Gutted about that today. Not necessarily because we didn’t sew the league up from a very decent position, not even because it was against United. It’s the way we lost it that pissed me off. Too casual at times, really, really poor defending for all 3 goals and we’re obviously guilty of missing more than a few chances ourselves.
The team selection was surprising, I thought he’d have gone for this given he’s often played our strongest 11 against lower placed teams. But, give him his dues, it worked in the first half. What concerns me is that we’re incapable of playing any other way. Our system works when we’re on the front foot, but not when teams get at us. Our in game management is poor when teams push on and that, in my opinion is not going to win us the champions league.
We’ve thrown an opportunity today that we’d all have loved and talked about for years. I can get over that, but we’ve thrown it so we can chase what I think is a lost cause on Tuesday. I think we’ll win on Tuesday, but we won’t keep a clean sheet and we’ll go out.
They must have been told to sit back and conserve energy in the 2nd half. We did it last week against Everton, but Everton didn’t press us so we kept the ball pretty easily. When they did press us, albeit for a very short period in that game, they scored.
We’ll win the league, it’s been a great season, but at the minute I’m fucking raging about things I’d have bollocked my under 13s side for doing.
