David Moyes and the Manchester United supporters will be relieved after their side fought out a 3-2 victory against Stoke at Old Trafford.
United had dropped points last weekend against Southampton at home and were on course to losing this time until they turned it around late in the second half.
With both Ferdinand and Vidic out, the defense was shaky and the Red Devils started in the worst possible fashion. Former Liverpool man Crouch opened the scoring early on to shock United.
Kagawa and Nani were arguably two worst United players as they could do little to amplify attack. Although, Portuguese did play part in Van Persie’s equalizer. Minutes later, Stoke were in the lead again thanks to a fantastic free kick from Arnautovic.
De Gea should have done better there but the Spaniard made quality saves in the first half or else United might have ended on the losing side at the end of the day.
Cleverly was handed start instead of flop Fellaini but he followed in the footsteps of Belgian with a shocking display. Moyes replaced him with Hernandez and added more firepower taking off Smalling for Valencia and Nani for young Januzaj.
The moves proved fruitful and constant pressure paid off. United scored two goals in two minutes thanks to Rooney and Chicharito and then held onto the lead to earn all three points.
Here are Manchester United player ratings against Stoke.
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Nani was no where near Kagawa in terms of performance. He deserves to be sold or frozen out.
kagawa was not d worst player nani wa d worst player
Kagawa was 80% better than nani
kagawa was the best player for me, nani need’s to b sold
Seriously as united fans am not enjoying watching manutd football. The united which i know was a terror. They try to make record on record for not losing game at home but now small team and regulation team get confident to win againt united.
Even the biggest mistake Dm does also he bring his own everton coaching staff and show the door to sir alex one. He though that managing manchester united is easy. He don’t know that these sir alex staff have the experience by learning from many mistake that the team face at first. They learn from mistake. Today when i see the situation i immediatly imagine if sir alex staff was with Dm they would have taken better start. Mark my word its true wat am saying.