United Wins It Late

Blackburn 0 - Manchester United 2
Scorers
Manchester United: Valencia (81), Young (86)


Team: De Gea, Rio, Evans, Rafael, Evra, Carrick, Jones (Giggs 63), Scholes (Young 80), Valencia, Rooney, Hernandez (Welbeck 61)

My word, we really did have to labour for this win. Ferguson, in my opinion, got this one terrible wrong. A sensational late goal from Valencia was the difference in this game. Ashley Young added a second for good measure.

Over the weekend, Shitty left the door opened wide for us and for good parts of this game, it looked like we were loitering around the enterance, taking a step forward and two back, until Valencia's wonder goal shoved us thru.

Despite heavy possession at Ewood Park, Blackburn probably had the better chances created and had it not been for De Gea's sharp reflexes, we could have gone down tonight. In the second half, Pederson had a goal disallowed.

As mentioned earlier, Ferguson had this one wrong. We played with one true winger in Valencia and all our attacking play came down his flank on the right. The left was left to Evra to double up and was easily gobbled up by a stout Blackburn defense.

Our passing was incredibly slow and while our players seemed motivated enough, the slow build up did not take advantage of our pacy Mexican, Hernandez. He was replaced by Welbeck on the hour but that did little to change the pace of the game. If the pace was going slow, it would probably have been better to have Berbatov in the game, at least he could and would have inflicted some damage with his silky skills.

As the game closed, Valencia took it upon himself with a cross cum shot that flew into the net against all odds. In truth, he was the only player in a United jersey that actually looked like changing the game. Young's outstanding finish 4 minutes from time took the result beyond Blackburn.

As unconvincing as the game was, we took the crucial 3 points and jumped 5 points ahead of Shitty. Suddenly, despite playing some poor games this season, we actually look like we're going to win the title.