Full time, 2-0.
A steady performance from us, nothing too exciting. RvP looked pretty sharp considering this is his first match since the start of December. Rafael was good, Evra wasn't. Evra looks a massive liability in defence. Smalling and Evans were comfortable at centre back, though Evans kept trying to attack too much.
Jones was good as a 'destroyer' but he's not a midfielder after all, his passing ability is very poor. He's like a terrible Yaya Toure. Giggs was Giggs, tidy but very steady. Young was rather good, (pretty much) assisting the first and scoring the second (which was a great strike), it'd be nice if he could maintain that level but I bet he won't. Valencia had one of his better games too.
Mata wasn't bad, he was tidy but looked short of match fitness. We need to see him on the pitch with Rooney alongside him, as well as RvP and one of Kagawa and Januzaj, that's where he'll shine. He was ahead of RvP a lot of the time which was strange, he's meant to be behind the striker not ahead of him. I guess RvP is used to dropping deep, so that's something to work on.
I thought we seemed to be playing at a very slow tempo, but Cardiff had plenty of men behind the ball so it wasn't easy to get forward.
Cardiff weren't bad themselves, a few decent attacking moves and some of their players don't look bad.
Need to build on this and go on a good run of winning games now.
