[Lay]

Milan deserved to win

 

[Delano]

Best form of defence is attack etc etc.

Not with Ole though, he thinks the best form of defence is to bring on more defenders, retreat to your 18 yard line, invite pressure and... concede. This has happened so many times now it's unreal.

 

[Oranges038]

Shite end to a shite game.

Shite subs too.

 

[VidaRed]

We took off AWB and Bruno and tried to see it out but inviting pressure. Does that ever work for us?

Retarded subs. I still cant make sense of it

 

[Jericholyte2]

What an amazing springboard that City performance turned out to be! SEVEN defensive players on the pitch and we concede from a fecking corner!

 

[MadDogg]

Ole obviously tried to take the chance in a two legged tie to rest Bruno and AWB (two players who tend to play almost every minute of every game) for the final 20 minutes, but it ended up costing us unfortunately.

 

[Josh 76]

So unnecessary to concede that goal. Now we will play our strongest team in the return leg with injuries increasing, 3 days before we play a well rested Leicester.

Before we play a well rested West ham at weekend.
Hope this doesn't all back fire!

 

[Walters_19_MuFc]

We didnt do anywhere near enough tonight and deserved what we got in the end, having gone extremely defensive, instead of pushing to get the second.

Made the tie a lot harder now, although I do fancy us to score at the San Siro.

 

[joedirt87]

the set piece is going to get Ole sacked, among other issues.

 

[Superden]

More questions about the players / managers mentality when up against it. It can't be a confidence thing having just beaten the best team in the world ever.

 

[Gandalf Greyhame]

We were incredibly poor today and were fortunate to get a draw overall. Truly shambolic performance, capped off by ultra-defensive subs and some lucky decisions going our way. When we have bad games under Ole, they seem diabolical. I understand we have little depth, but there seemed to be no plan going forward and the subs were cowardly, to say the least.

Great goal by Diallo.

 

[gerdm07]

- You would think with a midfield of Fred, McT and Matic we would be able to possess the ball to see out the match. Nope, Fred and McT are not very good passers.
- Why did Shaw switch with Telles? Shaw should be CB and Telles WB.
- We need Pogba back, any signs he will be ready Sunday?

Just a disappointing result after going up 1-0. Only good news is AC Milan are not very good and we can beat them in Milan.

 

[Get In Scholesy]

Deserved result. Truly was a Mourinho disasterclass.

 

[Still ill]

Yeah, deserved what we got. Offered next to nothing there. Desperately disappointing. We were a mess by the end there.

 

[RedIan]

We were terrible first half, never got out of 2nd gear and we were very lucky to go in level. 2nd half we got quite a special goal and perked up for 15 minutes but Milan then took control again and fully deserved their goal.
lots of Rashford knockers on here but we look really awful without his threat.
Need Rashford and pogba fit again.

 

[Utd heap]

Running out of adjectives to describe our performances. Horrifying?

This forum

 

[Banana Republic]

Lots of blame for Henderson at the end, but McTominay was the near post player who should have attacked the ball, but he just watched it as Kjaer ran across and jumped right in front of him.
Same re-occurring problem on the set pieces. Nobody attacking the ball in the air to head it clear.
They all just watch the flight of the ball and only react if it comes to them.

We’ll get murdered at the San Siro when Milan should have more of their starting line-up available.

 

[El Zoido]

We’ll probably put in a big performance next week and do ‘em. The inconsistency of this team is incredibly frustrating though.

 

[FreakyJim]

Everyone blaming Henderson but it was a free header. It's never easy from that distance. Shite defending as usual. And from the usual suspects.

 

[edgecutter]

To be honest we don't need this Thursday shite. The game at the weekend is a far more important fixture than this one considering we have a more realistic opportunity to qualify for the champions league through our league finish.

However, our football this year has been numerous shades of shite.

 

[Fully Fledged]

Having Rashford, Martial and Cavani all injured at the same time is worrying.

 

[Barthez]

2-2 away and all’s good. To be fair 1-0 is a horrid result because it’s difficult to know whether to stock or twist in the second leg.

 

[NickJ]

On Fred as much as Hendo, he gave the ball away with a terrible pass instead of driving forward with it to kill time. He needs upgraded ASAP!

 

[SwedishFish]

I thought Kessie was the overall MOTM, he was great and Tomori was very good bar the action on Amads goal.

 

[eire-red]

Last minute of the game and their CB has a free header 8 yards out. Henderson with a clanger as well.

The only worse thing than watching that terrible performance is realising that this is the Europe League.

Those final 10 minutes were torture, when will Ole learn? The best way to defend is to keep the ball, and he sends on the likes of Fred who gave it away cheaply in the build-up up to the corner to begin with.

Terrible stuff. Milan got what they deserved.

 

[Gavinb33]

We had 7 shots at home thats Van Gaalesque is that.

Matic is finished at any level and to pair him with Scott is a war crime.

Not sure why Henderson even dived such a weird decision, Milan probably deserved it to be fair, we are sleepwalking towards the end of the season

 

[Kopral Jono]

I still think we'll do them next week, but surely signing a midfielder who can keep the ball will be a priority this summer.

 

[Hammondo]

Best form of defence is attack etc etc.

Not with Ole though, he thinks the best form of defence is to bring on more defenders, retreat to your 18 yard line, invite pressure and... concede. This has happened so many times now it's unreal.

When we were playing more aggressively football we were conceding at least 2 goals a game.

 

[charlenefan]

Love that for the last 20 minutes we played with a back 5 and 3 DM's

 

[AltiUn]

Why did we sit back on a 1-0 lead again. In all honesty I'm starting to think Solskjaer's just a bit cowardly. I'd let him go at the end of the season regardless of where he finishes, we have a small club mentality in games like this. He doesn't know how to change games, we're being regularly outplayed by teams much worse than us, I'm fed up frankly. We have a number of players far, far too technically limited to be starting weekly for us.

Milan were a joke, I don't care how prettily they passed it around in midfield, we could barely string a pass together and we still should've won by 2 clear goals. Just the tiniest bit of desire and we could've put this tie to bed in 1 leg.

 

[KikiDaKats]

I will not blame Henderson on that goal. Poor goal keeping but that’s action of coming towards the ball we praise him can’t be used against him. We call out DDG on it because he is cautious. Milan played for that all game and got it right at the end.

 

[MonkeysMagic]

Henderson will be singled out for criticism, some of it justified, but the one aspect no one can deny is this appalling brand of football our team play that going into final mins of games we simply cannot retain possession.

Most teams will punish you if you keep giving the ball away. I'm sorry but if some Utd fans cannot see that we will never win anything under this manager they have several more disappointments to come!

After 2 years, we are still singling out players or the lack of quality when our team lacks one of the most basic principles of playing football...being able to pass.

 

[Houdini]

Standard, but Maguire and James missed sitters.

At least we can add those to a video compilation with the Benny Hill Show theme playing in the background.

 

[Irrational.]

Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Junior.

 

[3KDré]

Kessie would be perfect for us.

 

[TheBreadTruck]

Still no idea how that wasn't deemed a handball before their corner.

Horrible feeling, how many times is that this season we've given away a crap set piece goal in added time? Getting Manchester United'd constantly by other teams, poor mentality.

 

[CM]

Not a great performance but was never going to be easy with the injuries we have at the moment. Hopefully the Martial one isn't too bad.

If we can get a couple of players back we'll finish them off next week.

 

[SER19]

Terrible against a really weakened Milan.

 

[redzombie]

lucky to get away with the draw in fairness.

 

[laughtersassassin]

Lots will be blind to it because of the city game but we are in absolutely shite form since mid January.

1 good performance for every 3 shit ones.

We can't get knocked out of this. We are the bloody best team in the tournament player for player.