Aston Villa 1 Manchester United 4
Aston Villa 1 (Agbonlahor 13) Manchester United 4 (Rooney 36, 44, Ferdinand 45, Giggs 75)
Sorry for the delay on this review. I’ve been ill over the weekend and didn’t have Setenner so couldn’t even see the game (bring back PremPlus!). However, I’ve since been told my local has got Sky back so I will have to step out to see if they have paid for Setanta as well. It might cost £10 to buy a few pints whilst watching the game, but you are still a few pints better off that forking out the money to watch it in the comfort of your own armchair. What is worse is that when Setanta show the game Sky can’t show it as a football first game, so all you get are the MotD highlights. By the time, I got to see the highlights on MotD it was too late to post, but I wish I had because I was ill Sunday and Monday. Anyway, better now, just in time for the Kiev game.
United look to be really getting into a groove and despite conceding a goal first (letting one in? surely not; but then Vidic wasn’t playing, not that Pique is a bad deputy but then Vidic is some sort of defending Rock God at the moment “None shall pass!”) United went on the rampage with Rooney and Tevez really combining well.
Admittedly, the Villa defence seemed to be AWOL for much of the game and we guilty of giving United far too much room. Rooney had a free run at a pass that went straight across the 6 yard line for the first, it seemed that Knight decided that marking Rooney on the edge of the area was a no no.
It shouldn’t detract from the performance because normally Villa are not a bad team and I think, in part, it was United’s movement and passing that made Villa look bad. This was without Ronaldo as well, rested after the international weekend and ahead of the Champions League match.
Villa ended the game with 9 men after first Reo-Coker got 2 bookable offences and then Scott Carson brought down Tevez in the box. Rooney managed to have his penalty saved which would have made it a 5 goal thumping.
I always think thumpings start at 5 goals rather 4. 4 is just a big win, but 5 and then 6 is a crushing win. It gets strange when 7 (seven) are scored because this is an abnormal score and rightly noted by the vidiprinter (remember that?) by writing out the word “seven” in case you rightly thought it was a typo or that you were misreading a 1. Of course, scoring 7 but conceding 4 as Portsmouth did a few weeks back against Reading is not a thumping, more a case of deciding not to play with an defence or goalkeeper.
Is scoring 4 the new scoring 1 for United? Lets see if it continues tonight.
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October 24th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Was the spelling of Santana (sic) deliberate or what? (I did notice that it was correct later on). It is nice to see Attack Attack Attach again, I don’t mind letting a few in. Nice to know you are feeling better.
October 24th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Setenna, cos it costs a tenner a month