Halftime update: Manchester United’s domination is useless without goals
Well, that was unfortunate…
Contrary to the press hype (they love their hype, don’t they?), Manchester United ravaged City in the opening exchanges, dominating possession and control of the game.
So why didn’t Manchester United score then?
Nani’s poor decision making. The fact that Micah Richards is having a monster of a game. Oh, and a penalty for that tackle on Evra that wasn’t given. The fact that Manchester United don’t have a traditional, tall striker who can open up the City defense for them.
You can’t do anything about poor ref decisions except hurl abuse at them (or the FA). On the other hand, I just saw a replay of that incident and Evra had already taken his shot before he was tackled, so maybe there was some justice in that.
You can’t do much if the opposition center-back is the best player on the pitch on that day.
But Nani could have made better decisions several times during the game, shooting higher, passing better, passing instead of shooting, etc. It’s harsh on him, and I think we should give him a lot more time, but it IS costing us games.
And Saha’s unavailability and the lack of a real replacement following Rooney’s injury is costing us. Everyone’s injured? So where are the replacements? We’ve talked about this several times and it was the same story last season and I said this then as well – as long as we don’t have injuries we’re fine, but the moment we get hit by them we have no backup.
Well up front, we have no backup.
The City goal – EVDS should have sighted it better, Vidic did the right thing to hang back but Rio should have probably tracked back better. Overall it was unfortunate but a very good strike by Geovanni and a deserved goal.
Manchester United now have 45 minutes to get their season back on track. If they lose this game, it’s going to be a very tough season and a very tough points difference to cut down afterwards.
Here’s to a Tevez hat trick! 
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hes to a tevez hat trick ey? i dt know if u watched the game or not but he fucked up our equaliser..
August 19th, 2007 @ 19:33lol – hope springs eternal, etc etc
August 19th, 2007 @ 19:48tevez hat trick ahmed ur kidding he was shite shite shite and some more shite with a flavour of portugal spicy Nani shite
He hardly went for aerial battles almost backed out on all of them
Only good thing out of the game was hargo
Here below copy pasting my post from red rants
“we are fucked
Tevez was shite (Probably needs match fitness but he took 20 matches to score 4 west ham )
Nani was crap scholes was frustrated with him on couple of occasions ronny was missed big time today
Hargo was briliant absolutely on the mark won most of his one on one battles and moved smooth passed smooth defended well
Evra was amazing when nani started making errors in first half evra moved up passed the ball and got the game back and even defended better
wes brown and carrick were at their usuall self nothing impressive
vidic what the fuck was that turning away bullshit man
Geovani’s strike was briliant deflection or not is debateable
Micah RICHARDs single handedly distroyed our attack every time he was there to clear things off top job by the lad
And yes finally we had the possesion we played like a team but hell we are so out of luck and fuck the flair and one touch shit get me goals i want a poacher and deadly in the box striker
All teams now know we are hopeless at spot kicks and corners fill payers in the box by numbers and we’ll blow it up god i miss Becks
Fergie why why why did ruud had to go u played shitty saha insteatd of him on that dreaded day and see today
Champions league here we come europe is the target now
August 19th, 2007 @ 19:54See i am a bit optimistic after such a pessimistic post”