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By Chris Mortlock 1. Kagawa is slowly starting to adapt It’s fair to say that Shinji Kagawa has struggled to adapt to English football. Although the Bundesliga and the Premier League are similar in terms of style of play, the English game is a tad more physical and that’s what the Japanese playmaker has struggled [...]

By Lee Savery A Wayne Rooney brace helped Manchester United come from behind and hang on to victory at Old Trafford to go seven points clear at the top of the Premier League. The visitors stunned Old Trafford when Jay Rodriguez latched onto Michael Carrick’s poor pass back to round David de Gea and score [...]

By Lee Savery Wayne Rooney scored on his return from injury to put Manchester United into the fourth round of the FA Cup. The only goal of the game came after nine minutes when Anderson’s through pass expertly found Javier Hernandez who ran into the box before squaring the ball to Rooney who slid the [...]

By Chris Mortlock 1. From one headache to another… …Albeit a much easier one to handle. With Nemanja Vidic returning to first-team action on Saturday, the boss is now spoilt for choice when choosing his central defensive partnership. The question is though: What is United’s best central-defensive pairing? A fully-fit Nemanja Vidic will always start – [...]

By Lee Savery Manchester United recorded a comfortable victory over struggling Sunderland in a match that saw the return of Nemanja Vidic from injury. It took just twenty minutes for the league leaders to exert their dominance on the Black Cats with the game pretty much over from that early on due to two United [...]

By Matthew Jones 1. Robin Van Persie is worth his weight in gold 10 minutes before the end, I told a friend in the pub that Fergie needed to take off van Persie, who in all honesty, had a poor game. The only thing of note he’d really done in the game up until then [...]

By Lee Savery A stoppage time free-kick from Robin van Persie gave United the win in the Manchester derby that also included a brace for Wayne Rooney. The result now means United have gone six points clear at the top of the Premier League as they continue their quest in regaining the Premier League title. [...]

By Chris Mortlock 1. This trend of making average teams look good needs to stop That first half against Reading was one of the most entertaining halves of Premier League football like, ever. Both teams looked like scoring every time they ventured forward. For the neutral, it must have been a great game to watch. [...]

By Lee Savery Manchester United came from behind, twice, to defeat Reading in a seven goal thriller at the Madejski. All the goals came in the first 34 minutes of an astonishing first half, with the scoring starting on eight minutes when Hal Robson-Kanu lashed in a volley after Jonny Evans failed to clear a [...]

By Chris Mortlock 1. We miss Rooney when he’s not in the side Robin van Persie has been singled out by many as Manchester United’s most important player this season and with 8 league goals in 12 league games, not many would argue with that. He has scored vital goals already this term - and we’re [...]