THE SMALL MATTER OF WINNING A FOOTBALL MATCH---FC PORTO VS MAN UNITED PREVIEW!


Part 2 of United's make or break week takes place on Wednesday night in Portugal where the reds have to almost certainly win to progress to the Champions League semifinals. Elimination at the last 8 stage has never been shameful as the competition deals with only the best that Europe has to offer, but given our opposition, you would think that this tie should have been over in the first leg. No disrespect to Porto but United are technically a better team but if that can be proved by United in one night is another matter. The thing is that United are wobbly given their performances over the last month and any team almost looks as if it stands a chance against us. Porto are Portugal's best team so you'd think that they can easily ride home their advantage much better than Sunderland and Aston Villa. Given that it's hard to picture a three all draw in this one, I'd think that the only route for United is victory.
As far as tactics in this game are concerned, I think we need to attack till we drop. I mentioned that United cannot buy a clean sheet at the moment so it may come down to how well we do in the final third rather than how well we defend. Ferdinand should start so we virtually have our best defence over in Porto. Giggs will replace Scholes in the middle so that means creativity is guaranteed. I wonder however how Fergie will use his attackers. If we fail to score by half-time, I'd like to think that Fergie will put out the fantastic 4 all at once---besides, what have we to lose. If this game had come in the middle of January, we would all hope for a goal and the defence would have done the rest. Unfortunately, that may not be an option tomorrow as we are most certainly to concede. That means we might as well concede 2 goals for as long as we score three!
The last time we lost in Europe, we had the second leg away from home. Since then, we've always had the second leg at home and have made it to every other round unbeaten. Tomorrow, however, we have to call on the travelling support to BELIEVE and get the players going if we are to avoid another premature exit from Europe. As a matter of fact, I do not think we will get a better chance to get to the final than we do have this season. Evra, EVDS, Ronaldo will start after missing all or part of the action on Saturday. Come on UNITED!

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