United throttle Hull by six or seven goals on a different day, but with the current form of both squads, a 4-3 result makes some strange sense. Give Hull full credit for playing their tails off and making things nervy, but it should never-ever come down to a one-goal margin.
This is getting repetitive and irritating: we feel the joy from tremendous attacking football mixed-in with troublesome defensive gaffes, and now, abject-poor tracking back during the final 20 minutes. This blog entry could easily been named “Tale of Two Halves, Part 3” (see the previous two posts). Frustration is setting in here.
Looking back a day later, I’m actually quite pleased that Hull came back. Fergie now has abundant ammo to galvanize and sharpen the lads’ concentration and defensive form. You can almost hear Fergie demanding, “You must shut-up shop AND take your chances, boys. We can’t afford these lapses. If you won’t track back, we’ll find someone else who can.” The Hull performance could “shock” us into a serious run in form here.
We’ll take the 3 points and sit in the delightful afterglow of Liverpool’s gut-retching defeat to Spurs. You can just feel a tight, three-team race – sorry Arsenal – to the finish this year. Should make for a wonderful ride.
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