That was truly woeful yesterday, I'd have posted earlier but I'd been up since 4am and was flagging by the time I got home 6.30pm.
Ferguson cannot possibly blame the crowd for that, they were superb for the first 20 minutes, but there were zero ideas coming from the players, of which, through 90 minutes, only 2 can call themselves footballers for us.
Firstly, I'll start with the positives, Anderson and Tevez were tireless, the latter playing on his own for the entire game against one of the biggest defences in the league and doing well, if Rooney wasn't such a moron getting himself banned you could see something happening. Anderson however I thought was brilliant, he must have covered 3x the yardage of anyone else, he was immense, tracking back, bombing forward, flicking passes in and out and being our biggest threat from midfield.
Now on to the bad. Brown and Ferdinand couldn't pass a football at all. Ferdinand has been flawless this season, but today he was next to useless, I genuinely lost count of the stray passes and though his work off the ball wasn't too bad losing possession with no one behind you is less than schoolboy standard. Brown though.... Jeez, not ones did he ever track back to cover their only threat, Petrov. He just decided to walk back time and time again leading Ferdinand to kick out of touch time and time again. Woeful.
The very worst however can only be saved for those two legendary 'professionals', Giggs and Scholes who both had possibly their worst games EVER. They were ******* useless... and that's being kind. Never have I been so infuriated by lacklustre play. They did everything in slow-motion. Ronaldo didn't have the best of games, but on at least 10 occassions he made the run for a ball over the top only for Giggs to look the other way or for Scholes to put his foot on the ball, turn around a couple of times then play the 'bail out ball' to Anderson in the hope he'd create something.
It's been a long time since I've heard the OT crowd boo, venting their anger so much, especially as Man City were poor, constantly keeping the ball in the air playing spoiling tactics. Their goals being a major annoyance (obviously) because they kept trying the exact same thing... come on lads, after near post flick on corner after near post corner you should get the idea, but no, we stand off, flick on comes and it's a goal. Schoolboy.
For the sake of Man Utd I hope Ferguson ******* roasted them. If Arsenal win today that's 5 points behind and we don't look like being able to play football after seeing the last 2 games... seeing us beat Arsenal, I don't know, especially since VDS is going through yet another period of slapping everything infront of him again, could be dangerous against Arsenal. We're going to need a huge chunk of luck, but if you can't play football this close to the end of the season you don't deserve to be Champions.
Looks like Scholes coming back is the worst thing that could have happened, we've gone from a team looking like we'd beat anyone to the same old predictable Man Utd where Giggs and Scholes cost us and do things too slowly. Is it a co-incidence? Possibly, but I have my doubts.
We might have to 'do a Liverpool' and focus on Europe now. Losing to the teams we've lost at this season is a disgrace.
) but they attacked, a Lot, and they were very entertaining. even though man u were fairly poor, not on purpose, the game was great to watch because there was a lot of simply, great football, some very good attacking and some superb defending. had they gone away and defended and refused to attack it would have been a dull game.
. villa for instance are doing there hardest to play great attacking fast football, as have everton over the last 2-3 years. i would say in the past 3-4 years under moyes everton have become the , from my viewpoint, the more attacking and more enjoyable to watch team in liverpool, and have moved up the table and are seriously competing with a team spending massively more money. everton are trying to play attractive good football, they are improving, benetiz is convinced he has to play boring defensive football, liverpool are moving backwards, again, a trend maybe?
