United Tightens Up And Bores The Toffees To Death

Everton 0 - Manchester United 1
Scorer
Manchester United: Hernandez (19)


Team: De Gea, Vidic, Evans, Jones, Evra, Fletcher, Cleverley (Nani 57), Park, Rooney, Welbeck (Valencia 73), Hernandez (Berbatov 67)

Gotta say I missed a good portion of the game and the goal along with it. Got the timing of the early kickoff completely wrong. Didn't help matters that I was caught in a middle of a truly terrible stomachache and frequent trips to the toilet didn't enhance the viewing pleasure.

Ferguson tried something new today. After the crisitisms of his players after last week's debacle, many found themselves on the bench, or even not at all. Evra was truly lucky that we didn't have a ready made left-back. Would have expected to see him along side Rio. Strangely enough, Rooney was given a midfield berth. Cleverley and Fletcher were also given a run out but Cleverley seems to be rather unlucky to be brought off after the break for another injury. The lad just can't get a break.

From what I gathered, the goal came rather early and United were content to take Everton on the break. Everton were dominant on the ball when I got on, and the game was mostly played in United's half. There were a number of raids to the Everton goal, but most fell apart before Howard got involved.

De Gea was outstanding with a couple of good saves. He's definitely making a name for himself and slowly being the undisputed No. 1 after a shaky start. Vidic looks to have shaken off the rust and was massive.

Everyone else probably played to Ferguson's gameplan and extra effort was taken to take care of the ball. Certainly no one was going to do what Evra and Rio did last week.