For sheer drama, you’d be hard pressed to exceed what we saw at Upton Park. The game our national audience got to see was super. For my money, Manchester United’s Robin van Persie has to be the buy of the season. Twenty goals already in 26 games is incredible. Where I do think United has to make some changes is on defense. Chris Smalling and Jonny Evans again showed that their lack of size hurts the team on set pieces, and United are not going to be able to succeed in the Champions League unless they address that. But what about Ryan Giggs? He’s 39 and still the class of the team.
We’ve got some great fourth round games to look ahead to now at the end of January. But before that, we have two huge games live on FOX Soccer next Sunday in the Premier League. I do hope you join us for Arsenal-Manchester City and Manchester United-Liverpool, two games I think could decide this season.
I also hope you keep your tweets coming to me at @warrenbarton2! We had a great chat this week on @FOXSoccer, and you can always use the hashtag #HeyWarren to ask a question. As always, thanks for reading and for watching. I’ll see you next week!
