They say that it’s not the exciting, high-octane games that win you the titles, it’s the ones – like this – where you win the hard way. What do they know, and who are they anyway? I’d say it’s more accurate to say it’s a mix of both, unless you’re Chelsea under Mourinho, or Arsenal in those halcyon ‘1-0 to the Arsenal’ days. Either way a win is a win is a win and as the Prem’s general water table of talent rises, we don’t have it our own way like we perhaps used to, so taking three points from a game has to be applauded even if the performance not so much. Did that make any sense?
Rooney, in spite of his spluttering form, still has the uncanny ability to score a winner. It was beautifully taken too. His knack of doing that will hopefully see us through from here on in, on those rare days when RVP isn’t bursting the onion bag, like this one.
TV continues to look dead inside, but aside from a frustrating-ish kind of performance, which Martin Jol and Fulham can take credit for, there was nothing particularly new to concern ourselves with.
De Gea is responding to his critics in the best way he knows how, and how!
MOTM: Jonny Evans.
