Sunday 3 January 2010

Manchester United vs Leeds United

Quite frankly that was rather embarrassing. Three shots on target the whole match. Three losses in the last three weeks. Here's mine, and a fellow Internet user's, take on it.

Kuszczak - 6 - Why doesn't he yell at his defenders when they're being complete idiots? He just sits there and takes it. van der Sar would most likely have personally strangled Brown's head off. Should've done way way better on the goal.

Fabio - 6 - To be honest, he's a liability defensively, but he was better on the ball than any of our midfielders, and by quite some distance too. Needs to learn to cross and the idea is you put the ball in the box away from anyone not wearing your colour.
Brown - 4 - Had the right idea, it was just having a clue to go with it.
If you asked him to get a glass of water, he'd probably find a glass, find the kitchen sink, then somehow drown himself.
Evans - 5 - Distribution; first, learn what it even means, then, attempt to be less rubbish at it. Better than Brown however, and better at coping with a pacy centre forward who backs into you.
Neville - 6 - Terrible for about half hour, then stopped relying on Brown and Obertan who may as well have not been on the same team. Livelier in the second half.

Welbeck - 5 - Not a winger, not left footed. For the billionth time. Didn't work before, and is most likely related to the whole not actually being a left footed winger thing.
Gibson - 6 - Still showed glimpses of the promise gone before; perhaps should've been subbed instead of Anderson but this is probably due to the fact he actually threatens the goal when he shoots.
Anderson - 6 Great decision to take him off at a time when he was single handedly trying to be our midfield, and replace him with someone who isn't a midfielder. Needs to keep on at that shooting practice.
Obertan -
5 - Today looked like a slightly confused spoon, and needs to actually pay attention to the game more; got in the way of Gary Neville, don't even remember him attempting a cross. And he's a winger.

Rooney - 7 - Very good. Not Peter Crouch, so not too many more long balls that you expect him to win. The best attacking outlet we have, shame no-one else really stood up.
Berbatov - 6 - He's a centre forward, how about we play him as one from time to time? Silky touches and was pretty much pivotal to anything half-decent-to-good that we did the whole match. Only had one sight of goal. Looked like he could've strangled a couple of other players at times.

SUBS:
Giggs - 6 - Good when he was in the middle. The art of standing somewhere to receive the ball, and then passing it forwards to someone wearing the same colour shirt as you.
A concept too confusing for either Anderson or Gibson to even comprehend today.
Valencia - 7 -
It was slightly embarrassing because all he did was show how rubbish Leeds actually were, and how useless we must be to not be beating them.
Owen - 5 - It's like he only has one foot, and his left leg just drifts around the pitch with him to help him stay upright. Missed the ball from ten yards out with a clear sight at goal. Should've buried it.

Team selection was questionable in my opinion, but I'm not Sir Alex Ferguson, he has his reasons so I won't go into that. Man City on Wednesday. Fingers crossed!

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