Five things we learned from Man United v Chelsea? – Have your say

Chelsea’s title hopes ended today at Old Trafford after losing 2-1 against Premier League leaders Manchester United, who need just one point to secure top spot and win the league for a record 19th time.

Javier Hernandez scored after just 36 seconds after some hairy defending from David Luiz and Nemanja Vidic compounded our misery in the 23rd minute when he headed in the second.

Blues midfielder Frank Lampard gave the west Londoners a glimmer of hope when he found the next midway through the second half, but Carlo Ancelotti’s side failed to add to it and will now concentrate on working hard to improve in the summer in order to come back stronger next season.

I’m in quite a sombre mood, but in an attempt to dissect the game, what did we learned from today’s game? – Have your say in the comment section below

1. David Luiz has had a few moments of rashness since arriving at Stamford Bridge and despite being a fantastically talented player, he was caught out pretty badly for the opening goal and only needed to step up with JT to play Hernandez offside and prevent the opening goal.

2. We displayed some terrible defending for the second goal too, as Branislav Ivanovic lost a yard on Vidic, who had too easy a time heading in Ryan Giggs’ cross against a Chelsea defence that was all over the place.

3. Chelsea lacked urgency and ideas. Many people have remarked about our lack of width this season and United have used their wingers to good effect against us in the last few games and have put us on the back foot with their wide threat. Both Michael Essien and Lampard went missing in the midfield, which made it almost impossible to us to get a foothold in the game and meant our best chances were from Didier Drogba’s free-kicks.

4. It has been an odd season with many twists and there hasn’t been an outstanding side to speak of, but United turned up on the big occasion and looked like champions on the day, so we can only hold our hands up and credit our opponent.

5. After the dreadful run of form during the winter months nobody thought we would have been in a position to potentially retake our spot as league leaders and at one point we were even written off a Champions League spot by a few ‘experts’. A second place finish is more than many of us expected and it’s no disgrace to finish there, so let’s win our remaining games and start looking ahead to the 2011/12 campaign.

KTBFFH!