chrisley024: U cnt blame VP 4 his ball directn. He jus hit a rebound. Gud we got d 3pts. I waz surprisd Fletcher play 90mins cos he waz poor while Carrick was excelent n wen Ando left it showd. I tink he'll b 5n cos i hrd it's bak pain.

montelik: We have got massive defensive problems. I can see a lot of United fans believe that once Vidic is back we will be okay, but I believe that is at worst a pipe dream or at best an over simplification. Vidic played in our 1st few games when DDG was the only reason we weren't shellacked at Goodison park, let in soft goals against Fulham, before being greatly exposed by Southampton despite winning. There just seems to be something lacking in our defending as whole. Be it on the counterattack, open play, crosses or set pieces we are poor. Its hard to isolate one player or aspect as the problem, its almost as if Phelan, Muelsteen aren't bothering with practicing or teaching defensive technique. We aren't going to win anything with this defence, unless we score every quality chance we get.

montelik: Ando out with a hamstring injury. I don't believe the lad has ever been fit in December at any point in his United career. Scholes and Giggs to start now. Can't contain my excitement.

montelik: I don't think Valencia will be ready and also I think we leave Lindegard in place. No need to unsettle the defence by changing keepers for the derby.

montelik: Regardless we need to stop the chopping and changing in goal, be it Lindegard for DDG or vice versa. Leave him there for the next few games and then slowly reintroduce DDG. Its unfair to drop Lindegard when he hasn't played badly since he was handed the gloves, even if he could have done better in certain situations today and other games. Then tossing DDG in to start in an away derby and top of the table clash after be dropped is unnecessarily drastic.

Mr_TA: I missed the match but I've seen the goals. By all accounts our defending was very poor again. I still put that down to our poor defensive midfield cover as has shown for a while now. Admittedly the defence itself could do with some fine tuning and stability. Also Ddg needs to be the number one, the chopping and changing must stop. Ddg vs al performance this season, Ddg has been far better.

I do fear city can and should put 6 past us again.

mbulela: lindegaard is a very average keeper with no redeeming value.

coogar: anderson - the soul of the united midfield...

darefestus:

This we know coogs.
What bothers us is why this player can't stay fit over the course of a season. You can't blame fergie for not building his midfield around Ando, he simply cannot go injury free for a run of games.
The same thing that happened last season that denied us of the chance to see him come into his own in our midfield may just have happened again.

montelik: DDG has been warming the bench for a month, it doesn't help consistency to throw him into a top of the table derby game. Lindegard will do fine.

coogar:

but did fergie play him when he was fit?
had anderson played against spurs/norwich, we would have been 9 points clear by now! enough gap to cushion his absence away from the team.

darefestus:

Now how would you know that?
Fergie did give him that ever elusive start against Reading in preparation for possibly our biggest game of the season and you can see how that has panned out.
Anderson is made of glass and cannot be relied upon to carry this united team.
What if fergie played him against Spurs and he ended up sidelined for the rest of the season.

Emperoh:

What ifs, speculations and permutations.
If the dude is fit, play him. . . .he gives returns.
If Vidic was fit, what will you do? Keep him on the bench cos you are scared he will get crocked again?
Injuries is the downside of the game. You deal with it when it comes. If a player deliver's the goods when he is fit,
by all means, milk him dry. When he's crocked you won't have any regrets. Abi anderson na silverware to be displayed?

darefestus:
So by your logic, we should start RVP tomorrow night cause we are trying to 'milk him dry' not minding playing the next four weeks without him?
We all knew Ando was going to pick up his injury as soon as he started playing regularly so any game he played was always going to be a risk.

darefestus:
Beside you said he 'gives returns' with an arrogance that would suggest Ando is on par with Messi in terms of consistency.
He's merely our best midfielder and nothing special! I wouldn't be confident he'll do so well against Shitty anyway.

Mr_TA: We are going to get raped on Sunday.

coogar:

thankfully, we have carrick and fletcher and jones can do a job in the midfield!
giggs is a disgrace to wales.....his pass completion tonight must be less than 20%