We simply are not one of the best four in the CL any more.Yet again after a promising start we faded like a bunch of pub team players. As soon as their goal went in, I knew we weren't going to win. Never seen a United team get so down-hearted so quickly so often. Yet again rashford was poor, yet again Pogba disappeared after half-time, yet again DDG had a horror. Sorry, I don't believe as this "he's built up credit" nonsense. He needs a rest and should be told he isn't so much being dropped as being given an extra-long holiday. It's not his confidence that's the problem, it's his concentration. There are times when you give a guy your full backing and times when you have to take him out of the firing line.
Really worryingly, when Ole was asked after the game what went wrong, why we dropped off, he looked like the proverbial rabbit caught in the headlights. He had absolutely no idea and no answer. As much as I love him, he simply doesn't have the experience at this level. I know he didn't have much to work with from the bench, but he has now failed in the past three or four games to rect when the opposition changed tactics.
Having said that, it never really looked like Chelsea were going to go on and beat us - they aren't what they used to be either
Gary Nev and Souness seem to think because we are United we will still attract good players despite not being in the CL, but will we get the best players?
There were some positives: I though Bailly and Lindelof looked pretty solid together (I'm aware Bailly is as fragile as glass but that's because he's sometimes too brave) and Lukaku looked like a world beater for 40 minutes!