Up against Lennon? Not sure about that   

anyone notice valencia so damn fast tonite? mcm lipas kudung..lol

Really need the full match torrent for yesterday's match. Almost puke blood watching the stream that constantly on and off. Plus the penalty against us really
All in all, good spirit shown in the second half and glad that Rooney found his touch in front of the goal again. Valencia the speedy gonzalez was awesome, so is Kuszcak with a few superb save

i mean, u're a ref, u see Vidic who is famous for maybe a little dirty plays. Prejudice can affect the decision

Tomasz Kuszczak - 9

One of the best outing's of keeper's career. Snuffed out numerous threatening Portsmouth moves.

Nemanja Vidic - 4

Not the best of days for the big Serb. Looked uncertain throughout. Gave away a penalty, although can consider himself unlucky for that.

Wes Brown - 4

Vidic's partner in central defence was shaky as well. Brown just could not get on the same wavelength with Vidic.

Patrice Evra - 7

Caused massive headaches to the Pompey defence with mazy runs down the left. Solid in defence as well.

Gary Neville - 5

Not quite as fast as his mate at leftback, but did well enough to prevent the likes of O'Hara from causing too much damage.

Michael Carrick - 5.5  (off 76')

Things returned to normal after his exploits last week. A better team would have caused him problems.

Paul Scholes - 6

Picked up his usual yellow card, but looked very threatening in central midfield. Can consider himself unlucky not to have scored with one of his signature thunderbolts.

Darren Fletcher - 5.5

Another one who had a comparitively pedestrian game. Could not control the likes of Boateng and O'Hara as well as Fergie would have wanted.

Ryan Giggs - 9

Scored his 100th goal for United with a typically well-placed free kick. Won a penalty and assisted in another goal. He just refuses to go gently into that good night.

Antonio Valencia - 8

Had his best day in a Red jersey. It was his sublime pass to Rooney that won the Devils their first penalty. Constantly threatened down the right flank.

Wayne Rooney - 9.5

A near perfect outing for the England striker. A brilliant performance that deserved the hat-trick.

Substitutes

Anderson - 4.5

Came close to scoring on one ocassion but fluffed his lines, as usual.

The referee's mistake is relying on the linesman verdict that is 50 yards away from the incident.

y'all sounds like main FM10 oni??? get sakho to replace rio. get michael knightly from wolves to fight for place with A.Valencia. get richard stearman to command RB post.... no need d.villa, get lewandowski to be targetman...left wing?? splash abit & buy david silva. sign lee cattermole and morgan schneiderlin, and our midfield transformation is done!

YAY!!!!!

*slap*...now back to reality, shall we??

Sir Alex Ferguson has issued an angry response to criticism levelled at some of his young players during the Reds’ 1-0 Champions League defeat to Besiktas last week. And the boss defiantly states that his intent to play them against Tottenham in the Carling Cup on Tuesday will not be swayed.

Opportunities were given to six players under the age of 22: Danny Welbeck (then 18), Federico Macheda (18), Rafael (19), Gabriel Obertan (20), Anderson (21) and Darron Gibson (22).

“It will be the same players that played on Wednesday,” he said of his team for Tuesday’s visit of Harry Redknapp’s side. “Their future is well marked out, I think.”

The press were clearly unimpressed, but Sir Alex took particular exception to one report.

“One journalist wrote, ‘there’s no future for these players, no tomorrow for them’," Sir Alex said incredulously. "What an idiot. I can’t believe that. It’s unbelievable. When Beckham, Butt, Scholes and all those lads played in 1996, they were 22 years of age - three years ahead of these players. So that kind of reaction is amazing, isn’t it?

“Of course they will grow from that experience. I was confident of playing them, and they had every right to play. They will play on Tuesday, too.”

The performance against Besiktas was typically youthful – a strong start, full of enthusiasm, but without the know-how to make possession and chances count.

“They got anxious. They’d made good chances but hurried things - that’s not the biggest crime in the world. We’re not talking about ability here, we’re talking about experience.”

Seemingly, if the critics had their way, these young players would be stuck in the Catch-22 of never getting the experience of playing on such occasions precisely because they too inexperienced.

“That’s why we have to play them,” says Sir Alex. “Games are the one thing we have to give them. We can’t just give them that old head that helps you deal with situations like on Wednesday in the final third of the field.

“The number of young players we have is stacking up, they need to be challenged. I thought they did OK and I didn’t think they deserved that kind of criticism. But the same journalists will be wanting articles from them when they are stars, going cap-in-hand, begging them for interviews in a few years’ time – mark my words on that. They’ll be hypocritical and say, ‘I’ve always said you were going to be a wonderful player’. What a world we live in.

“The thing is, Alan Hansen made comments in front of millions of people on TV and gets slaughtered for it, the journalist I mentioned writes that and it gets buried in the middle of a newspaper article and gets off with it. He should be sacked!”