And it will be justified for tomorrow as well. Since the Carling Cup win, we have been plain bad in majority of the games. Losing 2-0 to Newcastle, drawing with Southampton, letting Sevilla draw the game when we should have killed it. Not show up in Spain for the second leg, and now we are back with the defense which was extremely bad last season, playing against a team in form who has a good team etiquette, good passing, wingers who take on players which means players like Dalot & Shaw (if he bothers to show up with the right mentality) will be having a tough time, playing either Woug or Martial both of whom have been very very underwhelming and United are right now practically limping to the finish line after all the talk of a title race back in JAN.
Anyone and every one has a right to be pessimistic based on the above. If by any luck, we win tomorrow, City will be there waiting. Even though we did win at OT, they have had the better of the exchanges and based on the big score lines we have had with City, Brentford, Liverpool, Sevilla this season and last, we do not seem to have the right mentality to play these big games against the big teams when something is on the line.