Both of their goals came from our midfielders' mistakes

Johnson failed to close Nani's cross and Fox lost his man on the first while Hoolahan failed to track Giggs for the second, Johnson was also really struggling yesterday despite being brought in specifically to make tackles and close down the opposition. Yes, we had good spells of possesion, but we lost the game due to our midfield failing to protect our defence, too much space was left for United to operate in our third of the pitch, hence why I feel we lost the midfield 'battle' (50/50's, winning the second ball, tight marking) while still being effective with the ball.

Posted By: Common Sense Police on February 27th 2012 at 16:37:11

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Although not as bothered as the Leicester game. It is weird that we've done enough to win (NCFC) - pants, Feb 27, 14:56:47
- Ferguson is correct in that Welbeck could have got 4 so deserved to win is maybe a stretch (n/m) (NCFC) - Jim, Feb 27, 15:24:47
- I think we deserved a point from both games, but didn't do enough to win either (NCFC) - Common Sense Police, Feb 27, 15:13:40
  - Three saves plus one goal (NCFC) - duke of york, Feb 27, 15:19:42
    - Wasn't disputing the number of shots we had (NCFC) - Common Sense Police, Feb 27, 15:23:38
      - Tbf (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Feb 27, 16:01:18
        
        Well, we didn't do enough to win (NCFC) - Common Sense Police, Feb 27, 16:10:21
        
        Yeah (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Feb 27, 16:15:09
        
        Oh definitely encouraging, so gutting to concede late on (NCFC) - Common Sense Police, Feb 27, 16:23:04
        
        I don't think we did necessarily lose the midfield battle (NCFC) - duke of york, Feb 27, 16:28:58
        
        Both of their goals came from our midfielders' mistakes (NCFC) - Common Sense Police, Feb 27, 16:37:11
        
        Almost every goal ever scored is as a result of (NCFC) - duke of york, Feb 27, 17:06:18
        
        Very true (NCFC) - Common Sense Police, Feb 27, 17:30:12
        
        Thats what ray houghton says, (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Feb 27, 17:13:54
      - Yeah, didn't deserve to win (NCFC) - duke of york, Feb 27, 15:26:13
        
        It was a very difficult chance to take (n/m) (NCFC) - Common Sense Police, Feb 27, 15:29:44
        
        It was a very difficult chance to take (n/m) (NCFC) - Common Sense Police, Feb 27, 15:29:22
      - Holts header first half as well. Plus decent pen shout. (n/m) (NCFC) - Jim, Feb 27, 15:25:24
        
        You would expect any keeper worth his salt to save that header (NCFC) - Common Sense Police, Feb 27, 15:28:44

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