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VIDEO: United's Goals and Penalty Miss Against Fulham

  • August 22, 2010

Scott Patterson

Scott is the editor of RoM and has a season ticket at Old Trafford. He started The Republik of Mancunia in March 2006. Follow @R_o_M on Twitter or @R_o_M7 on Instagram.

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47 Comments

catotraa August 22, 2010
fuck

but
BELIVE


After all, it's not like we have relied on winning the first two matches in later seasons anyways. Just hope they wake the fuck up
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Dela August 22, 2010
Traditional bad result in first few games, luckily it came at Craven Cottage and not somewhere like Turf Moor like last year. Few problems need to be addressed but overall, we were lucky to come away with a point.

What a smashing goal from Scholesy :-)
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Gotta hate tiny tears August 22, 2010
A crap

dust it off and move on
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Don Pablo August 22, 2010
442 is about having a strong mid mostly and good strikers secondly. Its obvious we need a good central midfielder. Fuck that defensive/ attacking midfielder BS. We need a good Central Midfielder, in the Fletcher/Hargo mode. Someone who can comfortably break play and equally instigate attacks. Don't know who fits that description and is available. If not we should stick with three in the middle against any half decent team or risk our mid being run over.
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RedScot August 22, 2010
Paul was just brilliant i hit the roof when he scored who said he was not Magic. total class. swept in with pure skill. Loved the players embracing him. United through and through.
This is a minor set back hardly catastrophic its a fucking marathon not the hunner metere's.
i will bet yeah we fire at least 5 past West ham.
Believe
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Devil Without A Cause August 22, 2010
RedScot.

if u remember Scholes bullet was in my ammunition list today........
so you just got served.......

anyways that was a trademark Scholes shot.........
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Rucien August 22, 2010
@Don Pablo
Michael Essien 1) add player manager 2) team chelsea 3)???? 4) Profit!!
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Jezz09 August 22, 2010
Hate to throw blame, but VDS should have got a stronger hand to at least one of their goals. Nani should have started the game aswel
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RedScot August 22, 2010
@ Devil without a cause if you care to read my post on the pre match Fulham thread when i posted my comments.
you are right though total class to be admired and just United
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James546 August 22, 2010
@ DonPablo
I don't really understand you, we've already got Fletch the man but are you saying we need two Fletchers in midfield???
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jellybean August 22, 2010
Utd can make me happy even when i break up with my boyfriend. sadly they drew the day i happened to do that :(
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JonyB August 22, 2010
Scholes and Berbatov carried United attack today. Hernandez still bedding himself in but showed good glimpses... Scholes again United's man-of-the-match. A SCholes Cracker for his 150th! Thought this result was lost (I know it was a draw but feels like a loss!) at the back where we were completely inept (except Evra & VDS). Vida, Evans and O'SHea were about good enough for a Wigan defence with those performaces. Thought Fletcher faded far too much and Park was his normal quality on the ball.....At least we know Fletcher, Evans and Vida can play better; whilst Park's performances are always about effort rather than quality and it was about O'Shea's normal level of performance... Come on Rafeal!
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Fze123 August 22, 2010
The drama that occured in the last 5-10 minutes and the disappointment I felt afterwards made me forget Scholes lovely strike. Paul Scholes, he scores goals...
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willierednut August 22, 2010
jellybean - Never worry girl, plenty more fish in the sea.
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kinghthood August 22, 2010
why the did Nani take the penalty? were we had Giggs, Berba, Owen, Scholes who all can take it
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bruce thomas August 22, 2010
Evans and O'Shea were hopeless -- make that fucking hopeless. Evans even makes Vidic nervy and unsettles everyone. O'Shea has the first touch of the Yorkshire Ripper. Now we're already playing catch up after a winning run of one game. No designated penalty taker -- how professional is that? As a stop-gap get Anderson back and play 3 across the middle. But as we have failed to strengthen with quality AGAIN we can expect more of the same -- as long as we kisss the Glazers' arses and let them steal our transfer funds.
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Costas August 22, 2010
@jellybean

His loss. You still have all of us. ;)

Always a pleasure to watch a Scholes rocket. Never a pleasure to see us concede goals like that.
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bruce thomas August 22, 2010
@ Red Scot

"a minor setback"

Can I remind you that we lost the title last season by the minor setback of one single point. Today we just chucked away two. The ref made two major wrong calls in our favour. We could've gone 3-1 up with minutes to play and we still managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. A fucking disgrace actually.
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kel August 22, 2010
@kinghthood

I felt strange too. I thought giggs could have taken it. However, this is Nani first missed penalty. His past penalty was really good. Although his penalty can be taken better but it was not a poor penalty but a bad penalty.
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Costas August 22, 2010
One of the reds in the other thread mentioned that the new Fulham goalie could be the hero today. I was afraid of that too to be honest. Nani's penalty wasn't too bad.
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Tonka Norris August 22, 2010
Maybe Scott has the stats to prove me wrong but it seems that whenever we score early we go on to struggle in the game. It's like the fire goes out.
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Berbatov August 22, 2010
BLOODY NANI PISSED ME OFF! ONE SUSPECTS HE WAS CHOSEN TO GIVE HIM CONFIDENCE AND BE OUR CREATIVE LEADER BUT WHAT CRAP.

I WOULD HAVE LET HIM TAKE THAT PENALTY IF WE WERE 3-1 UP NOT 2-1. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIGGS, OWEN, OR BERBATOV WHO SHOULD HAVE TAKEN IT.

BLOODY IDIOT NANI, I AM PEED OFF WITH HIM.
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Ji sun wank August 22, 2010
Park should get 2 out of ten tops, and thats being generous!
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Gaffer August 22, 2010
Nani isnt a matchwinner. His sloopy free-kick wasnt good enough either. In these situasions we need maturity and power. Giggs, Scholes, Fletcher. Roo.
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Don Pablo August 22, 2010
James546..I meant we need another solid central midfielder in the Fletch mould. For all of Scholes' attacking brilliance, he offers limited protection to the back four. So if we wanna play two in the middle, we need another strong central midfielder. If not, stick three in the middle.
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bigphil2003 August 22, 2010
Fucking haters. Gutted but we'll move on. We're 3 points better off than the last time we played these two fixtures. Giggs probably should have took it but not gonna hold it against Nani, at least he had the balls to step up. Park put in a great shift.
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bigphil2003 August 22, 2010
Also Owen and Berba have both missed much worse pens than that before and to my knowledge scholes has never taken a pen in a game before.
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Costas August 22, 2010
@bigphil2003

Scholes took 2 penalties and scored with them something like 10 years ago. Not the go to guy in these situations. Should have been Giggs given that he took them against Spurs.

Or maybe OG, who had just broken the duck for his season.
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willierednut August 22, 2010
Scholes scored a penalty against Madrid in the champions league quarter final at OT, 99/00 season i think.
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Costas August 22, 2010
@willierednut

Correct. And the other was at PSV Einhoven in the 00-01 season.
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bigphil2003 August 22, 2010
@willie and costas - my bad, thanks for the corrections!
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StatesideAussie August 23, 2010
The first 20-25 mins, we were fantastic. Creative, dominant, threatening, score a beauty. Berbatov and Scholes were outstanding. Then Fulham came back into, didn't they. Hard to tell, on TV, why that was but it looked as if we conceded a bit in the middle. Gotta say, there was some woeful defending. Others have picked on Vidic and Evans, I'm gonna pick on O'Shea, though the others aren't blameless.

Having said all that, there were still some good signs today. And some of the comments on here are totally negative. I mean, jeez, we are traditionaly a slow-starting club. Normally, we are not fully into our stride until Christmas or the New Year. Yet this year already we have played very well to dominate chelski in the Shield, thumped Newcastle (who themselves went on to bury Villa 6-0), and have now drawn away to a mid-table club who had the better of us last year (and who recorded 11 of their 12 PL wins when playing at home). And this, with our talisman striker sick (and out of form). It ain't the end of the world, I tell you!
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joseph August 23, 2010
Except for the penalty miss, i thought nani was the best player on the pitch, way better than valencia or park. He should have started.
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Kevin August 23, 2010
I am shocked, as usual, with some of the ridiculous comments of anger. We went into a tough place, against a good team, and got a draw. Yes we should have won but Fulham pulled it off. I thought Nani played well, besides his obvious penalty miss, he played in good crosses and took men on, winning corner after corner. And it was his corner that lead to the own goal. So please, don't blame a substitute for a loss.

I am not trying to argue if it was a well played game on our part because it clearly was not a good game. I didn't think it was our worst performance of all time but it was an early season game in which one player made their full debut, another got their first competitive match of the season, and another played their first full match of the season after nearly a month off.

With that said the weaker points were O'Shea and Evans. They are starting slow this year and both looked slow and out paced. Evans was off all day and never got going. I can think of one or two things he did right today but it is still early and he is still maturing. O'Shea is more difficult. Rafael has been in good form and had a good pre-season and really should be the number one choice based on O'Shea's form in the last two games. But it is still early in the season. It is going to be a season and to get so worked up over the second game is the wrong way to go.
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Doghouse August 23, 2010
I agree about the tough place and the tough team. That was the same side that put four past Juventus, give or take. People are letting Chelsea worry them, but we always knew Chelsea could stuff shit teams all day long, that was never in doubt, you won't beat Chelsea in the league if you are relying on them to choke against dregs, because that's one thing they don't do. Even in a great season United will drop points it's a given. It's nothing to panic over at this early stage and to such opposition.

We went up against a team in a managerial honeymoon, who have great spirit, who work hard for each other, play on a very narrow pitch, with good players, and we should have lost because of Vidic giving away a clear penalty that went unseen, not to mention VDS having to keep us in the game with some great saves. Saves isn't even the right word for the double he pulled off, it was magic. Hard game, hard opponents, disappointing result, but it happens. Given how Vidic was playing and how out of sorts the lads were looking late on, especially with the ref being such a nob, I think we can count ourselves lucky nobody got booked, and any game where you don't get an injury is also a plus.

I said about Newcastle that the result we got against them was brilliant because they are actually a decent team, and they proved me right against Villa, and I'll say the same about Fulham. They are a good team and they going to take a lot of points at home this season and surprise a lot of teams.

We're four points from two and we have not played an easy game yet. Not bad I'd say.
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Manchuchu August 23, 2010
O Shea going forward was about as useful as nipples on a toaster

I'm especially cut because we HAD that game. Peno notwithstanding, defence was a complete shambles. Evans looked lost at times. Fuckin woeful.

Team Berbachick is gonna take time but already shows glimpses of promise.

And fuck do we need a box to box CM. Scweinsteiger come to the sweetie man. Come come.
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hurr August 23, 2010
Ugh...Nani, why?? The CL final didn't faze you so why now? ;_;
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Raj_Red_Devil August 23, 2010
We dropped the points but I'm just glad that Mr. Own Goal is back for us.
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wiuru August 23, 2010
It was ours to throw away and we did . Just got to take it on the chin , hope they learn from it and press the advantage when we have it .
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huzi August 23, 2010
What we need right now is not to buy any players, what we really need is a fit Hargo. Damn hope he does wear the United shirt again. :(
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Gorse Hill Red August 23, 2010
The match feels like a loss but its the start of the season and we never start well. Just wonder if Fulham will play like that against Chelsea.
Anyway we move on and the likes of Hernandez will soon find his feet, don't have much hope for Berbatov after this game missed, a few chances squandered yet again.
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obertanthenewstar August 23, 2010
missed chances?? i didnt really see any easy chances
and atleast he attempted to try and score... did park even run down the line or attempt the shoot the whole time he was on? we needed nani on from the start.. and the amount of times oshea gives the ball away is unreal... BRING RAFA IN... he played rubbish against newcastle.. why is he still in the team????
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KIngOfStretfordEnd August 23, 2010
Statistically speaking,we've improved from last 2 season.I'm just as aggrieved cos we had a splendid chance to win it with the penalty. Or we could have just defended much more better with the set piece at the end.So close yet so far.So its natural that we think of this as 2 points lost than 1 point gained.But, its a tough place to go, and i'm glad that we're getting the tough fixtures now,i'd be glad even if we win them 1 nil.I'm sort of happier with our attack no, as compared to last season,but as i've mentioned before, its the defence that needs a shaking up

Come on everybody,its daft to be disheartened after 2 games.We've not started the season with 2 wins for a long time now.We'll be up for the Hammers.
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James546 August 23, 2010
@ DonPablo
We can't possibly play 2 Fletchers in midfield because we have to break opposition as most teams defend against us. We usually do this with a mix of energy and creativity (Fletcher Scholes) though tracking back is an issue because teams try to hit us on the break and Scholes being much older may be at fault for not being able to cope opposition player forward runs so we basically need a younger Paul Scholes. The problem is there are few players out there meeting the requirements. A number of them have not lived up to the hype and I think Matty James may actually have something to offer our club in the near future. I believe if they are not much better out there, its safer to remain in house. Though Daniel De Rossi (The poor man's Roy Keane) plays a bit like Scholes with longe range passing and swicthing flanks, he tends to lean more towards the ohysical side of the game so we may just be getting another Fletcher with him. I believe in the Fergie philosophy that if they are not much better out there, we'd rather stay in house and look to the kids. As for Gibson, he's just a plain centre midfielder with a good shot but no future Paul Scholes (that doesn't make him bad).
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Gee August 23, 2010
Not a great result but we always have a dodgy start to the season. I really dont understand why Rafael isnt starting at RB, I think O'Shea is a great squad player but he shouldnt be our first choice RB. We seemed to be a bit week down the right and Valencia seemed off the boil. And although Berba played well (and Im not hating him) for me he was getting in Hernandez way, if the ball looked like it was going to drop nicely for Hernandez, Berba some how got a nod or a touch that stopped it getting to him, both need to work on their communication and get that sorted. Also at times our midfield had MASSIVE gaps init which just isnt acceptable at this level!! I just hope they pick up and move on and put a full 90 mins in as good as the first 20!!
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SmartAlex August 23, 2010
Sometimes I buy a lottery ticket, and I'm always disappointed even though I expected to lose.
Being 2 : 1 up, with a penalty awarded, I expect to win. I feel gutted.

In the greater scheme of a 38 game title race, drawing away to Fulham when we're not playing that well, is a good result.

We are joyous when we win the Premiership by 1 point, and devastated when we lose by 1 point.
This is the cross we bear as perennial contenders.

We know that 1 draw can cost us dear. It can also be enough to win the title.
Fortunately, being Manchester United means playing up to the final whistle of last game.
My bum ain't squeaking yet.
We will win number 19 this year.
I Believe!
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RedKeighley August 23, 2010
What I cant understand is why change a winning team this early in the season. It was only the second game of the season and we had won 3-0 on Monday night so other than a replacement for Rooney why drop Nani to the bench and play Park who at times yesterday looked as if he had never seen a football before! I know its a squad game but surely this early in the season we should be building for consistency of performance and developing what in effect will be the "first choice team"
O'Shea is too slow and was caught out of position too often giving the Fulham left back far too much space to make lots of crosses into the box - lets hope Rafael will be back soon - Wes Brown would be a better choice than O'Shea.
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