brutal performance against crewe last night and very few positives to take out of it.
for starters our back four were poor. brown did little to enhance his chance of first team football and was caught ball watching by vaughan far too many times. heinze and silvestre badly need games and as the night dragged on, that became increasingly obvious. the right was ok but he hardly set the world alight.
in midfield we were desperate. the two jones` were very poor and didnt inspire me as to their future at old trafford. richardson,an england international had an opportunity to make his mark on the game and stake a claim for a first team place but seemed more interested in arguing with the ref then trying to play football. he should have led the midfield but seemed to have a bad influence on the rest of them. barnes,who came on in the second half,was built like a jockeys whip. by thet i mean he was a whippet of a young man. he had no pace and was unable to lift the ball off the ground for his crosses. he was bad. atleast young lee looked to have potential as did shawcross when he came on.
up front solksjaar was the man and if it werent for him we would have lost. smith has a long way to go but he did set up the second goal.in summary a poor night.