I’ve been trawling through pages randomly when I bumped across this article on the Telegraph. It started off like the usual articles one gets to read on the back of a great performance by United. The usual stuff — on this occasion, bringing Rooney’s birthday into perspective, as if his day had an astral significance on events that unfolded in Kiev — punctuated the article, with facts that United’s injury ‘crisis’ hasn’t really affected their play.
But it was towards the end of the page that I came upon these quotes from our Utility Man.
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Morning one and all. Today we face Dynamo Kyiv, the Ukranian Champions, in our Champions’ League group fixture. Must be exciting, eh?
It must be exciting, wouldn’t it? All United games have to be exciting. Something about it being the United way and all that. But then we are wasting a little time talking about things that are old hat and not the thing at hand. So let’s get down to talking about the game, shall we?
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I am not sure if I should turn this into a preview post already, given tomorrow is the Champions’ League game against Kiev/Kyiv, or retain the roundup nature of your morning weekday posts. But maybe I’ll retain this as a roundup and consolidate team news and actual preview for tomorrow.
So let’s get on with providing you with your daily dose.
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Pre-match, I had warned about how important this game could be especially coming after the international break. Seems like that was a little premature — at least from the look of the score line.
Of course, we did fall behind, for the first time in, like, erm… ever. But we bounced back with such force that some of the Villa players must be wondering what really hit them. It certainly wasn’t as breathtaking as, say, against Bolton or Fulham of last year or even Wigan from two weeks back. But Aston Villa are a more than decent side especially in their own back yard.
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Finally, we return to some real football. The two week break has looked like two months, and I just can’t wait for the action to resume. Prior to the break, we seemed to be getting back in our stride as we brushed Wigan aside in a breathtaking second half display. However, it remains to be seen if we’ve managed to retain any of the momentum that we built over that game.
So will it be another scrappy game where we just get by with a 1-0 win? Or would it be a frustrating draw or, worse, a loss?
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Nothing much for the day as international’s and the Euro 2008 qualifiers, in particular, grabbed the headlines. So do we have any news concerning United? No, not really. Well, there is one but even that is just a transfer rumour that refuses to die. Other than that we will go on a slight tangent. Rest assured, today’s post won’t be too long. So read this quick and go about your day jobs. If you don’t you could always sit around refreshing this site, hoping for updates — something which wouldn’t happen till tomorrow, but for the comment section, of course.
Anyway, on to the roundup…
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This is the final part of our three part series, where we take a look at our players’ performances so far this season. For the benefit of those who haven’t read the previous two — where we profiled the attack and midfield — here is Part I and Part II for you.
So sit back and read on as we get through what was, basically, an excuse to get through this international break which, by the way, has been going on forever.
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This is part two of our three part series, looking back at our season so far. Player ratings are, admittedly, an objective way of looking at things. But with the current break giving us only pointless transfer rumours to chew about, we might as well look back at some of our players who’ve featured so far.
For those who missed Part I where we dwelt on our attackers, you can have a look at that here.
Today, as mentioned in the title, we will be taking a look at the midfield — more specifically this will be central midfield. We discussed wingers along with our attackers.
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Despite being out of the roundup routine, there is surprising little to talk about today.
Unless you are interested in international friendlies. In which case, Ronaldo (and Nani, albeit as a sub) was involved in a 2-0 win for Portugal over Azerbaijan. Ronaldo made his 50th appearance for his country. Patrice Evra earned a start for France in a 6-0 rout of Faroe Islands. Vidic, Fletcher, O’Shea, Saha, Van der Sar were all injured, so didn’t figure for their respective countries. Also, goalkeepers Artur Boruc (Celtic) and Lukas Fabianski (Arsenal) were preferred over Tomasz Kuszczak — which isn’t bad news for us, is it?
And other than that, there was the England game, which I didn’t get to see much of, but Wayne Rooney had a good game. He finally did score after a while which is good for him. A lot of United websites were quite angry at the treatment meted out to Rooney by the media while Gerrard continues to be a darling of everyone. A lot of that is true to be honest. In fact a lot of United players do face a lot of stick while playing for England. (Remember Beckham?) Scott has a good article, as always, on that. So I’ll save my breath on that issue.
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Now that the international break is well underway, it could be a fair enough time to look back at the season so far and reflect on the team’s performance. Well, it wasn’t necessarily electrifying to start with, but things have been picking up and, hopefully, we’ll continue in the same vein as we left off against Wigan.
So let’s look at our players — those who have played in the team — one by one.
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