Smal

We really needed to win by a couple of goals tonight so we could comfortably send a weakened team over there to hopefully hold on. Unfortunately we've had that opportunity taken away from us and we need to send a full strength team over there if we want to win the tie.

In fairness he actually looked a bit quicker today and went past people with pace on a couple of occasions. Absolutely shit when it came to putting a cross in though, as per.

Seems like they might've had some money on the 0-0 tonight, like.

Haven't been able to watch a minute of the match yet due to the 0.5 meg speeds here in Ulleskelf being even slower than usual

Entirely believable as Pardew's rationale. We're at home looking to press our advantage, let's prioritise the defensive qualities of an attacking role The most bizarre thing isn't that he prioritises defence over attack, it's more that he thinks Obertan tracks back well.

You would play Anita where?

Pray4Marveaux&Anita

Giggs rolling back the years #BPL #Banterzone #MartinTyler

Swear I've never seen Xabi Alonso have a bad game. Granted I don't watch Madrid very often mind, but still. Reckon Beckham could've been like him for England had he stayed over here.

SSN have put this on their yellow ticker now

He's certainly not done himself any favours there, aye.

I don't think they have the players to be anything other than methodical and boring.

Man Utd playing at home and using strict man marking in midfield. How uninspiring.

What a load of bollocks.

Well put it this way, I haven't seen him play well for us once out wide. I've seen him play well plenty of times when in the centre.

Yesterday did help to prove the point that he shouldn't play wide, mind.

Eh? I think the fact he was still playing well whilst we were losing says how good a player he is rather than anything else.

Piqué the centre forward

Second unreal pass from Iniesta leads to a Messi goal, 2-0.

Taylor's fairly quick compared to a lot of the centre halves playing in the league. Right now he's playing a lot better than Coloccini, so if you were going to drop one it's a no brainer, no?

His build up play isn't anything like Darren Bent's, man. Darren Bent doesn't do any build up play whatsoever, he just spends the entire game hiding behind the opposition centre halves.

He is not similar to Darren Bent.

I'd hardly say Perch cowers. He's limited but he's brave. He didn't jump in the wall today, but it was nothing to do with cowering.

I think he's a bit knackered. It may seem bizarre for a professional athlete to be tired after half a season, but he looked it in his last couple of appearances.

The second wasn't Taylor's fault really. You can't expect him to expect Coloccini to make such a bad error.