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De Gea started shaky but grew as the game went one. Competitive debut at Wembley. Happy with his debut. De Gea will be first choice.

For mine Smalling was the best player for Man United. He was a beast.

Young was immense. Nani was sensational. some brilliant passing from Anderson. Cleverly was sensational. Welbeck was pretty good. Rooney was Rooney. Jones was outstanding.

Some great one touch football last night. The score line flattered the blue scum a great deal.

A footballing lesson
 
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A footballing lesson and at the end the oldest guy on our team was Young, who is 26.

This is the start of Fergies last great team.

It may even make England interesting.
We should save the Sneijder money and buy Wilshire instead. Him and Cleverly in mid would be nice.

Hopefully Ando can step up this season. Looked good.

Welbeck looks like he has progressed well, and maybe its time for Berba to go to Paris. The defence was good, the reserve defence was also good. So no worries there.

As for De Gea, he will be first choice. The first goal was i good freekick an would be difficult for any goalkeeper to save. The second, down to him. Lets hope thats out of his system.

I still think we could do with another body in midfield. Its a long season after all.
 
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Not a good start injury wise though, hopefully Vidic isnt too bad, looks like we will be without rio for a while.
 
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sydraider said:
Not a good start injury wise though, hopefully Vidic isnt too bad, looks like we will be without rio for a while.
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Definitely not a an ideal start.

I am confident with the Smalling/Jones Combination though. Evans as back up. Pretty handy tbh.

Evra is back next week also. with Fabio there too there should be enough cover..
 
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De Gea is 20 and has played 2 competitive games for us. He'll come good.

Nice to win away with a team featuring De Gea, Jones, Smalling, Wellbeck, Cleverly, and Evans. Must be the youngest team we've fielded in a long while, other than an end of season dead rubber.

Be an interesting start to the season, given we play all of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, City, and Tottenham in our next 8 matches.
 
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I'm more concerned about Rio & Vidic then about De Gea, he'll need time to get use to the physicality of the EPL, he'll be fine
 
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I dont see how physicallity has anything to do with the goal in the Community Shield and the one on the weekend he let in.
 
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Taibi got man of the match in his first game and Vidic struggled.
So far every time De Gea makes a mistake we go on and win. So he is doing it on purpose to motivate the other players. Fergie will have a quiet word with him to stop him.
As for the physicality of the league, the only cross he flapped at was a blatant foul. The ref was rubbish, giving them all sorts. Still it was not in Uniteds favour so its ignored.

Other than that, looked good. West Brom came back into it and there goal lifted them. Lots of talk like West Brom are rubbish. They finished 11th last year and look good under Hodgson. Other teams will struggle there this year.

Nani needs to pick up a bit though, he looks dangerous but his finishing was rubbish. He needs to start thinking a bit more. To many times does he take the wrong option.
 
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De Gea will come good. I saw him play for Atletico a few times and he was quite impressive. As he settles at Utd (and learns to protect himself with his knees or elbows when opposition players try to smash him in the air), he'll come good. He's so young and inexperienced he was always going to make a few mistakes in the early days, so although it's been a bit worse than I expected I have faith in him.

Our defensive injuries are a bit of a hassle. But what other team in the world could have their entire first choice backline out (as we did in the end of the West Brom match) and still look completely solid defensively? In fact, I wonder if De Gea feels more comfortable behind Smalling, Evans and Jones, as in both matches he's looked better after they came on for Rio and Vidic. Between those three, Fabio and hopefully Evra returning against Spurs, we should be right.

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Nani needs to pick up a bit though, he looks dangerous but his finishing was rubbish. He needs to start thinking a bit more. To many times does he take the wrong option.
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Nani was brilliant in the Community Shield, arguably our best player. Just had a bit of a quiet one against West Brom. He'll be fine and I expect him to continue to establish himself as the best winger in the world not named Messi or Ronaldo by the end of the season.
 
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Mad Dogg said:
Nani was brilliant in the Community Shield, arguably our best player. Just had a bit of a quiet one against West Brom. He'll be fine and I expect him to continue to establish himself as the best winger in the world not named Messi or Ronaldo by the end of the season.
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He is a fantastic footballer and has the ability to be one the top players in the world no doubt about it, it just all seems to instinctive to me.

I'd like to see more intelligent play, putting his head up more to pick the right pass. Rooney must give him at least 5 rollikins in every game because he has had an optimistic 30 yard shot when a pass was on.

He is old enough now, hopefully this is the year we see it from him, and he can go on to hit the heights he is capable off.
 
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Impressive performance this morning. I like what I've seen from Cleverly and Wellbeck over our first two games. Look like both have massive potential. Jones and Young have also been very impressive. De Gea still looks shaky, but I'm prepared to give him significant time. Not many goalkeepers get thrown into such a pressure cooker at age 20. His ball out to Young that ultimately led to the Anderson goal was very good. Nice to see we have another keeper who likes to distribute the ball quickly and create those end-to-end opportunities.

The really scary thing for our opponents is the team we could name from players not in the 11 today:

Lindegaard
Rafael
Ferdinand
Vidic
Fabio
Giggs
Carrick
Fletcher
Valencia
Hernandez
Berbatov

And that's leaving out Ji Sung Park. Arsenal and Chelsea would kill for that kind of depth.
 
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