Man Utd 1 – 4 Liverpool, An Utter Embarrassment

By: Wayne Farry | March 14th, 2009

First of all, this isn’t going to be long. The result hasn’t really sunk in. I know this because I’m not that angry. Once it’s sunk in I’ll be livid.

We lost 1-4 at home today to the Scousers. It was a game with calamity after calamity with every one of Liverpool’s goals (except Dossena’s cracker) a direct result of a stupid United mistake. Vidic let the ball go past him and Torres drift in for the first goal. Evra uncharacteristically let the ball go past him instead of dealing with it before Gerrard stole the chase, only to be hacked down by the wee Frenchman. Liverpool’s third goal was from a free-kick; once again Vidic (who had his worse in a Utd shirt that I can remember) didn’t deal with the ball and Gerrard ran to close it down. Vidic, however, didn’t see this as an option. He came into contact with Gerrard with a tackle that would have been more at home at Murrayfield today than at OT. Maybe he thought getting a red card was worth not conceding again…Hmmmm…Not so lucky, he was sent off (for the second time this season against ‘Pool) and Fabio Aurelio knocked it an extraordinary free-kick.

Oh yeah, and United took the lead through a Ronaldo penalty after Reina dragged down Park. It was the one good thing Ronaldo did today, he was awful. So were most of United’s players; Roo was AWOL, Carrick off the boil, the only two players worth their salt today were Rio and Park who both worked their arses off for the ultimately fruitless cause. Most of those players out there should be ashamed of themselves for such a shambles of a ‘performance’.

So, a 1-4 defeat at home. Apparently our heaviest home defeat since New years Day 1992. There’s a bright side though, we’re still four points ahead with a game in hand. The title’s still in our hands.

Congratulations to Liverpool, they did well and ripped apart a Man Utd team who were out of sorts and appeared to be believing their own hype. They deserved their win and were ruthless in claiming it.

Just thinking though, what sorta odds will I get on Liverpool losing to Villa next weekend at Anfield?

I’ll think I’ll put some money on it.

(Photos: PA Photos)