Poor start with the mental fragility we've shown in the past two seasons against Man U all to apparent until we get a gift, the type of which Dudek often provided to Utd. Utd responded impressively for 10mins unlukcy not to score with Tevez firing just over. But after that, inspired by the excellent Riera the players actually started to take the game to Utd looking galvanised as opposed inhibited by the white hot atmosphere in these games. Keane should have scored after a good move 1st half and we were largely on top.
We continued to dominate second half, but unlike against Villa, the substitutions from Benitez were spot on and we went on to win.
We all wanted Babel to come of age this season, and while he has played a small part he has made the decisive influence in two massive games which will largely shape the first part of the season.
Totally agree with Carra hopefully this will give us the belief we show in Europe in the PL.