chuksi wrote:
After the match it's funny - you were unhappy that Smalling started ahead of Jones. And Smalling was very good today. And you seemed to want Mkhitaryan off at half time :).
Be careful what you wish for :)
Fellaini MOTM for me.
Well, I think at least 99% of our fans wanted Jones to play and the same number thought that Miki didn't have a good game. And he didn't. He scored a nice goal with a good technical gesture, but apart from that didn't have one of his best games.
I agree about Fellaini, maybe the best tonight. If not the best, then the most important for our tactics. You can see how much he dominates a game against the continental opponents.
If the opponents were from EPL, he wouldn't be able to do the same, but his physicality was one of the differences between two teams tonight. Apart from physicality he also played a very smart, mature game. Compliments to him.
Darmian was also one of our best players, while Pogba and Herrera have done a very important work defensively, as they completely cancelled Klaassen and Schone.
Maybe even more than individual performances is what we did tonight as a collective. So many great players have put themselves in service of a collective and this was a fantastic team display.
Mourinho made a tactical masterclass and showed to the world that he still knows how to win trophies. Ajax just could not play tonight and we gave them almost nothing. This is great, considering how easily they are used to arrive to goal chances. They were completely dominated by this Mourinho's United. Now we can finally say that this season was successful, as maybe the main goal has been achieved - the qualification to CL, hence a ticket to a successful next season, to attracting best players, to financial resources.
The images from tonight's game are also very important to all the best players in the world, looking at Man Utd players lifting a trophy, as this is the best way for us to become more attractive. Everyone wants to lift trophies, so this is the best message from United.
The future looks better after tonight's game.