So the community shield has been and gone, glad to say we beat the city scum and deservedly so. We dominated for the entire game and some how amazingly we went in at half-time 2-0 down. Citys first goal coming completely against the run of play on the 38min, they won a free kick in a dangerous area and some poor defending allowed Lescott a free header. At the time of the goal I thought de Gea got stuck flat on his feet, but looking back it would be hard to expect him to do anything as Lescot got so close.
The goal stunned Man Utd for the remainder of the half, not regaining the control that they had held previous and the pain was compounded on the 45min when Edin Dzeko took a long range effort which caught de Gea of guard. The shot was hit with venom and undeniably swerved in the air but it was clear 'Big Dave' was slow to get down to it.
At this point twitter exploded with the end of the world tweets, we need Sneijder or the season is over, bring back VDS and sell de Gea. It's laughable how many people will panic and jump on the bandwagon! I'd like to point out that at this stage I was disappointed at the 2nd goal we had conceded and to be honest found it hard to see our way back into the game. We had dominated the first half and came out 2-0 down, it seemed it would just be one of those days. But I was not calling for de Gea's head or screaming that our squad was not good enough. We had been so impressive, that regardless of the result of this game I consoled myself that a performance like that every week we should have no problem retaining the title, but held out little hope for the shield at that point.
2nd half starts and with 3 subs on (Cleverly, Jones, Evans for Carrick, Ferdinand, Vidic) Man Utd started the 2nd half as they had the first. We looked the brighter of the two sides once more and eventually got our reward when Chris Smalling got on the end of an Ashley Young free. 6mins later we may have seen the goal of the season already (especially where team-work is concerned) with Rooney taking the ball from midfield and linking up with Nani, Welbeck and Cleverly with some intricate and beautiful 1-touch football, before Nani finished the move with a beautiful chip into the roof of the net.
Finally, we all know what happened in the last minute of the game, Rooney with a large looping clearance from his own box which was latched on to by Nani who was running so fast the air-force he created flung Gael Clichy to the side.
Queue the screams "Oh Fuck, please dont't miss, please don't miss"
"OH MY GOD HE'S GOING TO MISS"
"Hes too close to Joe Hart"
*Holds breath - time slows down*
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"GGGGGGGGOOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLL"
It was such a weird feeling watching a game with something at stake again after the pre-season friendlies. It was a great feeling and was just exactly what we needed to get ready for the new season. I still hold the same opinion as last week, the result of the game was meaning less, but just taking part in that match can only have done the squad the world of good. If we continue to preform like that this season, we will definitely have more trophies to celebrate come next may.
As for City, how can they expect to be successful this season if they are more worried about kicking and fouling the other team than playing football. Pointing particularly towards Richards, Balotelli and YaYa Toure. Separate incidents where they all had terrible tackles or dived or forgot that Nemanja would tear them to pieces.
The main outcome that I have taken from the shield victory is that I cannot wait for next week now as Utd start to play week in week out, the season starts now!
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