10 things we learned from yesterday's game

United Damu
Oct 18, 2015
2 min read

Manchester United beat Everton 3 goals and kept a clean sheet yesterday. Here are 10 things we learned from that game:

1. Schneiderlin should become a permanent fixture in our midfield. He's strong, has pace and completed 97.1% of all his passes.

2. Ander Herrera is Ander Herrera, he always plays forward and he's tenacious.

LVG should be flogged every time he leaves him out of the starting 11, especially in favour of Depay.

3. After years of having a bad one at Goodison Park, it was nice of Rooney to exorcise some ghosts there.

4. Ever since Chris Smalling became Mike Smalling, he's unstoppable.

5. Marcos Rojo is our number 5. He showed it and stood up going forward as well.

6. Matteo Darmian is back - his class is permanent.

7. Anthony Martial is brilliant, his movement opened up the defence and has brought a purpose to United's attack that was not there all last season.

8. Jesse Lingard is very good - he replaced Mata who looked a little tired and was equally dangerous on that front.

9. A clean sheet, against Everton: David De Gea saves.

10. That was some of the best football I've enjoyed in a while - maybe because Everton never folded, but United was playing forward, attacking and making it look like they were never going to lose it.

10.1 Phil Jones always looks like he's about to get injured - those 10 minutes there when he was being nursed back were nervy.

10.2 Bastian Schweinsteiger and Michael Carrick should always substitute each other, not play together - you know why.

10.3 For the first time, I was very happy when Fellaini came on and he was not our 'Plan B' of loping long balls to him. I am very relieved about that.