Things dont always go as planned

In the first game week I got 4 of the results correct. The important one I got wrong, and that was Man Utd v Reading. There goes the average of 3.5 goals per game between us last season. It was an interesting game as United had most of the possession and nearly all the chances of the game, even the commentator said that they should have charged Van Der Sar an admission fee because he was a spectator for most of the game. Despite what a lot of fans on forums and BBC's 606 say, I believe that Steve Coppell's tactics were spot on, he couldn't expect to come to OT and play a 4-3-3 because they would have been destroyed. They came there to defend and got 1 point out the game.
Coppell said"We would have liked to have been expansive, but they smother you to death here...We designed a style of play and I'm not going to apologise for that". That's what football is about, getting the most points you can out of a game.

I said in a previous post that we mustn't sell any strikers until we have a replacement. Look what happened this weekend, if we had Smith (Tevez wasn't game fit) on the bench we would have have had a striker in the second half, not John O' Shea up front. Also why do we have players like Nani and Ronaldo in the team if we are not going utilise them, we played so narrow and every time Carrick or Scholes (both of them didn't feature at all in the game if you ask me) got the ball they played it down the middle through a tight defense. Rooney likes his space, the ball should have been played wide to pull defenders out the middle and give him that extra little space he requires.

It's only the first game of the season and even the fact that Rooney is out for 6-8 weeks, we still have Tevez, Saha, Ole, Hargreaves and Anderson to put on the field and just like Spooney said on 606 "SAF is going to rally the troops and United are going to become harder to beat."

Its nice to get of to a flying start like our rivals did, but you can't win 38 games a season. United will be back at their best on Wednesday and show other teams why we are the FAPL champions.

UWS.