Fey wrote:Was that really Barcelona v Man Utd? SAF, I want 90 minutes of my life back thanks to your inadequacy as head coach of Man Utd. Theres a reason why we've gone out at the semi-finals stage so often, and the common denominator is you.
I dont care what the SAF lovers say, screw our domestic success, great teams are judged upon performances in Europe, particularly away from home, and it comes down to the personell and tactics deployed by the management, and ours to put it mildly, has been consistently DISAPPOINTING.
SAF should have retired after the treble. We may have an exciting bunch of players, but we need a tactician that can give us the performances and the results that we crave. At this rate, we're never going to get anywhere near Livepools 5 triumphs. Christ, theyve lost in more finals than we've even been to!
Both teams were extremely poor. Jesus Christ, it was obvious after 20 minutes that the team that we fielded today wasnt going to score, and Ronaldo set the tone with the damned penalty miss, which Ive got a feeling will come back to haunt him and us. Barcelona never looked like scoring, and I think SAF will be satisfied with the goaless draw. But Im not.
Barcelona were so poor, they were there for the taking and we did ef-all to make it happen. I bet you Barcelona score a flukey goal at OT and win the tie, just like Porto did a few years ago.
SAF, what the hell were you doing taking off Rooney? In the 75th minute?! Carrick and Park were total pants today, poor passing, work-rate, tackling, poor everything. We should have made subsitutions at half-time, putting on Anderson and Nani for those 2. Personally, Id have had Pique in the back 4 with Brown at RB, and OH doing his midfield duties, but then that would have meant taking off Scholes, who for me was our MOTM. He was immense and rarely put a foot wrong.
The tactics by us were... what the hell were our tactics? Barcelona were relying on individual brilliance to do something, and we, well we did ef-all. Rooney was wasted on the right. Why the hell didnt we play 4-3-3? Tevez was also poor, even a change in formation, something to lift the boredom would have done. 4-4-2, 4-5-1, but no, safety first... and how many ECL trophies has that won us? But no, arrogant SAF sticks to his guns and we stand more than a 50% of going out, AGAIN at the semi-final stage. And to be honest, we bloody well deserve it.
And I dont want to hear about "oh, we've got Chelsea on Saturday", they will play similarly to what we saw from Barcelona today. They will be there for the taking but we wont do it.
Frankly, that game yesterday was more of a spectacle than the borefest we were subjected to today.
Kuyt wouldn't have missed that penalty, sorry Kuyt doesn't miss penalties full stop
Home
He had nothing to defend
one of his better performances this season.
