It is superfluous to say whether Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will be fired after the new debacle in the Manchester derby, because – he will not.
He did not get fired even after much worse defeats. Although, we will admit – it is not a shame to lose to City, but it is certainly to go out on the field in the second semifinal without any desire for a turnaround, and that against an angry rival.
This could have been a more convincing victory for City if David de Gea had not been on the “devil’s” goal in the first half.
A few details marked the game of United, and Ole Gunnar tried to surprise the line-up and put Bahia on the field from the first minute, for whom it was the first start of this season.
An epilogue? Auto-goal. Luke Shaw was injured during the match and the question is when we will see him on the field again, but we believe that you watched the match, so we will not deal with it much.
What you may have missed is that on this very day in 1986, the legendary Alex Ferguson made his debut on the Manchester United bench.
Ferguson led United until 2013 and during that time he won as many as 39 trophies, including an incredible 13 Premier League titles and two Champions League trophies.
Although he did not start properly, the management of the club had understanding for him. He finished the first season in 11th place on the Premier League table, and the next season in the second.
Ups and downs, after this it was 11th and 13th again, which was certainly not satisfactory. But, you know what they say – the rest is history. If he had existed in “today’s” time – by now he would probably have “drunk” the dismissal, but…
After the first trophy in 1990, which he won in the FA Cup, he seemed to “buy” a little more time, but in fact he secured a place for himself for many years, during which no one could stop him.
In 1993, he returned to Old Trafford and the Premier League title, and won a total of 13. Not to mention what kind of players he created, and one of them is Cristiano Ronaldo, who still calls him the “football father”.
Today? Today, we often see Ferguson in the Lodge of Old Trafford, but he often has nothing to see there. United is simply not a competitor for the highest achievements in either the Champions League or the Premier League.
While Ole Gunnar is hit in the chest after each defeat, he points out how “far they have come”, as he believes in his players, Ferguson is probably holding his head, but also – he supports the Norwegian.
The greatest and most trophy-winning coach in the history of the club came to the training recently to support the man he advocated to come and whom he always kept.
And whether it will be like that this time as well – we will see. The question remains, what will happen to Solskjaer? A long consecutive derby and another painful defeat at Old Trafford after the one from Liverpool 0:5.
