Fergie psyching up the crowd.

Class. Obviously it was on the back of a pretty negative situation but...

...the next 20 mins was as intimidating I've seen it since the 2005 Chelsea game where Fletch got the winner.

North/South stand on their feet.

Pity it didn't £#%&!ing work

Originally Posted by andyroo

Pity it didn't £#%&!ing work

Yeah madrid looked well intimidated as they strung about 40 passes together.

Rather than rampaging up and down the touchline like a Tasmanian devil windmilling his arms about, maybe fergie would have been better trying to calm the team down and sort their heads out? #tinhaton.

It was those 10 mins that cost us the tie.

Originally Posted by sullerz

Class. Obviously it was on the back of a pretty negative situation but...

...the next 20 mins was as intimidating I've seen it since the 2005 Chelsea game where Fletch got the winner.

North/South stand on their feet.

When they scored both goals?

With Sullerz here, would like to see more of that passion from the auld fella!

Thought the crowd did us £#%&!ing proud last night, regardless.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Yeah madrid looked well intimidated as they strung about 40 passes together.

Rather than rampaging up and down the touchline like a Tasmanian devil windmilling his arms about, maybe fergie would have been better trying to calm the team down and sort their heads out? #tinhaton.

It was those 10 mins that cost us the tie.

Mourinho landed the knock out blow bringing on Modric (ffs) Our lads heads were still spinning. But you're on the money.

Anyway back to the crowd. £#%&!ing good work, carry it on for Sunday please.

ffs, this is off the pitch. The crowd doesn't have that much influence, just saying it was vvg2c.

Originally Posted by Harri Jaffa

When they scored both goals?

yep, they were rattled.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Yeah madrid looked well intimidated as they strung about 40 passes together.

Rather than rampaging up and down the touchline like a Tasmanian devil windmilling his arms about, maybe fergie would have been better trying to calm the team down and sort their heads out? #tinhaton.

It was those 10 mins that cost us the tie.

Not hard against ten men.

What did you want him to do, jog on the pitch and have a quiet word with them ffs? Giggs, Rio, Vidic, Evra, Carrick, Van Persie- enough of them with experience through the spine of the team to know what to do. The team were (rightfully so) a bit £#%&!ing shell-shocked after that red card. It was a winger anyway, so we just went to 4-4-1. It spurred Madrid on, they're a good team, and put us under some pressure. Not much Fergie or the players could have done about Modric's strike ffs.

£#%&! all wrong with him trying to get the crowd going at that point, the players must like it with Giggs doing the same later on. Don't go all saffers and try and make out Fergie £#%&!ed up by doing that. We had it spot on until that @#%&!ing ref started making his own rules up. If it wasn't for their 'keeper turning into Gordon Banks we might have even gotten back into it.

Originally Posted by dragflick

Not hard against ten men.

What did you want him to do, jog on the pitch and have a quiet word with them ffs? Giggs, Rio, Vidic, Evra, Carrick, Van Persie- enough of them with experience through the spine of the team to know what to do. The team were (rightfully so) a bit £#%&!ing shell-shocked after that red card. It was a winger anyway, so we just went to 4-4-1. It spurred Madrid on, they're a good team, and put us under some pressure. Not much Fergie or the players could have done about Modric's strike ffs.

£#%&! all wrong with him trying to get the crowd going at that point, the players must like it with Giggs doing the same later on. Don't go all saffers and try and make out Fergie £#%&!ed up by doing that. We had it spot on until that @#%&!ing ref started making his own rules up. If it wasn't for their 'keeper turning into Gordon Banks we might have even gotten back into it.

What he definitely should've done is go back to the dugout, get Phelan to fetch him an Mac, log onto here and get on the matchday thread and have a good old moan.

Originally Posted by sullerz

What he definitely should've done is go back to the dugout, get Phelan to fetch him an Mac, log onto here and get on the matchday thread and have a good old moan.

How do you know he didn't, hmmm?

Originally Posted by sullerz

What he definitely should've done is go back to the dugout, get Phelan to fetch him an Mac, log onto here and get on the matchday thread and have a good old moan.

I know what you're saying but the trouble with this is, Sparky's moaning on the internet might be irritating at times but it is completely ineffectual and of no consequence in the slightest when it comes to Manchester United playing football. Whereas what Ferguson and the players do counts. And the crowd, well they did their best and it sounded fantastic but we lost. And I hate that.

Originally Posted by dragflick

Not hard against ten men.

What did you want him to do, jog on the pitch and have a quiet word with them ffs? Giggs, Rio, Vidic, Evra, Carrick, Van Persie- enough of them with experience through the spine of the team to know what to do. The team were (rightfully so) a bit £#%&!ing shell-shocked after that red card. It was a winger anyway, so we just went to 4-4-1. It spurred Madrid on, they're a good team, and put us under some pressure. Not much Fergie or the players could have done about Modric's strike ffs.

£#%&! all wrong with him trying to get the crowd going at that point, the players must like it with Giggs doing the same later on. Don't go all saffers and try and make out Fergie £#%&!ed up by doing that. We had it spot on until that @#%&!ing ref started making his own rules up. If it wasn't for their 'keeper turning into Gordon Banks we might have even gotten back into it.

Key to the gameplan was Welbeck getting tight to Xabi Alonso as soon as we lost the ball and wingers dropping back to double up. It worked perfectly. Once Welbeck moves back to the wing, that goes out of the window. Mourinho brings on Modric, moves Khedira to RB and pushes both fullbacks forward, leaving Varane and Ramos two-on-one with RVP, creating a numbers up situation in midfield. Not sure what could've been done in that situation. No good choices, really.

Let's face it, Real are going to piss all over any team who's 11th man is a 71-year-old waving his arms around on the touchline.

Good fun to watch though.

Originally Posted by Serenity Now

Key to the gameplan was Welbeck getting tight to Xabi Alonso as soon as we lost the ball and wingers dropping back to double up. It worked perfectly. Once Welbeck moves back to the wing, that goes out of the window. Mourinho brings on Modric, moves Khedira to RB and pushes both fullbacks forward, leaving Varane and Ramos two-on-one with RVP, creating a numbers up situation in midfield. Not sure what could've been done in that situation. No good choices, really.

Sers killing it on the football chat like days of yesteryear

Originally Posted by Serenity Now

Key to the gameplan was Welbeck getting tight to Xabi Alonso as soon as we lost the ball and wingers dropping back to double up. It worked perfectly. Once Welbeck moves back to the wing, that goes out of the window. Mourinho brings on Modric, moves Khedira to RB and pushes both fullbacks forward, leaving Varane and Ramos two-on-one with RVP, creating a numbers up situation in midfield. Not sure what could've been done in that situation. No good choices, really.

A few leg breakers and a pitch invasion leaving the ref beaten to a pulp would have been nice.

Originally Posted by Serenity Now

Key to the gameplan was Welbeck getting tight to Xabi Alonso as soon as we lost the ball and wingers dropping back to double up. It worked perfectly. Once Welbeck moves back to the wing, that goes out of the window. Mourinho brings on Modric, moves Khedira to RB and pushes both fullbacks forward, leaving Varane and Ramos two-on-one with RVP, creating a numbers up situation in midfield. Not sure what could've been done in that situation. No good choices, really.

The only other choice was to take Wellbeck or VP off and replace them with someone in midfield (probably Kagawa) and give Real a free run at Evra rather than a free run through the middle.

EDIT - We didn't really look like we had a game plan for when a player gets sent off which you could argue was bad planning. That would be a hard thing to say given the rest of the planning which was exceptional

Originally Posted by Serenity Now

Key to the gameplan was Welbeck getting tight to Xabi Alonso as soon as we lost the ball and wingers dropping back to double up. It worked perfectly. Once Welbeck moves back to the wing, that goes out of the window. Mourinho brings on Modric, moves Khedira to RB and pushes both fullbacks forward, leaving Varane and Ramos two-on-one with RVP, creating a numbers up situation in midfield. Not sure what could've been done in that situation. No good choices, really.

Exactly, not a £#%&!ing lot is the layman's answer.

Originally Posted by Harri Jaffa

The only other choice was to take Wellbeck or VP off and replace them with someone in midfield (probably Kagawa) and give Real a free run at Evra rather than a free run through the middle.

Nah. Welbeck dropped into where Nani was, and you don't take van Persie off for Kagawa. Not when if they get a goal it's going to extra time and he's (potentially/on paper) our best player.