Where Are The Goals Going To Come From?

Manchester United 1 - Birmingham 0
Scorer
Manchester United: Rooney (34)

Team: Foster, O'Shea, Evans (Brown 75), Evra, Fabio, Fletcher, Scholes, Nani (Giggs 45), Valencia, Rooney, Berbatov (Owen 75)

Damn. It took a while to get this up. I had to give up trying to get this damn blog up with firefox and am currently taking baby steps with IE.

With the amount of hair-pulling and kicking the PC about, I've almost clean forgotten how the Birmingham game went. As far as I recall, we looked very much like we did at the start of last season...quite terrible. And this time without the services of Ronaldo or Tevez.

So the burning question here is, where are the goals going to come from? We know Rooney and Berbatov would get their share, and Owen might chip in abit if he gets a decent run in the team. The rest of the team's....well....quite pathetic in that department. Scholes has lost his touch in front of goal, evident in this game, taking about half a dozen long-ranged shots and hurting an equal number of pigeons flying about. The rest of the team looked equally dismal in front of goal.

We did of course score with Rooney, but were unable to put the game away beyond reasonable doubt. Moreover injuries to Vidic, Rio and just about every right-back we have, Birmingham looked threatening whenever they had the ball. Evra even had to make a goal-line clearance with his head. Thankfully Foster put last week's game behind him and had a relatively stable game.

All in all, we won, and that's what really mattered, even though we really shouldn't have had to worry in the final minutes.

The season's barely begun and Ferguson must realise that we're probably going to have trouble finding goals this season. Rooney is but one man and most of the time he tracks back too deep to collect the ball. I don't really think Berbatov is going to improve much on his goal tally from last season and based on this one game, it might take sometime before Owen gets his engine started.