Personally, I don't really agree that we are on a bad start, Its not the best but its not really bad either... I feel that United's start to the season is satisfactory... Why because they have a number of injuries and some bad luck.
Ronaldo was out all along and is just about to come back in only. He isn't fully match fit yet... Then there is Carrick, out for so long then came back and got injured again for another 6 weeks... very unfortunate... even Rooney who was a doubt in their first match against Newcastle but have slowly come back. I feel that had they played Newcastle now rather than in the first match of the season when Keegan was still around, they would have won that match too... Cos currently Newcastle are in shambles.
Thats where they were a bit unlucky with the fixture and also denied some penalty decisions... And while the other big sides had lesser team early in the season, they have Pool and Chelsea away already... But I feel one good thing that we can consider is... They have got these difficult away fixtures out of the way already and what will come will be the less difficult ones and those big sides having to come to OT later in the season.
United are currently not in the best of form no doubt... But I honestly belief things isn't really that bad... They started out the season without Park, Nani, Ronaldo, Carrick, Hargreaves, Teves, Berbatov and maybe even Anderson right... So being 6 points behind with having gone to the difficult away grounds and still have a game in hand, I would feel its still very good cos apart from Carrick, most of their players are back now and Berba only started training with the squad from the 12 of Sep, thats about 10 days ago only... He didn't had a pre-season with them so its understandable but the goals against Pool and Chelsea came from his effort and I belief he will get better when he has played more and get use to his new team mates...
The very least we can take out of last night's match is... At least they have got 1 point more than they did last season and they taken 2 off Chelsea too at the same time... So there is still all to play for, no need to despair...