Apparently Man City were the "moral winners"...

Annihilate Now!

Kompany on Twitter

Richards on Twitter

Sounds like a pretty big victory for them... and in turn, a crushing defeat for us on said "moral" standpoint.

Can imagine our players must be devestated. I'm not sure how we will react to such a huge loss... though I imagine being in the 4th round of the Cup might help.

I'm always right

Out of the Cup, get to fuck

Mick1991

They showed their bottle in fairness, annoyingly enough. Mentally it showed that they are getting there.

Still twaddle from the players though, it shouldn't really have to be something that you brag about.

prateik

Can a loss be a win?

Coca Cola

Does that take them into the moral 4th round?

SteveJ

Maybe the Moral Winners Cup can replace the FA one missing from their trophy cabinet.

Lance Uppercut

I wonder how the draw is going in Richards' head?

Inigo Montoya

Do you get something for taking the moral high ground?

I'm not sure they realise how vilified they actually are for all the spending If it was Wigan, i'd agree but it's a ridiculous assertion

R_Kelly

This is the annoying result of our pants 2nd half, we should have left them feeling like they wanted to sit crying under a cold shower.

Ole'sbodyguard

They might have showed some bottle, sure.

How the feck does that mean they have morally won anything?

It's typical City before the money shit this. They lost the game and are out of the cup. They won nothing, morally or practically.

Edit: Replied to this before the edit or only read the first line. Not sure, which.

Rood

He probably right - we should have destroyed them but instead we sat back and let them back into the game

Still we dumped them out of the cup in their own backyard so fuck off Citeh !

acnumber9

Where was the mentality in the first half?

Man-United

They love to think so, try everything to make them feel better.

But fact it, they lost, lost, lost.

Magnus

Only one team in Manc. I love you United

Neo_Mufc

Richards must have not heard the away fans in the City ground singing after the match. Oh wait he was on his way home out of the fa cup. Jog on son.

pauldyson1uk

TBH would not expect them to say anything else , I am sure our player would do the same in the same situation.

Fletcher's Jilted Lover

city should be proud of their performance, losing their best player and down to 10 men, with no toure, balotelli or dzeko and they almost got back on level terms. Their team morale will still be intact after that game, sadly

Mick1991

Well, yeah. Twaddle from the players, like I said.

Inigo Montoya

Well there was the deluge for most of the match...now there's one of self pity

Judge Red

It's almost like Kompany doesn't exist in Kompany's world.

CantonaVeron

City can have the moral high ground it's count for nothing in May, I do wonder what the City players thought of the Valencia pen claim though maybe show them a replay and tell them to shut the fuck up..

Number7

As Fergie said, we made them look better than they were.

Liam147

It's the sort of thing I imagine from them a few years ago.

You can take all the moral victory you want, but at the end of the day, it's another cup you're out of, and we're in the draw for the next round. Suck deez nuts.

Forever small.

Eyepopper

SteveJ

Fixed.

Annihilate Now!

Kompany's got a bit of gall for posting that as their club captain I think... it's his idiocy that's cost them the game in the first place. Irrespective of whether or not you think it's a red card (and I certainly do)... there was no need for him to go into the challenge the way he did. It was totally uneccesary and he was always running a risk of getting a red for it.

TheReligion

Moral Winners?

Fair play. It is near enough the only thing they can claim to have won the past 30 odd years

Leg-End

Inigo Montoya

We've lost a few, and drew one with Newcastle on the back of poor refereeing....can't recall too much bleating from players.

Leroy The Red

Difference between ourselves and city.
Small club, small mentality.
If our players ever tweeted such bollocks after a defeat i'd be embarrassed.

Annihilate Now!

Ole240599

This was the same reaction from Chelsea when we beat them 3-1 at OT earlier in the season. Let's hope Shitty go on a similar run.

What is not being highlighted is how dominant we were in the first half, that's the main positive for me. That said, Rio and Evra were shocking defensively and I still think we need reinforcements in that area.

Guy Incognito

If anything the result was a learning curve for Mancini. He can take something out of the game but the players can't. I didn't think the manager could strategize a system when going down to ten men but he did in the second half.

Had Kompany not been sent off, City would have just passed the ball with no purpose. Would it have resulted in a goal, maybe. But United looked very efficent in the first half, I would have banked on them to get a second goal regardless. The performance dipped in the second half but that was down to complacency -- perhaps thinking how many, instead of being professional.

Coca Cola

Nothing wrong with them being proud of their 2nd half performance and trying to find some positives from the game.

It's using words like "moral winners" and "In our heads we won" that makes it ridiculous. They lost. They were in no way winners. They won nothing.

Drainy

Come on FFS. They were losing before the red card, it was a red card and went 3-0 down by half time. Its only human nature that we would get complacent.

This wasn't the 2005 FA cup final- get to the final, dominate for 120 minutes and lose on penalties. This was lose the first trophy you've won in 35 years and your unbeaten home record in 90 minutes and cry about it.

Inigo Montoya

Nasri pictured at half time

Judge Red

Not in the Sheikh Mansour's lifetime.

Edgio

Unfortunately for them, we're 3-2 the next round, they're not.

HAHAHAHA!!!

SteveJ

So...beaten 3-2 by an 'underdog' team on the back of two successive defeats; losing their unbeaten home record; two goals by an out-of-form player who's the subject of intense media scrutiny; great victory, City...

ArmchairCritic

Some things will never change.