Man Utd 4-3 Reading FC – Ferguson Reaction 01-12-2012


Manchester United Video Rating: 4 / 5

Looking at out back 4 ahead of the City game,im glad to hear Rooney will start vs Cluj tomorrow! if ever we needed our attackers to be firing it’s Sunday especially with Vidic out.In all the time iv’e supported United i don’t think i’ve ever seen us defend so poorly! Jonny Evans & Anders Lindegaard really should be dropped come Sunday,their level of communication/understanding is Sunday league level.

In the 1999/2000 season United had that attacking offense, but had horrible goalkeeping, but still won the league because they outscored everyone. What bugs me is that United is giving up goals on set pieces and it will come back to bite. Remember Kompany’s header that beat us last year. What is unacceptable was giving up 2 goals off two straight corners. There is something wrong when I see Rooney and RVP playing defence on a corner.

de gea reacts faster, thus he is excellent at stopping headers. Lindegaard isn’t, and it’s costing us goals and will eventually cost us games.

If we defend as poorly next week the Berties will annihilate us. The return of Vidic can’t come soon enough.

Agreed, Lindergaard is rubbish, he has to be droppped. De Gea is not that much better, but more experienced.

The fact is that Utd’s defence is utter gash no matter what you do.

So – like we’ve seen – you play with an all-out attack system. You’ll lose 3 or 4 goals, but you’ll score 5 or 6. Some teams try that and fail abysmally because they don’t have enough good attacking players – Utd do.

Utd has, arguably, the worst defence in the league at the moment – and yet they are 3 points clear at the top despite going, rightly, behind in most games.

They’ve done something right.

Another woeful performance by the has-beens. Bring on 9th December when they get put back in 2nd where they belong. CL? Don’t make me fucking laugh!

You need to put De Gea in stay with him and then put Smalling in at Right back. Since Anderson is hurt you need to put speed at midfield like Cleverley in that game because if you play like you did today, you will lose period.

Its not the defenses fault two of the goals were free headers in the SIX YARD BOX.

The goalkeeper HAS to dominate his six yard box. NO EXCUSE.

Pick a goalkeeper and stick to him,get rid of evra and sign another central defender ,no chance in the champions league with that defence!