An exhilarating exhibition of counter-attacking football saw United move clear at the summit of the League table--beating the basement club West Brom 0-5.
One of the many reasons as to why I admire Sir Alex is because he never lets everything out to the press. He spent the weekend lamenting about the number of bodies in the United treatment room and yet he alone knew that three of his injured players would recover in time for the match. Whilst everyone got talking about Fletcher playing at right-back and Neville in Central defence, Sir Alex went about surprising fans and haters alike by naming Park, Ferdinand, and Wes Brown in the team--Just what we needed.
After approaching the game with a little pessimism, I certainly got confident when the teams came out. Park is naturally a creative force, Giggs is naturally a genius and Rio is naturally a leader.
United took the lead through Berbatov who I must say has finally silenced his critics. Sir Alex backed the Bulgarian to come good after Wayne's injury and he has certainly come good--just about in time. His calam goals and link-up play sort of take the nerves out of our team and suddenly everyone is playing with such composure!
Carlos Tevez is definitely not a player to sit on the bench. He has given us that engine power that Wayne Rooney gives us. A couple of goals plus millions of energy watts have ensured that we remain a threat upfront in all games we have been without Rooney.
For me, Giggs has not ha a bad game this season and there is something about him taking corner-kicks that United like. His corner kicks have yielded the most goals this season. Vidic and Ronaldo certainly approve of that.
The Serbian has now netted as many goals as you can ever hope for from a centre-back in in a season--we will miss him at the San Siro (but hopefully only for that one). Ronaldo has now netted twice in a game for United 21 times. He certainly looked over the moon after scoring his goals. The golden boot award is up for grabs this season as there are not many up for it so a scoring run till the end of the season could win him yet another accolade.
Then there is that League record that Van Der Sar now holds for number of minutes gone without conceding a goal. Long may that continue! Our record at the back started with a 5-0 drubbing of Stoke so hopefully it will not end with a 5-0 rout of West Brom.
It's certainly a happy day for United--Over to you Brucey!
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