If both clubs had their best eleven available, and both played at 100% then they'd batter us all day long. They've spent millions, their team/squad is full of internationals and a few really top drawer footballers we had no right to think otherwise. We had our day in the sun in the first leg where we clung on, we fought like beavers and they missed countless chances and on another day they win that leg by a similar scoreline to last night.
We had to play out of our skin last night and hope they had another shocker to stand any hope whatsoever, it was the slimmest of slim chances and it turns out that they turned up and we never, we made some poor decisions on and off the field and were beaten by the better team. It happens, im not sore about that, im still more annoyed about the Rotherham game than i am about last night.
I do think sticking with playing it out from the back was a disaster but we had no out ball, long ball to who? Nobody there to hold the ball up, not with the team on the pitch anyway. If we had our best XI available i think its a totally different system and scoreline. I'm not saying we win or get to the final but i think Carrick had his hands tied with just what he had available to him.