i hope i didnt give away too much above (sometimes brevity is good)
whats going on with man u? they surely should have converted one of those chances. i was hoping theyd be softened up for their visit to st james park this weekend
24 hour rule in effect. Anything over 24 hours is game. I saw yesterdays results last night.
I think United should feel lucky that everyone else is tying as well, or their failure to score might be more apparent. They have been dominating games, but just can't find the net. A lot of it comes from really poor crosses and corners - without Giggs playing full matches, they haven't really found someone who can deliver a quality corner (Rooney was bad last week and Park was worse this week). You can't have Ronaldo do it because he's so good in the air. That needs to be addressed and soon.
As for the crosses, it seems as though teams have decided to stop Ronaldo's advance, let Evra and "Right Back De Silva" have a good run down the sideline for a cross and collapse on the middle of the box. That's why the possession is so high for United, but the goals are so few. The cross comes in, it gets headed away and cleared to mid field, and we repeat the process. Rooney and Tevez aren't the biggest guys in the world and Berbatov has yet to really figure out how to play with these guys. Hopefully that will change.
The last two matches United made an adjustment for this and started trying to drive the ball down the middle of the defense. But since the middle was already collapsed, it was like forcing a square peg through a round hole. Hoepfully in the future they will start down the middle, then send it outside to maybe extend the defense and decide to cross it in or dribble it back in. The lack of a attacking from Evra and Right Back de Silva needs to change - instead of crossing, they need to start making runs at the net.
Add that to blatant non-attacking by the other side (Tottenham excluded) giving United no opportunities for counter attack, and you're left with a very frustrated squad.
