Comments on: Should Manchester United be concerned about defending their title?

By: BD Condell

BD Condell — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:00:26 +0000

Far to early to make any judgements. As the above posters point out, the midfield disruption has been a factor. The Hull game was a bit of freak. Utd are creating a lot of chances and will score plenty of goals and with the midfield injury list reduced I have no concern over the defence.

The main factor is that Utd have not been digging out results (like Liverpool) but have won a number of games much more comfortably than the scorline has suggested. The extra goals will come and someone will get a hiding soon.

By: DarkDevil

DarkDevil — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:02:23 +0000

What I’ve noticed so far this season is that Ferdinand is making quite a few defensive errors. We’ve also been rotating the right back position quite frequently this season between Neville, Brown and Da Silva. This could be a reason for our defensive instability but I also think we’ve lacked a bit of a killer touch up front e.g. Everton. We should’ve buried them in the first half but we let them back into the game.

Ronaldo still seems to be re-discovering his killer self, Berbatov is still settling into the team (though he seems to be improving game after game).

Also, I think the fact that we’ve had a makeshift midfield for sometime now is also contributing to our lack of control over a game for the full 90. I’ll only really start panicking if we find ourselves in this predicament in March so for now I think we’re still finding our feet. Give us sometime and hopefully we’ll bounce back.

By: Ardi

Ardi — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:47:43 +0000

Your forgetting that United have missed their 3 first choice midfielders for almost the entire year. This means that United doesnt control the possession like they did last year, which then puts more of a strain on the defense which is why your seeing lower totals across the board.

Also, Wes Brown is no longer the first choice RB, so theyre missing someone who was more liable to stay back and take up defensive positions more so then Rafael whose more inclined to attack and Gary neville, whose still nto 100% percent.

Also,except for having more fouls against them, I dont think weve seen TOO much of a drop in the defenses performance. So either the refs are being stricter with them when ti comes to contact or their gettign lazy idk, but its not all on the defense.