This Sunday saw the end of our winning streak against a well organised Southampton side but for Manchester united fan the fact that we lost will not be the worrying thing about this loss is not the fact we lost but the reports coming from papers and some online media sports out let about Falcao. Which is that Falcao was seen driving away from Old Trafford at speed saying to his agent on the phone find me a new club and not been seen in the directors box at all has only filled fuel to the speculation what has gone on behind the scenes from Sunday. So what positives can we take out of this match? Well the biggest thing is that we where solid in defence for the majority of the match apart from one player who has just come back from a long injury and the fact we made load of chances in this match. But what are the negatives from this match? Well with all the chances we had we couldn’t put them away and that our players made the wrong decision’s but the biggest negative that we can take from this match is that we have lost against one of our biggest rivals for the champions league places and now looks like we are on the back foot for making them with teams round us winning as well. Here are my player ratings for this match
De Gea: 7
Had nothing to do thanks to a well organised defence
Smalling: 6
Did well to stick to Pelle for most of the match but was at fault for the goal for not sticking tight enough to him to stop the shot going to goal.
Shaw: 6
Did well in getting forward but did not create anything of any note.
Blind: 5
Made his return from injury but could tell that as he was rusty in this made and needs more preparation time before starting again.
Di Maria: 6
Played close to Van Persie in this match and didn’t have any real impact on the game
Carrick: 8
Carrick one of the best performance on the day and did well sitting in front of the defence and then setting up the attack from there.
Valencia: 7
Did well in playing down the right and made a lot of chances from a tight midfield.
Van Persie: 4
Tried hard but didn’t do anything of worth of note before being subbed on the hour mark because of injury.
Rooney: 7
Did well in creating from midfield before being moved up into the attack looks to be growing well in his captain role.
Mata: 5
Struggled in making any real impact on this game and should have scored from chances that were made for him. Would say drop him for the next game.
Subs:
Fellaini: 6 Herrera: 5 Blackett: 6
Man of the match
My man of the match for this match is Carrick for the way he looked calm in controlling midfield from a deep position and providing cover for the back three when in a defending situation.
Our next match is against QPR away which we will be looking to get back to winning ways and look to get a rare away win.
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