Ready or Not: Hull City

This will be the 25th match between United and Hull City. United as expected enjoys an overall good record with 16 wins, 3 draws, 5 losses and a +26 goal difference. Our trip will not be easy at all, we have managed only six wins from twelve games with a 0 goal different while travelling to Hull City.

Hull City are on a draw streak with three consecutive draws that came after beating Liverpool 3-1 and enjoy an almost perfect home record with only one loss this season. To neutralize this, United can boost four consecutive wins which incude three clean sheets and have scored nine goals while allowing only one! And don't forget, December is usually United's favorite month. Evidence? Since 1990 United have played on every boxing day expect for 1995 and 2009 recording only one loss and two draws the rest were ALL wins.

Ready or Not: Spurs

Manchester United will play 9 matches between December 1st and December 28th. That is an average of one match after every three days. This will exhaust the players but the holidays season could not be any better! At least I will not complain about how much Tv subscription costs me!

Task at hand, a trip to White Hart Lane. This will be the 179th meeting between the two clubs, even though United enjoys an overall positive record of 84 wins from 178 matches, trips to Spurs are not as impressive as we have suffered 31 losses from 86 matches.

Bragging Points: Since year 2000, we have faced Spurs a total of 31 times, lost 2, drew 7 and won 22! One of those two losses was self inflicted as Evans scored an own goal in a 2-3 loss at Old Trafford.

As easy as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...

5 words for this picture: FIVE ASSISTS AND A CAPTAIN.

Don't let that title fool you. Easy ends at three, you don't agree? Well, let's see how many Nos you will have for these questions;

1. Can you count one to five in five different languages?
2. Can you write Welbz's five names without checking on Wikipedia?
3. Can you name the five Reds who made their debuts on this date (November 28th)?
4. Can you name five celebrities that Rio hasn't met?
5. Can you name five UCL records that Man United are yet to break?

Here and there

PoM

Player of the month polls are on. Who is your player of the month?

Was it De Gea? The flying Spaniard who made what the great Schmeichel called 'the best save in the history of premier league' and impressed so much that Chicharito declared him 'the best goal keeper in the world.'?
 

Ready or Not: Fulham

A few hours from now Man United will be facing Fulham. This is the first away game for United since Oct 5th. The Champions will step into this determined to keep the unbeaten run going. So far, we haven't lost any of our past six matches in all competitions, and we have played all completions; Champions League, Capital One and the league.

Questions, Troubled Kind Evra

A group photo that managed to represent every United fan's reaction after that Saints' goal. Jones for those who couldn't watch it, Evra looks angry, that guy who couldn't believe that we conceded and had to stand and take a closer look, Rafael is hiding, De Gea looks confused and beat, that woman holding her face is definitely crying. Look closer and you'll see your reaction represented here. Kudos to manutd.com photographers for capturing this moment.

 

 

Well, at least we have Januzaj for the next five years and looks like he is on the right track. The kid was voted Man of the match against Southampton which is his second in a row! Moyes and Ed, while we are still into signatures how about getting Rooney to putting one down?

Robin is back into scoring! We can all drink to that.

Robson to Bruno Gomes and everything in between

Captain Robson and his team landed in Kilimanjaro yesterday and as of this morning he is starting doing what brought him and his team to the beautiful land of Tanzania; climbing the greatest Mount Kilimanjaro. I wish I was a tour guide, a help or just a fly in that team but being towns away from Moshi (that's where Mt. Kilimanjaro is) I will just have to settle for stalking following the action through Twitter.

Some accounts that you can follow and keep up with the #KiliTrek: @MU_Foundation, @ThomasCasserlys, @miss_larrisab and the official trek photographer and videographer @j_lester. And of course @ManUtd and @MUFCTanzania for the #Kilitrek and for Man United issues.

And in supporting Robson, manutd.com have dedicated this week to the Captain. For some of us who did not get to see him play, this is a good chance to get to know the longest serving Captain in the history of Manchester United/Newton Heath.

From last night.

Reds marching to Brazil

Until 19th we will just have to be satisfied with seeing the team in pieces as they represent their countries.

Here is who to watch and when:

 

 

Luis Nani - Portugal are a point behind Russia in their group but have one advantage: They play their next two matches at home. Portugal hosts Israel on 11th and Luxemburg on 15th.

Januzaj! Januzaj! Januzaj!

That is all I can say about the match! ADNAN JANUZAJ!

I understand it was just one match, but if last season with Reserves is any indication or 2013 MU Tour was an introduction, we are in for the ride of our lives! I loved absolute everything about his performance and without the slightest of doubts, he is man of the match.

An 18 years old scores a few minutes after he was booked. Then runs to pick the ball and quickly start the game. That was like saying, 'I am too good to celebrate an equalizer.' I was so scared that the media would say he was not happy at OT because he did not celebrate! Second goal was a beauty! Three shots on target, two goals and three points. Isn't that a dream debut?

Shakhtar Donetsk: A cold point

Picture perfect.

We would all have loved 3 points but a point is not so  bad. As group standings, we are second to Shakhtar but we have same points and same goal difference. On 23rd this month we will host Real Sociedad and Shakhtar will host Bayer Leverkusen.

Our next opponents are yet to win a match. They suffered a 0-2 home defeat to Shakhtar and lost 1-0 to Leverkusen. Bring on Real Sociedad.

Rooney picked another injury during training! It doesn't seem to be serious as Moyes planned to use him as a sub but decided against it as to not risk any further complications. Moyes also promised that Rooney will be ready for a trip to Sunderland this week end. And this time it was Welbeck. Does Welbz have a magic touch like Jones? Only time will tell....

A Derby To Forget

It will get better.

There is absolute nothing I want to remember about yesterday. Rooney's goal was a beauty but if I have to go through four very painful events to get to it, then No thank you, I'll pass.

I wish I could call Damon the vampire and he could do that vampire thing he does to make people forget.

But I will just have to live with it. Besides, If I forget that bad experience I will not fully appreciate and celebrate the better days that are surely coming.

Rio's Tour Diary 2013: Episode 2

Rio's tour diary 2013: Episode 1

Who to watch and When

 Michael Carrick, Ashley Young, Chris Smalling, Tom Cleverley and Danny Welbeck.

vs Moldova, September 6th.
vs Ukraine, September 10th.

U12: Nick Powell, Michael Keane, Tom Thorpe, Wilfried Zaha and Jesse Lingard

vs Moldova, September 5th.

vs Finland, September 9th.

Return to Sender???????

On their first game of the season Noisy neighbors were spotted with this banner:

Somebody please tell them to lower their voices and that owning and sending are very different. Return to sender? How can we return what's ours? Dream on.

And in case they are still confused, here is Carrick and DJ Evra explaining.

PS: I'm still dealing with a 1 - 0 to Liverpool. Only a good midfielder to United before I wake up tomorrow will ease the pain.

Boys Day Out...

Location: Syndey, Australia

Date: 17th July 2013.

Now Ji is not here I'll just hang out with animals.

 And feed them

 

First Training - How it all went down

By: @Zamaradi_M

Where do I start?

A photo may be?

Okay boys, get to work!

 As ready as can be.

Can this be our new kit? I mean the size and design?

Ladies, you see what I mean?

Ooh Ando. Is that a new hair style? May it come with a new kind of season. And I would love to know what that tat means.

Hey Young Rafael...

Hahahaha... Girl, that's Fabio. I'm over here!

So, here's the thing. You're a player-coach, coach-player, whatever they call you but when we're on the pitch, I am THE co-captain. We clear?

Whew! And that's not even all of them!

ALL photos from Headquarters.

2012/2013 Report

Most Appearances

Robin Van Persie	48
Michael Carrick	46
Patrice Evra	42
David De Gea	41
Rafael Da Silva	40
Antonio Valencia	40
Danny Welbeck	40

 

 

Top Goal Scorers

Robin van Persie	30
Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez	18
Wayne Rooney	16
Shinji Kagawa	6
Ryan Giggs	5

Most Man of the Match Nominations

Rafael da Silva	19
Robin van Persie	17
Wayne Rooney	17
Michael Carrick	16
Patrice Evra	15

Most Man of the Match Awards

Wayne Rooney	9
Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez	6
Robin van Persie	6
David de Gea	4
Ryan Giggs, Rafael da Silva, Phil Jones, Shinji Kagawa	3

 

Total votes

Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez	62,542
Robin Van Persie	54,184
David De Gea	41,176
Wayne Rooney	37,687
Shinji Kagawa	32,283

 

Most Player of the Month Points 

Robin van Persie	46
Michael Carrick	44
David de Gea	34
Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez	34
Shinji Kagawa	32

 

 

Most Over-all points

Robin van Persie	133
Michael Carrick	115
Wayne Rooney	111
Rafael da Silva	98
David de Gea	86

  

 

Most yellow cards

Paul Scholes	10
Rafael da Silva	8
Wayne Rooney	7
Antonio Valencia	7
Patrice Evra	5

Players Table 2012/2013

This table combines all votes from Man of the Match and Player of the month to determine the best and our favorite players. All votes from manutd.com

The first 11 are our Favorite 11 of the season while the first 5 are nominees for our player of the season.

Last record: May Player of the Month, May 2013

This is the final table for 2012/2013.

	NAME	APP.	NOM. (MoM)	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	MoMth	PTS
1	Robin Van Persie	48	17	6	6	3	2			46	133
2	Michael Carrick	46	16	2	6	3	4			44	115
3	Wayne Rooney	37	17	9	4	3	1			22	111
4	Rafael Da Silva	40	19	3	2	4	8		2	28	98
5	David De Gea	41	11	4	3	2	1	1		34	86
6	Javier Hernandez	36	7	6	1					34	75
7	Ryan Giggs	32	13	3	2	3	3	2		18	70
8	Phil Jones	24	11	3	2	3	2	1		22	70
9	Rio Ferdinand	34	13	2	3	2	1	4	1	16	68
10	Patrice Evra	42	15		1	4	4	6		20	65
11	Tom Cleverley	32	12	1	3	4	3	1		12	60
12	Shinji Kagawa	26	5	3	2					32	60
13	Jonny Evans	30	13			4	7	2		12	53
14	Nemanja Vidic	23	10	1	2	5	1	1		8	49
15	Anderson	26	6	2	3	1				8	39
16	Antonio Valencia	40	6	1	2	2	1			10	37
17	Danny Welbeck	40	9		1	3	3	2		4	34
18	Paul Scholes	21	4	1	3					10	31
19	Alexander Buttner	13	8	2	1	1	2	2			31
20	Chris Smalling	22	5	1		1	3				19
21	Ashley Young	23	4		1	1	2				15
22	Luis Nani	21	3	1		1	1				13
23	Nick Powell	6	2	1		1					10
24	Darren Fletcher	10	2		1			1			7
25	Lindegaard	13	1			1					4
26	Michael Keane	2	1				1				3
27	Wootton	4	1				1				3