LONG POST WARNING HERE, its mainly for adam as he seems to be a fellow red that knows what hes on about id like to hear his views, but also everybody elses that wishes to contribute!
Van der sar does make a few costly errors of judgement but it doesnt usually cost us like that, although i am always pooing it a bit when theres a high cross coming into our box near him. apart from that though hes a class keeper, definately one of the best. how cech won keeper of the year award is beyond me, one of them won the premiership and champions league (he played a massive part in the pens) and the other one didnt. i dont think the judging panel particularly liked Manchester United, but who does apart from United and Wigan fans!
With regards to the game on Saturday, United were absolute toss, after 17 minutes we just gave the game to them on a plate. the game was lost in midfield, we were simply outplayed, Scholes had a stinker of a game which is HIGHLY unusual for him, and the rest of the team didnt really show the passion needed to win. Liverpool got a couple of lucky breaks in us scoring for them, Giggs handing the second goal over which Babel very nearly messed up. But like i said, they were the better team and deserved winners.
As to uniteds best starting line up well the defence speaks for itself, we need to get foster starting a few more games though, we can never be sure how much longer VDS has got.
midfield is where it starts to get difficult, ronaldo is a starter obviously then in midfield id have to have scholes, providing that performance yesterday was a one off. then for me carrick gets in ahead of anderson, with Giggs and Nani sharing responsibility of the left mid. this leaves us with anderson, hargreaves (would include in every champions league game) o shea fletcher and park as cover.
up front i guess we'l just have to see what works between the TEvez Rooney and Berbatov, to be honest in the predicament of having to leave an awesome forward on the bench is much better than the one we faced last season when at times we only had one striker. id probably bias is slightly with berbatov and tevez at the moment as tevez's form for united is better imo than rooneys but i would hope that rooney will push tevez out of that 11 soon.
