What a week; Three red cards, six goals shipped and not a point for the effort
21 March 09 by Bill
Those fourteen league games without conceding a goal seem a long way away today. Edwin Van Der Sar may well be proved right, records mean nothing without trophies.
United lost two nil to Fulham today to make it their second defeat on the spin in the Premier League this campaign. You’d have to look back to the 2004/05 season to see the last time that happened when United lost to Norwich and Everton in the title run in. In case you’re wondering, we didn’t go on to lift the trophy that year.
Thankfully, Tottenham did us a favour and beat Chelsea today so the pressure is now on Liverpool. Can they take victory when they play a free falling Aston Villa tomorrow? Anything less than a win for them and today’s lacklustre performance won’t actually be so bad.
Whilst today’s performance wasn’t one for the memory books, it’s hard to draw parallels with previous games. Paul Scholes, a player with immense experience, really let the team down with a ridiculous two handed save on the goal line. Penalty for Fulham and the first red card of the day for United.
United were lucky to get through to half time only one down and although they did improve in the second half, numbers ultimately counted and Fulham sealed the match through substitute Zoltan Gera in the 87th minute.
Wayne Rooney saw red for his second bookable offence as frustration set two minutes later to compound a miserable day for the Reds.
United had a glorious opportunity to pull level mid way through the second half but the chance fell to Ji Sung Park and true to form, his end product let him down. If that had of gone in, who knows.
As we go into the International break, we are still guaranteed top spot and we are still in the driving seat. Fingers crossed everyone returns from the break with a clean bill of health because with suspensions looming, the United squad will be well and truly tested in the coming weeks.
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Man! I think a hidden hand is trying to move the premiership trophy from its way to the old trafford!
I couldn’t believe the ref sent off Rooney!…he just through the ball quickly because its the 89th min of the game!
but am sure we can handle the pressure and we will win it on May
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Let’s face it, Rooney deserved to be sent off. If he just threw the ball quickly to get on with the game he should at least have thrown it towards one of his team-mates. Instead he threw it, clearly in anger, in the general direction of the ref.
surprised no one came out of the dressing room with a split eyebrow! crappy weekend for Man Utd. i watched the Fulham match and was left speechless by the draw. i don’t know what to say about scholes, maybe he should have let the ball go in, or maybe not and then tied up the match but we will never know. as for rooney, it was a typical display of “little bitchy-kid” syndrome that some of us thought had been cured, sent off deservedly.
if this man utd is the best sir alex ever had, it has to show it true character and bounce back fast.
3 Red cards, players suspended in this very tough battle to retain the EPL trophy…if united lose another game it will be over for the quest to match the scousers record, and seeing the scousers themselves play show that they will not let any opportunity slipout of their hands, Lets hope the manager can get the lads kicking again and move on