It’s taken longer than I’m used to these days, I think I’m over it now.
I was furious last night. I couldn’t believe we’d regressed to a Bournemouth performance in 2016 inside the space of 20 mins - like that Bournemouth game, the mancs didn’t win the game yesterday, we lost it.
Still, take the positives.
Like Anfield for them, Old Trafford for us will always be the toughest away game all season. The atmosphere was loud at kick off. Given it’s the first appearance playing for us there for Keheller, Nunez, Mac Allister, Endo, Szoboszlai, Quansah and then Gakpo, Bradley, Clarke and maybe a couple more I’ve missed, apart from the first 20-ish mins, we were the better side.
Given how quickly we’ve matured this season, it is easy to forget what a young / inexperienced side we had out yesterday. It wasn’t the 0-5 where we had a number of heavily experienced players who had played there before and knew the hostilities to expect. For the most part, we gave a very good account of ourselves. At times in the 2nd half, you could tell we were a cut above them, it was almost too easy.
I know they have some dangerous players, we’re simply a far, far, far better football side. Unfortunately shit like yesterday can happen to the best of sides.
We need to make sure yesterday was an important learning curve and make sure it doesn’t happen again. There is no reason why we shouldn’t, we’ve overcome every other challenge that has been put in front of us this season. We know the hostilities to expect in the league games at Old Trafford and Woodison. If we apply ourselves like we did from the 30th to 85th minutes yesterday, we’ll win both games.