MasterBlaster76
ICC Chairman
Congratulations Everton for reaching the Cup Final. It could've gone either way really, both defenses were superb, I think most teams would've had trouble getting through either of us today. We should've had a penalty in the 90 minutes, but there you go. I hope you beat Chelsea in the Final. And this should give added spice to the midweek meeting between Everton and Chelsea. Shame it isn't at Goodison, I think Everton would've really given them a game there. Still, Chelsea's defence is looking very shaky right now.
I don't mind Sir Alex fielding a weakened team; I thought they did really well and none of them looked out of place. Macheda coming through is as good as a fresh new signing. Maybe he should've stayed on the pitch, Berbatov did nothing when he came on and that penalty he struck was the worst I've ever seen. For me, he's still a long way from proving himself a Man Utd player. The thing I don't get is why did Sir Alex not at least have Rooney and Ronaldo on the bench? I agree with not playing them, but not even having them on the bench at least? That was a mistake for me and cost us the game even more than fielding a 'weakened' team.
Also, why didn't Tevez take one? He was on the pitch, surely? What about Scholes? Or the Brazilian kids? Brazilians are usually good at pens. I mean, Rio and Vidic (immense, the pair of them) taking our second and third pens?? Macheda would've wanted to take one if he was still on, I'm pretty sure of that.
As far as the 90mins was concerned, that's much more like the old Utd. The defence was immaculate and there was some good attacking play going forwards. Add Rooney, Ronaldo and Carrick to the mix and we should be fine for the rest of the season.
It was always going to be too much to ask to win the lot and the FA Cup was always going to be the fall guy (out of the tournaments left, of course otherwise it'd be the Carling Cup). Still, I would've definitely included Ronaldo on the bench - Rooney was actually injured.
I don't mind Sir Alex fielding a weakened team; I thought they did really well and none of them looked out of place. Macheda coming through is as good as a fresh new signing. Maybe he should've stayed on the pitch, Berbatov did nothing when he came on and that penalty he struck was the worst I've ever seen. For me, he's still a long way from proving himself a Man Utd player. The thing I don't get is why did Sir Alex not at least have Rooney and Ronaldo on the bench? I agree with not playing them, but not even having them on the bench at least? That was a mistake for me and cost us the game even more than fielding a 'weakened' team.
Also, why didn't Tevez take one? He was on the pitch, surely? What about Scholes? Or the Brazilian kids? Brazilians are usually good at pens. I mean, Rio and Vidic (immense, the pair of them) taking our second and third pens?? Macheda would've wanted to take one if he was still on, I'm pretty sure of that.
As far as the 90mins was concerned, that's much more like the old Utd. The defence was immaculate and there was some good attacking play going forwards. Add Rooney, Ronaldo and Carrick to the mix and we should be fine for the rest of the season.
It was always going to be too much to ask to win the lot and the FA Cup was always going to be the fall guy (out of the tournaments left, of course otherwise it'd be the Carling Cup). Still, I would've definitely included Ronaldo on the bench - Rooney was actually injured.
Shows how bad the atmosphere was that the best moments of singing were outside the entrance about half an hour before kick off. First of all a ginger kid gets lifted up, and he gets "Paul Scholes he scores goals", then a oriental looking gentleman starts orchestrating the songs and he gets lifted up to "Park, Park, whereever you may be.."
Absolute class outside there.
