Manchester 2-0 Liverpool - Goal Videos
When the 5-time European champions are outmuscled by Darren Fletcher, you know there’s a serious problem.
The ‘Scottish Player’ has had a fantastic start to the season and he repayed the faith his manager has put in him in spades today, showing the type of commitment and tenacity that Alonso, Crouch and most of the Liverpool squad would have killed for.
To get an idea of how the game went….the biggest threat to van der Sar was a Peter Crouch tackle when EVDS was hoofing it out of the United box and Crouch, recklessly, slid in to prevent the shot. EVDS was toppled, the ball was upfield and Crouch, a sub, was yellow-carded.
United missed Ronaldo’s creative spark and suffered a bit early on in midfield but they got control of the game pretty soon and despite banging in half a dozen goals they dominated and came out deservedly on top.
Is Liverpool’s title chase now over? Reina thought that it would be if Liverpool lost to Manchester United here…it would be interesting to hear whether Pepe has given up on the Premiership title with a good 30 games still to go.
It looks to me that Ferdinand has a lost a bit of pace, because Gonzalez outsped him on the flank…
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Quit simply a really good perfromance from United , they took the game to liverpool. Even without ronaldo on the wings fletcher managed to do a great job and all the credit to him .I really can’t hide my joy , so thrilled to have beaten the old rivals and hope we go on to lift the premier league trophy and bring it back to manchester where it belongs ! Man U , Pride of the North West !!
Nah, that’s Speedy Gonzalez - seen him in other games too..that Chilian is Ronnie-fast (without the accuracy or a deadly shot
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For a defender, Ferdinand sure seemed to control the ball well and shoot like a pro goalscorer. That was special - ofcourse now we gotta wait for 50 more games for another from him.
A very solid performance from United, who look like the main challengers to 2nd place.
Despite the 4-0 win over Reading, Arsenal look like the middlemen with Liverpool now looking like 4th place contenders.
Another strong performance from my own Tottenham will get the WHL faithful eyeing 5th spot hungrily, but still a way to go before that is realised.
The reason for Uniteds success, I think, will be the solidity and reliability of key players to perform consistently across the whole season - Scholes was magnificent, Giggs looked as fresh as ten years ago and as someone who is firmly in the King camp when it comes to England centre backs: hats off to Ferdinand who made his difficult goal look a very simple affair.
As you rightly said Van Der Sar’s only real problem was getting skinned by an off-colour crouch. Not Liverpools best work by a long chalk and consistency is a real problem for “rotation-Rafa” to ponder.
‘A very solid performance from United, who look like the main challengers to 2nd place’
What are you on?? were main challengers for first place yido, Arsenal will struggle soon, as the team is good but the squad rotation will slowly feel the pain like Liverpool just did, Man UTD are in a similar position to Chelski, we have talent on the bench all the time that can change a game, we just decked Liverpool without our current star man and Im not on about HEINZE!! Man UTD for the premiership, Jose Mourinho will be sacked should he not win the champs league
What am I on? A healthy cupful of reality mate!
You won’t beat Chelsea to the title, they’re just too strong. It’s a straight scrap for second between you and L’Arse.
Believe me, in the Keegan sense ‘I’d love’ to see Chelsea come 2nd - doesn’t look likely though with that squad…
Yeah,yeah,yeah,we had a good game against Liverpool,but it wasn’t because we were pushing all cylinders,but because “Mr Rotation” couldn’t pick the best team to beat us!We still have a problem with our midfield as there is no “enforcer” in our ranks,and PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE dont mention carrick as even a short-term solution to that problem!If Hargeraves/Senna respectively cant/wont come,we should go for a tried and tested premiership midfielder,that isnt too high profile that will fill the missing link,allowing Scholes to go forward and get goals in his usual goal-poaching pattern,and sheilding the back four!The particular midfielder that I have in mind currently plays for Portsmouth,namely Pedro Mendes!In all the games that this guy has played,he has not been dominated,even if his team has been beaten!Please let us send out this rallying cry that SAF and his bungling transfer team buy this guy in January!
Chelsea are a bunch of players in need of a workable system (much like England). Arsenal are a very good time with a bit of inconsistency due to their youthfull side. Liverpool cannot get consistency because of Rafa’s rotation policy and Spurs don’t have enough quality throughout their side. Man U are on the up again. Fergie has been building for the future and it’s starting to come together. I sincerely hope and believe that we can pip Chelsea to the league title this season!
I could be having the worst day of my life but beating lfc would make up for it. Especially when only a scouser could complain about the opositions celebration of a goal.
I used to follow the line of scousers being hard but fair, maybe that only applies in the dole queue.
All in all in don’t give a flying f as LFC got beat. Fan-fecking-tastic.