IMO I can't see City giving up 1st unless they have a self destruction of royal proportions. Until recently I thought United had as much of a lock on 2nd as City had on 1st.
But in the last few weeks you guys haven't shown much creativity and have gotten 3 pointers on the back of tough gritty and effective defense. Well if the rock of your back 4 really is out for the best part of the rest of the season, I think you guys are in trouble.
Assuming City doesn't f**k up and give up 1st and assuming Newcastle and Liverpool won't do better or worse than 6th and 7th, I think you'll find the rest of the season as a fight between United, Tottenham, Arsenal and Chelsea for 2nd-5th.
With Vidic out and without improving your midfield in January, I don't think you're a great deal better than the Spurs or Gunners.
Our defence is the second best in the league, we have had a load of injuries this year to our defence and midfield. We are much better than Spurs or Arsenal in defence.
Yes we have been playing poor recently, but when we lost to City we went 5 points behind them.
Now all of a sudden, despite playing badly (does not help when we have to play our best attacker in midfield due to a lack of players, you try putting RvP in the mid and see how you do) we are now only 2 behind City. Even before last nigh, we were still the same 5 points behind.
We have quietly recovered from the City game, no one got past us, we have players coming back into form, we are winning away from home, still have not played the worse teams in the league and have played all the top teams.
You can fight for fourth, and if RvP gets injured, its a fight you will lose. If he doesn't, it will be Spurs who pull the usual bottle job.
We are fighting with City for the top spot.
"He will be a loss" - slight understatement. We now get to enjoy a lot more of Jonny f**king Evans.
Seriously, you guys sound like scousers. Stop with the self pity.
Evans is a great player, ask Gibson what happens to young players who Fergie decides are not good enough. He is the best passer in our defence, plenty strong enough and can read the game much better than Smalling and Jones. He just needs to stay on it for 90 mins. Something Rio had to learn how to do. Once he does that, no problems.
