City 0 - 1 United
DDG
Darmian(Mensah) Smalling Bling Rojo(Valencia)
Carrick Schneiderlin
Lingard Mata(Schweinsteiger) Martial
Rashford
I was supposed to be camping till Monday evening but a
stomach virus brought me back home early. I was obviously peeved at having to
leave the campsite and my friends but every cloud has a silver lining and this
virus’ silver lining was the fact that I was home in time to watch the
Manchester derby…..and thank fuck I watched the game! This performance was
certainly something to smile about in this horrible horrible season.
Given the circumstances, our first half was an
excellent display with a mixture of crisp passes and a decent chance here and
there. Defensively we were solid. Chris Smalling definitely our man of the
match followed closely by Schneiderlin who was a machine in front of our back
four. Him and Carrick were in control all game long, even when we looked like
we were suffering City’s pressure. Oh, and what a last ditch tackle by Carrick
to deny City scoring late on! This was also Darmian’s best performance in a
while. Shame he had to switch sides because he’s most definitely at his best on
the right.
At the front, Lingard, Rashford and Martial caused
City’s slow defence all sort of troubles. Rashford scored his 5th
goal of the season and was denied a stonewall penalty by today’s ref Micheal
Oliver. The ref didn’t have the best of games, he should have sent Chris
Smalling off for a second bookable offence but opted not to. I’m definitely not
complaining about that. Rashford had a very good performance as his running to
the channels gave our midfielders some passing options. Martial has the ability
of getting past defenders for fun. What a player we’ve got on our hands. Mata
had a good game too as he set up Rashford to calmly place the ball past Hart.
A good result that puts us just 1 point away from
City. Obviously, since we got a good result, something catastrophic is probably
just round the corner. A lackluster performance and three dropped points
against Everton in a fortnight? Probably. We’ve had a lot of false dawns; you
just know we’ll manage to throw this good position away somehow. Fingers
crossed we don’t. Come on United!
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