Starting XI and Match thread.

[Ron_Mexico]

You're not wrong:

Played 29. Won 23. Drawn 3. Lost 3. Scored 66. Conceded 19. Points 72
Played 29. Won 16. Drawn 5. Lost 8. Scored 44. Conceded 20. Points 53

The most boring side to ever win the league.

****ing hell we're bitter.

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[Kopite_Colin]

Until you post that on here I'll still be believing it wasn't.

Do you really think he wasn't. It was evident to me. I'm not sure who it was stood next to Bellamy, who I DON'T think was offside, and had it fallen to him, we may have had an arguement. or if it hadn't hit Sissoko, the same may have applied. But for me, having only seen it once in real time and 1 replay when it was given I thought he was off.

[Revo]

if the linesman saw the deflection then he was offside but thats a big if

[Guest]

Anyway I couldn't be arsed now. I'll stop posting after defeats such as this.

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

Gary Neville shags his mum, shags his mum, shags his mum

Gary Neville sha......

[L10]

A ****witt?
calm down son calm down.

what a funny picture,never seen that before:whatever:

[Kopite_Colin]

if the linesman saw the deflection then he was offside but thats a big if

Not sure about that Tommy. Bellamy was coming back out when the shot was hit. Even if it hadn't have hit Momo before it fell to him, it would still have come to him having been stood in an offside position, when he controlled it. At that point he would have been "active" and hence offiside.

I honestly think it was a correct decision, however hard it is to take. But I'm not sure why Bellamy was taken off. At that time I would have taken Kuyt off before Bellamy.

[Revo]

i think it was the right decision too mate but im not convinced the linesman saw the deflection, seen plenty of them allowed thats for sure

[blacky]

and of course results against them are our only benchmark?!?! Somtimes you have to accept that things don't run for you. Ferguson had 6 years to sort his team out Rafa has had 3. We are far stronger than we were when he came and now he has the base of his squad in place then tweaks in the summer will give us the quality of that I am sure

Totally agree. Nothing to be ashamed of today. We played united off the park and were sucker punched at the end. The team just needs fine tuning. Allow rafa the luxury of completing for top end players and we will challenge next season. Bigger fish to fry with barca game tuesday. The title is long gone and we will get an automatic cl place without a doubt!! No point in anyone over reacting and pointing the finger of blame at anyone. Great team performance today.

[shelly]

Totally agree. Nothing to be ashamed of today. We played united off the park and were sucker punched at the end. Bigger fish to fry with barca game tuesday..

just hope the sucker punch does not affect our performance against barca

[Kopite_Colin]

Totally agree. Nothing to be ashamed of today. We played united off the park and were sucker punched at the end. The team just needs fine tuning. Allow rafa the luxury of completing for top end players and we will challenge next season. Bigger fish to fry with barca game tuesday. The title is long gone and we will get an automatic cl place without a doubt!! No point in anyone over reacting and pointing the finger of blame at anyone. Great team performance today.

Spot on lad. Some perspective, but the result is still gut-wrenching.

[blacky]

Spot on lad. Some perspective, but the result is still gut-wrenching.

Absolutely gut wrenching and I am in the depths of despair here but am trying to positives from the game. We didn't lie down and take a hammering like we did at OT. We showed united that we are every bit as good as them(and better) and considering we don't have the luxury of +20million pound players I think we are sitting pretty. I have every bit of faith in rafa's ability to turn the players attention quickly to the barca game. If anything this result should spur them on. The CL is now the last thing we have to play for and ultimately rafa and the players believe they can win it for the 6th time.

[ronan]

i blame benitez for this defeat, hes a ****witt, tactical genius my arse

TWEEDLE DUMB

Domestically he is tactically inept.

AND TWEEDLE DEE


why are they always let out on the weekends? :whatever:

[marcus50bucks]

Why shouldn't he let emotion cloud his judgement?

We just lost our unbeaten home record to the manc scum.

Because you end up making comments that don't hold weight!

[Kopite_Colin]

Absolutely gut wrenching and I am in the depths of despair here but am trying to positives from the game. We didn't lie down and take a hammering like we did at OT. We showed united that we are every bit as good as them(and better) and considering we don't have the luxury of +20million pound players I think we are sitting pretty. I have every bit of faith in rafa's ability to turn the players attention quickly to the barca game. If anything this result should spur them on. The CL is now the last thing we have to play for and ultimately rafa and the players believe they can win it for the 6th time.

All he has to say is

1) you were better than Utd, and should have won
2) you've beaten Barca at home

To put it into perspective, another 0-1 defeat at home and we're through. Nothing to be ashamed of. Come on lads...can you smell Athens...?????