Strange Game, Good Win (Manchester United 3 - Everton 0)

Can't quite put my finger on this game. We played with a makeshift side after the weekend draw with Chelsea. Vidjic, Giggs, Scholes and Saha all did not feature in the lineup at all, replaced by Fletcher, O'Shea, Richardson and Silvestre. Rooney and Ronaldo were partnered upfront.

To be honest, for most of the game we looked horrible. There was no cohesion in midfield and the only guys making any good passes were the front two. Thankfully Everton looked equally bad, with the exception of a certain Neville. Wish he was still wearing Red today.

You would think that after Sundays great performance against Chelsea and the absence of Scholes in midfield, this was the perfect setting for Carrick to shine. Unfortunately I thought he utterly stunk! His passing was wayward, and his control was terrible. All of a sudden, I wished he was the InvisibleMan again.

Anyway we scored 3 goals today. A brilliant effort from Ronaldo, showing some superb technique volleying a deflection to open the scoring in the first half. Then in the second half Evra scored his first goal in a red shirt, and O'Shea rounded up the goals with a sweet goal at the end of the game.

Despite my constant whining over players like Evra and Carrick, I've never really brought myself to hating any United player, past nor present. However Richardson is really close to breaking that duck. He not only doesn't seem to understand the game, his attitude generally sucks. I can't exactly put a finger on what exactly he did today, but his general behaviour is ungentlemanly and lacks the class of a player wearing the Red jersery. If not for the fact he turned down West Brom to fight for a first team place, he would have been in my doghouse a long time ago.

Man of the Match.....Evra. It was a close call between Rooney, Ronaldo and Evra today, but Evra probably pipped the rest. He did not really play a brilliant game by any means, but he brought countless entertaining moments throughout the game, the best being in the 60th minute when he got booked for tripping over himself and falling right into Arteta. A most bizarre yellow card! And of course he scored his first United goal a couple of minutes later. I suppose after all the rollicking he's been getting from this site, he probably deserved this award.