Manchester United vs. Ajax

Phew! So nice to be through after we made hard work of it, again. No matter the competition we just haven't been convincing in Europe this year.

I wish we'd rediscover our killer instinct. This game should have been made safe a lot sooner. What a sloppy second half that was.
 
We'll go out if we play like that against an in form Bilbao side. Not very confident.
 
Another Basel like performance. The players seem to think they will automatically win just because they are United.
 
Constantly getting overplayed in midfield. Eriksen going off for Ajax and Scholes coming on certainly helped but again, poor defensive work cost us a goal. Typical for this season really.
 
I don't give a shit about the result, going through or not, that was a Manchester United side being beaten at home by a pretty bland -not entirely rubbish- side and not giving a flying feck about it.

Hope Fergie gives them a huge bollocking.

Need to sort out defending set pieces, we are absolutely shite at it.
 
Positives - we're through and the twins both played 90 mins!

They still have to make it to the dressing room without slipping, take their boots off (huge injury potential there) and then make it to the bus. Fingers crossed.
 
We need to buck our ideas up in Europe big style.

We have a real chance to win this trophy, you'd think us and City would be the favourites in it.

Glad to be through, but we need to find that killer instinct in European games again.
 
I don't mind Collymore, but "It is point blank, but I wonder if he could have got a stronger hand to that." Literally a few feet from his face.

In fairness, Stan'd know about getting a strong hand to things.

It's usually to a woman's face, but anyway...
 
Ajax were probably nervous in the 1st leg and came into this one with no pressure at all. That confidence gave them control of the game. Doesn't matter if we had started different players, they had a man up on us in midfield and took perfectly advantage. If they were a better team they would have created more as well.

Poor performance at home no less. Hearing SAF talking about booing the other day I'm surprised there were none after the game.
 
Bloody drama queens

I'm not calling for anyones head nor saying we need to sign half the players in the world.

I'm saying our attitude was all wrong, we have been poor in Europe this season and we seem to be quite OK with not winning (let alone losing) at home.

I DON'T LIKE THAT ONE BIT
 
It's not all bad. We played a lot of youngsters tonight and they know they didn't put in a very good performance, they will learn from it. Anyone who expects these kids to be world beaters is a spacker.

How many games have the twins started this season? We had a very young back 4 and a keeper who is still bedding in, a CM who doesn't have a lot of experience and a LM both fresh back from injury in a big (for them as youngsters) European tie. They were complacent and they know it. They will learn from it and it's all shaping the team of tomorrow. No big deal. We got the job done. Next.
 
I'm not calling for anyones head nor saying we need to sign half the players in the world.

I'm saying our attitude was all wrong, we have been poor in Europe this season and we seem to be quite OK with not winning (let alone losing) at home.

I DON'T LIKE THAT ONE BIT

The average age of our first 11 was 24... The oldest players on the pitch were Park, Young and Berbatov. What do you expect? It seems as though the fans expect us to win because we're Manchester United, regardless of the team we put out more than the players think that.
 
The average age of our first 11 was 24... The oldest players on the pitch were Park, Young and Berbatov. What do you expect? It seems as though the fans expect us to win because we're Manchester United, regardless of the team we put out more than the players think that.

And now Fergie is backing this up with his interview.