I miss the Liverpool game earlier. Was it a deserved win for Utd?
First half we should (not in a deserve sense, but with regard to assumed competence) have put in about 2 or 3 goals. I think Welberg will be a fine striker in time, and he is often useful in possession and pressure, but he deserves to be called wasteful. Not just chances he creates for himself, but occasions on which he is put clean through by others: he bungles. Hope he gets a lot more time, but not necessarily league starts.
Carrick and ClevGod were pretty damn good for about two thirds of the game. Kagawa made the best of being stuck out wide, could have snatched a goal.
Second half, we sank back under Liverpool pressure. We risked the whole game by playing daft passes around our area, without clear or urgent ideas or intent about moving the ball
forward and away. It's all very well to give the ball to someone else, but you've got to have a plan or a suggestion to go with it, or you're just adding to the panic.
Sturridge helps a lot. Downing is a eunuch; if Rodgers can find a buyer, he should fuck him off. He needs to rest Sterling - who was properly anonymous after a couple of very mildly threatening runs early on - but he has no use for Downing. Allen will rediscover his balls.
Skrtel and Agger were ok here and there, but badly rattled at times. Chicha might well have given them hell.