Theater of Screams

Alright, I’ll get over it. We lost on Saturday to the European Champions giving away a goal to a kid who played for Hull City in their baby-food and black stripe kits last year, but I’ll take away some good things from the match. Ole Gunnar Solksjaer didn’t score in his own testimonial which is a good thing to take away from a match, friendly or not. We played well, especially our new Argentinian keeper Cristian Alvarez who saved two possible goals from the Norwegian (one a great fingertip save in the box), and Jarque who was all over the pitch with his gutsy play. United fielded a fairly competitive side with Giggs, Tevez, Scholes, and Nani playing for the injured C. Ronaldo on the left. United had the majority of the chances, although we came out strong in the second half, but the quality of a Ryan Giggs shone through. He took a ball in the midfield, side-stepped a diving tackle and took a winding run reminiscent of his famous run all those years ago against Arsenal and threaded a pass to the kid Frazier who looked like the second coming of, well who cares really ’cause this is an Espanyol blog. We played well nonetheless, we had our chances but couldn’t capitalize, but it does looks like we’ve found our keeper of the future in Alvarez.

,p>Quick Hits: It looks like we are far apart monetarily on the Luis Garcia to Benfica transfer, so we may settle on keeping the want away striker. Like I said on the podcast last week (forzafutbol, why are you asking me), these temperamental Espanyol players who had a problem, with either the captain or the management structure, had better get used to playing in Barcelona because the credit crunch has hit the football market, and clubs are not in the market for second rate players, quitters even, from a mid-table club like RCD Espanyol.
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