Mixed emotions tonight guys...
Great effort from the lads, but we have very little quality.
Miles behind the best teams in Europe.
Barca were very average today but still never in danger of not winning the game.
Lukaku was actually decent today, held up well at times and shouldn’t have been subbed.
Rashford has gone off the boil, rubbish for a while now.
McT and Fred were fantastic, as were Dalot and Smalling.
Ashley Young... how the hell is he captain of this great club? Everything he did tonight was -10/10. Utterly woeful and killed all our attacking moves down the right.
We need technical players who can keep the ball, move it quickly and then move off the ball. So static and no options most of the time in the attacking half.
We are still in the tie but realistically we’re out, let’s be honest.
Miss the good old days when we actually carried an attacking threat even against the big boys.
Finally... Busquets. Should’ve been booked 3, maybe 4 times tonight. The ref has let him get away with it tonight. 70 mins vs 10 men and we might’ve actually had a shot on target. Poor officiating.
Can’t wait to see who we bring in over the summer, need to get it right for once in the transfer market.
Some brief thoughts on the game tonight
posted on 10/4/19
Lukaku was actually decent today,
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stopped reading after this one
posted on 10/4/19
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 2 minutes ago
Busquets had 4 bookable offences in the first half.
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Utd had about the same with their blatant dives.
posted on 10/4/19
comment by Pâî§Lë¥'š _P䆆ê®ÑëÐ_ÐrÊåm§ (U1541)
posted 19 seconds ago
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 2 minutes ago
Busquets had 4 bookable offences in the first half.
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Utd had about the same with their blatant dives.
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Hard to see dives from the stands tbh, Barca seemed to be doing the same though.
Looked like McTominay went down easy, but two wrongs don't make a right. Busquets should have seen red for the number of fouls alone.
Officials have been awful this round of fixtures, and your lot were ones to benifit let's not forget.
posted on 10/4/19
Agree with you Busby. Officials have been poor and very inconsistent with their decisions which is annoying.
Thought you played ok. Good effort but Barcelona are a class above and they still keep the ball so well.
At 1-0 it’s still game on. But I don’t expect Barca to fall like PSG.
posted on 10/4/19
Yeah Barca were just too good for us
posted on 10/4/19
Why didnt Smalling go down after that flying assault lunge by Vidal in the last minute??
posted on 10/4/19
comment by Cantona 7 (U11258)
posted 21 seconds ago
Why didnt Smalling go down after that flying assault lunge by Vidal in the last minute??
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Cause he’d probably have been given a second yellow with those officials!
posted on 10/4/19
Showed them too much respect at the start, we just weren't composed with our final ball, everything was fired into Lukaku or Rashford, pique dealt with Rashford's pace quite well
Side note, Semedo (I think that's his name) was best player on the pitch
posted on 10/4/19
That was a very weird foul against Smalling at the end
posted on 10/4/19
The only quality balls we put into the box came after Lukaku had been subbed. Very frustrating.