Manchester United’s failure to score an away goal against bitter rivals Liverpool has left them with a handful to do in the second leg next week, defender Chris Smalling said after Thursday’s 2-0 last-16 Europa League defeat at Anfield.
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Former United midfielder Scholes, working as a TV pundit, was not in the mood for Van Gaal’s excuses and said: “United were a shambles”. We need to play with.
The paper claims that ‘United have managed one or zero shots on target in no fewer than eight of their past 30 Barclays Premier League matches and in six of the past 21. They should be competing with Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.
The evening has been marred by accusations of offensive chants being referring to stadium disasters at Hillsborough and Heysel in the 1980s heard from Manchester United’s travelling supporters, Omnisport have confirmed. “They had one for 20 years which worked”.
“Van Gaal didn’t have a clue how big the match was either”.
And Jordan Henderson appeared to be offside in the build-up to Roberto Firmino’s second for the Reds.
“We’ve got a whole week to focus on the game. Henderson was in an offside position (for the second goal) and when you are so sharp you can see the foul has been made by Memphis in the area (for the penalty) you have to see also when it is offside”.
Yet freedom and instinct have been restricted for most players and some have been frozen out like Victor Valdes or Robin van Persie last season. It is a nasty call. The referee can not [award the penalty] because I think that [Depay] holds [Clyne] outside the box and then he is falling down.
“Liverpool deserved the goals but how their goals are existing was cheap”.
Some positive news, though – Marouane Fellaini may be banned for throwing hands at Emre Can towards the end of the game last night.
“Still we have the chance to win something and you have to believe in that”.
“As a human being I could really celebrate and say it is the best and greatest ever but I don’t want to set a limit for them, I don’t know how strong they can be”.
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“The atmosphere tonight was unbelievable”, he said. And I don’t want to hide behind the injuries or something like that. Old feelings of European nights were all that I felt while watching the demolition of the 21st century BPL megatron.
