by Beefymcfc » Wed Mar 09, 2022 8:22 pm
nottsblue wrote:This from the BBC match report
The loss puts United in a desperate position in the battle for crucial fourth place and a spot in next season's Champions League after Arsenal's win at Watford strengthened their hold on that position. The Gunners are now fourth, a point ahead of United with three games in hand.
United, of course, are still in the Champions League but the notion that they have a chance of winning Europe's elite competition is the stuff of fantasy based on this grim evidence.
It was painful to watch United chasing shadows and outmanoeuvred at every turn by a City team they would like to regard as rivals.
United seem to be a club in limbo, with an interim manager in Rangnick and a squad of players who are not good enough and seem disaffected with life at the club.
Bruno Fernandes, such an inspiration when he first arrived, now spends more time arguing with officials and attempting to buy cheap fouls than acting as a creative force while the momentum and joy sparked by the return of Ronaldo has long since gone.
This was a dismal afternoon for United and they face an uphill fight to salvage their season.
It wasn’t that long ago something like this would never have been dared to be published. When the journalists who for so long had the rags six and who would always spin a poor performance are sticking the knife in, you know they are in trouble
Fucking hell, they didn’t even bother to use ‘Manchester’ as the club and internet searches insist on!
In the words of my Old Man, "Life will never be the same without Man City, so get it in while you can".
The Future's Bright, The Future's Blue!!!
