CL L Champions League Group A

FC Basel 1:0 Manchester United

Post-match discussion


Wed, 22 November 2017

Basel deserved the goal and the win.

That United side tonight were just dire really.

Joyless, boring drivel football that no-one should be paying to watch, let alone paying to travel to and watch.

And I'm a fan of Mourinho. But come on, this is just so boring.
 
Our fullbacks are terrible. It’s pitiful and Mourinho needs to start addressing it.
 
Deserved lose after that shite second half. Players got too relaxed and we paid the price.

Glad it's not a very important match.
 
Aren't we basically through?! Is it head to head or normal league rules? Either way need to lose about 5 nil at homr to not come top right?
 
Second half was dreadful. Jose’s subs were poor, especially taking Martial off.

Game should’ve been won in the first half. Wasted too much.
 
Treated it like a friendly against a team treating it like a cup final. Got what we deserved.
 
We don't have strength in depth. Our best XI is fantastic, but remove 1 or 2 players and the whole team falls apart.
 
What a glorious second half. 0 effort, playing for the draw. Amazing stuff.
 
Days like this show us how fr away our squad is from the likes of PSG, Real and Barcelona!
 
That second half was disgraceful.
Not too bothered about the result but the attitude of some players is worrying.
 
Both fullbacks combined to cost us a goal.

Needless, demoralising result for all concerned.
 
Fair play to them. Luckiest team in Europe in the first half but pluckiest in the second while we just stopped producing anything coherent in terms of football and went to sleep.
 
Yes... I agree, full backs are the problem. Lukaku also needs to hold the ball up better!! What a joke to be honest!!
 
Basel deserve the victory. United were dreadful. All still to play for in the final group game.
 
Very disappointing. That 2nd half performance was on a par with the Huddersfield performance a couple of weeks ago.
 
So many average players in our squad. We can't rely on them when we need them, they just keep letting us down.
 
Woeful stuff.

Our full backs were abysmal. Offered nothing and collectively at fault for the goal.

Herrera has become a passenger, only passing backwards and sideways.

Far too many chances missed first half. Second half about as bad as they come.

No need to finish the game with 3 in midfield.
 
What the feck was that second half? Why did we just stop playing football after a decent-ish, controlled first 45 minutes?
 
An ancient manager who has one tactic when it comes to playing away.
 
Correct me if I’m wrong, but surely due to the head to head records, it’s impossible for us not to at least qualify, no matter the results in the last round of group games.

Though we should have just sorted top of the group out this evening.
 
Basel have a record against English teams. So let us put it down to an off night without being too critical. We hardly have functional backups at FB positions.

We would still go through on head-to-head even if we lose narrowly against CSKA, and it is very unlikely we lose to them by 3 goals.

No, I think we are through, but this is an annoyance.
 
We literally couldn't be arsed. That is genuinly what it looked like.

Either that or we are actually as bad as that performance suggests, which would be extremely concerning.
 
This was just ridiculously stupid. Could have rested players against CSKA but I guess we would just rather have to play a full XI a couple of days before the derby whilst City (who seem to be the considerably less stupid team) get to play their U23s if they want to.
 

Player Ratings

5.4 Total Average Rating

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Score Predictions

513,18,67
  • Man Utd win
  • Basel win
  • Draw

Detailed Results

  • 34% Basel 0:2 Man Utd
  • 14% Basel 0:3 Man Utd
  • 13% Basel 1:2 Man Utd
  • 10% Basel 0:1 Man Utd
  • 7% Basel 1:1 Man Utd
  • 7% Basel 1:3 Man Utd
  • 4% Basel 0:4 Man Utd
  • 3% Basel 0:0 Man Utd
  • 2% Basel 0:5 Man Utd
  • 1% Basel 1:4 Man Utd
  • 1% Basel 2:1 Man Utd
  • 1% Basel 2:2 Man Utd
  • 1% Basel 3:0 Man Utd
  • 1% Basel 1:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Basel 4:5 Man Utd
  • 0% Basel 5:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Basel 3:1 Man Utd
  • 0% Basel 1:5 Man Utd
  • 0% Basel 5:5 Man Utd
  • 0% Basel 2:3 Man Utd
  • 0% Basel 4:1 Man Utd
  • 0% Basel 2:0 Man Utd
Compiled from 598 predictions.
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Match Stats

  1. Basel
  2. Man Utd
Possession
32% 68%
Shots
13 14
Shots on Target
6 4
Corners
4 6
Fouls
7 13

Referee

Daniele Orsato