20 May 2018 09:21:58
Obviously everyones dissapointed with yesterday, but we've had a good record in cup finals in recent years and were bound to lose one eventually. I guess if you don't lose one, when you win it doesn't make it as special.
Chelsea beat us at our own game, nick a goal then defend like your lives depend on it.
I am really glad the season has ended for us now as it looked like jose was creating unnecessary problems with players like bailly, rashford, martial and lukaku. Good time for the players to get away from the manager and enjoy their holidays/ world cup in a different surrounding.
20 May 2018 09:54:09
I can't speak for everyone, but it was the manner of the defeat that disappoints me. I can appreciate losing to a better team, or even losing to an unlucky moment if you are the better team, but it's the poor football I can't stomach. The lack of urgency to correct the obvious failings in our play.
Even had we won yesterday playing the way we did, it still wouldn't have meant that much to me personally - when we beat Southampton last year I felt we had cheated them and got little joy from the success. It's like we are stabbing the beautiful game in the back and expected to be praised for it.
Man Utd has become the baddy in Gladiator - if victory comes with us selling our footballing soul then you can keep it thanks.
20 May 2018 10:57:53
I actually agree with Mourinho. If we had played the way Chelsea did we would have been panned for parking the bus. Chelsea played in a Mourinho style: scored a goal and then defended with 9 people behind the ball. Despite that, after a cagey first half when as expected no one wanted to give away an opening, we created enough opportunities to equalize, but we squandered them all. Pogba's miss was symptomatic of our problems and our season - a failure for our top players to step up at crucial moments. It was like watching many of our games against lowly opposition, but the dullness is at least as much to do with the opposition's tactics as our approach.
We obviously need to improve our ability to weave our way around opponents who are committed to playing not to lose, and better full backs would seem to be the obvious area to concentrate on, however Chelsea, despite their win, looked like a club more in need of an overhaul than us, especially if they lose Hazard, whose performance along with Jones's misread of the pass that led to the penalty, gave them the victory they hardly deserved.
20 May 2018 11:41:49
One of the worst cup finals I’ve seen in years but met my expectations as it was played by two very defensive and pragmatic sides (that’s a long winded way of saying boring)
20 May 2018 14:17:05
Chelsea played the Jose way he instilled that in them.
20 May 2018 15:39:36
No one criticizes good defending past Italian teams over the last few decades or even current ones. Since when has this defending in numbers and protecting a scoreline been something that Mourinho has created? The whole parking the bus thing has been going on for years. People love to drag people down in this country.
20 May 2018 18:55:23
In our treble year we played Forest away. We blew them away and were 4-1 up when SAF took off Yorke and Cole. Ole came on and scored 4 in about 20 minutes, no closing up shop or deciding 4-1 was good enough. Roma at home was one of the best halves of football I have seen. We played then like Liverpool are playing now. The best form of defence is attack, this continental approach of defending a lead is tiresome. Yes teams need to use commmon sense but I want to be excited, I want to jump out of my seat, I want to die trying.