so far this season , our game approach is always one dimension and that is from the right wing . nani or valencia to deliver the cross in or we rely on fast counter attack to feed wayne rooney.
once rooney starts to lose the ball or play badly whatever the reason ,and last night i suppose its due to fatigue probably from the euphoria of scoring 2 goals at san siro , we are gone .probably going back to goodison park play in his mind too.
if the past seasons are any indication , rooney will somehow switch off to sleeping mode in some part of the season either due to injuries or just dissapear from the radar and lets just hope in the crucial months to come where we have to rely on him more than ever , he at least be injury free.
rooney after getting so much goals for us this season is entitle to one or two poor games .
our defenders are almost totally hopeless in getting goals and our midfielders score too few goals . berbatov is too casual or even lazy if you like , and owen play too few games and therefore could only be a impact player whenever he play. he will always be at the disadvantage cause , if he's in as a sub , that mean we are always chasing the game most of the time with a goal or two down which also mean we are already playing badly when he comes in.
depending on how the match swings , berba can be useful as he's pretty good in holding the ball but on other time when we need to up our pace , he will slow us down . so to me , he's not entirely reliable . my hope is that fergie could give owen more chance to play. to me the so called midget by the livepool fans can deliver when it matter and this being the world cup year, i'm sure owen would want to prove himself to capello .
btw , where the heck is kiko , is he on loan to spainish club.
if getting goals is rather limited with few options available with our one dimensional play or at most two and too few players seem capable of scoring , lets hope our defence will be up to it . like 2 season ago when our defence carry the confidence to our major haul of trophies. with the return of vidic from injury anytime soon and rio too from suspension , at least we can hope we will not let in goals that easily anymore. the confidence at the back should be back soon or the minimum , cut that nervousness or else fergie throat will soon get very soar and dry
thus far this season , i say we been lucky as the other big 3 aint playing well too. watch chelsea and arsenal play last night and they are not exactly convincing as well . liverpool and man city is too far off now to pose any threats to the league leaders.
there's still plenty of games left and i think its chelsea to lose as they look the most promising and i say arsenal is still very much in as their remaining games looks considerably easier than united and chelsea.
the irony is that arsene wenger has all the experience to win the BPL but almost none of the current crop of arsenal players has any feel of it and that could prove crucial in the dying last few games .
for us , i dont think we are favourites for the UCL or BPL , but with fergie on his last few 'chi" or energy left , i hope this will inspire or perspire the players to win one of this two trophy
Good post. Really, really good post!