How much more time can utd give De Gea, another goal down to him..
Gotta be Sir AF worst signing i can remember
So far, that is how it's shaping up.
I thought that playing him today, after not playing for a few games, was a huge mistake on the behalf of Sir Alex - better to stick with Lindegaard for today, and ease De Gea back in against Stoke at Old Trafford - not in the crucible that is Liverpool v Man Utd in the FA Cup and at Anfield to boot!!! Big mistake, for me that cost us the game. I cannot see Lindegaard making such errors, he looks so much more solid for me. I think we should stick with Lindegaard and let De Gea have a good long look at himself over the summer. We cannot afford a weak link anywhere in the team, but especially not between the sticks.
We really should not have lost that - De Gea was especially culpable for the first goal - but more on that in a minute - and it was a schoolboy error by Evra for Liverpool's second goal.
I have to mention Smalling. He was immense - I lost count of the amount of times I heard 'and away by Smalling'. He is really shaping up into a terrific defender and him together with Jones will form Utd and England's central defence for years to come.
On the whole, I thought the ref. had a great game - but I would raise one point going back to that first Liverpool goal: this idea of crowding the keeper like that at corner kicks, basically stopping him getting to the ball - surely that should come under obstruction? Do that anywhere else on the pitch and it's a freekick, true or false? I mean, the same thing happened at the very next corner and it was given as a freekick - even the commentator said that it was given as a freekick because De Gea got his fist to it. It was a carbon copy pretty much, yet one ended up in the net and one was given as a freekick. For me, that's obstruction and shouldn't be allowed - but there you go. We can't just point at that - we should've won that game with all the possession we had and of course, Valencia was incredibly unlucky with his shot back off the post.
