With United 2-1 down away at Southampton today, Robin van Persie won a penalty thanks to a reckless challenge from behind. The Dutchman stepped up to score his second equalising goal of the game but then took a bizarre penalty, a poor attempt at an Andrea Pirlo from this summer’s Euro 2012, and the keeper saved it.
Thankfully, Van Persie went on to score two goals in the last few minutes to wrap up the three points for United.
“It’s three points and a little headache for me,” Robin told Sky Sports and MUTV. “I don’t know what I was thinking with the penalty, I wanted to hit it hard like I always do but at the last second I changed my mind, somehow. That wasn’t good enough so that was a bit of a down. I’m quite disappointed to be fair. I ask a certain standard from my game and when something like that happens, when you’re 2-1 down, you can’t take a penalty like that. It is me who is to blame. I don’t know what went wrong but something went wrong big time, so I have to work on that. After that I was very relieved that we got the three points, trust me.”
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No panenka shit next time….. Hit like a bullet please
Everyone screws up a penalty from time tot time.
You won the game for us!
Its OK nobody covered themselves in glory. And thank your luck Nani’s beat the first man on this rare occasion. lol
Ok, so the pens need a little work. But Robin could start to grow on one.
GREAT GAME…… but please sort the midfield Fergie! I’m getting to old for this from the likes of Southampton!
3 goals helps us to forgive…
“Fuuuuuckk off Wayne-Rooney, moneygrabbing fucking fat monkey, twoooo hundred and fity grand a week!? to be a chain smoker and overweight!”
Viva RVP!
Fergie on RVP I think this could be a good signing for us MUTV
Sir Alex Ferguson expressed his shock towards his striker’s penalty approach: “I was surprised he took it that way. Normally, he rattles them in the net. Every time I’ve seen him he thunders it home left and right. Maybe he was over-confident. He bailed us out anyway with the two goals late on.”
At least we didn’t pay the penalty. Nice save Robin.
Fergie said that Scholes changed when he come on, his range of passing was exceptional……. So Fergie you know we have a problem so go and sign a midfield player
we need a banner at ot ‘Van persie is soo good he scores Nani’s corners’
Even I don’t know what he was thinking when he took that, and I don’t know why, but when a left-footed player goes to take a penalty I always think “there he goes to miss it” and it happened again today when RvP stepped up for that one, I was thinking “Ok the keeper already knows where that one’s going”, and indeed he dived the right way, but to be honest RvP just “caressed” that ball while trying a Panenka, when he should have gone for power and the top corner, no missing it there unless you do a Nani or Young type of shooting
But RvP cleaned up the mess with 2 other goals to net his first hat-trick with the club, so start writing songs about him guys
Carrick, and also Cleverley, what the eff was that? Absolutely horrendous, almost scary to watch where Carrick will pass the ball to. Kagawa should play with Scholes in the middle.
We can t rely on Cleverley…he will be good, but now we have someone like Scholes but younger…he will cost much…but we have no choice…we neeeeeeeed midfield player…
Carrick is the worst! Player I’ve ever seen in a united shirt I don’t know what fergie sees in him, he is not supposed to be playing at a club like man utd and also we need to be more offensive in defence we can’t continue conceeding goals like this.
That’s how we both roll these days. Robin van is a big Dutch man, he’ll score goals whenever he can, try and give him a kick and hell make you look a dick,rob van dutchman
Forget it, he’s learnt, he’ll never try that again!! He also knew what he needed to do to put it right and yet another top class player who appreciates the value of the legend that is Paul Scholes
Just hammer them from now on.
Daniel:
“we need to be more offensive in defence”
Offensive in defence.. Interesting idea. Do you mean we put some strikers on our defense?
I still can’t believe we didnt sign Dembele. He looked class against us for Fulham and on the weekend for Spurs.
You could see Rvp expression the moment he hit it that he knew he screwed it. But a hattrick helps people forget things, like how we still depend on a 38yr old
I think he still would of got a ticking off, I remember Nani said they had played well but Ferguson was not happy because of the chances they had missed and they got the hair dryer treatment but Scholes and Giggs go it even worse as they were older.
Daniel
Either you haven’t seen much of United playing football, OR you are lying.
Either way:
- Carrick is NOT the worst player ever seen in a united shirt
- He IS supposed to be playing at a club like Man Utd.
- we DON’t need to be more offensive in defense. We played with 2 wingbacks, that’s already an extremely offensive defense. Should we play with 1 CH and 2 wingbacks? No.
Midfield just needs adjusting a tad
I also dont know why so many have a go at Carrick – hes a pretty good Mid-Fielder but I dont think hes is the out and out Defensive Mid-fielder we need sometimes
But seriously with both Rio and NV as centre-backs we should have been fine
I do hope though that Fletcher gets back to playing that all were miss i reckon at the moment.
RVP,you’re a winner on a winners team,leave the aplogizes behind
Great game. Sad a team like Manchester United has to rely on Paul Scholes (still). Almost 38… Don’t get me wrong, Scholes is the most amazing midfielder the Premier League has got but a team like MU should have a correct replacement by this time. My stomach burns when I see Modric play like he did last weekend on the Madrid shirt when he should had been red.
DreadedRed..why are we so veiled when it comes to loopholes in our team.?Majority in this site would love a flawless united..Carrick is not the worse midfielder in united shirt.Accepted.BUT this midfield is bleeding..This midfield has failed me and others last year.This midfield made me nervous and sick.This midfield affects my BP..And it was obvious that Carrick is never a holding midfieler,but an offensive one..Fergie said in modern football,you only need anticipation as a holding midfielder.But i didn’t see the quality in carrick..How would i?i live dangerously in every match in the face of a collapsing midfield..United defence is the best in the world.Why?The defence has no shield from the midfield since the days of keanos,and yet we survive.The boss knew it,but turned a blind eye..
abubakar iya girei
It is the supporters who are veiled to the loop-holes in our team, they’re not in the loop.
There is far more to football than meets the eye of the beholder.
Carrick’s key stats are excellent. He was possibly our best player last season, although outshone by Valencia, Scholes, and Rooney. Holding the team together is less glamourous than launching attacks. Without Carrick, we would not have challenged for the title.
In my view, Carrick’s anticipation is top-notch, and is on a par with Ferdinand’s.