Howard - 7, Excellent saves just wish he could command his area Hibbo - 6.5, Got forward well and defended well, no idea why he was taken off Distin - 2, Poor game, especially 2nd half Jag - 4, Not as bad as Distin but not great neither Baines - 6, Tough one as he passed for the last 2 goals but he cant defend and almost every United attack came down his flank including all 3 goals Pienaar - 8, Easily his best game in a while and was all over the pitch today. MoM Arteta - 7, Excellent display and took his goal well Fellaini - 6, Not as effective as he can be but slowly getting back to his best Ossie - 1, That 1 is just for the simple 5 yd pass for the goal Cahill - 7, Given a hard job and coped pretty well. Scored another good header Subs Yak - 6.5, Who would have thought it, a international striker holding up the ball and bringing others into the game (No criticism of Tim) Coleman - 4, Ineffective Moyes - 2, Doing my ********ing head in at the moment, too negative to start with and even when we are 3-1 down he brings a like for like full back on and leaves 2 attacking wingers and another striker sitting on the bench, shocking decision
Howard - 8; Man of the Match for me Hibbo - 6 Distin - 5 Jag - 6 Baines - 7 Pienaar - 7 Arteta - 7 Fellaini - 5; I have no idea where his best position is, and I don't think Moyes does either Ossie - 6 Cahill - 8; played out-of-position and still gave Vidic / Evans a torrid afternoon. Constant threat with his presence and attitude. Subs Yak - 7; best performance I've seen from him in a little while. Held the ball up well, Coleman - 6 Moyes - 8; couldn't disagree with the original poster more. He realised Fellaini was offering nothing up front, so brought him back and pushed Arteta forward. Coleman for Hibbert was a good substitution - he's in a different class to Tony going forward. And Yakubu's cameo was just what was needed. Not to mention the starting XI. We certainly looked a lot more balanced in midfield than we have in recent weeks.
So 1 attacking sub when your 3-1 down is acceptable is it? Especially when you have 2 wingers and a striker sitting on the bench. Coleman did absolutely nothing so how was it a good sub?
He made one more good cross than Hibbo all day. Hibbo did well coming forward, but when was the last time his forward runs actually led to a great scoring chance? I don't really remember, if you could tell me, that would be great actually. Howard- 9 Hibbo- 6.5 Jags- 6.5 Distin- 1 Baines- 6- Horrible on first goal, but 2 great assists Heitinga- 5.5 Fellaini- 6 Pienaar- 7.5 Osman- 1.5 Arteta- 7 Cahill- 7.5 Moyes- 1 shouldn't be forgiven for lack of attacking options at the start of the game and when United went 2-1 up.
Made a few decent crosses yesterday, i will 1st to admit its not his greatest assest but he has got a lot better and he is rock solid at the back which is more important to me
I don't want to slag Hibbert off because I think he's pretty solid defensively, but his crossing is poor. The balls he put into the box yesterday were little more than catching practice for Van der Sar. As for the lack of attacking subs, we were actually having the better of things from 60 mins on, so why should Moyes want to change things up completely?
Sorry did you actually watch the match? At what point were we having the better of things? We were dogshit and never looked like getting back into it. As for Hibbo replacement, he give the ball away more times than Hibbo did the rest of the game and only put 1 cross in
Yep, I watched the match. And I thought we were on top for most of the game. If your eyes deceived you, check out the stats. We had: * More shots off-target * More shots on-target * More corners * More free-kicks / less fouls * More possession
We were on top of the game for the first 10 and the last 10. Even in those periods it was frantic and we created lots of half chances giving the deception we were dominating. The stats don't show you anything, they show you the volume of opportunities created and where they ended up, but the shots on target Man Utd had were without doubt a lot more threatening than ours. I'd rather create fewer clear cut chances than more half chances.