Manchester United (0) v (0) Internazionale Milano UCL - 11/3/09 - 7.45pm MATCH THREAD

Des

Des wrote: »

Park is an awesome player.

Honest as the day is long, and he's great to have there, relieving the pressure.

He's one of my favourite players in the world at the minute

Hes like a Dirk Kuyt without the goals

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Photi wrote: »

Typical of the modern day footballer..self sacrifice

does not compute

juvenal

Full-time: 2-0 (2-0)

Chong

Bye Bye Mourinho
Bye Bye Mourinho

Bye Bye Mourinho
Bye Bye Mourinho


COME ON UNITED

LuckyLloyd

Strange game. Inter will be wondering how they didn't score and rueing a missed opportunity overall.

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LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Inter will be wondering how they didn't score

One word : Ibrahimovic'sshíte

juvenal

Extra time in Stadio Olimpico for the junkies out there.

Aquos76

Aquos76 wrote: »

United break the duct of the current champions going out at the last 16 stage

Bring on liverpool....

They will be bricking it after that show

Aquos76

rarnes1 wrote: »

They will be bricking it after that show

I guess we will have to wait and see;)

Xavi6

United win blah, blah, blah but I just can't get over Pighead being one of them.

"YOU'RE DEAD TO ME MAN!!!"

Insect Overlord

Underwhelming final whistle...

pierrot

Again with the Tiger Woods' and the Ruby Walshes...:rolleyes:

D/C

Bugger, just lost out on the money back special with paddypower for first goal scorer!

Ronaldo's goal was the last of all the champions league games, until the last minute of the barca game!

Quint

What's the story with Giles and Dunphy? Every fecken team in the world is sh!te according to them!

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Quint wrote: »

What's the story with Giles and Dunphy? Every fecken team in the world is sh!te according to them!

stirring controversey.

it beats Sky and Co claiming every team is the best ever tbh.

D/C

Hope we get Porto in the next round! Get revenge on the team, after we got revenge on there ex manager!

pierrot

it incites debate. i often find myself shouting at them on the telly, but its better than some puppets saying everything is top, top

JerryHandbag

Strange game. Good result, best team won over 2 legs.
If tonight was a blip, and it turned out to be a 2-0 win over the Italian League leaders, I'll take it

Daysha

D/C wrote: »

Hope we get Porto in the next round! Get revenge on the team, after we got revenge on there ex manager!

Nah, give us Liverpool!

Tusky

Fair play to United. Wasnt the most impressive performance in the world but they got their goals and defended well.

Disappointed (but not surprised) with the RTE coverage again. Not a word about United being in the last eight of Europe, not a word about them not conceding against Inter Milan over two legs...straight into the negative talk, and what the hell does Tiger Woods have to do with Manchester United v Inter Milan ?

Dunphy "Ronaldo contributed nothing"

Bill "He scored a goal Eamonn.."

IvySlayer

I don't want Man Utd facing an English team in the Champions League. Hopefully Chelsea will draw Liverpool

When's the draw btw?

RasTa

Well that was easy, if Inter had of scored it would of being the kick up the arse the playeres needed.

redout

I would love us to get Porto or Villarreal for obvious reasons but want to avoid Bayern as they look like the form team as regards the champions league and no matter what people say they have a very strong team.

Spud83

I want all 4 English clubs in the semis. Just to piss off UEFA and platini

Quint

Tusky wrote: »

Dunphy "Ronaldo contributed nothing"

Bill "He scored a goal Eamonn.."

Classic! I missed that, switched over to the Arsenal game. Would have loved to see dunphys reaction!

ROCKMAN

IvySlayer wrote: »

I don't want Man Utd facing an English team in the Champions League. Hopefully Chelsea will draw Liverpool

When's the draw btw?

Think its on Friday week the 20th

Vampireskiss

The draw is march 20th

Raskolnikov

the Greatest Player in the World bottles it once again.

Never scoring in the group stages of the Champions League in seven attempts? :pac:

This match showed just how useless Inter Milan are. United were garbage but they still won 2-0.

Raskolnikov

Raskolnikov wrote: »

Once again, the Greatest Player in the World bottles it once again.

Never scoring in the group stages of the Champions League in seven attempts? :pac:

This match showed just how useless Inter Milan are. United were garbage but they still won 2-0.

Daysha

Raskolnikov wrote: »

the Greatest Player in the World bottles it once again.

I think you're overrating Ibrahimovic a bit there.

jaykay74

Any mention on RTE that Scholes had a nightmare ?

redout

Daysha wrote: »

I think you're overrating Ibrahimovic a bit there.

No that would be "the special one".

PHB

Good result, dodgyish performance but we did enough. Ibra shoulda scored, Ronaldo did score, basically the difference in the game.

Decent attacking performance with Rooney doing well (got the assist, set up O'Shea and had that rocket shot to eventuallly set up Berbatov)

Was disappointed with Berbatov and I thought O'Shea could have easily have had 2-3 yellows, easily.

Nonetheless, we got the hardest team we possibly could have got, and we got past them. I'm hoping for anyone but an English club and Barca.
Bayern, Villarael or Porto please.

hallelujah

R. Whelan "Utd rode their luck"

Dunphy "I rode your sister.."

Bill :eek:

Quint

According to the boys on the panel, unless you win every game by aboyt 3 goals, you're sh!te.
I do agree, it's better than sky sports rubbish

Insect Overlord

hallelujah wrote: »

R. Whelan "Utd rode their luck"

Dunphy "I rode your sister.."

Bill :eek:

Seriously?! :eek:

jaykay74

PHB wrote: »

I'm hoping for anyone but an English club and Barca.
Bayern, Villarael or Porto please.

or Roma...

redout

jaykay74 wrote: »

or Roma...

eh, there still playing !

jaykay74

redout wrote: »

eh, there still playing !

If Arsenal get though don't want them but wouldn't mind Roma...

Daysha

I wouldn't like Villarreal tbh. We've a dodgy record against them in recent years. Porto would be the easiest game, followed by Roma, but I would so dearly like to get Liverpool.

Anyone but Chelsea though.

redout

mistake. wrong thread.

A7X

Delighted with that game. Was gonna put a bet on Vidic to score first! ARGH Park scoring would have made it more bareable.

We certainly didn't play the best. Our left hand side was so open there was always a free man there, Evra looked in trouble more than once. Giggs continously coming inside me thinks. We just really didn't close down enough and we need to do that on saturday if Liverpool play anything like they did yesterday. =/

Glad we won. Hope we don't get an english team.

Tom65

Everyone keeps talking about how badly we played. Maybe it was because I didn't have the best view (in the pub), but I thought we played at least as well as Inter. I agree Berba and O'Shea played really badly. That said, I think we needed Berba on tonight; Tevez wouldn't have suited this game.
It's been a bit of a hallmark this season, not playing to our best but grinding out results. I'm delighted we've done it again.

Side note: in Sweden, Ibrahimovic is huge. Newspapers have a few pages on sport and then the Ibra section. There's a lot of billboards. So there was big Ibramhimovic contigent in the pub tonight and they were really yuppie types. I was sitting right in the middle of all of them. It was brilliant just watching him fail again and again. I have never seen faces sink so much. They weren't even supporting Inter, they were just supporting him, so it was the same as Inter losing by 4 or 5 goals. Brilliant

RichTea

Ryan Giggs was bloody marvellous at Old Trafford tonight. Having just watched the match, he was almost Maradonna-like with the ball at his feet. Just a pure dribbling masterclass from the man.

Dave!

Xavi6 wrote: »

United win blah, blah, blah but I just can't get over Pighead being one of them.

"YOU'RE DEAD TO ME MAN!!!"

"One of us, one of us, one of us, one of us!"

I agree with ^, I thought Giggs was very good today, his dribbling was fantastic! Made a couple of bad decisions, but overall one of our better players.

Very bogey start to the match (after the goal of course), but still a win !

Also had Vida first goalscorer! €1 @ 22/1 :cool: Also had Rio, Johno and Carrick

SlickRic

decent game, and congratulations utd on a very professional performance.

haven't read the thread, but imo utd were made feel a little uncomfortable. its was a resilient performance from inter for the bulk of 70mins. it was never a 2-0 game.

utd did what they do best though; be solid, and then clinical when they need to be. there were times when i thought they were playing very much within themselves, but at other times i wasn't so sure.

motm imo was probably giggs, he looked like he was 25 again at times. but it was such a 'team' performance that it was hard to pick anyone out really.

scholes' passing at times was out of this world.
vidic again was a rock, while ferdinand didn't really look himself.

ibra deserves a bit of a mention i feel, as he was awesome at times in the 1st half. the way he handled utd's defence on his own and kept the ball when it would simply be thumped up to him with barely any support was impressive to watch. he, and most of the inter team, gave up a bit by 70mins though.

inter were very competitive and deserved a goal, especially for how they played for 20mins or so at the end of the 1st half.

however utd were worthy winners on balance, and probably could have gone up a gear if needed. but if ibra scores that header, or adriano scores that volley, or both, you just don't know. there are always ties and moments along the way where you need the rub of the green i suppose.

can't wait for the draw. hope you get barca or chelsea :pac:

Dave!

SlickRic wrote: »

can't wait for the draw. hope you get barca or chelsea :pac:

Piece of p*ss, sure we beat them last year :cool:

Headshot

that WCC badge is in a horrible position right above the AIG

but suppose thats the price of being world club champions :pac:

redout

SlickRic wrote: »

scholes' passing at times was out of this world.

Are you sure that you were watching the United game ? Scholes had a stinker, worst performance I have seen by him in a very long time. His passing was horrendous at times and if anyone watched on Sky and not RTE they would heard Martin Tyler commenting on it. Look back over the thread and see people were calling for him to be taken off during the game and how bad he looked.

SlickRic

redout wrote: »

Are you sure that you were watching the United game ? Scholes had a stinker, worst performance I have seen by him in a very long time. His passing was horrendous at times and if anyone watched on Sky and not RTE they would heard Martin Tyler commenting on it. Look back over the thread and see people were calling for him to be taken off during the game and how bad he looked.

fair enough.

maybe i was blinded by his 50-yard cross field passing at the start of the game. maybe he does that all the time and i should just accept it. i still find that kind of play impressive. ah sure.

i didn't notice him making many mistakes, but hey, we all miss things during games.

didn't think he had a stinker either way though. just not his best. but then again only giggs really reached a particularly high level i thought.

wait, i remember one dodgy pass on the halfway line leading to an inter breakaway attack :pac: