Newcastle - Manchester United. 4 January 2012.
3-0??? Yes, 3-0.
No, there's no error. That was the final score. I wouldn't have thought it possible before the game.
I mean, sure, Manchester City pulverized United 6-1 at Old Trafford, ha, ha, but that was a freak accident, and will probably not happen again in a hundred years, or more.
I guess another set of circumstances got together, again, to make Man. U. lose big, for the second time this season.
First, it seems De Gea felt a little bit of Ferguson's wrath. The blunder the Spanish 21-year-old made against Blackburn, causing the third goal by Rovers, seems to have made United's coach prefer the older Anders Lindegaard in goal. Man, did that ever backfire!
Not that Lindegaard is clearly a bad goalkeeper, but one could sort of see he was not exactly familiar with how the defenders do their job for United, at both Ba's goal and Jones' own goal. (And wasn't that a funny one?...)
Lindegaard could also be blamed at Cabaye's goal, if one would really be inclined to assign blame.
Secondly, Newcastle United did really well, and played cohesively in defense, too. At 2-0, they cleared the ball off the line of their own net one time, I remember.
And thirdly, of course, Newcastle can attribute their win to a little bit of luck, too, because at all of their three goals the ball could have gone wide, on a worse day.
But kudos to United. Newcastle United, that is!
If you want to check out the highlights of this nice game, again, go here.
UPDATE: The link is now dead, apparently, but check out what Alan Pardew, Newcastle's manager, had to say after the game.
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