United (H) - League Cup SF 2nd Leg Post-Match Thread

OB1 said:
Eh! Pass accuracy means the percentage of passes completed so we weren't constantly kicking the ball into touch or missing another player by yards last night.
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And what I'm saying is that of those passes that didn't complete a large number weren't because the ball didn't quite come off or was intercepted by the opposition they went miles wide of the mark - way off our usual standards.
Not for the whole game but there were definite periods of play where we couldn't have found each other even if roped together.

Did you even watch the match?
 
cleavers said:
Nothing to worry about then ;-)

Team selection last night can be criticised because we lost the game 1-0, but whatever it was meant to do we absolutely ripped them apart for 20 minutes, we just didn't score, so it couldn't have been that far out, our problem seems to be that too we run out of steam if we don't score early, and then start flapping if we concede, nobody would live with that first 20 minutes yesterday, but we have to score first. How many times this season have we done that, then conceded from the first goal attempt ?.

I'm unconvinced that 2 RB's and 1 CB was to clever for that game, especially with Bravo behind them (and he didn't do much wrong, in fact he didn't do much all night), even for Pep, but the rest in that first 20 minutes were outstanding, all of them, and it seems to have been forgotten by the majority.
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I thought team selection was fine. I also thought it was fairly obvious that Pep had Cancelo and Walker in for their pace and given how little Bravo had to do, it cannot be said to have failed, it wasn't to blame for their goal.

I think the failure to score early on, when we really should have, made the team nervy. Semi-finals are surely among the most testing of games on that score. The players are not robots but at least they mostly held their nerve in the end. I still think the team could be stronger mentally but it has improved on that front under Pep.
 
Bandofblues said:
And what I'm saying is that of those passes that didn't complete a large number weren't because the ball didn't quite come off or was intercepted by the opposition they went miles wide of the mark - way off our usual standards.
Not for the whole game but there were definite periods of play where we couldn't have found each other even if roped together.

Did you even watch the match?
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You said:

"OK I was questioning why you said we rarely gave the ball away. We did it all night long, worst performance I can remember for years in that respect."

That says nothing about how bad our failed passes were.

There were a few glaringly bad passes (especially a couple that went straight into touch) when we did give the ball away but we didn't give the ball away often.
 
OB1 said:
I thought team selection was fine. I also thought it was fairly obvious that Pep had Cancelo and Walker in for their pace and given how little Bravo had to do, it cannot be said to have failed, it wasn't to blame for their goal.
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No it wasn't, the fault was having small players on heading in the box for a free kick (no slight on Bernardo by the way), but that said, it is not a defensive 3 I want to ever see again, as its not good enough.
 
Ric said:
Was disappointed with the performance last night, but am more sanguine about it today. The hard work was done at Old Trafford, and last night was just about seeing the job through which we did. Would've been nice to have beaten them in both legs, but it'll soon be forgotten and the history books will show that we made it to the final, and they didn't. Still no idea why David Silva didn't shoot, but he has plenty of credit in the bank.
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Sanguine, what a great word when we've got through to a cup final. Dave is Dave and I'd have been more surprised if he'd shot
 
The Rags in general are getting high praise for their fighting performance , really dont see any of it , we missed half a dozen clear cut chances and totally out classed them in the first half , Pep changed tactics in the 2nd half and we played a more conservative game to win the tie . But i do like the media praisng this Rag team , it would give the lemmig fans something to cling on to , is being totally deluded a pre-requsite of a fan of an 'istree club
 
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