Thing is Chapaz, I watched the Arsenal game and Obertan was aright but never really troubled the arsenal defense. I know what your saying about Amieobi BUT Brown and Ferdinand had to deal with Suarez and Carol last weekend, be honest who would you be more afraid of?? Its going to be a close one no doubt but looking at it objectively goals are going to be hard to come by and I think as we scored at the weekend and you did not that makes us just shade it. If we can score against Liverpool away we can score against you at home.
You could say that about any game though. Sunderland and Newcastle have beaten some of the best teams in Europe in this league, but lost to some of the teams facing relegation. It means nothing on the day. Suarez and Carroll could only put one past you last week, but Ameobi could come along on Saturday and put three past you. It's just impossible to tell what will happen and none of these 'rules' or theories really work. Obertan wasn't anything amazing, but he's better than expected and a much better player than I've seen for Man Utd. Arsenal are hard to beat and have a good defence, so the fact that Obertan couldn't get through them in the first game of the season doesn't bother me a great deal. Might be 5x better on the derby day, might be 5x worse. We'll wait and see, but I'm just glad the potential is there to do some damage. What's scoring last week got to do with ANYTHING? "We scored in our last match and you didn't, so we'll just shade it" makes absolutely no sense. Your theories are all well and good, but you WILL get beaten by some mid-table and bottom-table teams this year, so let's see how those theories hold up then.
I did'nt say we would'nt did I. I just think our side is slightly stronger and we have home advantage. All that said I agree its a derby and anything can happen. It was about my prediction for the team, my prediction is we will be stronger, my prediction is not the end result, but that's what this discussion was originally about
Were you thinking "Chappass types really long posts, most of it ****, ad-infinitum." ? If so, yes I'm reading your mind.
