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The Deadly Macheda

Manchestered — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:42:14 +0000

Sir Alex on Federico Macheda:

Macheda is probably the best player going through against the goalkeeper that we have. He is outstanding when he gets in those positions. When he went through I expected him to score.

While Darren Fletcher said:

He’s a natural goalscorer, a finisher in one-on-one situations. He’s a big strong lad for his age. Sometimes that’s a problem for younger players if they are not and that’s why Wayne Rooney coped so well when younger because he was physically capable of doing that. Kiko is similar to that. Nothing seems to faze him. He’s a confident lad – not cocky or arrogant, just confident in his own ability.

We will always remember his goal against Aston Villa at home which probably gave us the title 2 seasons ago. However, the young Italian struggled for fitness last season and disappeared from headlines. Hope he’s fit this season, and show us what he can really do (like this one).

All hail deadly Macheda!

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Fletch Explains Own Goals

Manchestered — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:03:27 +0000

Haters call it luck (10 times so far, luck?), but Darren Fletcher explain it perfectly (i think the same way when i see 3 Pompey own goals at Old Trafford last weekend):

“The own goals come from putting teams under pressure. If you put the ball into the right areas, it is difficult to defend. When you look at all these own goals there is always a United player coming in behind them who could easily tap the ball into the net. If we can put the ball between the goalkeeper and the defence and one of your players can get on it, great. But it certainly causes problems for defenders and fortunately for us, they have been knocking them into their own net.”

For fun: wouldn’t it be nice to see John Terry splash the ball to his own net at Old Trafford? Nevermind

Source: Teamtalk.

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Manchester United 5 – Gamba Osaka 3

Manchestered — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:11:41 +0000

All the goals by Vidic, Ronaldo, Rooney (2) & Fletcher.

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Poor United Draw Everton Away

Manchestered — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:20:20 +0000

So the winning streak in all competition has to stop to 7 as we draw 1-1 against Everton today.

It’s always hard if every team you play want to win against you and that’s what we face today at the Goodison Park. But there are no excuse because we deserve tough matches throughout the season on every occasion, because remember we’re the f**king English and European Champions.

After so many noises ahead of the game we could only draw 1-1 against the team that very recently could only play good at first halfs. But they surely super motivated and very much improved at the second half, including Tim Howard, Phil Neville and ex reds injury prone Louis Saha. We’ve been poor and waste so many opportunities and they’ve been good enough to upset our rythm.

Of course it’s a long way to go but we already lost 5 points on our visit to Merseyside team after losing against the kop in September and draw against Everton (I wonder if those points could cost us our aim to get the English Premiere League hattrick). But I guess it’s at least harder to march through the first half of season since other top four, according Hull doesn’t seem to slowing down. But who knows anyway.

Special message to Rooney: Calm down Rooney, you’re the best among Red fans! Next game will be much better. We could win another 7 (hope to win more) start from the next game against West Ham in Old Trafford!

Come on you Reds!

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Portsmouth 0-1 Man Utd

Manchestered — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:05:40 +0000

Fratton Park has always been a difficult place for Manchester United to visit. Well i think for any other clubs as well. But especially for Manchester United in recent years. The face of Rio after his own goal a couple years ago in Pompey’s homeground still haunt me until today.

However, today we don’t talk about any of ’1st class’ Manchester United stars, instead, the hero of both 2 last games is no other than Darren Fletcher.

His goal in 32nd minutes enable us to bring full points away from home and give us more confidence, despite dozen injuries, to face Liverpool and Chelsea away.

Can’t say much but thank you Darren Fletcher for staying.

Come on you reds.