. Wow, would take no prisoners. Bring it on.I want to see Bailly and Lisandro pairing
Manchester United 4:1 Melbourne Defeat (Fri 15th July, 11:05 UK time)
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With Mejbri in front of them.I want to see Bailly and Lisandro pairing
Eriksen will be in the role McTominay played and FDJ in the position Fred played.
Bailey doing his usual world class/clown performance.
I really liked the Savage/Iqbal tandem
I really liked the Savage/Iqbal tandem
Why does it take so long for MUTV to stick the highlights up.
Because you touch yourself at night
But apart from that.
Indeed. Academy still going strong.
Where can we watch the full game
It is disgusting how slow both Lindelof and Maguire are. They got outrun shamefully by Melbourne team on that first goal.
Melbourne did a great service to us by scoring early and then defending in a low block against us for the rest of the game.
A situation I’m sure we will find ourselves in many times this season.
We got the result in the end but we were still clueless for most of the first half.
This team can score against high lines, on the counter, with setpieces, with opponent own goals but scoring in open play against a low block will always be the make or break for us. There won’t be always be a freak goal like McTom’s to bail us out.
A situation I’m sure we will find ourselves in many times this season.
We got the result in the end but we were still clueless for most of the first half.
This team can score against high lines, on the counter, with setpieces, with opponent own goals but scoring in open play against a low block will always be the make or break for us. There won’t be always be a freak goal like McTom’s to bail us out.
That Melbourne's coach should be sacked and choked by horses, for sub in Nani only on the last 5 minutes. On a friendly game against United.
There were times in the first half where it looked like we were auditioning for pall bearers
On Reddit, there is a subreddit called football highlights.
It seems that EtH favours a defensive high line and Maguire is too slow for that.
We saw it yesterday again.
We saw it yesterday again.
Yeh exactly. Exciting times.
Not just slow in pace as seen last season and against Melbourne. But let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and judge him when the season starts proper. My guess is that Varane will be the better partner for Lisandro when fit.
It's unfortunate that Bailly goes from genius to shite in the same matches!!
Indeed! I was just about to post something positive to bump up the Bailly thread during the 2nd half before he had his first brain-fart moment. He’s unreliable, unfortunately
Watched it later last night.
First half - worrying. So many poor performances. Sancho good again though.
Second half - a bit more promising. Kids did good. Savage class. Iqbal good again. Malacia good moments. Same for Laird.
Overall though, we need another attacker of Sancho's quality. Midfield will be better with FDJ and Eriksen, but these kids look good
First half - worrying. So many poor performances. Sancho good again though.
Second half - a bit more promising. Kids did good. Savage class. Iqbal good again. Malacia good moments. Same for Laird.
Overall though, we need another attacker of Sancho's quality. Midfield will be better with FDJ and Eriksen, but these kids look good
Could do with another attacking player, alls it takes is an injury to rashford/martial or sancho and we’re having to play Elanga who I don’t think is up to the standard at first team level. Could do with another right winger, sancho is comfortable there but if he’s injured, rashford and martial ain’t as good there, also when rashford isn’t in form we could switch sancho to the left and play the new right winger.
Hence why we are aiming for Antony I guess.
We do have Elanga/Pellestri and possibly Eriksen to play there though if needs be. While he won't be a flying winger if the fullback overlaps a lot that wont really be an issue.
Hearing that Will Fish has ben added to the tour squad. I have really high hopes for him
Having watched the briefest of highlights, have to say Rashford's goal was very nice but two of the others were complete flukes and the defending for their goal was as comical as last season. where the hell was the defence? Nothing in there made me think there's been any great improvement yet - we really do need to get our signings over the line. Of course it's early days but Chelsea and City have signed known quantities that will improve them. I feel we need some star quality up front because we can't afford to miss the sort of chances we did towards the end of last season...
Beckenbailly…
The commentator on MUTV seemed as if he was doing radio commentary, he was describing virtually everything.
No? Liverpool got quite a few chances against the first half defence.
The good thing for Melbourne Defeat is that their RB that came on in the last 20 minutes or so didnt look out of place against United, unlike the rest of their players that looked like they gave up on life in the 2nd half.
I think it's better that they go on loan. Consistent football is much better for them right now I think.
Not really
Yeah he played much better compared to Liverpool where he was giving the ball away.
He only signed a couple of days before the game and likely hardly trained with his teammates.
Didn't know where to put this as we don't have a general preseason thread. But are we really going to play games a Saturday AND Sunday? Sounds rather bizarre to me?
Based on what?
Good chance to see if he’ll sink or swim.
Bit surprised people think the first half was poor. The first 10 definitely we were off it, but after then I think we played really well. Melbourne were parking the bus in their penalty box, we had maguire and lindelof almost on the edge of melbourne's penalty box. Sancho and dalot were very good outlets, after the first 10 minutes we also sorted out our pressing. If anything I think that first half was more promising than the second, we stayed patient, started to get chances just down to the constant pressure and scored a very good second goal. It highlighted that there is still a way to go but it qas encouraging to see the players grow into dominating and high pressing after a bad start.
I like him in tight small spaces. I think he will do well for ETH system
Liverpool will allways get a few chances. Melbourne Victory getting a goal like that is different.
No doubt, or at least give a hint about what he is ready for in terms of developmental trajectory. I was asking a poster what he based his high hopes for Fish on, as I’ve only ever seen him play like two halves for the reserves.
saw a couple of youth games. Looked confident and calm on the ball. Trying to work out who he reminds me of but it was someone good from way back. Maybe Ronny Johnsen. Agreed it's not much to go on, but we never do these days. Truth be told, who knew a great deal about some of the Class of 92 other than SAF? The only one I'd seen anything of - and could tell there was star quality - was David Beckham
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