They scored 2 at Old Trafford whereas we only scored 1 at whatever the feck their stadium is called.
Manchester United vs. Benfica
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
So far this season, even against City and Liverpool, it was the senior players that didn't play the best of their games. The young players if anything have been exceptional this season.
head to head.
Away goals
Barca, Bayern Munich and Brondby was a tougher group.
Napoli play Villareal?
Since when is that how it's worked out in any league format before goals scored and goal difference?
Somehow I hate Benfica.. didnt those cnuts knock us out in, 05-06?
Yep, away.
It comes down to head-to-head.
Drew 1-1 at theirs and now 2-2 at OT. Away goals for them swings it.
Head-to-head we are inferior to Benfica, who will beat Otelul at home in the final match. Even if we overcome the tricky trip to Basel, we will come second in the group.
Knockout-round meetings v Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern loom.
Thought we played well today but just switched off two times and allowed Benfica a foothold in the game. Not overly worried if we finish 2nd in the group, obviously it's not ideal considering the group we have and the teams we might draw but I'd rather be playing the Barca's and Real's in a two-legged tie early on in the draw. This is Europe, you'll have to beat them eventually. Today we have the attacking cohesiveness that had been missing admits all the recent defensive solidarity but that solidarity vanished today, hopefully we can mesh the two facets of our game together and start steamrollering some teams. feck me haven't we made a right old pickle of this group, oh well onwards and upwards!
It is in our own hands now , just need the win to go though , easy
I have a funny feeling we will win in Basel.. but Benfica will lose against Galati too?
Can anyone post the teams that are top of their respective groups right now so we know who we're likely to face should we qualify?
Thanks.
Thanks.
If we qualify it's either Barca, Real, Bayern, Inter or Zenit/APOEL/Porto.
(Assuming Benfica beat one of the worst teams ever in the CL)
(Assuming Benfica beat one of the worst teams ever in the CL)
And in 2008 we won five and drew one against Roma, Sporting and Dynamo Kiev, who are all better than Benfica, Basel and Otelul Galati. I don't see the relevance of our performance in the '99 CL to be honest.
Dont mind if we do. Realistically, we are not a yet a developed enough team to get to the final, let alone beat Barcelona just yet.
Bring em on for a 2 stage 2nd round game, give it our all, lose gracefully and CONCENTRATE on winning the league. The CL is a lottery winning bonus this season!
This side is SAFs last team and its being built in front of us. We cannot have dramatic success every year. Its impossible. Im loving see this new team develop, it brings me much joy to see DG, Jones, Smalling, Fabio, Welbeck, Young, Hernandez et al merging with more settled squad members.
If you know anything about team building, be it a football team or even in an office, building a new one takes time. There are so many new faces who all have thier own playing style peculiarities and styles AND we lost so much dressing room experience in the last summer ..... so the very character and nature of our side is fundamentally different from the squad that got to 3 of the last 4 finals.
I want PL no 20 (and an FA cup would be fun). We can then mount a serious attack for the CL next year.
It's been that way in the CL for a while.
It's been like that with UEFA for a long long time. Euro's and CL.
Yeah I agree mate. Finishing second is annoying but as you said eventually we'll have to play the better teams. As you said the attack was pretty good after the team got settled, just some inexperience in defence that cost us.
You must be on smack!!
We might pull off a 0-1 in basle but benfica will twat galati on home soil!
We might well be going out of the CL early this year! If we do beat basle I don't see us beating Bayern barca Real! Fingers crossed we avoid them
ugh. Would have been nice to finish top but certainly don't see benefica losing their last game. We might just get a chance to play Barca over 2 legs. Is that a bad thing?
its relative.
the team would have been a lot stronger with Rooney, Cleverly and Vidic.
I thought at times we were totally dominant even so.
I'm not writing our chances off.
We have the better goal difference, why aren't we top?
Bayern, Inter, Real, APOEL FC and Barca.
It's the pairing we had. Jones goes forward a lot, leaving a big void in his wake and Ferdinand is not as fast as he once was. I don't think Rio can be played with anyone but Smalling and/or Vidic because Jones just leaves too much for him to do and when Fergie brought Smalling on, I'd have switched him round with Jones to give Jones a bit more freedom to go forward without having to worry about a counter attack.
Read the last page?
Head to head/away goals.
what other teams mate?
Because it's done on head to heads on the two teams level on points. Benfica have scored two away goals against us in contrast to our one against them.
It's a conspiracy.
Sepp Blatter?
Can anyone imagine us and City both going into the Europa League?? 
Let's hope we get Apoel Nocisia but based on this groups performance, I reckon we'd struggle against them too
We will draw in Switzerland, we will end up with Real Madrid in the next round, and lose 6-3 on aggregate. Ronaldo will score 4. You can blame me if this becomes reality.
I get it, basically we're going to qualify 2nd then? If it means we have to knock out one of the top teams, we'd have to do that anyway eventually, we'll get it out of the way sooner rather than later...
Yeah Jones can leave his partner exposed, he's still got a lot to learn at cb. Def agree about putting him at rb and smalling in the middle. But I think the bigger issue today was the younger players at the back making poor decisions particularly with their passing at the back and some poor touches, that put pressure on us and cost us the second goal.
We've fecked up the group so lets blame the rules?
If that's the rules, that's the rules. I wasn't blaming them cocknose.