Manchester City 1-0 Manchester United

I couldn't put it any better than the bloke stood next to me when he said with five minutes to go, this is my worst nightmare come true. I really fancied us for this game but i suppose i should have remembered how much Tuesday night would take out of us. Saying that we had that chances during that first 45 minutes and if one of those had gone in and they would have had to chase the game and it could have been all so different.
I have tried to not read too much in the press and from what little i have seen mainly from journalists on Twitter it's going to stay that way. To say that City totally outplayed us is total bollocks, we were the better team in the first half and they were the better team in the second half. They took their one gold plated chance, put on a plate for them by us, and we didn't. Once they took the lead i feared the worst. And as for the praise being heaped on their fans, i never heard a peep from them during that first half whilst we were bossing the game. United fans were singing where i was in the cheap seats in the top tier behind the goals but i could see there wasn't much singing anywhere else. I'm not pretending out fans were great, just that they weren't either.
The way we started everything seemed to be going to plan as we dominated the game totally and looked dangerous. I thought the we could live to rue the first Berbatov miss but after the second i wondered whether this was going to be one of those days. You have got wonder whether it was ever meant to be for Berbatov at United, he just doesn't seem to deliver the goods when it matters at the end of the season. You just can't miss two chances of that magnitude in the big games where you know that it's going to be tight.
And as it it turned out we couldn't afford to miss them, because when we conspired to present Toure with their great chance he didn't fail to put away. At that point all the talk of this squad being good enough to replicate the 99 squad's treble were shown up for the wishful thinking it was.
Let's be realistic at the beginning of the season how many of us thought we had much chance of a 19th title or even get to the semi finals of the champions league, never mind the final. When we had to chase the game, there was nothing there, and there wasn't really anything on the bench that you really felt confident about changing the flow of the game. Hernandez could have come on earlier and maybe Scholes should have been substituted before he was sent off, but i doubt either would have changed the game much. The option of Rooney and Hernandez being paired up together up front if Rooney hadn't been banned was the only game changer that might have made a diiference. We had nothing to bring on in the middle of the park or on the wings that was going to make much of a difference. Nani was unlucky to see his shot tipped onto the bar by Hart and had a decent game but we never really looked like getting an equaliser if truth be told. I wouldn't pick out any of our players disappointing performances, though some were obviously worse than others, the team as whole just weren't at the races after we gifted them their winner
I'll be honest as much as it's totally irrational, because the champions league is a far more prestigious trophy than the FA cup these days, yesterday mattered more to me than Tuesday. The 19th title has to be the priority now but how nice would it be to go back to Wembley and pick up a fourth champions league victory after yesterdays events.

That has also got to be the worst trip i have ever made to Wembley, we should have started of from OT at 9.30 but didn't get going until 9.45 and didn't get off the coach at Wembley until 4.15 just an hour before kick off, a nightmare. The coach had to go down the Harrow road where all the City boozers were ensuring plenty of Munich waving and cans htiing the coach. Getting off that coach if i wasn't up for it already i was now. And then we have to watch that, the day just went from bad to worse.
One last gripe, how come when they built the new Wembley they didn't have the brains to put at coach park for the opposing teams fans at either side of the stadium. Putting all the coaches together is a recipe for trouble, it was threatning to kick off after the game unsurprisingly. Yesterday was as moody as i have ever seen Wembley, no huge surprise. If we ever get them there again, which would seem likely, i am aboslutely certain it will be worse.