Manchester United Blog

What is it that makes a team? What is it that separates the winner from the rest? As all footy fans know the answer to this is consistency.

United it found hard to find their feet in the first couple of games this year. My last topic was ‘another 1-0’ but at least it was a win. Our team has finally showed their potential and gave us fans a convincing 4-0 win on the weekend and it could have been more. We had injury issues in the first half of the game losing Vidic and O’shea early but that did nothing but give new boy Simpson some 1st team game time as we handled the back quite well.

When you look at Liverpool and how they started the season you have to say they looked good at challenging us for the title but now they seem to have fallen back into the river of inconsistency and haven’t won in four games, their last win been the 6-0 thrashing of Derby. Yesterday should have been there first loss if it wasn’t for a Torrez header in the last minute of the game.

The team that is now ahead of us, and everybody wrote them off at the beginning of the season, is Arsenal. My word how we all keep on questioning the Manager that has given SAF headaches since he came to the FAPL. Wenger has once again put a team together that can really push ball. We haven’t seen them play one of the big teams though and have to wait and see how the youngsters BMT hold up.

United have won their last six FAPL matches and need to keep a clean sheet against Villa to match our record for consecutive clean sheets in a league. Two time FA Cup medal winner Gary Bailey is a presenter on Supersport here in South Africa and said after the game that we now may been seeing the start of the world best striking force in Tevez and Rooney and I have to agree with him. This looks like the partnership that will give us what Cole and Yorke did. Tevez played brilliantly on the weekend, now we just need SAF to let the partnership grow.

GGMU