[ZAGREB RED]

Not really sure what to say. The players looked a bit embarrassed at the end more than anything, no real celebrations. Inviting the pressure on for the last 30 minutes, asking for trouble against a pretty mediocre team. Seen it far too often this season.
In the final, but only by a ball hair. That miss from Guidetti looked even worse in the replays. Bailly will be a big miss for the final. I have defended him enough on here, but Blind had a very poor game tonight, but to single him out would be unfair as it was generally a poor display.
Bottom line, United are there. Just.

 

[siw2007]

Yesss, we are going to Stockholm!! That was too close to call. Wasn't the best performance but we had luck on our side. It was so frustrating that we let them play so much in our half, we should have had far more of the game and put them under pressure. The last 15 minutes were just too nail bighting.

Not sure how we are going to cope in the final. Just hope that we play much better!

 

[Paxi]

We got through to the final but it feels like we lost or something. That's how pathetic it was tonight. Have no one to blame tonight but Jose. Ultimately, it's him that tells the team to play such negative football. It's fecking Celta Vigo ffs. What are you trying achieve?

Hope we do the job on Ajax now but honestly this season can't come quick enough.

 

[Hugh Jass]

Horrible. If we're a better side than the likes of Celta, Anderlecht, and even Rostov, then it's by the slimmest of margins. If Ajax are even a slight level above them then they'll win.

It is tactical by Mourinho. He has always done it this way. I would bet we will score first and then we will sit back.

The reality is we should have been putting four past both Anderlect and Celta at home.

 

[Sandikan]

Wrap them up in bubble paper.

Its got to be Jones/Smalling. Blind is fecking rubbish at the back. Not to mention the possibility of him being shit against his childhood club.

There is no way blind should see the field in the final.

I have faith in Smalling and Jones to recapture their form in time for the big one.

It'd be the ultimate irony that we'd play the biggest game of the season back with the odd couple

 

[Reddevildans]

Absolutely shit. Valencia, lingard, darmian and blind were shocking. Everyone knew we needed that second goal but the same old negative tactics prevailed. Everyone knew they'll score a goal and in the end we got lucky. Great to be in the final but wouldn't surprise me if the same thing happened and our luck ran out or the opposition took thier chances. The past 3 months have seen some truly terrible performances in all competitions. We don't look like an attacking cohesive unit like we did earlier in the season. Our fullbacks have been negative getting forward.

 

[Garethw]

On the positive side, the ref missed Valencia doing much worse than Bailly did!

Phew! Bailly and Valencia out would be a major problem.

Can he be retrospectively banned?

 

[Jacko21]

Were it not for that final 10 minutes of drama, you could've filed that game under:

'One of the worst football matches you'll ever see.'

 

[Blatzo]

That was fecking sensational! That's what football is all about. We don't watch the game to see teams get steamrollered - we watch for the tension and the drama.

Obviously this team has work to do to get back to where we'd all like to be but as a standalone game that was well worth anybodies time/money.

I think I lost a few years off my life. Worth it. Bring on the final!!!

 

[macheda14]

Mourinho almost cost us the game. Fecking had enough of this clown. Sitting back and allowing Celta fecking Vigo dominate the game at Old Trafford, unreal.

Yeh the way he sat off them, his tackle near the end was outrageous. His touch really isn't that great. He totally should have scored his chance. How he let that man run past him is beyond me. He's a Championship level defender at best. Really doesn't convert enough chances for us to build our whole strike force around him.

 

[Kant-ona]

This is the tournament we focus on, we rest our players for? Really?

 

[Godfather]

We are getting worse from week to week. Time for this season to end. Win the damn thing at least now

 

[RedFish]

We're still alive. That's it for now. Right, porn hub.

 

[Jazz]

Congrats from a Juve fan, would be great to meet you guys in the European Supercup!
That Celta chance with 10 seconds to go was surely a heart attack moment!

Thanks! Our team been giving us heart failure etc all season!
Would love for us to meet in the Supercup as well! You guys have a great chance. We need some bloody good luck with the state we're in

 

[Gatti33]

You do know Ajax were soundly beaten 3-1 tonight?

By lyon who also managed to knock out roma, and yet they still went throigh. they are a much better team than Celta, certainly their forward players.

 

[wythyred]

Slightly bizzare that some posters are calling out people for being annoyed that we played terrible.

Yes we scraped through for the europa league final after a negative performance against the mighty Celta Vigo.

 

[GloryHunter07]

We are not winning the final... Its a pathetic team full of pussies and with a cowardly mentality right from the top....

That was horrible to watch...

Your posts are horrible to read. We just got into a final.

Pathetic, snivelling and defeatist.

 

[SirScholes]

Yet you fail to mention the worst player on our team today, who was Blind.

Blind as well, sorry matey I agree, but our defence had no cover, no wonder Pogba pulled a hammy he ran 2 marathons covering everyone and linking attack.
I actually thought fellaini was one of our better players which is saying something

 

[Roboc7]

Awful performance, little credit can be given to anyone but we are in the final. We have struggled throughout competition and final won't be any different.

 

[Robbie Boy]

Oh we always knew we'd make it like that though. Did anyone really believe it would have ever been a comfortable win? It could have been some shite team from the Spanish 3rd division and you just know it'd be the same nerve wrecking shite.

Honestly though we got through and I'm happy. Performance was atrocious but I've gotten over it, this season is about getting the job done. A to B.

I stupidly went for 2 nil win to us. I let my heart rule my head for sure

 

[AltiUn]

Ajax got thrashed and we scraped through, what a great final we're in for

 

[Sandikan]

Congrats from a Juve fan, would be great to meet you guys in the European Supercup!
That Celta chance with 10 seconds to go was surely a heart attack moment!

Two heart attacks!

Firstly the panic of the guy who should have shot, and then almost in slow mo as the brain was trying to work things out, the ball just needing a firm side foot into almost an open net and an incredible misshit of an effort.

Almost a massive disaster for our transfer plans

 

[Spirit of Solskjaer]

To quote the Inbetweeners, "Well that was fecking dreadful."

I though we'd be quick out the blocks in the second half to try to kill the game off for once, seeing the magnitude of this match. But as usual we sat back without any attacking outlet just praying that the opposition misses the inevitable chances it creates.

But ho hum, job done, glad to see the dirty feckers crying in the end. We'll need to seriously step our game up in the final, especially playing without Bailly, but at least we're there.

 

[pseudo_canadian]

That was a a bit dog shit. Losing Bailly is massive.

The final will be incredibly tense.

 

[Di Maria's angel]

fecking state of this place. Seriously... we're one game away from the CL. You think Jose cares about our fecking performance. Do or die game.

 

[Judge Red]

It's the same frustrating story hidden under a welcome headline. Gain the lead at home, end up with a draw. We're so far away from where we need to be. The biggest fear is that winning the final allows us to forget this.

 

[Antisocial]

We better win the damn final, the amount of years this campaign has taken-off me

 

[OnlyTwoDaSilvas]

The last 10 minutes was a right laugh. In real time, it looked like Valencia chinned Guidetti. Turned out it was barely anything.

Get the old Smalling & Blind band back together for one last hurrah in the final. Can't see both of them being here next season.


I thought we were good in the first half. Looks like we decided one goal was enough at half time. You know, because that's definitely worked for us all season.

Don't care. Final. Let's be better in it than we were tonight.

 

[Sandikan]

Agreed he may still get a red retrospectively if the ref missed it, rather than seeing it and taking no action

Not sure they're as big on that sort of thing in this cup.

Let's bloody hope not.

 

[EyeInTheSky]

Ahh the predictable wave of shit cnuts forgetting how we should have hit them for 6 at their ground.

In case anyone didn't notice we scored more than them.

Feck off

 

[Robbie Boy]

Those last ten minutes were difficult because we did not take the game to them in the preceding 80.

I had called it before the match. If we only score one, it will be tense.

I know we are into the final but i cannot help but be frustrated. If that was Bayern Munich or Real Madrid or Barcelona or Man City, they would have had four in by 60 minutes. We scored and just sat back and made it difficult at the end because all they will do is throw men forward.

The final will be more of the same. We will score one or two and sit back. We will probably win but we will make it difficult for ourselves.

I stupidly let myself believe it would be comfortable but deep down I knew it wouldn't. It never, ever is with us.

If we play like this in the final I think we will lose.

 

[tob]

I'm embarrassed. A semi final and we play like that?

That was not a display of a team that deserves to play in a Europa League final or in the Champions League.

I hate when we defend this deep all second half. Just waiting on conceding a goal. Leaving Rashford all alone up top, with no counter attacking what so ever. At least put two up top and try to counter a goal.

 

[Nick7]

By lyon who also managed to knock out roma, and yet they still went throigh. they are a much better team than Celta, certainly their forward players.

Not exactly a sound argument considering the first leg score. We don't need a miracle to beat Ajax. We need to play well.

 

[Ali Dia]

Pathetic performance.

 

[Oscie]

Hate it when players give post-match interviews before the manager when you're waiting for the manager to speak. When has a player ever said anything vaguely interesting about anything?

 

[pablo__p]

This lack of killing instict needs to be addressed asap.

 

[roonster09]

We shouldn't have dropped so deep, it never worked for us this season and we made the same mistake again, luckily they missed the last chance.

Anyways next big is finals, hopefully few CBs will have match fitness by then.

 

[Rado_N]

The post match thread after Bayern in Barcelona in '99 would have been filled with emos crying how embarrassing it was to have to come from behind.

 

[Mister_Stubbs]

Slightly bizzare that some posters are calling out people for being annoyed that we played terrible.

Yes we scraped through for the europa league final after a negative performance against the mighty Celta Vigo.

My problem is that we've been led to believe that after resting players at the weekend we'd be firing on all cylinders tonight.. instead it looked to have the opposite affect and we looked like at times to be on the back foot.

A 1-1 draw at OT with the mighty Celta Vigo, we got out of jail tonight..

 

[Chorley1974]

fecking state of this place. Seriously... we're one game away from the CL. You think Jose cares about our fecking performance. Do or die game.

This, fecking awful on here.

 

[LFC-Fans]

Jeez. Two red cards? The feck happened? I can't find any clips yet

 

[cheeky_backheel]

It's getting hard not think Jose is a bit dim.

We have a side which is really, really, really bad at sitting on a 1 or 2 goal lead. Yet whenever we go 1-0 up in a match his tactics, substitutions and instructions seem set to see out the match in a conservative, defensive manner.

Once, twice or three times you give him the benefit of the doubt. But this is maybe 25 or 30 times this season. He knows the history of this club is to attack and he knows teams expect and fear being exposed at Old Trafford. How can he not do the maths and realise an attacking mentality is going to suit this club more than a defensive one?

There was nothing wrong with the tactics. Even in games where we dominated, we failed to convert our chances. o asking the team to push forward for a goal we will likely not score is just asking to concede sooner.

The problem is that we have poor players including Blind at CB who was woeful today and also a lot of player who lose concentration often.

Bailly was also bone headed for getting himself sent off and could have cost us the game.