It's not often that the so called 'big-four' fail to muster a goal between themselves in the same weekend. One might say that then nobody should feel down as every other team dropped--but Manchester United will. Chelsea were playing (their shite) without knowing that Liverpool was doing the same at Anfield. Arsenal of course were, well, I'm speechless. United on the other hand knew that all their rivals had dropped points before kick-off at Villa Park. It was hurting therefore thatwe were almost fearing to attack the Villains or villagers (call them what you like). There was impressive record that United had at that ground heading into the match--so we all expected something of the sort....well unfortunately, football does not always go according to the form book.
Fergie paired Rooney and Tevez upfront--our starting pair in our very successful season last year--not bad huh! I must say Tevez was not exactly into shape as he wasted a couple of good balls. Rooney himself must be suffering from the 99th goal syndromme--when you get there, you take ages to add on. He had our best chance of the game and only he knows why he had to go for power and I mean POWER! He should have scored.
Ronaldo was not getting any protection from the ref and so that nullified our main route to goal.
Let me save you the verbal rant and just say that it was a frustrating day at the office.
On the brighter note, this might just be a point gained for United. This Aston Villa side is not like the one that put up the white flag before half-time for the last 11 years. Secondly Brad Friedel is one of those goal-keepers that will hardly put a foot wrong when United come to town--so any hopes of a mistake at the other end were as good as absent. And we cannot rule out the fact that Villa themselves certainly could have had the goal they wanted as they had a good measure of shots on target. Credit to the Minister of Defence--Rio Ferdinand and his Deputy--Nemanja Vidic. Agbonlahor has given most defences a terrible time at the office so it was good to come out with a clean sheet.
It's a tough call on any team to play 3 away games in 8 days. We have to fly to Spain and play on Tuesday and then play the bitters away on Sunday. Hopefully it will be week to remember for us. Till then, yours truly is out!
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