Comments on: United 2 – 2 Porto

By: St.Devil

St.Devil — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:31:11 +0000

I’ve always admired and read in passion of all the happenings in this web. Thank you and here goes my view….

Let’s start with Liverfools. They’ve won against Real, us & then Villa handsomely, but let just go back to the games. Let’s all come to sense that Real is no more the formidable team they used to be and with Rafa’s know-how with Spanish teams plus Torres-Gerrad axis they were able to tear them apart.

Against us, we’ll I would always say we have draining event with Inter and 2 days to prepare. On top of Gerrard-Torres addt rest since against Real they were already assured win.

In Villa Park, Brad was red carded so they were able to cruise through.

Take a look at the games they played with Fulham and Chelsea. That’s more like what they really are.

We on the other hand, we’ll thrive the challenge in front of us. That’s what this club is built on. We always leave it late and when it really matters we do crop-up and show the world we’re different. I hope we really do at Sunderland and later in Porto. I do have gut feeling that we’ll go through. Sir Alex will have his sleevs rolled-up and the players know that it’s now or never.

As for Chelsea, they’ve been going great under Hiddink. though they’re gathering momentum but I guess they’re little too late. I feel Devils will meet them again in FA cup and (at some distant) Champion League in Rome.

Long live ManUtd!
Glory Glory United!

By: Mattso

Mattso — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:49:34 +0000

Agree with Jono on the desire for Chelsea-Pool to go the whole way, that may be the thing that saves our season. The squad look weary and a long season is taking its toll. We need a few people to step up – Nani/O’shea/Berbatov I’m looking at you. Otherwise a season which promised much will end up as a bit of a let down, having said that if we batter Sunderland 4-0 on Saturday everything will be rosy again!

By: Jono

Jono — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:08:13 +0000

Last truly worthy performance? Well my short term memory says what about the last 10 minutes against Villa? The cup game against Fulham was also pretty impressive but if you mean last truly worthy performance against a top team, then yes of course the 3-0 against Chelsea was a delight.
They looked knackered last night and it’s hardly surprising. The Porto equalizer saw us outnumbered in our own penalty area in the 90 th minute of a tight game – now that is inexcusable. But Tevez and Rooney cobined well for what should have been our winner – wonderful stuff.

I see that Rafa has been twisting the knife our wounds, not of course designed to help… let us hope both their CL games are attritional and they do extra time on a heavy pitch followed by pens.

I almost want Chelsea to beat them. Tough call, that!

To conclude, I now feel we can still win the league but frankly the other trophies look beyond us on current form.

PS – youTube remove all recent live footage pretty damn quick nowadays. The Glazers and the TV companies make sure of it!