By taking it in turns to inflict
the heaviest home defeat on Porto in their rich European history was the emphatic answer.
It was United's
heaviest home defeat in 66 years and Ferguson called it his «worst ever day».
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Heaviest home defeat 1 - 3: Manchester City v FC Bayern München 02/10/13, UEFA Champions League group stage 0 - 2: Manchester City v FC Barcelona 18/02/14, UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg
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Heaviest home defeat 2 - 4: Napoli v Manchester City FC 01/11/17, group stage 1 - 3: Napoli v Real Madrid CF 07/03/17, round of 16 second leg
For those of you in your rose - tinted glasses who remember Upton Park as a «fortress» I will remind you that they inflicted on
us our heaviest home defeat of the season, beating us 4 - 1.
Goals from PSG's star - studded trio of Neymar (20), Kylian Mbappe (34) and Edinson Cavani (40 pen) helped PSG on their way to a convincing win at Celtic Park before a Mikael Lustig own goal (82) and Cavani's second (85) condemned Celtic to
their heaviest home defeat in European competition.
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Heaviest home defeat 2 - 5: Lyon v VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 05/11/74, UEFA Cup second round second leg 0 - 3 twice, most recently v FC Bayern München 27/04/10, UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg
Roma also failed to get out of their Champions League group and were then blasted out of the Europa League with
a heavy home defeat to fellow Italian side Fiorentina.
Shalke came second behind Chelsea in their group, and suffered
a heavy home defeat to the London side in Matchday 5, losing 5 - 0.
That was earned on the road on the opening weekend, but they suffered
a heavy home defeat against Sunderland on the weekend.
This week in history has witnessed
some heavy home defeats which includes 1 - 5 and 2 - 5 reverses to the «scallies» of Liverpool in both 1965 and 1968; had there been Twitter in 1965 it would have been awash with abuse, as less than a week after the 1965 Liverpool game, came a further 2 - 5 defeat at home to Leicester.
Not exact matches
Following their struggles domestically and their setbacks in terms of
heavy defeats away from
home in Europe this season, Barca will need to make changes to their current squad giving Luis Enrique's successor the best possible chance of continuing their illustrious history of winning major honours.
Arsenal suffered their joint -
heaviest home Premier League
defeat, having also lost by three - goal margins to Coventry (1993), Middlesbrough (2001) and Chelsea (twice in 2009).
In fact there are at least three key men at the current league leaders Chelsea who still appear to be pretty wary of the Gunners, which is probably increased this week as Arsene Wenger prepares to take the team to Stamford Bridge looking for a repeat of the match against them at
home, which saw Arsenal inflict their
heaviest defeat of the season.
How much more embarrassment do we as fans have to put up with before things change, because we've had the
heavy defeats home and abroad, the standard of our football is declining fast, we don't develop players good enough to take us forward, the couple of world class players we have won't sign new contracts, we've got mediocre players on big wages and not good enough, the manager who blames everyone and everything but himself and finally the fans who blindly support a system that's clearly falling apart but are to scared to change.
But the Blues will go into this game — with a bit of concern after their momentum was brought to a crushing halt by a
heavy defeat in the Champions League Quarter - final first leg away from
home against Liverpool.
3 — Manchester City handed Arsenal their joint -
heaviest home Premier League
defeat on Thursday (also lost by 3 goals to Coventry City (1993), Middlesbrough (2001) and Chelsea (twice in 2009)-RRB-.
A 6 - 0 reverse at
home to Manchester City was an even
heavier defeat than most other teams have suffered at the hands of the odds - on favourites for the Premier League title, and they will have been disappointed going down 1 - 0 to Stoke in their last
home fixture.
The chances still seem slim given Liverpool just have to beat a relegated Middlesbrough at
home, and Manchester City only need to avoid a
heavy defeat to Watford, but Arsenal go into the final day of the season knowing a win could yet sneak them back into the Champions League for another year.
I wasn't in the minority of fans in wanting the Italian to stay at Vicarage Road and even the most discerning of those calling for change would have done so with a
heavy heart, but the writing appeared to be on the wall after the
defeat to the Owls; the Hornets» fifth straight at
home.
Borussia Dortmund bounced back from their
heavy defeat at Bayern Munich with a comfortable
home win against Stuttgart.
3 — West Ham suffered their
heaviest Premier League
defeat at
home to a newly - promoted side when they went down 0 - 3 to Brighton & Hove Albion on Friday night.
Assistant Billy Dearden took over as caretaker and did a reasonable job, but suffered a few
heavy defeats: 5 - 1 at Northampton, 4 - 0 at
home to Chester and 4 - 1 at Wigan.
• The first leg was Juve's joint
heaviest home European
defeat, equalling their 3 - 0 loss against Manchester United FC in the 2002/03 second group stage and the 4 - 1
defeat at
home to Bayern on matchday six in 2009/10.
Last night's abject
defeat against Sunderland was epitomised for me by the sight of a young kid crying inconsolably as I plodded down Sir Matt Busby Way before crossing the tram tracks and heading
home with a
heavy heart.
• Salzburg's 0 - 4 loss at
home to Parma in the first leg of the 2003/04 UEFA Cup second round is the club's joint
heaviest European
home defeat.
Both teams looking to bounce back after
heavy defeats... Catalans by 8 with
home advantage significant.
The 5 - 0 in December was Spurs»
heaviest Premier League
home defeat in 16 years and Liverpool's biggest ever win at White Hart Lane.
Arsenal's
heaviest defeat in this competition came at
home to Russian opponents, going down 5 - 2 against Spartak Moskva in the 1982/83 first round second leg.
The Dingwall outfit racked up a well - deserved 4 - 1 victory at Dens Park, consigning Dundee to their
heaviest home league
defeat in 16 games.
The Trotters haven't won in their last two
home matches though, suffering a
heavy defeat against Fulham and then luckily escaping with a 1 - 1 draw against Swansea.
Now Blackburn have shipped eleven goals in their last two away outings and although they will return
home for Saturday's crunch meeting with fellow relegation candidates Wolves, two
heavy defeats over the course of just a few weeks could do no end of damage to the morale in camp.
Defeats on the road to Sunderland (2 - 1), Everton (3 - 0) & Arsenal (6 - 2) mean Rovers are without a single away point this season but their most recent performance, despite suffering a
heavy defeat, might be a sign of things to come from a Rovers side that do boast a recent win at
home to bitter rivals Burnley.
Borussia Dortmund bounced back from their
heavy defeat at Bayern Munich with a comfortable 3 - 0
home win against Stuttgart.
Heavy defeats to also - rans Bournemouth and Watford, coupled with losses to Manchester United and Manchester City, and most stomach - churning of all a
home drubbing by Tottenham Hotspur which ended a 28 - year unbeaten streak against their fiercest rivals, have been hard to take.
Depending on Zidane's possible lineup and if Madrid score early it could turn out to be a long night for Legia who has already recorded
heaviest defeat so far in Champions League when they were bundled at
home by Dortmund with 6 - 0 scoreline.
West Ham had their long unbeaten
home stretch of form snapped on the weekend in a
heavy defeat by Swansea, but that would fuel them on to strike back.
I could probably stretch out another hour to that playtime if I wanted to get the 6 achievements that are gained by beating certain levels a specific way, and a few more hours if I cared about getting the more grind -
heavy achievements (like buy all of the stuff in the store &
defeat over 10,000 dinosaurs) but there's no denying that Go
Home Dinosaurs is a lot shorter than other favorite tower defense games like Plants vs. Zombies, Pixeljunk Monsters, Defense Grid, and Defender's Quest.