that performance shows why Ossie is my favourite player. In his position, he is fantastic. Comfortable with both feet, never shirks from a challenge, close control brilliant, distribution of the ball and bags of skill. Squad player my arse. I admit, when is on the wing he isnt anywhere near as good, in fact he is terrible. Id rather not play him if hes not in the middle. but in his position, looks like an international (im not just getting carried away here, he has always had the potential for that).
got to mention the back line also. Johnny was a close candidate (again, what a buy he is turning out to be) and Distin marshelled well, doesnt look like the Sporting incident affected him 1 bit. Baines did his part and did it well and Howard didnt have all that much to do. Pip gave his all as usual, but was the worst performer today. His lack of pace was exploited a few times, especially in the secnd half. Saying that though, got his good ol' crunching tackles in!
Donovan was awesome too, was it just me or did he and Pienaar keep switching wings? Either that or he was just everywhere. I thought Arteta had his best game so far, starting to look more like his old self but still a little rusty. Still a good performance. Billy, apart from the goal didnt do much that i noticed, but what a screamer! Rodwell, fantastic goal. Goose played well whilst he was on, hustling all the time. Was really amazed at how much weight he has put on though!
Saha... well, he worked his ass off but often the final ball never made it to him so he was as productive as he couldve been. But he chased the ball, gave their defence (Wes Brown is a joke, god knows how he played for England) a lot to think about.
Im with Iggy, give me the humble pie, its delightful stuff! Nice to see Utd recognise that the best team won. They were poor, and whilst i dont think we were incredible (there were moments in the second half that worried me!) we clearly wanted it more. Overall though, i couldnt be happier! Said it from the beginning of the season 5th is ours. The only thing thats makes me think of changing that is because were now only 8 points behind 4th and we have to play 3 of the 4 teams above us. Dare we dream of Champions League?