Wow. We have some different teams.
Ahh thanks good to know, who should I switch him with? I'm starting to get vey overwhelmed
Not good fixture list early on. We don't know yet, if Arsenal will continue to keep clean sheets.
Munoz is very overrated and probably wont be much better than say Dalot. And Souchek? What is this, 2021?!
Watch Smith Rowe get injured 15 minutes into our match. The lad has been rotting on Arsenal's bench for an entire season. His manager wants to help him 'get back to his best' but he hasn't been good for almost four years. Lingard 2.0
Consider not doing 4 at the back. Bonus points have now favoured attackers as you get more likely for BP for shots on target and fouls won I think.Ahh thanks good to know, who should I switch him with? I'm starting to get vey overwhelmed
Have you watched him in pre season and generally under Glasner? He's a wing back on paper (not even RB) but is taking up positions as a RF a lot. In pre season games he's been seen as the first man pressing the keeper at times
Not sure if Perreira plays as advanced given ESR buy. Soucek is a no.
Hasn't been a hit there in pre-season from what I can gather. I think he'll just be a headache to transfer out later personally. (waste of transfers). At 5.5 Smith Rowe seems better value.
Andreas will most likely play wide right, still on set pieces and pens.
Has played deeper in pre-season and hasn't been very dangerous it seems. Is on penalties though. He was my choice first, but reading up on pre-season made me go to ESR.
Looking pretty decent. I'd not have Martinez, and personally I'd go for Murillo from Forest instead due to the fixtures. Or play Barco in the first one and use the 0.5 to upgrade Martinez to Muñoz and play Muñoz from gw2-4.
yeah I ditched Soucek for Eze and Gvardiol for Mazraoui, still gonna bank on Andreas P as he has shown he can do it at Fulham and does not have the same injury record as ESR
I rate Martinez as a pick generally but not for the first few games. Easy route to a United defence that may surprise us positively.
Maybe upgrade one of the 4.5m defenders to a Porro or Gvardiol. I'd lean on Porro considering his attacking potential and he isn't prone to Peps rotation. Also better to wait for leaks to see if Garnacho starts.
Nonsense, he was fit for most of last season, just wasn't favoured by Arteta over Odegaard, which is completely understandable. He's already managed to score 2 goals during Fulham's pre-season and has looked a great creative outlet for them in those games. And he was a key player for Arsenal in the 21/22 season scoring 10 PL goals, where on earth did you pull him not being good for 4 years from?
That midfield has to be one of the worst I've seen this season. Where did the money go?
Preseason is just an indicator of fitness and sharpness. Andreas Pereira used to look like a Scholes regen in preseason tours.
it's a hot takes midfield to be honest and the logic is I'll just save my subs and swap all 5 in week three if it doesn't pay off. But like you say it's not a great bunch of names and I'm thinking about better options from day 1.I like the team. Nice balance all round. My only concern is that your defense don't really have much attacking potential. But overall a solid team.
If he can stay fit, he'll be an incredible player. He was supposed to be their Palmer before he got injured and they actually signed Palmer. I just spent last night scrapping around for some funds to upgrade ESR because they are on different levels.
Pre-season is also a good indicator to how a player fits into a new team's system and how they'll be expected to play, ESR has already shown good signs of that on top of looking fit and sharp. If you expected someone like Pereira to be an important cog in United's team and system because of some pre-season games despite not making an impact for several seasons in a row, that's your mis-judgement. Also, 2 years and a few months is not remotely close to 4 years, you're clearly a tomatoe guy.
We conceded the same number of goals as Arsenal in the year before with Martinez in the backline. Muniz has slightly better attacking returns (IF he continues his form from end of last season) but Dalot has clean sheet potential.
Yep
Ugh, sitting at a bog trying to sort this out
v1:
Henderson
Gvardiol, Porro, Quansah
Jota, Saka, Nkunku, Garnacho
Solanke, Haaland, Isak
Subs: Ward, ESR, Mykolenko, Harwood
Or v2:
Henderson
TAA, Porro, Mykolenko
Eze, Saka, Nkunku, Garnacho
Solanke, Haaland, Isak
Subs: Ward, ESR, Faes, Harwood
I'm leaning v2 but no useful bench defenders worries me, especially as Mykolenko has never been a player that can stay fit.
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TAA in there now. Best advice was given earlier. Log out and chill. Wish I could take it myself.