My strongest feeling at the end of this game was generally being glad that I'm a United fan not a Chelsea fan.* They Mourinho'd us perfectly - Van Gaal probably saw it coming but still couldn't do that much about it, and whilst a bit of luck could have seen a different result (we certainly had more attacks and more shots than Mourinho would have liked), you have to say they did what they planned to do and got the reward for it.
Call it sour grapes if you like, I promise it's not. I expected a loss here and take my hat off to them for how brilliant they are at doing this. Because we didn't need to win this game, I don't feel too put out by the defeat, especially with lots of important players missing for us. But I'd always choose to support a team who try to do what we tried to do than a team whose big wins against big teams will so often see them willingly conceding 70%+ possession and mostly just defending for 90 minutes. However well executed it is, it can't be much fun to watch.
I can't help but also feel like there's a link between the way Mourinho's Chelsea do this against big PL rivals and the way they have gone out of the CL disappointingly in the last two seasons. They have no positive game plan against big teams. PSG were, on paper, the weaker side both this year and last year. Under a positive manager like Guardiola, Ancelotti or even Van Gaal they'd have gone out aggressively and walked it both times. Instead they did a sort of semi-Mourinho, neither exactly parking the bus nor setting out to attack and win, and were fortunate to scrape through the tie last season, and lost it this year. Similarly they had no real idea how to play against Atletico in the semi last year, a team who don't try to dominate possession and thus play into Mourinho's hands, and again they looked strategy-less and out of their depth.
On paper, that team should be able to play an expansive, attacking game and be a good match for anyone in the world. But under Mourinho they will never be comfortable doing that, and if I was a Chelsea fan I'd be worried about how they're going to make progress against the big boys in Europe unless Mourinho dramatically changes his tack.
*Obviously this is only the case because we didn't really need to win this game. If this had cost us our top four position I would be deeply envious of the Chelsea fans!