Man Utd vs Fulham (3-2)

It was the first home game of the season and there were some other sweet firsts too. New boy, Robin van Persie made his first start and scored his first goal for Man Utd with a rather stunning half-volley equalizing goal. Next up other new boy, Japanese Shinji Kagawa scored the second goal for Man Utd and also his first for them. Ferguson must indeed be pleased to see his new signings returning the value paid for them. Rafael soon scored another to make it 3-1 before half time. The atmosphere was all high pre-game at Old Trafford, especially with Usain Bolt (a Man Utd fan) on the pitch showing off his Olympic wins and that famous bow and arrow signature style move. Fans were overheard shouting "Fergie, Fergie sign him up”. Lol. However the highs of the pre-game took a dent 4 minutes into the game when Damien Duff of Fulham scored the opening goal. And for a while one was worrying if this was to be another game to end badly for Utd. But to the rescue comes Boy Wonder, Robin! And with Utd scoring two more goals after that , Man Utd looked on the high as they break for half time.

I don’t know if it’s complacency or what, but after half-time Utd seems slightly at lost. They had Fulham very hard at their heels. Utd killing moves of the later half of the first-half was gone! It was also in the second-half, the weakness of the our defence was exposed. With a number of our experience defenders out on injuries, Michael Carrick is forced to played the unfamiliar role of centre-back. And his inexperience was clearly shown in the game with a number of “OMG! WTH!” defence moments. But one of the more bigger blunder came from the Skipper, Vidic who deflected the ball into his own net when De Gea failed to clear a cross from Fulham, thus giving the opponents some hope of redeeming the game.

And on the hope did Fulham run on! Throwing waves of scares, near misses and deflections that tested Utd very hard. But Utd did have a few near misses too, including form a fantastic Rafeal. De Gea was also made to work hard with a couple of saves. Rooney came on for Kagawa in the 68th minute but his play was shortened when he received an ugly gash on his thigh courtesy of Hugo Rodallega’s boots. The sight of Rooney’s open flash gash was almost puke inducing. It was nasty nasty! So nasty, it would result in Rooney sitting our for a month. Poor boy had to be taken away on a stretcher. What a horrible way to end the game! But on the hind side, we did get all three points and maybe Rooney’s out will be Robin’s opportunity to shine!

Other news: It was a draw in the game of Liverpool vesus Manchester City. I was hoping Liverpool might crushed City when they had a 2-0 lead, but atlas….. Liverpool was Liverpool. Hey, atleast City lost two points, that is still something. Arsenal drew again and Chelsea continues its winning ways.