Tactics Explained: Manchester United's last Champions League win
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A tactical analysis of Manchester Unitedâs 2008 Champions League winning team.
Alex Stewart looks back at a Sir Alex Ferguson side that was âahead of its timesâ. Fluid in attack, interchangeable in build-up, and solid in defence.
Quintessential Ferguson, ahead of his time.
Illustrated by Philippe Fenner
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Rooneyâs passing ability was incredible idk why so many people overlook it
It's one of the reasons he was able to drop deeper toward the latter stages of his career when his legs got tired... I fully expect Messi to do the same soon
@@kohchungwei Messi already has, he's scoring less goals these days because he's so involved in build up
play.
@@wandilemtambo9962 brilliant... Cracking to see the evolution of a player
@@kohchungwei I agree, fascinating to see how much these players can change over a couple of years.
Strikers won't be remembered for their passes, goals, only goals matter.
Van Der Sar, Vidic and Ferdinand in defence
Carrick and Scholes pulling the strings
Rooney Ronaldo Tevez up top
Those days đâ„ïžâ„ïž
Berbatov over tevez any day
@@adamtaylor12345 Tevez workrate was unmatched..
Not winning prem in those days meant that we didnât have a good season, that was the standard set by that team. Simply crazy.
U r forgetting the work rate park and giggs put in aside from their already defined role
@@vipu86 tevez is a traitor
Iâm glad Owen Hargreaves got a mention- he was one of the main reasons why we won that game in Moscow
We? Ya plastic
@@fabiyaanmir546 please gatekeeper may I pass into the fabulous land of fandom that you so heavily guard against the trolls of the internet?
Heâs the one player I wish had better luck with injuries. Our midfield was so complete with him Scholes and Carrick.
@@robk1990 No . Now get lost.
@@fabiyaanmir546 im afraid not- Iâve got a map đ
This video proves that Michael Carrick is probably one of the most of underrated English Footballers of all time. He was the unsung hero of Man Utd for years. He was Englandâs answer to all the elegant Italian and Spanish deep lying playmakers. Itâs a shame he wasnât appreciated like the way he shouldâve.
One of the best in his position ever for me.What a player he was
he was injured most of his time at manutd. its a shame.
I support Liverpool and Carrick was Different Class! Followed his career since West Ham to Utd! Ahead of his time, passing, vision, football intelligence etc!
Carrick was the key to England's midfield as well though the whole Lampard, Gerrard thing was going down he never stood a chance.
Carrick's injuries was what held him back.What a talent,the guy was positionally so brilliant.Without doubt one of the most underrated players of this generation
Artist drawing Ronaldo: "fuck it that'll do"
Artist drawing Michael Essien: "I need to stay late to get this perfect."
Excellent! So true.
Artist drawing Evra: "now that I've put all that effort into Essien, I'll just change his hair and call it a day"
Ibrahimovic: "Rooney is the perfect partner for any striker."
And Zlatan has played next to Del Piero, Adriano,Figo and Cassano.
Plus Rooney was past his best when he played with Zlatan and he's still getting that kind of praise, just shows how good he must've been at his peak
@supersonic So true....and the guy did not even take credit for his contributions. I remember him scoring on one end and defending on the other.
@@supersonic9599 Imagine prime Rooney playing alongside prime Zlatan...that would've been more deadly than most of the best striking partners in today's age and that era.
@@jatin2616 Him being selfless is one of the best things about him as a player tbh. The potential for him to be the main man is THERE but he rarely does because he puts the team first over individual achievements.
Kids - come for athletic offer
Mens - for video content
Legends - for mega deal song .
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The 2007/08 United team was simply OP.
đđ Ferguson op
Until they me the actual OP team of Pep's Barcelona.
@@jayanths1221 How OP? They won 2UCL in 4 years, lost the CDR to Real Madrid in 2011 and the Laliga to Real Madrid in 2012.
@@bletrick3352 Won the sextuple in 2009, first team in history to do so. Also just missed out on another treble in 2011. 3 back to back league titles in a row whilst being Europe highest goal scoring team. Also ended Madrid's dominance in Spain. If that's not OP, then I don't know what is.
@Manchester United have reached the Promised Land So many things wrong with your comment, I don't even know where to start. So I won't even bother. Also, put some respeck of Luis Enrique's name. He's the man who took over a Barça team that won zero trophies in 2014 to winning the treble in his very first season. He's also the man who's revived the Spanish national team after a decade of piss poor form. Just because he's not a big name like Pep or Klopp does not mean he's not a good manager.
That United team started so well, they should have been 3-0 up before Lampard equalized.
Then Chelsea stepped up a gear in the second half. But it was Unitedâs destiny to win it.
Mega Deal gets put on Spotify or we riot
In all honesty despite how much I love the Tifo videos the Mega Deal song makes me smile every single time definitely my favorite part of the last few videos
If you ever want a custom song on spotify, you can add it. Just download it somewhere, like youtube, and add the local file to a playlist. You can then even download it on a playlist on other devices. This works amazingly especially for remixes that aren't officially published. I get that you're joking, but I bet a lot of people didn't know this and may wanna know
i comeback here every two weeks
That 2008 team was scary. Ronaldo. Giggs. Rooney. Nani.Berbatov. Ferdinand. Van der Sar Any team that would go to old Trafford would scare quick. 2nd would have been considered a terrible season
Berbatov wasnât at the club when United won the UCL in 2008.
Berbatov killed the fluidity of the team the following year. Good player though he was, he had no pace, didn't press opponents and couldn't play anywhere but as a CF. This forced Rooney and Ronaldo to play wide all the time if Berbatov played and Tevez got pushed to the bench. It's telling that the 3 forwards of Rooney, Ronaldo and Tevez scored more goals in 2007/08 than the 4 with Berbatov the following year. Then we lost Ronaldo and Tevez and entered near permanent decline.
giggs dint really do much from 2005-12 tbh great player but just got old
@@Wolf_of_Small_St Headcanon here but I reckon the Berbatov signing was deliberate on SAF's part. Why? Because Fergie knew Ronaldo wanted Madrid and there wasn't another player in world football that could replace him.
So he went for Berbatov, pushed Ronaldo wider to play the role of a classic winger as a 442 and in 09/10, signed Valencia to fill that position. It almost won him his 4th title, but Chelsea were better.
Pep did something similar when Zlatan came to Barça. Henry was part of a flexible attacking 3, then was suddenly a LW that held his position while Zlatan played a strict CF role. It didn't last very long because well, that wasn't Pep's style.
@@itsnotme6316 Giggs won PFA player of the season in 2009
that mega deal song is truly a thing of nightmares
lol this song is beautiful, better than many of the mainstream pop songs
Keane in the heart of the midfield.
Giggs on the wing
Solksjaer and sherringham as forwards and Beckham all around the field....
What a joy to watch â€đ
1999 won't be forgotten.
Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole
I think the last time we won it was 2008
@@kohchungwei yes it was
@@mrmeeseeks2534 thanks
@@kohchungwei yk
A Credit should be given to Carlos Queiroz, too. He wasn't young anymore at the time and formerly managed Madrid, a big team, then went back to assistant manager is something that can only be done by a humble person.
Remembering that we used to have Ferdinand-Vidic as our CB Partnership makes me want to cry now we have Maguire-Lindelof
Also remember Rooney, Tevez and Ronaldo up front haha
Maguire-Lindelof are not bad, United fans are real harsh toward that pair, aside from that crazy Tottenham game, theyâve mostly defended really well
I mean we also have Shaw and Wan-Bissaka, who at least kinda redeem our defense. Shaw is having a really good season and is in perfect form, especially. But those days of Ferdinand-Vidic.....
Maguire and Lindelof are the lightning rods for United's supposed defensive weaknesses but it's not an accurate reflection. We have the third best defensive record in the league, as we did last season. United's defensive problems are set pieces, where we are dreadful due to zonal marking. And the other problem is the balance of the team further up- we don't have a quality CDM like Fernandinho, Kante, Fabinho etc so the defence gets no protection, while most teams attack down our right as Wan-Bissaka has to go forward to provide width because we have no right winger. Buy a RW and a CDM and the defence will improve.
@@PeterEhik Agreed. And in that Tottenham match Lindelof didn't even play, car crash Bailly did and Spurs scored 4 of their 6 goals when we were down to 10 men. Maguire and Lindelof are fine, they just need reliable back ups that aren't injured all the time.
this team should be regarded as one of the greatest teams of all time
everyone, from midfield to defence to the amazing attack were simply magnificent in this team
Being only 8 years old at the time, I remember this as being the first major final I can really remember. Iâm not a fan of either side but this game had such an impact on the reason I love this sport so dearly
That United 07-08 team is one of the best Iâve ever watched and one that I always remember if anyone says âbest teams to play in the premier leagueâ
Agreed. Unlike Arsenal invincibles, Chelsea under Jose, City's hundred points or Liverpool in recent seasons, United in 1999 and 2008 are still the only English side to win the PL and CL format in the same season.
The Busby Babes tragically died in the Munich Air Disaster during United's early foray into European Competition... And the Glazers dared to equate that to their ESL!
Might want to edit busy to Busby
@@homosapien5156 thanks mate...i missed that Typo
There are similarities however, in how the FA detested English teams competing in the European Cup. When Chelsea won the league in '55, the FA told them not to go. The year after, Man United were told the same and Busby said stuff them, we're going anyway.
Sure the idea of a Super League was outrageous, but there's a reason English fans were more vocal than the Spanish or Italian fans. There's always that isolationist side that comes out of the English whenever change is proposed in 'their' game. We saw glimpses of this in Graham Souness who lumped the blame on American owners, calling England "a real country".
@@sxcJOELisNotsexy True. Thats the reason most EPL fans value the PL more than CL.
Somehow all the things you wrote, apply even to someone like me who is a fan of English football but has never been to England. I don't know what it is but I feel the CL is more of a spectacle than just football and that makes me despise the CL on some level.
@@sxcJOELisNotsexy that's true... But I mean we both know that the Glazers are using that parallel for their own PR campaign
Last time I was this early United won the Champions League
last time I was this early man united was debt free and not owned by the glazers
If I'm not mistaken the Glazers had full ownership of Man United since 2005 ...
Lmfao that's when Chelsea was still champions u tool..
And some of these big fan club on internet will be proud of it while ignoring glazer milking mu fans.
Release mega deal on Spotify already
itâs 2 am and i was bout to go to sleep, but thereâs other priorities.
Literally
East coast?
Late night owl lol
Owen Hargreaves showed his trademark versatility playing in numerous positional roles while Michael Essein was targeted when playing out of position... Just goes to show how good SAF was at drilling his players
Essien > Owen hargreaves
Hargreaves didnt play well in final. Didnt deserve to get a chance ahead jisung park who played great against barca
@@christianopulinaldo8319 facts. Availability is a great attribute
Videos like these really remind me how low United have fallen, from SAF Ferdinand and Ronaldo to OGS Maguire and James.
Well you can blame years of mismanagement from ownership for that. Although the current team that consists of all the people you mentioned is slowly starting to get better. A rebuild like the one weâre seeing now is years overdue.
Honestly sir Alex have made worst players win the league .
Ole is good but seriously in comparison to sir alex not even pep is close . That one need a billion spent each year to win a league , sir alex need just tom cleverly and phile Johns and lingard and a first season degea to win it . No billions needed . He did same in the 90s .
@@LauftFafa Agreed
SAF is the đ
@@LauftFafa yeah pep who wants his own type of players and spends millions on players couldn't have won league with cleverly smalling anderson. Saf is the greatest coach in sports history
@@HM0092 Plus he still cant win the ucl with man city despite spending 900+ million
I remember watching it live, and how grotesque was that Tevez chance after United took the lead:
Ronaldo was beating the hell out of Essien with his speed and trickery on Chelseas right. Ashley Cole sensed the danger once Ronaldo took control of the ball around the halfway line, and had enough of Essiens struggles, so Cole darted straight across to the right touchline to help Essien. If this isnt grotesque enough, they still couldnt stop Ronaldo getting past them, and whipping in a cross to Tevez. The area in front of Cech was a mess: Tevez hit a header so clearly i already thought it was 2-0, but nope, Cech saved it, and Carricks shot from the rebound was also clever: he tried to lift it instead of hitting hard, yet Cech somehow thwarted it to a corner. When the attack broke down, John Terry was laying flat on his back on the 6 yard line, Cech was laying flat on his belly, and Ashley Cole, who first darted across the pitch, ended up standing on the goal line, hoping he could maybe block a shot or something.
And Chelseas defence was actually one of the best in Europe by that time. And still, Ronaldo, Rooney and Tevez worked a bit of routine magic, and they ended up looking like they were just a bunch of sunday league players.
We have no idea how much potential and attacking power these guys had.
Literally the only reason Chelsea didn't concede from that attack is due to Cech's brilliance in goal
This squad had so much quality, depth and was so unpredictable. What a legendary United side
It is one of the best Man United sides ever to grace the Champions League. Tifo has summed up properly about SAF how progressive he was as a manager. Seeing United now(under OGS) gives the same hint in some department as talking about fluid front 3 as striker changes position in between the game. Only we need to manage to get a defensive mid, right winger, experienced Striker and cb (like Rio) then we could rule the Europe and English football again.
worth mentioning that it was wes brown alongside rio for the 2nd leg clean sheet vs barca. wes was world class that day.
I spent my Sunday afternoon clearing out the shed and constantly singing about a mega deal .
Welcome to the meeega deeeeeal
Ill pay for the Athletic subscription using your link if you make Mourinho last Champions League win
Bruh
They made a video on Inter 2010 already. Four years ago.
Get that credit card out buddy đ
@@BoxOfOranges84 @J G đđ
Brilliant as always!! Thanks for the great vid :D
Loved the last bit as well, haha.
Not trolling but can we have an analysis of why lingard is doing so well at west ham
Confidence
No fans
David moyes
Hearing all these United legends just makes it that much more agonizing when you look at the team sheet the last few yrs.
Love the ending song
Very nice tactical explanation of how that champions league was won. A great way to remember the achievement. Thanks
Brings tears in my eyes watching this đ
How did we end up here đđđ
Ask glazers
Fergie left and poor recruitment
Ronaldo left and everything turned to shit
@@prometheustv6558 Nah, in the 4-years between Ronaldo leaving and Ferguson retiring we won 2 league titles, 2 league-cups, and were runners up the Champions League and FA Cup. It was still a solid team for a while, it just all began to fall apart post-Fergie
United have never been a good club apart from the Fergy-busby days
U gotta do Inter Champions League 2010
He already did
@@matheus5230 is it in that video
Where Jose says he didn't park a bus but a god damn aeroplane đ?
@@youtubeisnotajob4103 Yes
@@youtubeisnotajob4103 Just type in Inter Milan 2010 Tifo and you'll find it. The video is 4 years old.
The quote you mentioned is from their video last year on "parking the bus"
missed those tifo vidz
personally they are my favorite
Incredible. I miss this team
It sounds stupid to say but that pass from rooney was one of my most favourite things ive seen in a football match just cause it epitomises everything amazing about him and why hes my favourite ever player
Everyone from England talking about how Lampard and Gerard didnât work, when they had two of arguably the best centre backs in the last 20 years on Ferdinand and Terry.
The team lacked a guy like Carrick who could stabilise the midfield. Itâs kinda ironic innit that England at the time had two coaches experienced in Italian football wherein the use of a regista/deep lying playmaker is almost a necessity. And Carrick was one!
@@miz5138 right. Milan's Christmas tree formation should fit well with England 2010. Carrick in Pirlo's position, protected by Milner and Barry in Gattuso-Ambrossini role. Lampard and Gerrard can play Kaka and Seedorf. Rooney can play the number 9. What a what-if.
@@miz5138 Scholes could have been that
@@prometheustv6558 Scholes wasn't anywhere near defensively solid enough to play that Pirlo role where as Carrick was perfect for it. Considering Scholes retired in 2004, Id have played a 442 diamond with Carrick CDM with Gerrard and Beckham almost wide (mezzala like) CMs, leaving Lampard/Joe Cole to play that CAM role behind Owen and Rooney. Rooney could even drop in CAM behind Heskey and Owen for some games.
Impeccable!!
Such an incredible team, and won the final in a nail-biter (Chelsea hit the woodwork twice). I miss this team.
You're just showing off, now! âïžđ Utterly superb analysis, as ever. Brilliant. Very evocative, too. Awesome! (PS. *Sport analysts?* _Yes, the finest!_ *Songwriters?* _Come back to me, once I've heard the full album!_ đđ)
I am so happy you mentioned that pass from Rooney which created the chance for Tevez. That is one of my most memorable moments of the final. I think there was another instance when he played a long ball forward. United were devastating in the first half.
The real question is when will Mega Deal be released on Spotify?
Great video as always but I came here to get my daily dose of the Megadeal jingle
So many similarities with what Solskjaer is currently trying to build at utd, this is literally the blueprint and im not surprised cuz he was involved in the coaching setup with this team
Just need to give him the missing pieces of the puzzle
Striker?
@@yoyo9winner Sancho, Varane and a CDM imo
CDM, RW and a back up centre back. Striker is a red herring, United's current strikers don't miss loads of chances, the issue is we don't create enough clear cut ones. Plus, as this video showed (and City are showing this season and Liverpool have shown over the last few years) you don't need an out and out centre forward to be successful. Blowing ÂŁ120m on a Kane or Haaland would be money down the drain.
The Glazers wonât let that happen
he's a Carrick and Nani away from seriously challenging for the league.
The mega deal tune is awesome.
Such poetry.
"Welcome to the Mega Deal" Please release a full version .... Please!!!!
I have no words for the 'mega deal' song & animation. đ
I never thought Iâd hear Wes Brown he described as extraordinary đ. Fair play to him, but I never understood how he managed to be a mid-tier level player in a side of world class teammates. John OâShea was another one who got away with it for a good bit too! Not terrible players, but definitely not world class defenders.
Both Brown and O'Shea are VERY valuable squad players it has to be said (which is probably why they stuck around for quite a while).
It really shows how much Ferguson' United dominance was based on how far ahead of the game he was. God I miss those teams and knowing no matter what, the guy making decisions knew what he was doing, even if it wasn't always a 100% success.
13 years ago..
Bloody hell, I'm too old.
I just watched the entire video so that I could enjoy the 'mega deal' banger đ
BRILLIANT
Idk why just hearing about this legendary team brings me tears
One of the things that will always stick in my mind in that 08 final, is that counter attack from Rooney to Ronaldo to Tevez.
Edit:
I said this before watching the video.
Great video
"Chills, literal chills"
This Mega Deal song makes me laugh, but it also kills the mood đ€Ł i hate it and love it.
the heads are epic
Joe Devine I would like you to know that the Mega Deal song sold me, you have my respect sir âïž
The mega deal song is goat level đ„đ
You should do a video on this Sporting side that is surprising everyone in Portugal, full of young talent.
We want our United back â€ïžâ€ïž
So glad that Rios ball carrying and passing was recognised, he doesnt get enough recognition for that now days I feel.
Great Job Guys :)
That Man Utd and Chelsea sides are pure Legends!
Cr7 really benefited from such a sophisticated team...but mainly thanks to Sir Alex
Same can be said about any world class player
Just like any player in a worldclass team
@@liampowell5014 yes this is true...but apparently his fans think that cr7 was the only reason for United and Madridâs UCL success..
@@vb2388 Not every fan
Its only some 8 year olds that think like that
@Lion Let them hate bro
"Haters gonna hate players gonna play"
Nice going to do these tactis on fifa đ
Whatâs the music in the background? Great video
i just watch football recently, and i thought ferguson was best manager, especially at squad building & legacy. but now i know that he also one of the best tactically
Me: Well, this is an amazing analysis of Man Utds and Fergusson's tactics way ahead of their time, chapeau Tifo
Also Me: đ” WEELLLCOMMEEE TO THE MEGA DEEEEAAALLLLL đ”
Mega deal jingle is great, reminds me of Queens of the stone age
Didnât you do a 2007/2008 tactics explained video on United years ago?
Brilliant analysis. How many games of football do you have to watch to see all the details in your analysis? The ÂŁ1 mega-deal is brilliant but that song needs some work.
this trio was amazing to watch. they coudnt be marked by anyone back there and scored a lot of goals.
I miss this team.
I miss this team so much we were spoilt for riches we really should have won more with this team.
They learned from AC MILAN in the midfield and defensive area. It made the game in final result by penalty kick..
2012/2013 MUFC was sick as well , very underrated
Hey could you make a video about Lingard at West Ham?
I remember punching the wall so hard when Ronaldo missed his pen that night in Moscow. But the pain was barely an afterthought once Terry slipped and Van der Sar saved Anelka's shot! Best childhood United memory I have. I also must have been pathetically weak back then as my hand was totally fine the next day...
Wes Brown is underrated. Imagine if he can stay fit in his early career. United might have a fastest CB duo in him and Rio.
Too error prone especially when he was younger. He did good in 2007/08 and 2008/09 but that's pretty much it, and it's because we had a strong squad overall. Not the type of player to come into an average squad and make it better. Wes Brown's my man though, but still.
Went some to same school as him and the football coach would always use wes brown to motivate the players "if you work hard you can be like wes brown playing for united oneday" he was alright but risky.
yeaa he is a good team player and i think most of united team in that era are brilliant team players
It died in 1997, When you could qualify for the champions league when you finished 2nd and 3rd in your league. The competition should be what it says on the tin, the champions of their league. Only 1st place in the league should qualify. Not a watered down competition.
The 2nd rate European competition should be a competition where only the domestic cup winners go through that way it's again a another competition with only champions and will make the domestic cups even more competitive. .
The team that really made me fall in love with football
Bring the full version of mega deal song đ„đ„
I still think the 1999 champions league win was better just because of the teams Man Utd had to go through and probably wasnt the strongest team but they had that united grit back then playing til the whistle blew, the amount of games they won in the last 10 mins of the game back then was insane.
In the group of death Man Utd, Bayern Munich, Barcelona..Brondby.
Then going through Inter Milan and Juventus in road to finals then beaten Bayern Munich literally couldnt have had a harder road to lifting the trophy
If my memory serves me correctly, remember ManU having to defend doggedly during both ties of the semi-final against Barcelona, or âpark the busâ to an extent. Maybe it didnât suit the narrative here, but Iâd like to think this also showed how tactically flexible SAF was and how effective the fluidity of the team worked in countering a mighty Barcelona team. Who incidentally would go on to beat ManU in 2 CL finals later, in 2009 & 2011.
Mighty Barca team that won nothing for two years until Pep came
Good ol' days
Very âZappaâ on the Mega-Deal tune
I'd give you second like if I could just for the advert at the end
7-1 against Roma in UCL tv cable signals on and off what a performance
that's a season before
Good old days
Paul Scholes said in an interview recently that SAF wanted players to play with confidence and have an ability to be able to move around and play in different positions. This is what I find frustating with Utd and probably other teams these days, it seems like a player can only play 1 position. When Rashford moves from LW to RW he seems to lose so much about his game, same for Dan James. I mean, can you imagine Fred playing out wide like Hargreaves used to have to do sometimes? It really seems to stifle Utd's attack when they're finding it tough to break down opposition as they're just doing the same thing over and over, there doesnt seem to be any flexibility. When Martial plays up front alone he sticks to that position all the time and rarely if ever drops deep to get it. Compare that to RVP who used to run channels to link up play, or even Cavani who drops deep and even runs out wide. I undertstand this may be a tactical thing to specialise players in one position but surely its detremental to a creativity and making it hard for an opponent?
Can you do an in depth video explaining why most no.9s have been underperforming at Chelsea in the last 2 decades. It has mostly been wingers and midfielders who have excelled at Chelsea. For example Morata, Falcao, Torres, Higuain, Sidwell, Kezman, Bouhlarouz and maybe Timo Wenner.
We missed Hargreaves the next year against Barcelona. I think his impact is understated in this vid.