2005-06 vs Benfica, 2011-12 vs FC Basel and 2015-16 vs VfL Wolfsburg. These were the Champions League matches that Manchester United needed to get a positive result in to qualify for the knockout stages and failed to do so. Now added to this list of ignominious defeats and disappointing exits from Europe’s elite club competition, 2020-21 vs RB Leipzig. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axTUw9IOEKo Tough Group United was in the same group as the mega-rich, perennial champions of France, Paris Saint-Germain and a controversial but upcoming German club, RB Leipzig. Both teams were semi-finalists in last season’s Champions League with the French club finishing runners-up. It was a tough group to be part of but we started the campaign like a dream. We beat both PSG and Leipzig comfortably and with some style. We looked odds on favourites to qualify before our return fixtures against both these clubs. Where It Went Wrong? Where it all went wrong from a promising position was in an unfate...
The transfer window was closed on the 5th October 2020 in Europe. In one day, Manchester United made four signings after only making one signing previously and going through large periods of it without making any signing. First Signing Of The Summer The first signing we made I felt was uncharacteristically efficient and swift. We signed a quality, young player at a reasonable transfer fee, Donny Van De Beek. Van De Beek’s quality and versatility mean that we have now got cover for Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes and he can play with them too. The Ones That Missed The Boat Now for the biggest open-book secret of this transfer window, our interest in Jadon Sancho. Only at United would the main transfer target be common knowledge and this interest would drag on to the end. A club would slap a transfer fee on a player, the club that wants to sign the player has every right to negotiate to get a favourable deal. If the selling club is not budging, you are faced with two options, ...
Inter didn't start the season well. I noticed something was not right from the pre-season results but didn't read too much into it because it's pre-season after all. We got off to a flying start in our first match and I thought, we are on track after all but we made it hard for ourselves. Things were only to get harder. We looked off the pace, short on fitness and it looked like the doubts in the summer surrounding Milan Skriniar's future at the club had an effect on him and his team-mates. The players seemed easily irritable and they weren't focused. We lost a lot of ground in the title race early on losing head-to-head deservingly against Lazio and Milan, less so against Roma. In between, we lost deservingly to Udinese as well. Our form picked up after losing to Roma with 4 wins on the trot before another head-to-head defeat away to Juventus but that was a punctuation of a run of 6 wins in 7 matches before the World Cup break. After the break, we started well inf...
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