sh*te day at the office for us, might have nicked a draw, but overall we were pretty poor today.
Utd controlled things for almost all the first half. Only after Lallana's miss did we step it up a bit and get the crowd up, that must've been over 35mins in. 11 vs 11, they deserved to be 1 up at half time.
Then SG shoots himself and us in the foot, we're down to 10 and it's a mountain to climb. In fairness, they could've run in more goals but they seemed to slack off at 2 up, we came back into it a bit and Studge got his goal and there was some hope, though only a sliver.
They used the width of the pitch well and made it more difficult to close them down. But BR was right, we hardly put in a tackle, was delighted when SG crunched in fairly on Mata, but that only lasted seconds ... and he was gone, he had the hand up straight away, he knew he was gone. Really disappointing for him, squad and fans as I think with him on we'd have really have got the kitchen sink out heading into the kop end.
Ah well, what might have been. BIG loss for us, big win for them. 5 point gap, going to be hard to close but not impossible. Just means less room for error in remaining games. Straight red too so SG missing for a while now too
Some ratings:
Migs 7
Can 7
Skyrtel 7.5
Sahko 7.5
Moreno 5.5
Allen 6.5
Hendo 7
Sterling 6
Lallana 6
Coutinho 7.5
Studge 7
Balo 5.5
One to forget ... quickly ...
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