Reserves v Arsenal (15.08.11)

jeston

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First League game of the season.

United Squad: Tomasz Kuszczak, Sam Johnstone; Larnell Cole, Michael Keane, Reece Brown, Ezekiel Fryers, Darren Fletcher, Paul Pogba, Darron Gibson, Danny Drinkwater, Oliver Norwood, Davide Petrucci, Jesse Lingard; Mame Biram Diouf, Will Keane.
 
So Macheda is now stuck in a limbo where he can't get a game for either side?

Loan time!
 
StanleyCupboard said:
So Macheda is now stuck in a limbo where he can't get a game for either side?Loan time!
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I'd rather see him at Bolton.
They've lost sturridge and Elmander this summer. Would be great if he got a season there.
Or even Wigan
Anywhere but Blackburn
 
GIbson and Pig still play for the reserves, are there any buyers for them?
 
Team: PIG, Cole, Brown, Fryers, M. Keane, Pogba, Fletch, Gibson, Norwood, Drinkwater, Diouf
 
very poor match from us - we have a much more experienced side and Arsenal have lost 2 players to injuries. Still they look much sharper.

Our team is so unbalanced its strange - we just have a bunch of central players - and some of them have to play on the flanks
 
Least Fletch got his 90 minutes. Pogba looked nice in patches, Cole was decent too but overall we looked ponderous and Arsenal were Arsenal basically, moving the ball at speed and looked competent.
 
Was a decent game with a decent crowd. Pogba drifted in and out of the game but wholly looked good. Drinkwater was good in spells too.

Was told Larnell had spent most of pre season at RB wished he was further forward. Zeki could have been on the left, Keane on the right but don't think there was another CB so Zeki tucked in and Cole went out right with Keane on the left.
 
Our midfield was really poor - Fletcher was sloppy, Norwood and Gibson completely anonymous. Pogba tried hard but his finishing was dreadful. And Drinkwater was someplace in-between
 
I was impressed by Pogba's ability to play as an actual winger - making runs in behind the defense, taking his full back on 1-on-1, etc - instead of drifting inside and playing in his more natural style like I thought he would. Not that he should ever be played as a winger of course, but it's nice to know he has the intelligence and versatility to adapt to an unfamiliar situation.
 
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