Pretty average performance at best, we looked a shadow side from the first whistle. You can't always play well, but the team looked shell shocked that they were playing a team who could move the ball so well. This is the CL, you don't play many mug teams like in Italy. There was no pressing, we were passing the ball all over the place.
We did wake up second half, but completely ran out of gas by about 70 mins. Vidal looked like he had ran a marathon before the game even started, Vucinic went from crucial to increasingly annoying and just held the ball at every occasion, even with simple passes on. Even Pirlo was passing it nowhere.
I thought Shakhtar looked like an excellent team. Maybe we got them on a particularly good day, but we were nowhere near our best. The stupid thing is, we were in a position to go and win the game second half.
Shakhtar seemed to get every bounce and bobble all game, because they were on their toes at all times. They looked super confident, like they were floating on air. We seemed to be treading water. It's going to be a difficult job to balance competitions out, we need to get better at it.