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Manchester United 2:2 Steven Gerrard's Villa (Sat 23rd July, 10:45 UK time)
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He needs to go, he’s not up to it.
Garner apparently coming on. You'd expect it to be for Fred, although ten Hag could bring off Van de Beek and push Fred higher, with Garner playing as the 6.
It’s all grayed out for me - I’m on mobile so maybe that’s the reason? Bit odd, I can do it on other threads
This is another misconception people have about de Jong as well as his passing range. The amount of touches our cbs take will be nothing compared to de Jong. He will la pelopina turn and stop the game many times. Of course, he will speed it up, too, but not as often as people think.
Need to click the little cogwheel
Good half on a dodgy pitch. Villa haven't been up to much but we're winning the ball back high up and Shaw and Rashford linking up well on the left.
Yes
He's not going to play much anyway. Eriksen slots in where he's playing today, McTominay can play there, Garner can play the deep role, etc. He's part of the 2nd 11 at the moment (though even then, he's probably competing with Hannibal), and he's not the priority midfielder from the 2nd group. And we're still prioritizing Frenkie. Once Frenkie comes, he'll barely play.
Martial needs to get into the box more often. He's been MIA there on several good attack.
Yeah I'd agree with all of that. At least with Martial we had seen what he could do in previous seasons. Donny's just never shown anything since leaving Ajax. I had hoped he'd come good under Ten Hag but I've no faith in him now at all.
Do you think Eriksen will play alongside Bruno?
Now that we're playing a 433, I guess it could work.
jayz aye
Commentators dig about Gerrard was great 
I hope the bed-wetters were impressed with the brilliance of Boubakar Kamara in that first half.
Yeah
As is we don't need to thin out our midfield more than it already is. Even if he offers little or nothing, he's a body somewhere we'll need bodies.
Good player but he's contracted until 2027. He'll cost a pretty penny.
Donny playing for his season in this half. Eriksen with no pre season would start over him at this rate.
I'm on mobile so it's not that. If the cog thing is yellow click it and all the icons will be available again.
Its winter time over there.
I'm taking the piss.
Surprised we haven’t made any changes for the 2nd half, particularly with how poor the pitch is. Last thing we want is to be picking up injuries on that shite turf.
Surprised it’s the same 11 on that heavy pitch.
Great stuff! Thanks mate.
I agree, it was tongue in cheek but I'm happy he's doing well
Unless the world is flat.
No, just the Finnish summer
For a second I thought that coach was Darron Gibson
Did we make subs?
If we go into the season with this same set of players playing starting roles and us believing we would massively improve upon last season's performances then we are in for a very rude awakening after 7 or 8 games into the season.
EtH will coach some structure into our play but he cannot coach away the massive technical limitations some of these players have.
I was only taking the piss. Family in Queensland. Always feel like I'm melting over there.
We're looking good.
Poor from Fred
Donny made a pass
oh fred
Awful that by Fred to lose it there
Horrible fred. Just pass