PBP: UCL - Manchester United FC vs FC Barcelona - Apr 10, 2019 [R]

NOBODY MAKES MESSI BLEED HIS OWN BLOOD!!!

 

Except for anyone who seriously believed we were going to lift CL trophy this season, this was actually a pretty solid United performance.

 

Lol

Thinking back some of the calls made today we're ridiculous. Busquets should've seen 3 yellows. Vidal gets away with a clear dive to get Jesse a yellow. Surely VAR sees the dive and could alert him which would get Vidal sent off. Busquets jumps and handles a ball in the box, nothing is called, and 2 minutes later a ball hits Shaw's hand at his side and it's called. The calls were just baffling, even with VAR helping.

 

He was just that today, the McTerminator, growing from strength to strength.
100% defensive aerial duels won.
100% tackles won
80% pass accuracy
5 ball recoveries
2 successful takes ons (our of 3 attempted)

Honestly can't recall the last time he was poor for us...

 

I don't completely disagree with you. There has been a lot of premature romanticizing going on regarding Ole. I'm just saying, it's not so black and white for me.

 

All I'm saying is we jumped the gun signing Ole and now we're stuck with him as the results start to regress to what is probably the norm. I said my fear when he was first hired and doing well was that he's get the job based on the post Jose spike in results and not based on his actual coaching. That's exactly what happened. Now we have to hope he learns fast.

 

I'm fully with you there. We should have waited until the end of the season. Yet, here we are. A classic Post-Ferguson United move.

 

Tonight, Ashley Young lost possession a total of 32 times and attempted 11 crosses with 0 meeting their target. No player on the pitch lost possession more or had a worse crossing rate than him.

 

At least we’re still in the tie. We looked dead and buried after the first leg against PSG. Fred had probably his best game for us. As for Pogba, best to flog him to ZZ for a gazillion dollars. WC means you are consistently good but his form comes in spurts and goes missing too often.

 

Nice avi pic brah. Is he the Mongolian national football team captain?

 

http://www.espn.com/soccer/blog/the...-tie-at-barca----but-it-doesnt-include-lukaku

 

Looking forward to seeing him start next week.

 

Guess you thought Smalling’s premeditated assault on Messi was ok then ..

 

Not every tackle or even foul is a yellow card though .. Smalling could have had about 5 yellows aside from the straight red he deserved for trying to put Messi out of the game ..

I’m hoping they take retrospective action after the game

 

Retrospective action on what? His hand making contact with Messi's face as he went to chest the ball? Sure the initial contact was a foul, but how the hell can you objectively look at the second contact and think that was a deliberate or premeditated act? Don't be thick in public.

 

Fred impressed me today. He was all over the place winning the ball and making good distribution. He had a few passes intercepted but they were balls over the top which were 50/50. McTominay was good today again and I think was our MOTM

 

Go the fcuk away

 

MEN player ratings are interesting;

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/man-utd-player-ratings-barcelona-16111098

7 Fred, McT, Lindelof, DDG
6 Smalling
5 Rashford, Dalot
4 Pogba, Martial, Lingard
3 Shaw, Lukaku
1 Young

Can't remember them giving a 1 before On Young they say;
His performance level has been low for some time and it plummeted against Barca. Could not get rid of the ball quickly enough.

Thing is with Shaw out the away leg, then (unless we play Rojo) Young will play with Dalot presumably.

 

Ah another blinkered pleb ..

I was giving an honest opinion .. about Smalling .. he tried to take Messi out and he actually managed it given the way Messi player afterwards... remember Smalling had been bragging for days about facing Mbappe and Ronaldo so why worry about Messi .

Incidentally I’ve also praised Scott McT and said he was the best midfielder on view ... you conveniently missed that .

 

You think his hand did so much damage .... he’s not Jackie Chan ..
Possible broken nose , gashed eyelid etc etc

 

Oh get the ******** outta here with that garbage. Messi was on his heels and Smalling beat him to the ball. It was clearly not intentional.

And Busquets walked from 3 clear yellow car offenses and a handball in the box. And what about Vidal's dive that shouldn't been a second yellow?

If you think the refs didn't favor Barca, as they always do in Europe, then you're kidding yourself.

 

Etc etc?! That was literally it - he got hit in the nose and a cut eyelid.

If it wasn't Chris Smalling's flailing hand that caught Messi in the nose then what did you think it was? Bearing in mind that the initial impact hit the side of Messi's head, which (hint) is not where his nose is.

Jeez. I just told you not to be thick in public, and what do you go and do?

 

I am starting to lean toward keeping him and trying to loan out Matic. If no one takes Matic, cause of that wage bill then send McT to prem side that he will play the full 90 in like 25 games.

 

And what about that weird mid-air jump grab at the end of the game by Vidal on Smalling? Apparently that was nothing.

 

And your thoughts on the Vidal dive to get Lingard a yellow?

I'll wait.