United 1-0 Roma
There was a great deal to be encouraged about from this performance. Roma were definitely up for it and from where I was sitting there was not a great deal of difference in the quality of play between the two teams.
The difference was an absolutely spectacular goal from Wayne Rooney. I honestly don’t think he could have hit it better and it reminded me of the strike he hit against Milan last season, Fergie said the same thing. What he didn’t say was that Wayne didn’t even look up before he shot and that it was a flawless finish. As I said, encouraging.
It would be remiss of me not to mention that Roma could and should have scored two goals in the last ten minutes and only didn’t because of some asthmatic choking in front of goal. So we were lucky then? Perhaps, but you may remember that we played those last ten minutes without Ronaldo.
So two good wins out of two and a great start to this years Champions League campaign. It was after a similar start last year that we managed to lose to both Celtic and Copenhagen. I wonder if they will make us suffer again this year, it is after all, United.