Manchester United vs Real Madrid, Match Postmortem
This Post is Dedicated To Mrs Titilayo Adeyinka, at whose Funeral Ceremony This was Inspired.
| Early Bath: Nani receiving his marching orders |
Sir Alex Ferguson has earned respect deservedly from managers, players, journalists, the Queen and myself. But I think he would do well to learn from 'the only one', Jose Mourinho, not because Mou has a better head-to-head record in matches against him, or because he's a better man manager or because he is a better tactician. It is simply because he is more thorough
We all know Sir Alex is not one to shy away from criticizing match officials if he feels his team has been wronged. He didn't attend the press conference because he was beating himself up (i would not be surprised if he did literally) for not preparing this team for the occurrence of a sending off, something Mou does every time.
This was evident by the way the team played after the red card. The task was straight forward if not easy, they had to keep doing what they were doing before the incident (deny Real Madrid space). For the first minute they looked like they could hold out, and with the fans behind them they believed they could, but the number of fans behind you wouldn't make up for lack of preparation.
Sir Alex, this one is on you not Nani or even the match officials.
Now let us sway hearts from such trivial matters and attend to more pressing needs.
he was slow to react on the red. he should have subbed rooney in much earlier
ReplyDeleteFinally sm truth......wen dey went a man down dey didn't coordinate themselves well.....fergie and d players ........2 goals in dat short period of time says it all and it wasn't a defender dat got the red card so the defending shud hav bin beta.with dat being said,let no manutd fan open their big fat mouth 2 say chelsea's champions league triumph was by luck......up chelsea!! And manu shud nt greedy ,treble my ass. Interesting piece of writing, kip up the good work
ReplyDeleteYup. I personally feel Modric was the game changer and that sub would have happened even if united had 11 men on the pitch.
ReplyDeleteNice piece...making valid points. I even thought the red card would cause Man U to set up shop in their own half and make the game boring....but ooooh no....the old Man U pride we are all too familiar with (against Barcelona twice....Man City's thrashing). They still wanted to play their normal game instead of jus doing a chealsea !
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