I noticed all reports are about who started, while no one has reported anything about other players who played. For all we know the team that conceded a bunch could have been filled with fringe youth players, who we already know from pre-season aren't physically ready for the PL.
Manchester United vs Burnley (Behind closed doors friendly)
- Thread starter L1nk
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Burnley forum
"Sat with a mate who coaches Utd under 10’s who was at the game. Said it was 1-0 when Muric handled outside the box and should have been sent off. He said we played the first team but wasn’t sure about whether Beyer played or not. He doesn’t know who scored the goals. Fernandez, Henderson and McGuire didn’t play"
"Sat with a mate who coaches Utd under 10’s who was at the game. Said it was 1-0 when Muric handled outside the box and should have been sent off. He said we played the first team but wasn’t sure about whether Beyer played or not. He doesn’t know who scored the goals. Fernandez, Henderson and McGuire didn’t play"
What’s the difference between a friendly against Burnley’s second team, and just organising an 11 v 11 with people already in the squad?
But what about VAR controversy ? Can't we jam one in there somehow ?
It's probably more of an adversarial sparring & closer to competitive conditions exercice.
6 of those we should have sold this summer bringing in 3 replacements on top of what we have.
Surprised it wasn't 10 with that team. 
I knew @Pogue Mahone would be all over this when I saw the score
Would have been the first game in history where both teams lost.
Ah ok some of them played a month ago, thanks for that
What’s that supposed to mean
Granted I’m an eternal optimist but I still want to fecking win and am not pleased when we lose by any means
Little worrying that
Hasn't it been the same for the majority of managers here? second season and it all either goes downhill, or the manager isn't backed enough to even nearly challenge because we secured top four.
Until the Glazers go we're absolutely fecked.
Can nobody spell Maguire correctly?
So why have the game and risk these players getting an injury? Nothing makes sense with the club once again.
Do they play these games at full pelt or is it more of a training excercise just to get players fitter.?
Agree. They should not train either to avoid injuries. This feckin' club.
Still can't believe Jonny Evans is back. What a laughing stock they've made this great club.
Oooh let me get annoyed about something. What's the favourite here? Can't wait to get stuck in.
Try the quote above you
At least we are consistent. Can’t score what ever team we put out.
We could have lost 10 nil, all that is important is a must win at home to Forest on Saturday.
We don’t win that game then I think most will start to feel a bit worried. I already am and was post Wolves based on our window and sales v our rivals.
We could have lost 10 nil, all that is important is a must win at home to Forest on Saturday.
We don’t win that game then I think most will start to feel a bit worried. I already am and was post Wolves based on our window and sales v our rivals.
Also Martial is our backup CF but he literally had no pre season...
I see no problem with Samids spelling of Mugwire. Thats his name, Harry M.
You are so naive.
While I believe this is true this doesn't help. The point about fitness is also something that could easily define the purpose of pre season (not to over analyse results) and the players still stated the season unable to come out of 2nd gear.
All these results including pre season show, is that United are struggling to build momentum and that's a huge worry. Last season they lost three games on the bounce the manager was able to jumpstart some consistency. It's hard to know if anything is amiss we can only speculate but there's certainly something that's not right. People can say it's only approaching three games into the season but it still feels flat and that feeling which is an intangible is being reflected in the teams performances.
Don't worry, it is behind closed doors.
Burnley's previous fixture was called off so they fielded a strong team in the first half.
You’re right. We’ve got some really bad players. ETH came in last season and managed to get all of them up a level, but we needed to get rid of loads this summer, we needed to buy more good players, and we needed to choose the right ones. We’ve done none of those things and I think the squad is possibly weaker and plenty of clubs have got stronger.
I bet ETH isn’t thinking ‘it was only a friendly’ yesterday. He’ll be very concerned, I imagine.
Doesn’t matter anyway, we will scrape a win against Nottingham than go on to lose to Arsenal and Brighton, it’s clear as daylight. Makes it 6/15.
imagine getting cross about a behind-closed doors friendly thats purely about fitness
Its a bit like my sons u7's team, they play a game at the end of training and often the losing team cries because they dont understand the purpose fully, but they're 7...
Its a bit like my sons u7's team, they play a game at the end of training and often the losing team cries because they dont understand the purpose fully, but they're 7...
You bring honor to your username, keep up the work.
Has Goldbridge done one of his UNITED IN CRISIS!!! videos about this result yet?
After seeing reports of the team that played, result doesn't matter one iota.
Fitness training in competitive environment, move on
Fitness training in competitive environment, move on
People are reading into this and taking it seriously? Feck me
You all are feeding into this growing negative hysteria surrounding United which is intentionally being generated by the media. We had a decent pre-season, we've had a decent transfer window so far (especially in comparison to previous windows), we've had a better start than last season, yes the wolves game was a bit crap, the first half against spurs was actually pretty good bearing in mind the new style EtH wants us to play. This friendly has 0 meaning in regards to our season. Everyone is pressing the panic button feeding into this negative narrative that everything is on fire when in reality....its a fairly decent start to the season all things considered. Does it look like we will challenge for the league? not really but we wasn't expected to, does it look like we will fail to reach top 4? not really, last season we lost the first 2 and still finished 3rd, you can't tell anything from the first couple of games and especially from a behind the doors friendly.
Burnley wanted to play this game more than United because of Burnley's lack of game this weekend.
Really doubt EtH is particularly bothered by the result at all.
Really doubt EtH is particularly bothered by the result at all.
I would like to think he is; if not, then he is not doing his job