Comments on: Vlog on the pitch - reaction to Cristiano Ronaldo’s penalty miss

By: shake

shake — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:15:01 +0000

now where are all the barca fans. Man Utd are going to Moscow!

By: mdasg

mdasg — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:29:03 +0000

ha ha ha… showboater come down to earth..boasting time is over…

By: Best Player

Best Player — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:51:22 +0000

Well he certainly wasn’t nervous was he? Nor do I think he was “over-confident” as a lot of people are saying. It was just poor decision-making. Simple as that. And for me the penalty miss and Liverpool’s last second own-goal only confirm that perfection is impossible in football: perfection in Rafa’s Liverpool machine; perfection in The Best Player in the World. At the end of the day we are watching humans play the game. And it’s that human element that makes it the beautiful game.

By: Dan the red

Dan the red — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:36:28 +0000

End of the day we (united) didn’t play out and out attacking football, we knew we couldn’t lose the game so we played 5 in midfield and had cristiano up front. If we could get an away goal so be it, otherwise best not to lose it. Barca had loads of possession but the only chance they really had was Henry’s shot. If they reckon they can come beat us at old trafford then so be it, but we will have a different set up and the game will probabily be alot more open. Ronny could have had about 3 penalties by the way. Plus I think it was the referee’s fault for constantly blowing and giving freekicks for handbags at dawn, which stops the flow of the game.

By: chris baird

chris baird — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:40:19 +0000

bottled…

By: aditya

aditya — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:39:41 +0000

I think cristi was a bit overconfident.He took it a bit lightly. Could have done better.But nevertheless the 2nd leg awaits barca & Iam sure they gonna win it & the scorrer’s gonna be cristi.

By: paul

paul — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:09:31 +0000

I think it was bit of bad luck. I could bore you with other missed chances by every major player in the world.

A team always needs a bit of luck.

What about Rooney- why was he back? Looked like a fish out of water.
What about the fact that not one player was able to get a decent ball to Cristino all game. Hard to score when your not getting the ball.

By: Max Thompson

Max Thompson — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:11:01 +0000

Were United not hopelessly negative last night? Weren’t Barcelona worse for not taking advantage? Was it not a terrible advert for this over-hyped competition?

C’mon gents, leave the “what was Ronaldo thinking’s” to the tabloids and get stuck into talking about the game?

By: annie

annie — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:16:24 +0000

okay i dont think ronaldo was under pressure and so what if he was relaxed about it. at the end of the day it is that united kept a clean sheet, and they wont lose to barca and as cristiano ronaldo said football is like that sometimes and if he is gien another chance for a penalty he will score but righ now man utd need to focus on chelsea, so they can reatian their title, and show all th haters what their about, thats why they are called the RED DEVILS!

By: Owen

Owen — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:30:53 +0000

Riley thanks for your comment, glad you are a vlog regular…like your confidence in terms of penalty taking - but for me rule 1 is - when the pressure is on hit with the swing - right foot - top left corner - bang