ANOTHER GAME OUT OF THE WAY, BUT MORE INJURIES FOR UNITED---MAN UNITED VS TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR REVIEW!


If there is anyone who at any one point doubted the strength in depth of Manchester United, here's some news for you: Sir Alex will be without 11 established players for his the visit to the Hawthorns on Tuesday evening--and yet he will still have substitutes wanting to come on from his bench. It's certainly not a scenario that Manchester United fans would want but fate robbed us of two more bodies during the FA Cup tie with Spurs yesterday. Dannny Welbeck and Fabio da Silva will join another 9 players on the sidelines. There are a few United fans who must be cursing our progress in the Cup competitions as we are really running short of fuel for the league run-in. Such is the fixture congestion for United that the worst result we could have got yesterday was not a defeat but a draw. Thankfully, we did avoid the draw and hopefully, the Merseyside Derby will not end in draw as we would have lost our advantage of playing Eveton on a Monday next week.

About the game, United did get the usual shock that has been accustomed with the visit of Harry Redknapp to OT. I was particularly thankful that United conceded the goal quite early as that usually awakens us. If Pompey last season had scored as early as Spurs did yesterday, we would surely have got the goal we looked so desperately for.

Carrick was provider for both Scholes and Berbatov to turn the game on its head. However, United tend to slow down when they are back in control and that is the only explanation to a boring second half. It seemed as though players wanted to conserve some of their energy for Tuesday and who can blame them. There is however one point of concern for me and that is United's reluctance to shoot from out of the box more often. Clearly, our two goals came from shots outside the box so I was rather disappointed to see the lads try to break the Spurs defence even within the six yard box. This is where I urge the midfielders to pick the mantle from Paul Scholes and shoot often regardless of how many players are blocking the view of goal--deflections are another method of getting goals!
And as I blog-off, I get the terrible news from Anfield. Liverpool and Everton is a stalemate again so we'll have to play our game against the Blues on a Saturday instead of a Monday! It's sad as we could use a couple of days of rest. Ten there is the incentive of playing them when we know the Chelsea-Liverpool result! Hard-luck!

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