United Craws Into The Next Round

Manchester UNited 1 - Crawley Town 0
Scorer
Manchester United: Brown (28)

Team: Lindegaard, O'Shea, Bown, Rafael (Smalling 54), Fabio (Fletcher 69), Carrick, Gibson Anderson (Rooney 46), Obertan, Bebe, Hernandez

There have been some seriously poor performances by this team the entire season, but seriously.....what the fuck is this shit!? Although it's our second-stringers, you'd think this bunch of yahoos would have grabbed the chance to impress the boss. Instead, they went out to completely comfirm to everyone that they simply aren't good enough and the summer transfer window can't come quick enough.

The only silver lining that can be taken from this game is that there is still one department that doesn't need strengthening and that's the defense. Our porn brothers, Fabio and Rafael were outstanding, but we already knew that from past performances. O'Shea, Brown and Smalling are quite reliable. Only Lindegaard wasn't tested today.

The midfield was non-existent. As far as I'm concerned, Carrick might as well not played today. Anderson was disappointing.

Gibson had a good enough first half with a few good passes, but completely faded away in the second. There was no energy in his play and quite honestly, today's game confirms that he's not our answer in midfield. If you can't even dominate a midfield against a non-league side, especially when your career is on the line, then you can only be summed up by the word 'journeyman'. Good enough for other teams, possibly not good enough for United.

Obertan probably falls into the same catagory. In his case, he's skilfull, but he's decision-making is simply shocking. After almost 2 seasons with the reserves he still can't make a simple pass. That goes to show just what a waste of talent he is. And to think, we released Tosic!

Bebe wasn't any better. In fact he was terrible. As of right now, he's probably 5 times worse than Obertan. The only thing in his favour is that it's still his first season here and hopefully, for his case, we can see some visible strides of improvement as he moves into the second season. Ferguson must have been shaking his head over the money spent after today's underwhelming performance.

As mentioned earlier, there are so many holes in our squad right now and summer can't happen soon enough. We're lucky injuries haven't hit us hard this season. Not yet anyway. With the exception of Valencia, no one important has sustained any long term injuries. It would be really scary if a Nani or a Berbatov were to get injured and we had to rely on this bunch. Touch wood, and let's hope we get thru the season unscathed.