United Not Convincing (Manchester United 3 - Celtic 2)

We were awesome in attack, led by the irresistable Saha. However if we're going to defend the way we did in this game, it's going to be a long long season.

The entire defence was practically napping throughout the game. Rio in particular was awful. He was slow, sloppy and stupid. He allowed Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink to nip in behind him for the first goal of the day.

Giggs then got fouled in the box to win us a penalty, which Saha put away emphatically. To be honest, I felt it was a weak penalty to give. In fact I thought it wasn't a penalty, but the referee gave it and I'm not really complaining. Saha then put us in front but minutes before the half time whistle, Nakamura scored from a freekick that brought the scores level at the half.

Our defense at this point was in shambles. Brown had a poor game and needless to say, Rio was simply awful. We were not controlling the ball in midfield either. Carrick and Scholes couldn't keep up with Graveson, Lennon or Jarosik. Giggs was replaced by Ole after the penalty incident and Ronaldo was suspended for this game.

Thankfully we scored early in the second half thru Ole, pouncing on a loose ball which was parried by the keeper from a Saha shot. It remained scoreless for the rest of game but Saha could and probably should have had a hattrick. The bulk of the best chances went to him but the Celtic keeper was having a brilliant game. Besides a really good chance for Rooney, he was practically non existant in this game.

Overall, I felt we barely deserved to win this game, especially on the performance of our defence. Had it not been for a superb display by Saha, we probably would have come out with a point instead of 3. To compound matters, we didn't beat the spread of 1.5 goals, which particularly pissed me off big time since I had a huge bet on us to do so. If we continue napping in defence and playing like pussies in midfield, we're going to be in for a rough time, both in the league and in Europe.

On Sunday we face Arsenal. I hope we maintain our 100% record, but I'm not convinced, based on the last couple of games. Arsenal would probably be up for the game.