2017 Pre Season | Sampdoria vs Manchester United

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I think he's trying to fool Real Madrid, actually. If it was Lingard instead of Martial, he wouldn't have changed it. And if he really wanted to try a different formation, like he did in the other games, he would have changed at half-time.
You're thinking too much about it. :)
 

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Darmian looks awful now, If we have changed system he was better in the old one. It has to be Matic/Pogba and Herrera. Amazed he didn't try it.
 

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Do we really look like a team that's going to challenge for the title? I am starting to believe that we have made the wrong player purchases, except Matic who looks like a decent buy.
 

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not convinced by our team/squad at all :nervous:

hopefully a better showing against Real next week
 

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Honestly that should be Carrick's last season in the club. Sorry but he has nothing more to offer on the pitch.
 

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Do we really look like a team that's going to challenge for the title? I am starting to believe that we have made the wrong player purchases, except Matic who looks like a decent buy.
Lukaku is a wrong purchase?
 

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Let's not forget we're playing two mixed teams in either half.

Next week against Madrid we'll be starting our sole best 11 players. Expect players from team A and B to complete the final line up. There's not one match in preseason thus far where we've done that.

Of course whether that's enough to beat Madrid is another matter.
 

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Honestly that should be Carrick's last season in the club. Sorry but he has nothing more to offer on the pitch.
Last year should've been his last year. If he starts premier league games, he'll be a liability.
 

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Do we really look like a team that's going to challenge for the title? I am starting to believe that we have made the wrong player purchases, except Matic who looks like a decent buy.
Agreed. We should just pack it all in and watch the cricket. No point in this season.
 

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We are going to have the same issue as last season we arent going to score enough goals, it seems so difficult to create and score we dont have that fluidity in the final third. Looks like we will be reliant on lukaku to score all the goals
 

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Do we really look like a team that's going to challenge for the title? I am starting to believe that we have made the wrong player purchases, except Matic who looks like a decent buy.
Yep because in the league we won't change the whole midfield during the game.
 

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Jose's been here a year now...still have no idea what his 'style' or preferred systems are.

This looks like a random group of players that happen to have showed up on a pitch together.

One of the many, many things you've gotta give Fergie is that the personnel mattered far less than the system - players seemed to get what they were supposed to do.
 

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Alex Tunazbee - when the feck did we sign him?
 

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Let's not forget we're playing two mixed teams in either half.

Next week against Madrid we'll be starting our sole best 11 players. Expect players from team A and B to complete the final line up. There's not one match in preseason thus far where we've done that.

Of course whether that's enough to beat Madrid is another matter.
Just find it odd that we will do it one game before the season starts. Matic has to start if he can.
 

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Last year should've been his last year. If he starts premier league games, he'll be a liability.
Been saying this for a while. He was nowhere near his effective self for the most part last season, I was surprised he was extended and given the armband.
 

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This second half is like watching England v Iceland. I cannot believe the number of errors we are making.
 

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Lukaku is a wrong purchase?
He's clearly got pace and power but I guess the question is whether he offers enough craft to deal with all the teams that will sit back and wait for us to break them down.
 

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Do we really look like a team that's going to challenge for the title? I am starting to believe that we have made the wrong player purchases, except Matic who looks like a decent buy.
Aside from Matic theres no noticeable upgrade.
Zlatan cancels out Lukaku
Rojo out injured cancels out Lindelof.

Matic will be a great purchase but I don't see this team scoring 30 more goals in the league. It's still a distance away from top 4 let alone the title.
 

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Yeah but he isn't changing the system to put him in. Just trying different formations. We played 3 different ones last season.
I think he changed the system because we weren't pressing well enough high up with Mata instead of Mkhi.