EL D Europa League Play-off 1st Leg

Barcelona 2:2 Manchester United

Post-match discussion


Thu, 16 February 2023

Really fun game, but they threatened far too much for my nerves. When they were trying to get back into the game at 2-2 we should have got Garnacho on to hit them on the break with Rashford. As it was, Rashford kept getting so far and then stopping because there were no other players making any runs or doing anything around the box to pass to.
 
Sensational game of football, both teams really went for it, either team could have won that and the 2-2 feels like a fair result. Rashford was simply too good for Barca tonight but great displays from Varane, Casemiro and Fred as well (bar the first goal).

Looking forward to the return leg!
 
Really enjoyable football. Bit unlucky and sloppy at times but really proud of the boys
 
Honestly it's kind of crazy to see us put in this performance, on that ground. Shame we didn't win it, we were far the better side today.
 
Great game of football. I feel a bit robbed of a win. We’ve come a long way.
 
It also didn't help that referee thought it was okay to hack down Rashford when he was through on goal. Shame. With the form he is in, pretty sure that is a goal.
The whole team knew it after that and that's why ETH and the team protested profusely. It's not a pen but 100 % a foul. At least a yellow. And Kounde stopped our counter by the end of the first half and no shit given. He should have got a yellow for that too.

After we scored the second goal the fecker blatantly favoured them. Anytime a Barca player fell foul given. feck them. It's almost match fixing not to the level of them against PSG couple years ago though.
 
Brilliant performance by the team. ETH is cooking!!!
Before the game I would’ve taken a draw but the way we played I’m gutted we didn’t come away with a victory. Barca got helped by referee, Kounde should’ve been off and there should’ve been more cards for them. But really looking for a better performance and result at home with Lisandro and Sabitzer coming in. Would love to see Sabitzer Case and Fred starting in midfield with Fred as no.10 and Bruno on the wings with Sancho and Rashford up top
 
De Gea is becoming a bigger concern than I initially had expected. He no longer protrudes confidence.
 
superb game to watch as a neutral. and also as a fan i am happy that we could compete with a strong barca. in the end we were a bit naive and should have scored the 3rd and kill the game
 
The whole team knew it after that and that's why ETH and the team protested profusely. It's not a pen but 100 % a foul. At least a yellow. And Kounde stopped our counter by the end of the first half and no shit given. He should have got a yellow for that too.

After we scored the second goal the fecker blatantly favoured them. Anytime a Barca player fell foul given. feck them. It's almost match fixing not to the level of them against PSG couple years ago though.

It should have been a red for Kounde.
 
Good game that we should've won. Can't wait for next week. What a difference a good manager makes.
 
Good result on the paper, have no idea performance wise watched totale maybe 11 minutes,watching experience zero, reported 57 differente streams non of them worked properly
DAZN was a disaster!
 
We could do with a stronger ref in the sec leg, barca will come with all the shithousery tactics to get free kicks and cards. Ref today was very weak.
 
Barcelona sighing with relief: thank Gawd we donated those millions to the referee guild.
 
The game today reminded me why I hate Barcelona more than Madrid nowadays and that is some achievement
 
De Gea is becoming a bigger concern than I initially had expected. He no longer protrudes confidence.

He’s been a concern for a long time. So poor on crosses and corners. Has great reactive saves but on the basics I think we can get a much better keeper and I’ve been saying that for a while now.
 
Rashford as a free roaming CF might be the way forward this season! I know not every team will play a high line against us, but lot's of teams press high these days, so could definitely work
 
Remember the last time we went to Barca and were so poor? That was our best performance in Europe for years
 
Good second half. De Gea, Shaw, Rashord, Bruno good. Weghorst had a decent game too. Casemiro looked a little rusty perhaps, though by no means a bad game. And Fred - so many positives, so many negatives. Sancho though looked like a ghost - really no impact at all.
 
great resilence in this team, go 1 down, we could have crumbled, but in the end probably slightly disappointed we didn't win.
 
Really good game
Barca played were in control for the 1st 10mins and after that it was all United
We would have a few players back next week as well
No negatives for me..
 
Take away the score, wow we were absolutely top class throughout the majority of that. Barcelona actuallt feared us, and it's been a long time since we installed that against a top team.
 
Good performance , happy enough with the draw even though I would have loved us to beat them there. Looking forward to the 2nd leg, there will be goals I believe.
 
Great game of football, disappointed not to win, but injuries permitting, very confident about beating them in the second leg. Really should have put it to bed tonight.

We’re really really on the up.
 
Outstanding performance. I actually feel disappointed not to have won that game as we were the better side with the best chances. We were also playing against
a weak referee clearly influenced by the Nou Camp crowd. We have nothing to fear next week and hopefully we get an equally weak referee to a home crowd.
 
Barcelona sighing with relief: thank Gawd we donated those millions to the referee guild.

I'm pretty sure Barca fans will be feeling hard done by. The refereeing didn't generally really go their way. Still don't understand how they didn't get a pen on that hands by Fred.
 
Feels like a loss but it could have went either way. We'll do them at OT
 
Some nervy moments at the end there - when Case smashed it off our own post I was less than thrilled.

To go and put 2 past them when they conceded 7 all season is huge especially with a lot of our lads out.

the fact they don’t have Pedri or Gavi next week at Old Trafford and we’ll have Licha and Sabitzer back makes me confident we are going through to the next round.
 
God damn it. If you told me a few months ago that getting a draw at the Nou Camp would almost be disappointing I would have called you mad.

Also no away goals and we score twice v Barca. Typical.
 

Man of the Match

Marcus Rashford image Marcus Rashford 72% of 300 votes

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Player Ratings

6.6 Total Average Rating

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Score Predictions

55,94,84
  • Man Utd win
  • Barcelona win
  • Draw

Detailed Results

  • 27% Barcelona 1:1 Man Utd
  • 16% Barcelona 2:1 Man Utd
  • 12% Barcelona 1:2 Man Utd
  • 12% Barcelona 2:0 Man Utd
  • 6% Barcelona 0:1 Man Utd
  • 5% Barcelona 1:0 Man Utd
  • 4% Barcelona 0:0 Man Utd
  • 4% Barcelona 2:2 Man Utd
  • 4% Barcelona 3:1 Man Utd
  • 3% Barcelona 3:0 Man Utd
  • 3% Barcelona 0:2 Man Utd
  • 1% Barcelona 1:3 Man Utd
  • 1% Barcelona 0:3 Man Utd
  • 0% Barcelona 4:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Barcelona 1:4 Man Utd
  • 0% Barcelona 5:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Barcelona 0:9 Man Utd
  • 0% Barcelona 5:1 Man Utd
  • 0% Barcelona 9:1 Man Utd
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Match Stats

  1. Barcelona
  2. Man Utd
Possession
61% 39%
Shots
18 18
Shots on Target
8 5
Corners
8 5
Fouls
10 12

Referee

Maurizio Mariani