First half was arguably our best half of the season, or one of, taking into account the strength of opposition. We controlled the game, passed it around quickly and made chances. They scored after a good run from Chamberlain but some shambolic defending, then we score shortly after from a great ball from Di Maria and a good header from Rooney. Di Maria and Rooney in particular were very dangerous in the first half and our best players pretty much.
Second half, Herrera and Shaw subbed off at half time for some reason for Carrick and Jones, leaving a midfield 3 of Carrick, Blind and Fellaini (can it be more uninspiring?), and then the first 15 minutes nothing really happens apart from a few half chances from both teams, and then Valencia gives an awful back pass to De Gea, Welbeck latches on to it, pokes it past de gea and then scores an open goal. Think they should have had a red card before that, maybe it was after, can't remember, but it was a clear second yellow from Bellerin but the ref gave nothing. We make a few more chances after that, Arsenal being dangerous on the counter attack, and then Di Maria pointlessly gets himself sent off and then we proceed to hoof for the remaining 20 minutes creating feck all.
If you ignore the result and the last 20-30 minutes, we actually played well really. Clear signs of progress and there were such fine margins in the result. A win would have done us a world of good, but as it is, we lost, we got knocked out and the caf is collectively depressed forgetting all the good that we did and just focusing on the last 10 dreadful minutes. What is worrying though is that we're clueless at chasing results, apart from hoofing it forward. We very rarely turn things around in our favour, more often then not we equalize but then concede again instead of taking the lead.