Manchester United 2 Liverpool 1: match report (Jim White, 11 Feb 2012, The Telegraph)
Liverpool, with Spearing and Gerrard shielding their defence, played deep and conservative. For some reason eschewing the muscular approach that had unsettled United's keeper at Anfield a fortnight before, they played with Suarez on his own up front.
A swift break from the South American, terminated by Ferdinand's lunging challenge, was the sum of their attacking enterprise.
But then United, despite the occasional flourish from Rooney, Valencia and the excellent Welbeck, offered little more. This was a half featuring more square balls than a convention of Lego men.</blockquote>
Let's suppose for a moment that you can justify giving Stuart Downing a go...after twenty minutes you had to take him off because he wasn't helping Enrique cover Valencia, Man U's only dangerous player. Then when he got a yellow card you had your excuse. And there was no way you could bring him out for the 2nd half.
Meanwhile, if you're playing defensively you have to cover your bets on corners, so your best header of the ball has to be in the game. Carroll wasn't.
And, if you're playing for the0-0 tie, you don't even have Johnson and Enrique in the game. They're for going forward.
Terrible coaching job, again, today.
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