It’s not just the lost as a result, is the way we played. The only games we deserved more was in the Arsenal and Wolves games, but we also deserved less against Watford and West Ham.
Winning the europa league, and just the fact that you mentioned it, proves how low we’ve fallen. Thats a second tier competition, we shouldn’t be happy to win it when we shouldnt be in it in the first place.
Regarding the thing that Ole will give youngsters a chance, we have absolutely no proff of this. He has showed very little faith in them, giving them minutes only when he was forced to because of suspension and injuries. He is all talk about giving youngsters a chance, with the current form of the team it wasn’t hard to make a case to play some youngsters. But instead he keept playing the same failing players time and time again.
Well you have to accept that is how far we have fallen. We have a range of issues which will preclude us from getting to the top until major changes are made, but those major changes and their impact won't be felt overnight. You have expectations from this squad and club that simply aren't realistic. Do you support Utd cos they were winning everything in sight, or did you support them out of a real love or affinity with the club? Because the latter would make you more understanding of the predicament that Ole is in, and you would recalibrate your expectations accordingly. Teams in transition, especially teams that have a mess of a structure like we have, are not and will not be expected to challenge overnight. The amount of deadwood we have is not going to be shipped out en masse. It'll be done gradually and over a span of 2-3 seasons. With Smalling and Jones probably being the last to be moved on, simply because of their age and nationality.
Not giving youngsters a chance is Jose saying most of these kids won't be with me when the World Cup players return. Not giving kids a chance is also what Jose did when we were 1-0 down at home to Juve and not even putting Chong on the pitch even though our attack had no one else. Ole has instead given debuts to Greenwood, Garner and Chong and meaningful minutes to three of them. He also put two of them on the pitch when we were chasing a win v PSG. He could easily have gone the experienced route and put on Rojo and Dalot and just shuffled the formation, which is exactly what Jose would have done in that same position.
He's playing the regular ones who are always playing because the alternatives haven't performed when given the opportunity. Dalot has been inconsistent to say the least, while as bad as Young is, he at least has a quantifiable level at which he normally plays. Lindelof has probably been our POTY, and Smalling is probably his best partner in terms of consistency of performance. Bailly maybe could feel aggrieved at a lack of a chance, but I'm sure he only recently returned from injury only to re-injure himself in his first game back. Herrera and Matic have been injured at numerous points in the last 2 months. Fred has had some encouraging performances interlaced with some poor ones and is still settling in, and Pereira hasn't done enough when given the chance. McTominay is probably the only one you could say hasn't played as much as he'd have liked (but even then it was only one game where you could say that this was the case, which was West Ham - a game we won). While in attack - Lukaku, Lingard, and Martial have been all been various shades of poor and shocking in almost every game that they've played during this run, and Greenwood has often been injured just as he was about to get his chance.
So in this instance, who do you recommend he plays instead of the "same old" players who get their chance? Especially since up until 3:50pm today there was still a chance of us getting Top 4 and we had something to play for? Fergie certainly didn't throw in the likes of Beckham, Scholes, Butt, Giggs, Neville etc in these do-or-die situations. He blooded them in winning and settled teams and in situations where the result wasn't of paramount importance: the League Cup, meaningless European ties because we didn't qualify for the next round, 15 mins here, 30 mins there in PL games that were settled etc. It was after 3 years or so of gradually building up their first team experience in these games that he finally gave them their shot from the start and built the team around them. He almost NEVER threw them on in massively important games, outside of a couple of isolated instances where injuries hit the squad - Macheda v Villa, for example, which coincidentally, is exactly what Ole did vs PSG.
Seriously, how old are you? Any fan worth his/her salt would know this.