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What else could have happened during an international break, than new tranfer gossip around ManU. Especially now there is no malaise to report since ManU has shown the critics that we still can play our reknown and feared attractive, fast paced offensive game as shown against Wigan, last weekend.

Miguel Veloso, the newest starlet to be linked with ManU. Portuguese and player a tLisbon, Lisbon whom we bought both Ronaldo and Nani from. I that’s enough to feed the tabloids already.
Veloso is a remarkable talent, only 21 years young but even though he is young I can’t imagine SAF is interested in another youngster for our central defense, with the likes of O’Shea and Pique on our bench. Even though a pre-contract agreement is rumoured to exist. But this was denied today by Sporting.

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Tags:   Menez · soccerlens · tranfer talk · Veloso

After Saturday’s amazing second half display, SAF must be a happy man. Not only because of our 6 consecutive victories in the League, or the 8 consecutive clean sheets victories UCL games included, but most of all because of the international break.
A much needed break for ManU.

ManU has been one of the biggest victims in this season start when it comes to injuries, with almost a complete squad sidelined and this week could be the first time Alex actually IS happy because of an international break. Most of the time this means that OT is almost empty and between 15 and 20 players leave Manchester to train with and play for their national team, but this time things are different.
This time many players won’t play in their national kit, but will enjoy the almost two weeks to recover from injury and return entirely fit for the clash with Aston Villa on Saturday 20th October.

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Tags:   Break · Internationals · Neville · Saha · VDS · Vidic

4 Goals. 4 Goals in one half, the second half. Tevez, twice Ronaldo and Rooney.
2 more injuries in the first 30 minutes: Vidic and O’Shea.
3 Penalties not awarded.
Another clean sheet: number 6 in the Prem, number 8 in a row.
Tevez clearly best player on the pitch, closel followed by Ronaldo.
ManU at the top of the table for at least the next 24 hours. I think the lads has given a warning to the other 3 big teams. ManU top favourite for the title again… who’s going to stop this rolling train? High speed train.

I think that’s the perfect resume of today’s game against Wigan.
Live report after the jump.

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Tags:   Live Report · Premiership · Ronaldo · Rooney · Tevez · White Wash · Wigan

Tomorrow we play a lunch time game against Wigan Athletic FC. There’s not much to say about this early game actually.
Wigan only have 8 points so far and have scored 17 consecutive defeats against ManU. ManUtd has scored 7 consecutive clean sheet victories.

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Tags:   Premiership · Wigan

Yesterday’s game against AS Roma, was an open game and we might once more not have been the crushing winners, everyone expects ManU to be, but who cares?
As I was speaking about last night’s game with friends at work and at the pub too, I became quickly pi$$ed off.

We’ve been lucky.

Those were the wise words of almost everyone who wanted to discuss yesterday’s game with me. I call bollocks on this one. We HAVE NOT been lucky, Roma have been lucky. Or maybe not. We just saw an open game with several chances at every side. And we saw many internationals on the pitch all performing on a high level, especially the defenders at both sides.

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Tags:   Carrick · Giggs · Rotation · Scholes · sour grapes · UCL

Sorry for the server problems, guys. Everything should be up and running again now. but due to technical problems I couldn’t finish the live report complete. The rest of the report I continued for some time after the outage, is attached.

Anyway we won 1-0 after a brilliant goal from Rooney and have now 6 out of 6 after two games. More about the game tomorrow.

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Tags:   Live Report · Roma · UCL

On Tuesday, Roma comes to OT again and we’ll have another chance to get in our rhythm, hopefully scoring more goals this time. Last season we’ve beaten Roma 7-1 in the replay of the UCL quarter finals, but chances that we’ll repeat this royal beating are rather slim. Not because we don’t have the talent to so, but more because those monster scores are rather exceptional and repeating that performance would be a unique performance.

After VDS’s toe injury, SAF faces other defensive problems, with both Vidic and Brown having missed today’s training session. Both defenders received a knock and Fergie mentioned Pique would be the obvious replacement for Vidic or Brown.
Last weekend, our Boss hinted at youngsters being allowed to leave OT and pick up match rhythm. The poor performance of our talented junior squad against Coventry resulted in Ferguson stating that Pique and Danny Simpson could be useful for the first squad. What does this mean for Dong, Evans, Eagles (who played several times already this season) and Lee Martin?

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Tags:   Arsenal · Brown · Ferdinand · Pique · Rom · UCL · Vidic

Sorry guys, but work and a rather bad fish and chips have taken best part of me this week, but I’m back now.

Yesterday we played our eight Premier League game of the season, away against Birmingham and we headed to St-Andrews after 5 consecutive clean sheets.
Our line up was a rather conservative one with the usual suspects in the squad. Hargreaves and Neville still weren’t fit enough to play and Nani was not listed. Starting were the same 11 who won 2-0 against Chelsea, Kuszczak, O’Shea, Pique, Saha and Anderson on the bench. Our now classic 5 attackers front line made us dream about finally a monster score this year.

The game itself was rather unspectacular and ManU missed the chance to impose themselves as Champions and crush Birmingham who feature in the second half of the table. More even, Birmingham played rather well and created several chances.

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Tags:   Analysis · Birmingham · Premiership · Ronaldo

Now the season really has started and the games follow up each other in a rather high pace, it’s time to start a series reviewing our senior squad members and their performances so far. Today, we kick off with our goal keeper Edwin van der Sar, the Dutch almost 6′6″ tall international, who has won everything there is to win on club level.

Van der Sar has played all the games so far, 7 in the Premiership and the UCL game in Lisbon. VDS had come in in the line of fire after some errors at the end of last season. The tall Dutch international has this year been a role player and a rock in our system.
Although rarely tested during the Community Shield against Chelsea, VDS was our hero when he won the trophy for us by stopping 3 penalties.
VDS, backed by an awesome defense so far, has mostly only been tested by long range shots and always stood solid. EVDS made the difference in last week’s UCL game with two brilliant world class saves.

EVDS has hardly ever been caught on an error in this season so far, although one could say he might have done more with Citeh’s goal, but deflected shots always are hard for a keeper. As known, VDS has ruled on both long distance shots and in the air and kept 5 consecutive clean sheets.

The value of VDS for the team can’t be better worded than Giggs did it some days ago

He has a calming effect on the whole team because he doesn’t make that many mistakes. He has been doing it for so long now, you take it for granted

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Tags:   Carling Cup · Player Reviews · VDS