10 Mar 2018 16:50:53
That's why Jose wins trophies everywhere he goes and that's why krusty the clown in the Liverpool dugout doesn't. But more on that later.

First off, the build up over the last few days has made for very interesting reading/ viewing. I'm a fan of all the banter pages this great site has to offer but after the United site I spend a lot of time reading the Liverpool page. If you were to take their views as gospel, this game was going to be like Brazil 82 against Scunthorpe. Evil Emperor Jose and his band of Anti-Footballers were going to get struck down by the footballing gods that are Liverpool. This wasn't your normal rose tinted glasses bias. This was a new form that only Liverpool fans could get too. They convinced themselves that we were a championship level team. They convinced themselves that all they had to do was turn up. They created this false sense of security that any result other than a 4-0 for Liverpool would suffice.

And who could blame them when Sky sports were getting their narrative in early. Yesterday they interviewed Mike Phelan and spent the 4 minutes asking how United would cope with Mane, Firminho and Salah. They then interviewed Aldridge and asked him how good the attacking three at Liverpool were. Do you see the pattern?

The media darlings that are City, Spurs and Liverpool in my opinion get a free ride when anything goes wrong. We don't. And that's fine by me.

This was a fantastic performance.
If it wasn't for a freak OG and a few nerves at the end we would have cruised to the final whistle. This is were Jose earns his bread. Set up perfectly. The first 45 minutes we should have been out of sight but were really good value for the 2-0 at the break. Man to man we were better. McT and Matic were immense in the middle. Bailey was an absolute monster at the back. Lukaku was fantastic and Rashford for clinical. Maybe Sanchez was the only one not firing on all cylinders but he worked his socks off.

I said at the start that's why Jose wins trophies and Klopp doesn't. The ability to adapt to your opponent, to exploit weaknesses, to know when to attack and when to sit deep. That's the mark of a great manager and we have one in charge of our club. Sometimes we shouldn't worry about the opposition and play our own game, I do get that, but if we can add the ruthlessness up front then we'll go toe to toe with anyone.

Long story short, iv seen the debates about pragmatism vs style. Win ugly or lose in a blaze of glory. I don't think they're mutually exclusive. This was men against boys today, maturity vs naivety. I have no doubt Jose is the man to bring the good times home to Old Trafford.

1.) 10 Mar 2018
10 Mar 2018 17:00:15
Good post mumbles I enjoyed reading that pal.

2.) 10 Mar 2018
10 Mar 2018 17:16:43
Good post Mumbles. Enjoyed reading.

3.) 10 Mar 2018
10 Mar 2018 17:21:46
Confidence is one thing but the Liverpool fans on their page were incredibly arrogant, thinking they were going to smash us to pieces with their 'heavy metal football'. All they do is annihliate Jose and Utd for 'parking the bus', guess there's only way one way of playing football, the same fans probably praise Allegri and Juventus for their style of play!

4.) 10 Mar 2018
10 Mar 2018 18:00:21
Partners Dad is a liverpool fan, and I asked him if he would like to win the Champions League playing defensively or losing playing attacking entertaining football.

You know which he chose.

5.) 10 Mar 2018
10 Mar 2018 19:43:12
Dejan Lovren and everything was sticking the boot in before the match about how we play. The arrogance around the club made an awful footballer take the stage and grab the mic and say United "win ugly". Makes the win all that sweeter.

I love those performances were the opposition thinks they were hard done by but in fact were well beaten!

6.) 10 Mar 2018
10 Mar 2018 23:09:18
Mumbles you are spot on. Really good post agree with all of that.