rd or whatever he STILL scored in a big game v a top 4 club…
and we’ll let fergie decide that seeing as he knows more than you, shock horror…
also red army as for scoring and creating last season he got 12/13 assists and 14 goals so he brought 27 goals to our team in his first season.
You failed to mention Berbatov’s unique ability to bounce a header over the crossbar from 7 yards out. Really difficult to do, mate.
berbatov put it over the crossbar?? nope that would be paul robinsion who put it over the crossbar..
Deserved the three points, but even with team we had out, was wxpecting better performance. Carrick got some good tackles in but his passing proved poor. Rooney had a weird game I thought wankers behind me were over critical. Away fans, was it worth coming to be that quiet? Overall glad of three points n good debut from obertan.
@Patrick – Robinson cleared it, though berbatov should have buried it in.
When is Hargreaves back people.. its been november now..??
Really don’t understand the negativity going on here. Maybe some ppl are still angry about last week. IMO the boys played well today, carrick was getting stuck in, valencia wa dragging 2 players along with him, the defensive pair were solid when called upon(i’m saving the best for last).
Anderson kept us ticking, he was like a conveyor belt, nani i’m afraid still leaves much to be desired, its simple really, the guy doesnt have a football brain, his 60+ minutes compared to Obertan was simply not good enough. Obertan was nervous no doubt, but he composed himself, his link up play with evra and rooney was good,he positioned himself the way thousands of United fans want Nani to do, he recieves the ball well and he direct style suits us. i think this guy is going to do well, him and rooney will form an understanding MARK MY WORDS. speaking of rooney, i thought he was alrite, his ideas and movement were top class, his first touch atimes not so good, but it was a better game for him than the last. Berbatov also gave us a chance up front.he always did something positive with the ball and his goal was just fantastic.
more than anything i want United playing good football again, when that happens we can start talking about the title. Even chelsea who e’one tips to win the league cant afford to get ahead of themselves
nani was horribly frustrating.
Well we are due to hammer a team any match now – hopefully we’ll score 5 against chelsea and keep a clean sheet to boot and even out that goal difference. Here’s to this ever increasing season of irony continuing!
Nani is a black hole. He is the place where good offense goes to die. It was amazing to see Obertan receive a pass, then pass it to someone else without dribbling first. I forgot that that was possible coming down the left.
well done lads.win is a win.but again we should have scored 4 or5 goals.to be frank we arent playing like champions.
i saw a few moments of chelsea bolton match and i have to say bolton were playing like shit.yeah full credit to chelsea but i feel many teams underperform against chelsea and increase their playing level against us.
anyways coming back to our team people here are saying nani is shit and some crazy and brainless fans are saying berba was shit.i am quite amazed no one has found out our real weak link is o shea .we have to accept it he is not the perfect rb for us.he is too slow and his link up with valencia is awful.evra and nanis link up was much better and more threatening than oshea and valencias.
as far as obertan is concerned the lad only played 20 odd minutes and people are slagging him.
yah agreed we are playing a very average football but guys be positive.
UNITED FOREVER.
Obertan to be the next big thing.i wouldnt be surprised if he becomes something like a henry.what i like about that lad is we will see him scoring goals.he has the hunger to score goals which i cant see in valencia and park ji sung.he should start against cska.give that lad more playing time.this is the perfect season for him.he should be a fully developed player next season.
i feel sorry for nani. i have always defended that boy but now even i am frustrated with him.but hope he gets another 10-15 games to prove himself.
Fergie pls pls play tosic.he should play.
To be honest I wonder why you stick by Nani, I have finally admitted defeat. He seems a nice lad but he has had his time to prove himself.
Despite a stuttering start in his debut, Obertan got into more dangerous striking positions in his short time on the pitch than Nani did in all his time on the pitch.
Come on, admit defeat. Nani can be a star player at a lesser team, but not at United.
And, maybe it is just my TV coverage but did I see the much maligned O’Shea covering Brown’s ass on at least one occasion? He is a utility player and valuable to United so why do fans judge him against other right backs.
Thank heavens Berbatov is putting some goal away I was getting sick of reading the negative reports. But I think for certain games he should be rested….’horses for courses’ as SAF might say.
My only wish about the match was that there was not the opportunity to give DeLatt a run out.
To be really honest guys, if this is how we are going to finish and not convert chances to goals then we will not score any against chelsea. Just looking at the way they are scoring, I am really worried…Our mid-field and defence have also got to improve a lot…Obertan I think should be given some more time with the reserves…all this hype is I am sure making him nervous, but the guy will do good…he has the grace and presence.
Lol just look at how Nani was kicked yesterday. I thought Nani did ok, not bad at all.
People like to jump on Nani’s back because he is consistently being compared to Ronny, plus his 17m pricetag. But i dont see any problem with that, he’s still young he can improve he just needs more playing time. If it’s on me to decide, i’ll stick with him for at least another 2 (two) seasons. But anyway, i trust SAF in WHATEVER he decides.
some fans are too criticall about senior players here. come on guys SAF cant try all the young devils in one game. he has to try one by one every single game thats wot he is doing at the moment. as we all know that we have a great younsters coming through academy and from transfers just b patient. still lajic, patrucci to come. we cant play attacking formation as we r lack of confidence from defence. untill our defence get back on track i would like to see wining games doesnt matter 1-0 or 10-0 matter is 3 points. we cant afford to loose any games from now untill chavs and arsenil loose games, get behind the team hope we win the trophy and make the history once and for all.
Cantona7 after seen what nani did or really didn’t do yesterday and seen what obertan did do yesterday it has noting to do with matching someone to Ronaldo. United second goal came from obertan running the wing ala nani but finding a pass and doing the simple smart ting,erm??, passing it to Rooney , they had a little 1-2. To open up space for Rooney to get into lead to a good cross lead to a second goal. If nani had of run the wing instead of obertan, not that I’m saying he’s ronaldo, nani would of ran maybe a step over if he had of gave the simple short smart pass he would of done a give and go and just kept running lookin for a pass, if the ball got to him he would of 1/ kick the ball of the chest of a defender or 2/ crossed it to high to noone
In defence of Blackburn supporters, fair play for them making a stand against the ticket prices. Quite a few clubs this season have refused to pay the prices in the away section at Old Trafford and have taken reduced allocations and not sold out the section they have been given.
United now have to realise that their ticket prices are to high and its no longer an attraction for away fans to visit Old Trafford and that home supporters are not tempted by certain games.
Its never been easier to get tickets for Old Trafford and the main reason is due to the year on year increases in prices.
United fans have moaned at the prices charged by Fulham, Birmingham, Arsenal, Chelsea and Spurs, yet we charge more for visiting fans at Old Trafford.
“You strive for consistency. If we get to January and we’re still in a similar position then we have a great chance.”
(c) Boss
Amen.
Nani was the one player that yesterday got us free kicks in dangerous areas but, I guess that doesn’t count. He was getting the shit kicked out of him on the left, knee to the back and then a deliberate shove for good measure.
Then again may not matter because we have a far more critical problem for us which people seem to be ignoring, any good threat on freekicks. Where we got them yesterday – I should have been on the edge of my seat waiting for a goal, instead I was thinking is this hitting the wall, or missing by a mile?
As for Obertan, my take is people are so desperate for something to be excited about, they’ve latched on and will quickly slag him soon as he doesn’t do a few things wrong.
We took too long to get started yesterday and that is a trend of this (and last season even with Ronaldo), we think we can just turn it on, sometimes it works but, other times like the game last week, we never get it going. We need to come out a lot stronger and put teams under pressure from the get go.
Overall it was a good performance against a not very good team. I am looking forward to next week when we have got to win IMO. Fletcher playing and him not being rusty will be key. Wouldn’t it be something if SAF pulled a Hargo rabbit out of his hat for the game – not going to happen but, can dream.
Evra was MotM for me…amazing player, and we just take the left back position for granted….
Obertan will be class…his nerves were letting him down.
Can you imagine the amount of sheer pace with Obertan & Valencia on the wings and the twins as fullbacks?Jeez….scary…huh?