Cleverly not up to form yet I suppose. So weak.
Same goes to Young.

very poor performance in european competition this season.
young players still very raw & clueless with euro standard

I hope a strong reaction after this loss. lost the battle won the war

our young defence will learn a lot this season.

De Gea's point blank save from the header had kept us in this tournament, if that went in we would have crash out considering how Ajax was swarming our half and we were sitting back (but lack the organization for holding the defensive stance)

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This post has been edited by Gebs: Feb 24 2012, 06:14 AM

hope we will show a strong reaction straightaway this sunday. cant wait to see it.

yeah agree with u bro, our young player all around will learn so much this season. especially how to play in europe.

cmon UNITED!!

Bilbao nexttt

Start tgk dari minit ke13, miss hernandez goal.
First half was ok, but 2nd half was unacceptable.
Kalah kat tempat sendiri? Demn.
Lucky we advance to next round.

With cleverly not on form, park tak rajin midfield empty.
I hope we will bounce back against norwich.

booo what the worst performance in own turf since the losing 2 blackburn n citeh but thks goodness 2 still going through...lucky i never watch it or else i already smash my tv long time ago already manage 2 watch the 1st leg though n was still mesmerize by the gameplay

Lol, lucky manage to get away, thanks to the comfortable 1st leg lead....

heavy rain, missed 50% of the 2nd half.

we are very poor in 2nd half. SAF admitted the back 4 are too inexperience, but we get away with that.

forward unproductive, midfield are overran. disappointed with performance, but its job done.

Evra, Carrick, Rooney, and Giggs got a full rest. we are in good shape to face Norwich. shame Arsenal-Spurs kick off at the same time..

miss the match, glad that we proceed. Unthinkable to not proceed really.

Hope that we score more at norwich.. hehe

* PJS was struggling in CM, cleverley couldn't cope well with PJS in CM, lucky eriksen played poorly yesterday, lack of depth in midfielder went against us in second half since we're also outnumbered there
* Phil Jones in CB is still not promising, the defense reminded me of home game against Basel before, and yeah I still sense Evans Smalling will be our leading future of CB's pair
* DDG saved us from humiliation
* Poor defending on set-piece still continues

I don't see it was mostly because of the lack of experience, it was more of complacency. it shouldn't ever been there again after that humiliation knocked out of UCL, that gotta remind them that they're not any better than benfica and basel. at this point, I agree with what Keano said after UCL exit.

Hopefully the young lads can take lesson from that match, Norwich next, it will be a hard match to win in Norwich ground.

This post has been edited by alowie: Feb 24 2012, 12:43 PM

Disappointed with the performance last night. I don't see the hunger to close down opponents. Especially from Ashley Young, his defensive performance big difference compared to Antonio Valencia.
Overall poor display from the whole team.

Young was okay defensively, even though wasn't as good as first leg. contrary to what you said, what I thought is sometimes the lads didn't choose to close down wisely, it made them dragged away from the defence easily and left it too vulnerable, it was only getting better in CB dept when Evans came in, both Evans and Smalling have good composure. last 10 minutes was a chaos, midfield couldn't keep the shape. imo

This post has been edited by alowie: Feb 24 2012, 12:53 PM

Ji Sung Park is good in the middle,but don't expect him to provide the creativity/creating chances.he's more of a runner,thus he is better behind the striker

yup, if anything Ajax's average age was 22 yesterday

Phil Jones is a very good CB but he's still young and he needs to work on his anticipation and concentration. At this point in time, he's relying a lot on his physical abilities to compete which is good but CBs usually improve with experience and these games are good for his growth. He'll replace Rio in the next few years once he learns to remain focused the whole 90+ minutes and read the game better.

As for poor defending on set-pieces, Man Utd has always been weak in this area. Only Vidic is decent at defensive set pieces. We haven't really been up to par on defending set-pieces since the good old days of Daisy and Dolly.

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This post has been edited by SomeoneElse: Feb 25 2012, 12:10 AM

carrick? creative?

nani and young still rusty.. really need to improve finding form

few change in lineup and youngster.. hope this will be good lesson for them