Not had chance to read through thread, so if these points are mentioned earlier (which I am sure they are) my apologies.
We had 48 hours less to prepare than Chelsea, yet we make a major change to our system of play and 3 or 4 unforced changes in personnel, in a semi final...really Ole? I know there is the argument for 'freshening up', but how do you 'freshen' your best X1, only by replacing like with like, so, James, Fred and Bailly are as good as Martial, Pogba and Greenwood? This is not freshening up its weakening!
Leaving aside De Gea's two 'howlers' and Bailly's injury, even up to that point did anyone seriously think we looked liked winners?
Lampard was before the game warning his team about our fantastic front 3, yet we played only two up front to start with, one a kid who at the moment is woefully out of form!
When will Ole realize that AWB and Williams are excellent fullbacks but are not wing backs, they don't have the skills or foresight moving forward, don't read the game as wing backs need to do?
We looked disjointed when we took the field and although we can claim two very unusual mistakes by the keeper and a bad injury made us more disjointed, we never at any point after the kick-off looked like winning that game.
Chelsea were good, but they had no competition from us! (rant done!)
