Manchester United Fan In Malaysia

Do you watch last night match? We got our first cup when United beat Shanghai Shenhua 1-0 to lift the Chevrolet China Cup.
Good result but it is actually a boring match considering Shanghai Senghua park their bus in front of their goal post throughout the match. Maybe they just got influenced from another Blues in CL matches.

However, some interesting performances during the match make us all got excited.
First, the performance of Shinji Kagawa! No argument..he is world class quality. His passing was amazing. We could get plenty of goal next season with Rooney up front if he could maintain his wonderful touch. It is really good to see Kagawa got his first goal for United and he really deserve it after a very fine performance that makes him voted as Man of the Match.

This is what our manager comments on Kagawa;
“I thought he was terrific. He was involved in everything, all our interplay, all our possession, he was involved in most of it.”
“Kagawa has settled in really well, he’s going to be a really good player for us and I was really impressed with him tonight.”

2nd, the one we called A £7 million flop, Bebe. After he saves us a blush in a friendly match in South Africa, he makes us wonder and confuse.. Is this really Bebe that we know 2 year ago?? He looks totally a different player.
He changed the tempo, speed and attacking threat when he comes in at the break. Bebe on two occasions drew decent saves from the keeper before turning provider for Kagawa to net. After streaking past his man, Bebe showed great awareness to pick out Kagawa who fired home with the aid of a deflection.
Not only that, he also almost capped a fine 45-minute cameo with an audacious drive from some 40 yards that forced a fine diving save from the keeper.
Almost all United fan completely ruled out the possibility of him ever putting on a United shirt for a significant game again and had written him off as one of Sir Alex Ferguson’s greatest flops . I hope he will continue to progress and prove everybody is wrong! He is only 22 and still have a lot of time to improve!

Sir Alex on Bebe;
“It was good work by Bebe too, who set it up for him. I think Bebe did really well when he came on.”

Shinji Kagawa – Japanese midfielder, a £17million purchase from German side Borussia Dortmund, is one of two signings made by United this summer.
As an Asian player, we cannot avoid to compare him with Park Jii Sung although both players actually very much different. Park always used his stamina and speed to terrorize the defence while Kagawa is more accomplished ball player. He controlled the ball very well and always have a good touch.
In term of similarities, Sir Alex said;

“There are similarities to Ji-sung Park. They’re both disciplined, they work hard,”

He made his first appearance in United colour in 1-nil win over AmaZulu on Wednesday.
Actually not much we can talked about him in his first match because he only replaced Javier Hernandez in the dying seconds of United’s pre-season curtain raiser in Durban. Maybe a good thing we can said is that he has a good positioning.

It is actually good enough to convince Sir Alex to give him his first start for Manchester United in the friendly with Ajax Cape Town. There was plenty of promise in Kagawa’s 70-minute shift. Playing in the hole as advanced midfield role in a 4-4-1-1 formation in which Javier Hernandez was up-top, Shinji repeatedly collected the ball in penetrative areas, midway through the Ajax half of the pitch and showed a number of neat touches. He did, however, spurn a golden chance to open the scoring on the hour-mark when he headed wide after Hernandez found him unmarked just six yards from goal.

It seems that everybody very impressed with him after his first debut. I just can’t wait to see Cleverly join him in midfield later.

You can watch his highlight here;

During Manutd annual Big United Quiz for MUTV, Wayne Rooney teamed up with Ryan Giggs and Jonny Evans.
When Rooney was tasked to do sign language for the “Bend it like Beckham” film, at first, he tried to make No. 7. But that didn’t work. Then he did a sign of person with long hair and that didn’t work either.
Finally, he is getting desperate. He pointed at Alex Ferguson and acted out the time Alex Ferguson kicked a boot at Beckham’s eye.
Ryan Giggs then guessed correctly!!
Everybody is laughing. Ferguson looks shocking, then he smiled and said, “This is going to cost you.”

It is hard to say what happen next??..hahahaha