You should always approach a match against the second best team in La Liga with a fair amount of caution. But it pays to know that last season was one of the weakest in that competition’s history, with champions Real Madrid losing 9 games from the start of the year alone. United are looking a touch dicey at the moment and small mercy it may be, but I am glad this game is being played at Old Trafford.
Our record at home in Europe is very, very strong (hang on a second, isn’t that what you said about our record against Liverpool?)(SHUT UP!) and the team hasn’t put two poor performances together since, well, since the last two games they played.
Also, Berbatov appears to be injured, Spartacus is only just returning from injury and volleyball Scholes is suspended. This bears all of the hallmarks of an upset (that means us losing) but for some reason I think we are going to win. Why? Because it is Europe, and that is surely the reason Fergie is still there.
Or perhaps there is something in my coffee.
Change your coffee! Didn’t see the game but it seems we wuz robbed of a penalty and also managed to hit the bar at least once. A lot of “clever” people were betting that we would lose tonight, so 0-0 is probably OK against a well organised if unbrilliant team (but one which beat Barca twice last season).
Anyway, we live on. Roll on Chelski and the saintly John Terry. We can be sure the Rent Boys will be up for another 3 points from our brave boys but I am already betting on a score draw.
Predictions like that Jono, are pretty dangerous.
Didn’t see the game either, but a home draw is not a disaster, and we should qualify from this group. The key thing is not to panic yet. I have a feeling we wil lose on Sunday but you can not underestimate how tough a start this has been.
We will have been to Anfield (where we were due a loss) and Stamford Bridge (where are record is patchy) and Pompey away is probably the toughest fixture outside of the “Big4″.
Lets judge things in May eh?! (By the way Blues are unbeaten and joint top of the Championship, so it’s not all bad)!