When Gabriel Agbonlahor netted Villa's second goal yesterday, I wondered what it would take before we see the real Manchester United back in the groove. Clearly, the team was not as strong as we would have liked but United is not the kind of tram that needs all players available to put on a show. There were at least eight world class experienced players on the turf so that was no excuse. I blogged it here earlier that United is not the kind of team that will do things the easy way. They seem to do better when they are under pressure and one can only imagine what the press and rival fans were going to do to had the scoreline not changed after 80 minutes. Credit to the likes of Giggs and Neville who never gave up anything but kept urging their teammates on. I thought that Giggs was our man of the match. Neville, O'Shea and Evans are not our best defenders so I was never going to blame them for whatever they failed to do but Evra was somewhat close to his best. It's our defensive frailties that kept him back at times otherwise, we were on course for another good display from him. Ronaldo had a pretty decent game but his sluggishness and lack of heart caused Villa's second goal. His two goals kind of make up for that so not many will remember that error.
Old Trafford is called The Theatre of Dreams because of what happened in the last ten minutes. United finally got their act together and scored two goals to seal a potential title winning three points. The most important of those goals was scored by a certain Mr. Federico Macheda who is only 17 but can now look forward to more stints with the first team from now on! Welbeck could have been the hero, but it was probably fate gave the headlines to the kid whom people didn't know about! It was a result that will surely restore the confidence that United had lost for a while and hopefully shoot us to the finish line first.Labels: REVIEWS
