Gave interview on bt...... Said top four was out of reach, and winning Europa was a must...... Had a straight face when he delivered the punchline about how he is doing his best.
"It will be difficult to qualify for the Champions League and the top four now, we know that, so it's a sad day in terms of losing three points and we have to somehow move on," Rooney said in Cantonese
Spot on...... wouldn't it be nice to have a manager that can manage and not need a budget big enough to feed Africa...... Thing is there are a few here...Hughes,Martinez,Bilic,Ranieri.
Bye bye to top 4. When i said us playing possession football was a fraud people thought I didn't known what I was saying. Possession football only works when teams sit back, these days no team wants to sit back against united, they attack us and we suddenly become clueless. Lvg definitely doesn't known what he's doing. When we win 1 game he comes out and say we are back as title contenders only to lose or draw the next game.
only ranieri from that list for me... bilic and martinez arn't all that. hughes made some good signings for stoke and has them playing better football but hasn't really taken them anywhere. bilic has proven without payet this season, he can't make west ham win many games. martinez has never spent big other than lukaku, and everton have gone backwards from moyes days, got wigan relegated as his teams cannot defend
From LvG - Story of the game: “We didn’t keep the ball in our team. For example against Chelsea we did do it and that is a big difference because you can control the game. We created chances in the second half, we could have scored also but that is not the problem. I think as Manchester United you have to keep the ball in spite of the pressure of Sunderland and create chances. We didn’t have control in the second half. We didn’t have control in the first 20 minutes, we had control in the second 20 minutes and we scored.” Reasons why United lost the game: "Two set plays, two goals. We know in advance that they could score from set plays. They have a taller team, we have to organise it well but the main reason is that always in a match you shall be compared with your opponent in aggression. I think they played with more aggression because they play with direct balls so second balls are very important to win. We didn’t keep the ball too much in our possession. These kinds of matches you have to win, I said that in advance, and we didn’t do that." Is the loss a backwards step? "Yes, of course. What I said before the game was we have to win this kind of game and we didn’t. We can only blame ourselves. I do my work to my utmost best. I cannot do more and I shall prepare my players against Midtjylland 100 per cent and I shall do that always." United's top four hopes this season: "It shall be very difficult now [to finish in the top four] because we give five points away, against Chelsea and here now so it’s too much at this time. I think after this match it [the Europa League] is the best route [into the Champions League] but also there are some very good teams in the competition." Frustrations after the recent good run of form: "It is a big disappointment. I cannot say it in another way. You prepare this game the whole week. It’s always the big question that if you can cope with the tactics or aggression or some quality of the opposition then you have to show your own ability against that. It is always a question for everyone but today it was very disappointing. We need to win this game because of the big gap between the top four. We want to be there but it shall now be very difficult." Were you let down by your players? “It is not a question of being let down because the players wanted to deliver but because they don’t deliver today you are disappointed and frustrated but we are working together and pulling at the same string.” Injury to Matteo Darmian: “It is unbelievable. It is a dislocation [of his shoulder] so he has several weeks out. We don’t have any more full backs in this club."
yes, klopp is likeable although he's said some things that don't add up. and he assembled a dortmund side out of pennies and got them to a CL final and won 2 bundesliga titles
Sounds like Benitez in that respect doesn't he? Hopefully he'll be just the same and fail spectacularly to get you anywhere near a league title. He won't have the advantage of someone else getting you into the champions league either.
The mighty Southampton just a point behind with superior goal difference, plus their next game is at home to relegation fodder Chelsea. If we lose at Arsenal then we could find ourselves in 7th spot - weren't we there a short while ago before we spent £250 million?
''we didn't keep the ball.'' you had 66% possession m8 van gaal 10/02 ''we are title contenders.'' van gaal 13/02 ''it will be difficult for us to get top 4.'' this guy spews more garbage than rodgers
