I feel sick.
That was a horrifying performance for so many reasons. Smith's injury looks awful, looked like his ankle bent under him and looked like a break
He showed real class and guts imo for not rolling about and crying like a little girl.
When it comes down to it, we lost today because of our horrible coaching staff. Why have we decided to go back to 4-5-1 in arguably our biggest match of the season so far?
Park and Ronaldo have been hugely successful as a wing pair in the last few games and to suddenly change that and stick Rooney wide was a horrifically poor choice.
Once again Fergie showed a complete lack of sense and balls with his substitutions. Park should have come on in the second half as it was blatently our MF that needed some injection of pace and desire. Saha looked lost again, faffing around and holding play up when a simple pass would have cut Liverpool open. One chance in particular where it was 2 on 3 and Saha tried to go past the defender when he could have slid Roo through the middle.
I hate to say it, but Smith didn't need to be injured at all. What is the rationale of bringing Smith on for Fletcher in the 80th minute when he's being played as a DMF?!??! What attacking options does that give us? Park on for Giggs was the better option imo, but then when we're trying to play with 3 CFs it limits the options a fair bit.
As for the BBC coverage it is horrific. Their replays are nonexistant, the camera work is absolutely **** and the commentary was dire. If this is how they plan to cover the World Cup then it's going to be a real let down. 'Reina didn't have a save to make in the first half' - so did Ronaldo's shot in the 10th minute just hit a bad air current?
Also, I was absolutely sickened by the timewasting from the Liverpool crowd, particularly that one **** who threw the ball away from G.Nev. and the other guy who threw the burger.