What team is far ahead in the table? Do you really think that City isn't far better than United? The pre-match thread here had everyone betting that City would smash United or that the most United could hope for was a 0-0 draw. And despite the loss, City didn't play badly, they were often very good in the first half, but Gabriel Jesus and Sterling are shitty finishers. United won with merits in good counter-attacks and City had and off-day and faded in the second half, specially after suffering the second goal.
The sad truth is that United is generally terrible when they need to be proactive, they always play far better when the opposition tries to steamroll them. Like the Brazil team trained by Dunga. United is very one-note and inconsistent, that's the big problem. And they are not UCL champion quality level yet.
Anyway, let's stop make this discussion all about City. Bayern is at least as good as City
Anyway, I'm not talking about prettiness of football. I fear that Haaland in United might suffer the same problem that CR7 suffers in Juventus. United's level of play isn't that much better than Juventus and United is inconsistent.
You guys are all focusing on United while I also criticized harshly Barcelona. Actually, United might even be a better destiny than Barcelona.
United can recover, but I'm not seeing that happening unless the board finally learns how to spend money wisely on good players for the right positions and if United doesn' find a coach better than Ole. United's not gonna be UCL winner level with Ole as coach, sorry.