Manchester United 2006/2007 Season Review
If you’re an old (relatively) reader of Soccerlens, you’ll remember that back before the season started, I did a week-long preview for the club, looking at the squad from different aspects and at SAF’s future.
Now that the season is over and with news that Owen Hargreaves is set to leave Bayern Munich, it’s also time to put the previous season to rest with a detailed season review.
I’ll follow more or less the same format as I did in the season preview - look at how the kids performed (out at loan, obviously, as apart from the early league cup exit and a dead rubber against Chelsea the kids never really got to play), how the old guard did, whether the stars are still the stars and if the deadwood we’re carrying still needs to be thrown out.
Here’s the post listing for what I’ll be writing about (starting Monday):
- Manchester United’s kids are better than yours
- Manchester United’s old guard must be changed
- Some players aren’t good enough for Manchester United
- We need more match-winners
- SAF’s legacy
- The best and worst of United’s season
- Manchester United - 06/07 Season Review - again
Hope you’ll enjoy the week-long show.
- Manchester United - 06/07 Season Review - again
- Soccerlens Premiership 2006/2007 Review
- We need more match-winners at Manchester United
- SAF’s legacy at Manchester United
- How can Manchester United improve this summer?
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probably not the best season for united unable to beat the big teams apart from that jammy win against ac milan in the first leg chelsea beat them yesterday proves the best team in the country is chelsea.
Man Utd dominated the whole games and should have scored three or four times were as chelsea had no good attepts on goal. They luckily scored with three minutes to go and no one would have pulled it back with that amount of time left!
Noticed that whenever we play “good” teams, SAF shows his fear by paying respect to the team by playing defensive 451. Whenever this happened, we either lost, or drew (which also goes down as a lost because of the lacklustre performance of the day). We had no reason to respect Chelsea (we’re the champions dammit, they should hae respected us), we had not reason to respect Milan (we won the first leg, they had to beat us), we had no reason to respect Arsenal (a unch of kids), yet we did. Our desperation to progress past the first round of the Champions League also saw us revert to this “respectfull” 451 (therefore our bad away record). This respect cost us the games. When our team felt that “we going to win this game”, they played flowing and consequently sexy. This I believe is what it was went wrong for us this season, NOT squad depth. To sum it up, the manager’s lack of confidence in his own team against strong opposition cost us dearly. This being said, who knows the players better and knows better the reason not too have enough confidence in them?
Please address this point in your article?
A bit late with the review pieces, but I’ll get all of them done this week.
Paying respects to big teams,
If you are counting arsenal especially at home I thought SAF didnt pay them enough respect as he mentioned in the match programme about Arsenal being a season or two behind us in building a new team and that they were a team in transistion, i thought this to be true however the united team that day never got out of first gear for the whole match and didnt seem to be going all out for the win, and just expected to win and then late on arsenal got the winner. we couldnt complain as it was something like our ninth game and we’d been fantastic up until that point.
‘…and we’d been fantastic up until that point.’, and then we changed our style and we played Defensive 451 (for that game only).
Now that Liverpool’s fairy-tale is finaly over, I guess now we can look at our team’s performance this season in better perspective. I caould not help but feel ’strange’ when Maldini lifted that cup. Felt that it should have been us standing there. Anyway…its over.
I think our team did exceptionally well over the course of the season. Premier League title (which was always the only priority really), finalist in FA cup, semi-finalist in CL…not bad for a “club in crisis”, dont you think?
I know that with the tweaks that SAF has in mind, we WILL win the CL next season…no doubt about that.
I’ve been checking for the articles daily since Monday…Get your act together Ahmed and get those things out. I’m waiting impatiently.
P.S. So happy the dirty scouse lost last night…now i don’t have to listen to them say “6, 6, 6″ next season.
I’m on it, I’m on it. Couldn’t have stood the 6-times nonsense, to be honest. Feel better this morning
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Hey Ahmed…..hope you’re planning on finishing the series of articles!
I’ll get on it and finish it over the weekend.
cheers, and thanks for waiting.
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Will put up a season preview for United, as well as for every other club (full, detailed previews this time, honest!) in August.
Till then, enjoy the transfer rumours.
go man u!!