Momochiru
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The only thing I agree with you is that we didn't play well. But even though we had a poor game, we were the team that was unlucky to lose. City didn't play better than us, I don't enjoy their style - passing the ball around for hours doesn't do it for me and I definitely wouldn't love it if we played as City, if I liked that, I would've wanted LVG to stay.Well you might want to refresh your memory then. Because that's really, really not how the game went. Seriously, watch highlights. They created a lot more than us - not hard of course as we created almost nothing - and should have scored more.
Obviously we are all biased here and all but this is next level. Let's face it, if we played and won the way City did, you would be lauding an absolutely brilliant performance from United.
Blaming the referee is pathetic. We played like shite and got beat. No shame in admitting that.
Blaming the referee is not pathetic when the referee is pathetic. I'm a referee myself with 16 years of experience and know very well, that sometimes one of the teams is at a disadvantage, because the ref favours a certain style. I don't have a problem with that as long as the calls are consistent. For example if the ref favours a more physical style, the more technical team would be at a disadvantage. This happens all the time and I don't have a problem with it - it's just bad luck. What I have a problem with is inconsistent calls - Michael Oliver was very inconsistent that day and it benefited City.
Would've we won if we had a good, consistent referee? If Lukaku didn't have a brainfart of a game? If Pogba wasn't injured? If Fellaini and Carrick weren't injured at the same time too? No one knows, but as I said before - a lot of things lined up against us on that day and despite that City won only by sheer luck. And that gives me enough confidence to fancy our chances against City again.
Anyway, I think we are derailing this thread.