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The 5 steps to Rome Revenge (ongoing thread)
With the 1st attempt - the one that involved losing two of our 3 best attackers and not replacing them, no value, and something something about having to play the United way - having gone so spectacularly yet predictably wrong in the 2011 Final... We who endured Rome 2009 can, now, FINALLY, look forward to the genuine possibility, or likelihood even, of United revenge. YES!
1. Get Jose Mourinho in as Manager. ✔ 27/05/2016 2. Assemble a worthy team. 3. Qualify for the Champions League. 4. Draw Barcelona in the knockout stages. 5. Destroy them. |
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What's most frustrating about Rome is that is could have all been so different. We started so we'll and should have been leading, that team knew how to defend a lead.
Ultimately we were embarrassed as we chased the game and it didn't work out but I'm not convinced they were any better than us that season. At Wembley we were lucky to even be remotely close to them, by then they were a much better team than us. The mourinho appointment is a great one but we're a million miles away from competing at that level again. |
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Few years back they had the match on Eurosport and for some morbid reason I decided to watch Carrick was our best player on the night (not that that was saying too much) Surprised me how much of the ball we had for that final, Barca only had 52% Aside from the first 10 minutes we did £#%&! all with it. Our attack was pure shite that night Rooney and Park as wide players with a stroppy Ronaldo up top Quote:
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The big problem that night was that aside from the opening 10 minutes we didn't create anything Strangely we had very little spirit about us. As soon as we conceded the first there was just a resigned acceptance of the result even from the fans Rio, Vidic and O'Shea were toilet playing out from the back that night I forgot how poor Vidic was on the ball, possibility even worse than Smalling I dread to think how Vidic would have got on in an LvG team |
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always said the rome final was nothing like the out-classing people have always made it out to be...
it's utter %@#$&!s to blame the inclusion of park as well - reality is that he'd played away at arsenal and he'd played away at inter, probably our best 2 performances in the competition up to then. the previous season he played home and away v roma and v barcelona. anderson was gash on the night, rooney was completely ineffective (and should not have started) and tevez was disaffected and shouldn't have been 1st sub, but... the problem, in no particular order, was that the tactic of having carrick release the ball in behind their full-backs just didn't work on the night, vidic made a schoolboy error for the opener, ronaldo was far too greedy, and we didn't take the chances we had, either at 0-0 or straight after the messi goal - when we had 2 or 3 very presentable chances in a good spell of pressure (ronaldo, giggs and berbatov iirc)... the two best teams in the world went to rome, and barcelona took over our tag as top dogs by beating us fair and square and winning the treble. it was horrible, but it was hardly the disaster everyone makes out. it's not as if barcelona retained the trophy either ffs. |
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It was the night that Barcelona side really came of age.
We were favourites going into it but they imposed their game on us from very early on and we were always fighting a losing battle chasing the game. It always seems a bigger disaster than it was because it was the first European final we'd lost and the first time we'd had to deal with the crushing disappointment of losing one. |
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by 2011 I expected us to do better and while the defeat was also horrific it didn't feel as bad as Rome given our even more ridiculous team selection....Fabio ffs at least Wazza turned up at Wembley shame nobody else did as that barca team were not as good as 09 imo |
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