by RoyalBlue »
19 Feb 2013 21:50
Victor Meldrew LoyalRoyalFan BR2 Shorey showing yet again that he is our best left-back.
He's better than Harte, I'll grant you that, but he was at fault last night.
Let's the United player ran at him, no closing down at all, they put a ball into the box and score.
In the second half he had both Nani and Valencia running at him with very little help from Jobi.
Did you watch the whole of the game or are you going by highlights?
Incidentally Shorey won a number of headers against Valencia and it was good to see him attacking the ball.
Shorey went very strongly into those headers too. They were some of the rare occasions when we heard any noise from the incredibly silent ManU fans, as they moaned about Shorey flattening their man and not getting penalised.
On a different subject, I am really surprised by the claims that we were poor at keeping the ball. After we weathered the initial ManU storm, we had a long spell of good passsing and possession, which even drew acknowledgement and praise from both commentators. What's more, over the course of the game, I reckon the ManU players produced some of the worst careless passing. I can recall several occasions when, under very little pressure, one of their players neatly passed the ball out of play for a throw in to us!