I watched the game and when Hernandez scored the opening goal, early on, I thought to myself that the flood gates were going to open.
Admittedly, the defence was inexperienced. But the inexperience argument is always a Catch 22: they are inexperienced, but they will never be experienced if they don't play. I'll be honest, Sir Alex Ferguson has looked at it and thought, United have done the hard work in Holland, this is the chance to bring back some of the players returning from injury into the team and get them prepared.
You are through to the last sixteen, I don't think you can complain. In addition, I don't think Ajax are getting enough credit. As I said previously, it could have been easy for them to just completely give up when they went 3-0 down on aggregate, but they stuck at it and put United's young defence under pressure.
Clearly you are a WUM, I will not even argue with you.
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The back 4 and the keeper had an average age of 21. We should be lucky at such a young age we've identified 5 quality players that are at the moment, the future of Manchester United. How long for, nobody knows. Just have to enjoy it while it lasts!
The problem was lack of effort, not lack of experience. I have to wonder if I was watching the same game as some posters. Sir Alex highlighted a lack of experience but he is hardly going to come out and say the players didn't look bothered.
As soon as we went in front, the players just sat back and didn't make any effort to compete. The whole approach was complacent, from everyone, including the boss. Changing your mind on captain 5 minutes before kick off? Really?! That indicated a clear lack of real thought or concern in the build up to the game and set the tone for what followed.
They scored more in the second leg in which we put up a weakened side...but United won the series...What's the beef?????
I thought we deliberately played like that to conserve energy. Perfect example citys performance against porto, they had 26% possession in second half and basically the whole 2nd half let porto do whatever they wanted before the bus or wall stood firm 20yds out.
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posted on 24/2/12
agree
posted on 24/2/12
I watched the game and when Hernandez scored the opening goal, early on, I thought to myself that the flood gates were going to open.
Admittedly, the defence was inexperienced. But the inexperience argument is always a Catch 22: they are inexperienced, but they will never be experienced if they don't play. I'll be honest, Sir Alex Ferguson has looked at it and thought, United have done the hard work in Holland, this is the chance to bring back some of the players returning from injury into the team and get them prepared.
You are through to the last sixteen, I don't think you can complain. In addition, I don't think Ajax are getting enough credit. As I said previously, it could have been easy for them to just completely give up when they went 3-0 down on aggregate, but they stuck at it and put United's young defence under pressure.
posted on 24/2/12
^nutter
posted on 24/2/12
^
Fud.
posted on 24/2/12
^talking nonsense
posted on 24/2/12
Clearly you are a WUM, I will not even argue with you.
posted on 24/2/12
^not a wum you nutter
posted on 24/2/12
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posted on 24/2/12
The back 4 and the keeper had an average age of 21. We should be lucky at such a young age we've identified 5 quality players that are at the moment, the future of Manchester United. How long for, nobody knows. Just have to enjoy it while it lasts!
posted on 25/2/12
The problem was lack of effort, not lack of experience. I have to wonder if I was watching the same game as some posters. Sir Alex highlighted a lack of experience but he is hardly going to come out and say the players didn't look bothered.
As soon as we went in front, the players just sat back and didn't make any effort to compete. The whole approach was complacent, from everyone, including the boss. Changing your mind on captain 5 minutes before kick off? Really?! That indicated a clear lack of real thought or concern in the build up to the game and set the tone for what followed.
posted on 25/2/12
Stevie
posted on 25/2/12
I agree with OP and mss
posted on 25/2/12
They scored more in the second leg in which we put up a weakened side...but United won the series...What's the beef?????
posted on 25/2/12
I thought we deliberately played like that to conserve energy. Perfect example citys performance against porto, they had 26% possession in second half and basically the whole 2nd half let porto do whatever they wanted before the bus or wall stood firm 20yds out.
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