I get more worried about games against Stoke or Wigan to be honest...
We've never had a problem being up for it against the Mancs...
And Anfield has to be fortress no matter who we play this season, especially after what happened at the Britannia and WHL...
Not just the mancs. We've NOT had a problem being up for them, Arsenal(at least we keep on "drawing"them), Chelsea and other European heavyweights. it's as everyone keeps reminfind us- of something that we forgot: You don't have to compete directly with your rivals- all you've got to do is beat the teams below you.
It doesn't take as much as people make out to win the league. We don;t have to compete with United- we have to compete against the smaller teams and make sure that we draw with United/Spurs/Chelsea/Arsenal/Manchester City- at least. We used to have that, United have it now. United's record against the "big-4" have been woeful. Where they do the business is against Wigan etc..(except Stoke and Portsmouth of course)
I would've been more worried about the likes of Spurs, Everton, Sunderland, Stoke etc..
Not really the like sof United. We've always been able to beat the big teams- not because we raise our game, but because we can beat most teams on our day- we are just not consistent.
Another thing- they like to poit out that we "raise our game against them", but I can't see beating a team 1-4, 3-1,2-0 etc.. as rasing your game.
If that is raising our game, I dread to think what we can do if we just gave anough to win. maybe win 2-1 or 2-0 in "normal mode"?
I can't see us losing to Old Trafford's finest, but I get nervou about clubs lke Sunderland, Wigan, QPR, Fullham, eveton and their ilk. Not the Uinited game- t's almost a guarantee that we will hav the upper hand.
Scurse my mistakes, dude. I'm pissed beyond recoginitooiom. I can barely keep one of my eys on the screen. The other is affected by beer....