Defenders Lead The Charge

Newcastle 0 - Manchester United 3
Scorers
Manchester United: Evans (8), Evra (15), Cleverley (71)

Team: De Gea, Rio, Evans, Rafael, Evra, Carrick, Cleverley, Kagawa (Valencia 55), Rooney (Scholes 80), Welbeck, Van Persie (Giggs 87)

Man, I'm a bit pissed off that I was pretty high on cough syrup while watching this game. I reckon we played really well, but since I was basically tripping, I hadn't the foggest what was going on most of the time. That said, in my heightened state of delirium, it was immensely pleasurable to watch us pound the living daylights out of Newcastle.

Evans lead the way with a header from a Van Persie corner, and Evra followed with another from a Rooney corner from the other side, and all these happened while I was waiting for Newcastle to romp all over our midfield. Tactically we kinda crowded out the midfield with Rooney and Kagawa along side Cleverley and Michael 'only lateral passes' Carrick. We squeezed out Cabaye and Tiote.

Add to that, we completely dominated the first half and probably could have had more had Welbeck been more clinical. Speaking of which, does Welbeck remind anyone of Heskey? I mean he does everything required of him and more, except putting the ball into the net.

As with all games, Newcastle gradually found their way back into the game and started to cause problems, many of which were self-inflected, especially by De Gea who flapped and flopped at the high balls coming into the box. He's been playing in England for slightly over a year, and he still can't command the aerial threats.

Just as Newcastle looked likely to pull one back, Cleverley scored a superb, albeit unintended, goal to put the result beyond the barcodes. He must cherish playing Newcastle. Having scored his first against Newcastle in the mickey mouse cup a week back, he pops up to score his second in United colours with a cross that inevitably floated into the net.

The result brings us back to the second on the table, ironically on goal difference above Shitty. Too bad we have to endure a bye week of uninteresting internationals, just as the team looks like finding some sort of remedy for the piss poor level of play of the past few months. At least the fortnight rest will be good remedy for my persistant cough.