Well considering Aquilani and Torres didn't play, Benayoun played 15 minutes and Gerrard may as well not have played, I'd say that yeah, they should be quaking (they're not ducks) in their boots. We'll comfortably finish top 4 and I'd fancy us to finish top 3 with RVP out for the majority of the season. It's certainly not what we hoped for at the start of the season but I can only see an upturn in form now.

How about Everton? Spurs at home, Chelsea away in the next 2 isn't it? Wouldn't surprise me if you lost 5 on the bounce and then the people's club will have to look at their vastly underperforming manager won't they?

He's not under performing. The players are.

Don't even pull at the thread of players not being fit



Kopites turn every injury into a crisis don't they.

No, just stating a facccccht. We were without 3 of our 4 most creative players and the one who did play was the worst player on the pitch. And we still beat you.

Of our favoured starting XI we were missing Torres, Aquilani, Benayoun.
You were missing Jagielka, Arteta, Neville/Rodwell. Have I missed anyone else?
Your manager chose to leave your two best strikers on the bench so they weren't injured. I'd say he was underperfoming personally.

Like everyone else turns a defeat/draw into a crisis?

Well, if i do it from a Kopite point of view.....Osman, Saha, Yakubu, Anichebe, Vaughan...could have been a few under 15's injured as well who've never played first team football.

Why didn't Benayoun start?

You would say he was under performing, but seriously, who cares what you think.

Grow up! You got beat by a better bunch of players. Why do Everton fans get so upset when they lose matches ? Your squad will struggle to stay in the Premiership this year imo,asit's just not good enough. Better teams have gone down than this current Everton lot.

Thank you for cheering me up today, I needed that.

Yeah cos Anichebe, Vaughan and Osman are regular first XI players. Benayoun didn't start because he's coming back from a hamstring injury. Oh, and Benitez wanted a more defensive left side midfielder in Aurelio. Seemed to work quite well looking at the result. Why did Moyes leave his two best strikers out? Didn't seem to work too well.

Who cares what I think? Someone who keeps replying to me obviously.

Yet you include a player who hasn't even started a game for your first team




I'd concentrate on your own underperforming manager

Osman is a starter, not sure why I don't rate him that highly.

Both were carrying injuries and couldn't complete a 90.

Ahh Catalancs having a do at Liverpool.

I think most teams would include a £20million signing in their first team wouldn't they?

I've not said anywhere that Benitez ISN'T underperforming. It's just that pound for pound, Moyes is worse.

Pound being the operative word...


Take ya pick whether thats a fat joke or money joke...

An own goal scored in the first ten minutes of a game away from home won it for us?

And you say you weren't woeful? Because we sure as hell were.

Good performance by United tonight. The youngsters did really well despite recent criticism from pundits.

Anderson absolutely dominated the game, ran the show, definitely one of his best performances in a United shirt. Vidic had his best game since before the Liverpool game at OT last season, and Gibson played really well with two fantastic finishes.

The latest recruit to the Luke Chadwick academy of good looks looked a bit shaky at left back, but been a natural RB it is only natural. However, he did show good attacking promise.

It was nice to see Berba back after his injury / mafia problems have kept him out for a while.

I doubt there'll be anyone on here claiming Palacios is better than Essien any time soon, he was $hite, completely owned by Anderson and Gibson, and Bentley was just as bad too.

It was nice to get 20 minutes of "we all hate Leeds scum" at the start of the second half. Roll on January 2nd/3rd.

well being a united fan i am glad we won.

the youngsters did well for the most part, glad Obertan got a chance from the start tonight,

the first half was ok, the second half though was not particualy entertaining infact i found it to be so boring that i fell asleep 10 mins from the end.

Harry Redknapp even mentioned it in his after match interview, the atmosphere was dead, the play on the pitch had no tempo to it, there were hardly any tackles, it was lick a training match, i have to agree with him especially in the second half.

although i am glad we won.

I'm coming to the conclusion that you're a WUM.

A 12 year old IMO.

Anybody seen that young Anderlecht striker play ?

Think his name is Romelu Lakuka.

He scored more goals than games played in the youth teams despite him being only 15 against 18 and 19 year olds. He as currently scored 8 first team goals this season and is a regular for the Belgium under 21''s. He is set to win his first Belgium senior cap the next time the squad is announced.

All this depspite him only being 16!!!

Oh and his also 14 stone and 6'3 in height!!!

what an earth is a WUM?

ah so am a 12 year old for expressing an OPINION on a MESSAGE BOARD.

the Capitals is for the fact thats what your supposed to do on a message board.

maybe you have had a bad day but i thought that was uncalled for IMO.

I play Champ Manager too.

You come across as a 12 year old to me.

Anyone older than 12 years old isn't going to write, "I am a United fan. I am glad we won." like you do.

And that's you're finest post so far.

So I'll ask, how old are you? And if you are older than 12, are you in a special education programme?

I've not found him on Champ Manager. I read a article on him on the internet. Chelsea and Manchester United both want him.

His scored 8 goals in his last 9 games. I dont care what league you play in, to do that at the age of 16 is awesome.

am not actually going to tell you how old i am, i will give you a little clue though, i am older than 18 but younger than 25.

so your telling me that out of about 1700 posts i have made thats my best one, have you read them all?

all i said was i am glad we won but the match wasnt particulaly entertaining, is Harry Reknapp 12 cause he mentioned that the match was quite dull and boring,

is every other fan on the planet 12 when they come back from a game and say its boring.

i am older than 18 and no i am not in a special classes or education programme as you put it, i am actually doing a business course at college and am doing just fine with my grades as i have all the way through my acedemic career.

Even though he was played out of position I quite liked the look of De lait (sp) and thought he showed some good touches. Anderson was excellent, just needs to work on his final ball imo.

The second Gibson finsh was top notch, it's also great to have Park back, underrated player for me.