Wow, how disappointing! 
I'm torn. On one hand, to lose to a team that played so well, theres no shame in that.
But on the other, I can't help but feel we could have done so much better.
Of course, hindsight is a wonderful thing. But really, for me, I think the system we used did not work with the players we had available.
By that I mean, it's one thing to play a 3 man midfield with a Fletcher/Hargreves in there.
But relying on Giggs to help counter maybe the best two midfielders in the world?
It was never going to work.
But having decided to go with this, we needed Carrick and Anderson to do a lot of the work. They didn't. For Anderson, he's young and has time.
For Carrick..well, he's always been on the cusp of being a great player. And thats because he has too many games like he did today.
Of course, he was against the best but still - he's better than what he showed.
I also don't understand going into the Final happy to take Rooney as an attacking outlet out of the game.
Which was always likely putting him as what, left fall back?
It's a waste of our best player and a £30Million pound forward.
If Evra can't defend - we need a new left back. Enough of having Rooney there.
And if the game proved nothing else, it's that a left sided winger must be our goal this summer.
Park doesn't cut it.
Other than those complaints, it looked to me like Vidic wasn't 100% and I really want to know how we ended up paying £30Million on Berba for him to start on the bench and our winger starts up front.
Ronaldo did ok (best of a bad bunch) but a lone striker of either Rooney, Tevez or Berba would have been far better at bringing others into the game and helping keep possesion.
My other major disappointment was that with the game so one sided, we had to be bold with making changes.
Instead we kept the system the same and replaced like for like.
But still, Barca passed the ball around amazingly well and I don't begrudge them their win.
I just wished we had done ourselves justice.
Tbh, it seems every tactic we used, every player we used, was all about stopping Barca.
SAF needed to show a bit of faith in his own players.
/rant
I'm torn. On one hand, to lose to a team that played so well, theres no shame in that.
But on the other, I can't help but feel we could have done so much better.
Of course, hindsight is a wonderful thing. But really, for me, I think the system we used did not work with the players we had available.
By that I mean, it's one thing to play a 3 man midfield with a Fletcher/Hargreves in there.
But relying on Giggs to help counter maybe the best two midfielders in the world?
It was never going to work.
But having decided to go with this, we needed Carrick and Anderson to do a lot of the work. They didn't. For Anderson, he's young and has time.
For Carrick..well, he's always been on the cusp of being a great player. And thats because he has too many games like he did today.
Of course, he was against the best but still - he's better than what he showed.
I also don't understand going into the Final happy to take Rooney as an attacking outlet out of the game.
Which was always likely putting him as what, left fall back?
It's a waste of our best player and a £30Million pound forward.
If Evra can't defend - we need a new left back. Enough of having Rooney there.
And if the game proved nothing else, it's that a left sided winger must be our goal this summer.
Park doesn't cut it.
Other than those complaints, it looked to me like Vidic wasn't 100% and I really want to know how we ended up paying £30Million on Berba for him to start on the bench and our winger starts up front.
Ronaldo did ok (best of a bad bunch) but a lone striker of either Rooney, Tevez or Berba would have been far better at bringing others into the game and helping keep possesion.
My other major disappointment was that with the game so one sided, we had to be bold with making changes.
Instead we kept the system the same and replaced like for like.
But still, Barca passed the ball around amazingly well and I don't begrudge them their win.
I just wished we had done ourselves justice.
Tbh, it seems every tactic we used, every player we used, was all about stopping Barca.
SAF needed to show a bit of faith in his own players.
/rant
...and unlike Ronaldo who should have scored a goal...Messi did score
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...its clear to see that Man Utd just got totally outplayed...make all the excuses you want but come on its a final...at least show up and make an effort..and im not talking about turning up for 10 mins then deciding ahhh cant be bothered because from where i was sitting...it definitely looked like Man utd thought they would walk this final and looking at their squad and bench, they should have in all honesty.
Nevermind; You can't win them all Man U 
