EL D Europa League Semi-finals 2nd Leg

Manchester United 1:1 Celta Vigo

Post-match discussion


Thu, 11 May 2017

I don't know what game everyone else was watching, but I saw a performance of lions out there tonight. Every player to a man played for the shirt. An absolute joy to watch :angel:
 
We're like a dead corpse slowly rolling downhill.

This is what it was like under Fergie. Not the performances, but the achieving success and entitled fans moaning the toss about something. Then it was not outspending City, now it's not getting to a European final better than we do.
 
Fans wouldn't care about the performances if it was a one off..But this is us week in week out

Its not. Are people fecking stupid? We just out classed the champions two fecking weeks ago. Then got hit with a million injuries. This place can be dreadful.
 
Totally agree,

I'am fecking livid atm on Mourinho, such a total clown !

His dirty stupid negative tactics and substitutions just gave the match completley to Celta and could have cost us the final. They definatley cost us Bailly

He better make sure he fecking wins this thing and saves his season in the process...

Bailly being stupid cost us Bailly. As much as some people in this thread love to moan, we're in the final.

But but....who cares. We're in the final. And Jose might win 2 trophies his first season.
 
Our standards are so ridiculously low
It has been that for the last few years. Jose will not let them stay like that. He will know what is wanted and will be furious if he doesn't get what he wants. The Zlatan injury, the so called blessing, is causing us a big problem.
 
We can't defend a lead for shit! But thank god we're there! Hopefully we perform in the final and turn Ajax over. Wrap Rashford, Pogba, Herrera and Mkhitaryan in cotton wool until the final.
 
Willing to bet that something racist was said to Baiily for that kind of reaction. The celta Vigo players were pathetic tonight, typical la liga teams do anything to get cards from the ref
 
Bizarrely, if you switched the performances/games around (tonight's game being the first leg in Vigo, the first game being tonight's) then we'd probably be very happy, wondering a little how we hadn't managed to score more.

Tonight was a shocker but the final is a one off and we've got to make sure Ajax's young team aren't allowed to grow into the game. Beat them in the first 20/30 minutes and we should be ok. Bailly will be a huge miss.
 
Man, we've been a shaky and poor bunch half of the season really, it's nothing new, just enjoy it that we're there and hope for the best. Sure this performance was dogshit but still.
This goes up there as one of the worst for me, I do understand your point I just hope Jose takes a lot away from this.

Thankfully Ajax aren't a crossing side, the loss of bailey is huge
 
Its not. Are people fecking stupid? We just out classed the champions two fecking weeks ago. Then got hit with a million injuries. This place can be dreadful.
Do what I did. Drink few beers and all those posts will look more beautiful then they truly are.
 
Jose got it all wrong today. There were really no reason at all to give Celta such a time and possession on the ball when one goal will make the game nervous. We should have only done that after scoring the second goal only not when the game was 1-0 only. Rubbish tactics today from him tbh.

We should never do this in the final especially our defense without Bailly will be crap and Smalling/Blind won't withstand pressure.
 
I think the problem is that our defense hasn't been so solid as much as our dominant possession has taken the majority of the pressure off of it, giving the statistical illusion of quality. Therefore, when Jose decides to park the bus for an entire half it becomes very nerve racking, especially with no Bailly or Rojo to anchor the middle. Normally I like Blind, but tonight he looked very shaky and always seemed to be in the middle of a crisis. I am happy we made it, but it very easily could have gone the other way.
 
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I don't know what game everyone else was watching, but I saw a performance of lions out there tonight. Every player to a man played for the shirt. An absolute joy to watch :angel:
I'm guessing you are what 6 years old and haven't seen what football was back in the SAF era.
 
Its not. Are people fecking stupid? We just out classed the champions two fecking weeks ago. Then got hit with a million injuries. This place can be dreadful.

And then look bang average against relegation threatened Swansea and quite possibly deserved to lose the game and then tonight look poor against a mid table la liga side. Yeah we are all tucking stupid for not seeing how great a side we are.
 
Its not. Are people fecking stupid? We just out classed the champions two fecking weeks ago. Then got hit with a million injuries. This place can be dreadful.

Get a grip. We were shite tonight and it's ok to say so. Tomorrow, we'll all be pleased to be there.
 
Ahh the predictable wave of shit cnuts forgetting how we should have hit them for 6 at their ground.

But we didn't :wenger:, we were absolute shite tonight as soon as we scored, very very lucky to go through, fingers and everything else crossed for the final.
 
And then look bang average against relegation threatened Swansea and quite possibly deserved to lose the game and then tonight look poor against a mid table la liga side. Yeah we are all tucking stupid for not seeing how great a side we are.
That's not what he's saying.
 
On the positive note, well for the first time this shite draw scenario wasn't terrible result for us :lol:
 
It has been that for the last few years. Jose will not let them stay like that. He will know what is wanted and will be furious if he doesn't get what he wants. The Zlatan injury, the so called blessing, is causing us a big problem.

Our standards are low with him too in terms of what is acceptable. We've set records with spending, and all we've done is overpay and pick dodgy teams. He's done very little to suggest we're in an upward trend
 
Great to see the Caf is still full of top managerial prospects.
 
Its not. Are people fecking stupid? We just out classed the champions two fecking weeks ago. Then got hit with a million injuries. This place can be dreadful.

one game probably...can you name any other in the second half of the season. It has always been like this injuries or not.
We should have had the match dead and buried long before. Yet we had to rely on a city reject missing an open goal to get through.

I wonder if people would still keep defending mourinho's tactics if the goal had gone in the last second.
 
fecking state of this place. Seriously... we're one game away from the CL. You think Jose cares about our fecking performance. Do or die game.

He got through by sheer dumb luck and nothing else

Guidetti strikes that last ball half decent and it is curtains for us. How the feck can we invite so much pressure on ourself in that last 30 minutes of the match ? We play this stupid versus Ajax and they will shove 4 goals past us in the final with the whole world watching.

Losing Bailly in the end will also make a huge difference, no way that incident happens if United had scored 1 more goal and killed the match off.
 
Did our best to bottle it but feck it, we're in the final. Worried about the mentality of this team and Jose going forward though.

I'm also concerned about Jose. I've been a big fan of his over the years, but he seems to have lost his nerve or something. Setting out to defend a small lead with 20 to 30 minutes left is madness.
 
Our standards are low with him too in terms of what is acceptable. We've set records with spending, and all we've done is overpay and pick dodgy teams. He's done very little to suggest we're in an upward trend
Except win 1 trophy already and have a great chance at winning a second in his first season...

Compared to Moyes who won nothing and LVG who won his FA cup his second season.
 
I actually feel so bitter at the moment without being able to help it. I'm raging with Guidetti for being such a joke, I feel so much hate for Vigo right now, I'm raging with Mourinho and I'm fuming that we have no Bailly for the final.

Hopefully it fades and I'll be looking forward to the final soon.
 
We don't kill the game when we're in control, inviting the late high pressure.

Blessing.

I can understand the Celta Vigo's players heated frustrations leading to that drama fight.

Apart from the 5minutes after the goal I don't recall any prolonged period where we were in control? They dominated at the start & ended the first half better. Second half was mostly them.
Sat back for the vast majority of the game.
Lost enough points this season due to sitting back and it almost fecking cost us again.
 
"We lose an important player for the final, and we don't have many" - little bit brutal there from Jose :lol:
 

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  • Man Utd win
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Detailed Results

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  • 0% Man Utd 0:1 Celta Vigo
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  1. Man Utd
  2. Celta Vigo
Possession
33% 67%
Shots
11 16
Shots on Target
4 6
Corners
4 8
Fouls
19 20

Referee

Ovidiu Hategan