Messaggioda GNAGHI » 08/12/2005 - 16:08
Manchester come detto fuori dalla champion's(e dalla Uefa):finito un ciclo,con i big(Giggs,Scholes,Ruud,Neville...) che non sono più quelli di una volta.
United che si può buttare nel campionato,unico obiettivo rimasto.
Non sarà facile avvicinare il Chelsea,a +10 e con una partita in più,ma il Manchester ci proverà .
Ora ci sono due gare interne(domenica l'Everton e settimana prox il recupero casalingo con il Wigan) per cercare di avvicinare la squadra di Mourihno.
Come conferma in un'intervista capitan Neville:
Neville: 'We Weren’t Good Enough This Year'
Gary Neville succinctly summed up United’s premature European exit with defeat to Benfica on Wednesday: consistently below-par performances in Group D cost the Reds their place in the knockout stages.
The devastating 2-1 defeat to Benfica at the Stadium of Light on Wednesday saw United finish bottom of the group and without even the consolation of a Uefa Cup place, which went to third-placed Lille.
But the problems stem back to a campaign that saw United score only three goals and collect five points at home.
"It's not just tonight, but right throughout the campaign we haven’t been good enough," Neville told Sky Sports. "It just hasn’t happened for us.
"That’s very much unlike us because we normally do well at home and score lots of goals in the group stages. Qualifying for the knockout stages has been par for the course for us down the years, but unfortunately we haven’t achieved it this year."
Reds boss Sir Alex Ferguson talked of a lack of composure, someone to slow the pace of the game and bring patience to United’s play. Neville clearly agrees.
"People will criticise us, and rightly so. Our performances haven't been up to the standards we have set ourselves."
Gary Neville
"It was a dream start in the first 15 minutes," he said. "We looked as if we were completely in control. But we didn’t react well after their first goal. After that we were all over the place at times.
"We lost our discipline a little bit. That’s disappointing because we’ve been doing very at keeping our shape in the last few weeks but… We got it back in the second half and played a lot better. By that point there was a difficult atmosphere to the game – their players were going down and wasting time. It’s difficult to get the goal you want because they’re doing everything possible to hang onto it."
After the first goal United needed to dictate the pace of the game, particularly from midfield. But, such was the desire to recover the lead, that a certain desperation sneaked into the team’s play.
However, United were not completely without experience. Alongside Neville, the Reds had Ryan Giggs, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Paul Scholes, Rio Ferdinand, Edwin van der Sar, Mikael Silvestre, all with vast European experience.
"There was experience out there," Neville said. "We just seemed to lose our way. I’m extremely disappointed."
"Now we have to stick together now and perform in the league. We've got an opportunity to close the gap on Chelsea."
Gary Neville
Neville anticipates a wave of criticism that he thinks will be deserved. But the Bury-born right-back says the team needs to pull together and transfer their focus to the Premiership and catching Chelsea.
"People will criticise us, and rightly so," he said. "Our performances haven’t been up to the standards we have set ourselves down the years.
"But from the team’s perspective we have to stick together now and perform in the league on Sunday against Everton. We’ve got a big league programme coming up and we have got to do well in those games.
"We have the opportunity in the next week with two league games [against Everton and Wigan] to close the gap on Chelsea. That is something we have been wanting to do for a long time.
"[My responsibilities] as captain and as a senior player stay the same," he added. "The senior players in the dressing room have to lift the other players.
"It was a bad result and there’s a lot of disappointment, but we have to train Friday and Saturday and then get ready for Everton on Sunday. We have a chance to put a show on for our fans at Old Trafford - that is what they deserve."
Viste le quote,sotto il 40%,al max per me lo United domenica è buono solo per una doppia,oppure sperare che non sblocchi subito il match e prenderlo in live.
, senza soffrire troppo 
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per la tua partita di Praga dove il maialino adottato 
.. peccato davvero 
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) di bf nn ti fanno comprendere.
