Manchester United Dicela Roy Keane "Pantas Kalah"

Roy Keane Slams Manchester United after Loss to Olympiakos

Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani


Manchester United Dicela Roy Keane "Pantas Kalah"
"Mereka (United) tidak pernah panas. Mereka (Olympiacos) amat sangat bagus dan secara teknis mereka lebih baik ketimbang United," (Foto2: Mail Online)

ROY Keane, mantan kapten Manchester United mengritik keras Michael Carrick dan menilai sejumlah pemain Setan Merah sudah tak pantas lagi main di klub ini setelah kalah 0-2 dari Olympiakos Piraeus pada leg pertama laga 16 Besar Liga Champions Rabu dini hari.

Keane juga menyebut manager David Moyes mungkin terkejut atas senjangnya kualitas dalam timnya. Dia juga mengatakan kekalahan itu telah memupus teori bahwa Liga Premier adalah liga terbaik di dunia.

Berbicara pada televisi ITV, Keane mengkritik keras komentar Carrick yang diwawancarai televisi usai pertandingan.

"Wawancara itu seperti penampilan dia, datar. Dia mestinya berbicara dengan lebih memiliki urgensi," kata Keane sambil menyebut penampilan MU semalam memang datar.

"Mereka terus saja bilang 'Ah, okelah, pertandingan berikutnya, pertandingan berikutnya'. Bagi sejumlah pemain semestinya tidak ada lagi pertandingan berikutnya. Itu realitasnya," kata Keane seperti dikutip laman Daily Mirror.

Keane khawatir kurangnya pemain berkualitas pada skuad United saat ini berdampak serius pada sepakbola Eropa.

"Mereka (United) tidak pernah panas. Mereka (Olympiacos) amat sangat bagus dan secara teknis mereka lebih baik ketimbang United," kata Keane.

Ditanya pada bagian mana United bermasalah, Keane menjawab, "Ada banyak hal: manajer baru, gagasan baru. United kehilangan sejumlah pemain dalam dua tahun terakhir. Ada beberapa pemain yang bermain malam ini untuk Manchester United yang tidak menunjukkan kualitas yang cukup."

Dia menambahkan, "Saya kira United memerlukan enam pemain berkualitas puncak. Menurut saya David Moyes terkejut. Saya kira ketika dia masuk United musim panas lalu dia sangat berharap hal terbaik dari para pemain.  Sejujurnya, dia sangat mungkin terkejut oleh senjangnya kualitas pada apa yang ditangananinya."

Setelah United, Manchester City dan Arsenal masing-masing kalah 0-2 di leg pertama babak 16 Besar Liga Champions, Keane mengganggap sukses Liga Premier di Eropa adalah semu.

"Kita dicekoki oleh anggapan bahwa Liga Premier adalah liga terbaik di dunia," kata Keane. "Omong kosong. Ini memang brand terbaik, namun dalam beberapa pekan terakhir kita telah menyaksikan banyak tim Inggris terseok untuk takluk di bawah tim-tim top Eropa, United khususnya."

FORMER Manchester United captain, Roy Keane took a shot at Michael Carrick and warned that some players will have no future at the club after the Red Devils suffered a painful 2-0 Champions League defeat to Olympiakos.

Keane also claimed the Reds' manager David Moyes would have been "shocked at the lack of quality" in the team he inherited from Sir Alex Ferguson last summer, and ridiculed the theory the Premier League is the strongest in the world.

Speaking on ITV, pundit Keane reacted sharply to a post-match interview from Carrick, who succeeded him in the United midfield in the mid-2000s, in which he seemed stunned by what he had experienced.

"That interview was just like the performance: flat . He should say a bit more, have a bit more urgency even in his interview," Keane said. "That just reflected United's performance tonight: Flat, with no urgency.

"They keep saying, 'Ah, well, next game, next game'. For some of them there won't be another game. That's the reality."

Keane was an on-field motivator in his playing days but he fears there is insufficient quality in the current United squad to make a serious impact in European football.

"I don't think any of us could have predicted that," he said after United's miserable surrender in the Athens district of Piraeus.

 "They (United) just never turned up. They (Olympiacos) were very, very good and technically they were better than United tonight."

Pressed on where United's problems this season have arisen from, Keane said: "There's a number of things: new manager, new ideas. United have missed out on some players over the past two years.

"There's some players playing tonight for Man United who just aren't showing enough quality."

He added: "I think United need six top quality players. I would think David Moyes has been shocked. I think when he went into United in the summer he probably looked at the players and was expecting great things.
Privately, he's probably been shocked at the lack of quality he's working with."