Five Star Performance

Carlos punishes Carson for his blunder

Man Utd swept West Brom aside with a tornado 5 goal whipping and created a new Premier League record of 11 consecutive clean sheets at the same time. The miserly defence record was even more impressive considering that the backline was rotated quite often, with Van der Sar and Vidic being the only players to play in all 11 clean-sheets.

There were speculations that Man Utd would be winning another 1-0 scoreline following the huge amount of injuries and more matches to be played in a week. West Brom started brightly for a moment but Ferdinand was in the right places to shut them down. Soon, it was clear that United were having the lion's share of possession. Slick passing moves between Berbatov and Carrick in navigating through a crowded box lead to Berba in grabbing the first blood of the game. The angle was tight but Berbatov's superb technique and control enabled him to guide the ball past Carson.

The Baggies condemned themselves to hell when their very own captain, Robinson slammed a two footed challenged against Park from behind and Rob Styles promptly produced a red card to the dismay of the Hawthorns. There was no question about that lunge by Robinson and it looked pretty bad on camera considering that he didn't even look back after slamming onto Park. Not long afterthat, United increased their lead to two after Carson did a massive boo boo with his goalkeeping. Giggs crossed a ball into the box and Carson did caught it but for some reason or so, he let go of the ball with his butter fingers and Tevez punished him by smashing the free ball into the net. Haha..Carson had this "it's not my fault" look on his face, claiming that Vidic was obstructing him but in fact, the one which had contact with him was one of his defenders. Lol, his horrified teammates gave him no sympathy looks for that kind of boo boo.

United nearly lost their clean sheet record in the 56th minute when Donk broke free of the back four and gave a shot. Fortunately for United, the ball hit the crossbar and was deflected away. That would have been game on if that had gone in. Immediately afterthat, Vidic showed his appetite for scoring by heading in the third from Giggs' corner. For the fourth goal, Giggs showed yet again another superb assist and awareness on the field by setting up Ronaldo to score the fourth. Giggs had been fabulous in this game with his three assists, 2 coming from his trademark crosses and 1 from his quick thinking. Looks like he's doing pretty well with his secondary role in the middle..haha.

Rob Styles launched a flurry of yellow cards around the seventy plus minutes mark. It started off with Bednar first and that fellow's reaction was caught on camera! Apparently, he did a gesture on his head indicating that the referee was a crazy fool. He was fortunate that the referee didn't see that...lol. Afterthat, Berbatov was involved in a contentious 5th goal when he looked to have beaten the offside line, and then passed to Ronaldo who have also looked to have beaten the line. Both occasions looked to be offsides but it was very close and the referee gave the goal to United. Obviously, the West Brom players were mad and a bunch of them started to crowd around Rob. And Rob flashed the yellow at Carson and Donk for being whiners.

Haha..this match is one of the moments when you have a "lol" defence and West Brom shows you how NOT to do a good defending. The centerbacks had little awareness of their teammates around them and they always end up clashing and bumping with one another when United started to attack. Communication was bad between goalkeeper and defenders and they were all over the place. None of them knew what the other was doing. Haha..the West Brom manager was just sitting in the stands with a bored look on his face and he was going "please get this game over with please. I had enough." Hmmm..I think the combination between Carrick and Berba is starting to look very delicious. And coincidentally, both are former Spurs boys..haha. Carrick had looked rather impressive lately and his passing looks to be deadly with the sort of vision and awareness to unlock defences. And with Berba popping up at the right places at the right time, it's another branch of arsenal United could depend on now that Carrick's all well again.

Things are looking to shape up very nicely for United after the second set of results. The Scousers continued to drop points after a 1-1 draw against Wigan. This meant that Chelsea would now be in second position after securing a 2-0 win over Boro. Ahhh..Rafa is having trouble stopping the rot at the Kop. Not only are they losing their lead position, they are going on a free fall position with Aston Villa waiting in the wings to leap over them. United's lead stretches to a possible 5 points if they could win their game in hand. Hmm..next game won't be easy though. Everton had shown the Gooners that they are no pushovers after holding them to a 1-1 draw. But of course, it won't be as fiery without Wayne playing on the field. =p