As Henry Winter of the Telegraph wrote, no Ronaldo, no Tevez, no Rafael, no Ferdinand, no problem! United breezed past the Saints yesterday as though they were not even on pitch. It was a worthy performance. The gaffer has always told our players not to shock us especially against the minnows, so thank goodness they didn't!
Danny Welbeck has yet again impressed while on senior duty. I'm thinking that the FA is lucky he's English. They finally have another player to complement the skills of Wayne Rooney upfront. It won't be long before this lad is playing in the national first team--nuff said!
Berba was simply class yesterday and it's no surprise he's many people's man of the match. His contribution to United is to more like bringing every other player into the game while measuring out attacking passes. It might be seen as useless to many but in a team whose every player has an eye for goal, he's an asset(and we all know how expensive assets can be).
Nani is still having a problem as regards to 'economising the ball'. He is as wasteful as much as he's productive. He's the only unpolished Portuguese speaker that Queiroz left unpolished but hopefully, he'll come good.
Now there is a slight concern for me as far as the entire play of the team is concerned. For starters, Manchester United is not Arsenal. When we went down to the Emirates to play them, our players tried to out-pass a team that invented 'beautiful football'. Not that United plays ugly--it's second only to Barcelona, but I'm worried by our continued reliance on the 'pass'. United have never had a problem with teams that put 11 men behind the ball but this season, it's affecting them. In such situations we changed our game to shooting from distance and more than often, a deflection would get you a goal. It's quite useless trying to thread a pass through 10 bodies in the box. Id like to see us shoot more from distance instead of shooting from the six yard box. That quality makes it hard for teams to defend against us.
Otherwise it's Spurs next in the Cup but first, we've got to put Chelsea out of their misery by shooting them in the head on Sunday. Cheers!
