BLUEMATT23 said:
Proud of the performance 12 vs 10 men BUT it's not been mentioned on here the thing that concerns me is our inability to consecutively beat United over 2 games.
Every time since the double a few seasons ago we win one we draw or loose the next. This has to change.
Bit daft to mention that after we had ten men for 80 mins, it's not a fair game to judge that kind of thing on.To run them as close as we did was a victory in all but the result (granted, that is all that really counts but there was always going to be a psychological aspect to this game and we won that).
Those last 30 mins with the look on their fans faces and then the Fergie post match interview was enough for me to be very proud and extremely satisfied. When you look at the difference to how we played with ten men for 80 mins and the way they played with 10 for 45 it says a lot about the difference in class of the two teams. They should have beat us by 6 but in the end they're very lucky to win at all.
Besides, although it's disappointing to be out of the trophy we were defending, those 5 games less could win us the league. The fact United now play away to Liverpool makes me feel a whole lot better too.