Manchester United 2:2 Steven Gerrard's Villa (Sat 23rd July, 10:45 UK time)

[Hester_manc]

Good game:
Shaw
Bruno
And Garner look good in his 30 minutes.

Poor game:
DDG
Martial
Donny
Telles
Varane
Lindelöf
Darlot
Hannibal

 

[Frank Grimes]

De Gea needs to put on some muscle

You can't teach bravery.

 

[El Jefe]

He's not even signed yet!

shows where my mind was.

 

[big rons sovereign]

DDG is just trash on corners.

And crosses, and penalties, and long shots, and 1v1s....

 

[SirAnderson]

You laugh.
Villa did us a huge favor.
The omen is broken. Now we can rise again.

 

[IrishRedDevil]

Kinda glad that ended 2-2. Reality check. Awful 2nd half.

 

[AndyMUFC]

Second half wasn't very good but with all the changes etc. that can always potentially happen.

 

[vanderpants]

At least ETH knows what's he's up against now

 

[sewey89]

At least nobody is overreacting

 

[Bastian]

Pity. Main thing is avoiding injuries in a match like this. I thought we weren't that good in that first half, Villa just didn't show up. Good to have this performance now rather than later.

 

[Blood Mage]

You need cnuts like Buendia and McGinn in your team sometimes. Most of our lads apart from Bruno, Hannibal and Bailly are far too passive. Thank god we've signed Martinez.

 

[the hea]

De Gea you utter pussy, shot stopper is all he is. Fraud.

Chill out dude, it's pre season for fecks sake.

 

[mu4c_20le]

2-2
Chambers

No way De Gea was getting that.... vs two big Villa players, our defence just turned off

 

[DJ_21]

6 shots all game and 5 of them came in first halve Pitch obviously didn’t help but it’s safe to say none of that 2nd halve team will be starting in the prem 1st game.

 

[Tony247]

Desparate last minute situations like this need height and physicality to mitigate.

 

[Drainy]

In fairness, there are a few players who finished that game who should be nowhere close to united's first team, and probably only AWB will be, as a back up, by the start of the season.

 

[AltiUn]

Second half wasn't very good but with all the changes etc. that can always potentially happen.

We weren't playing well before the changes honestly.

 

[Skills]

Good test that was. Awful pitch, but a good game nonetheless

 

[Camy89]

De Gea and Lindelof the cowards of Manchester. You can't fake bravery, same players they've always been.

Pretty sure de Gea was fairly instrumental in helping us finish in a EL spot last season?

Chill out.

 

[Swedish_Plumber]

At least nobody is overreacting

 

[Raven]

I feel robbed, that being the only game I've been able to watch, poor game.

 

[redzombie]

keeper's a bottle job, always has been

 

[AltiUn]

In fairness, there are a few players who finished that game who should be nowhere close to united's first team, and probably only AWB will be, as a back up, by the start of the season.

I think Iqbal might be, he did well even despite those around him not getting up to much.

 

[charlenefan]

Since when has Chambers played for Villa?

 

[VidaRed]

I thought there was no way they'd score from that corner.

Mind you im never certain about corners when we're defending. But i thought things had changed and stopped shitting myself for this corner and ddg flapped about whilst they scored.

 

[fallengt]

Disappointing but must needed result

- Sell Chong and AWB to the first bidder. Not worth our time.
- We need to move DDG on eventually.
- Need holding Midfielder badly.

 

[Acquire Me]

Are people being mad after this result in a preseason match?

 

[the_cliff]

Iqbal and Malacia only stand outs from the second half. Varane's form is worrying.

Positives: Excellent first half, No Injuries, Martial, Sancho, Rashford all looked good.

Negatives: Varane, De Gea, DVB, Lots of these kids aren't ready.

 

[Devil_forever]

Chill out dude, it's pre season for fecks sake.

The last 10 years aren’t fecking pre season, he’s such a one trick pony.

 

[FatTails]

Good game:
Shaw
Bruno
And Garner look good in his 30 minutes.

Poor game:
DDG
Martial
Donny
Telles
Varane
Lindelöf
Darlot
Hannibal

Can you have a poor game if you do absolutely nothing?

 

[sullydnl]

Glad Villa came back into it in the second half. Good for ETH to see us under a bit of pressure in a game and have some faults exposed. Better it happens in pre-season than the real thing.

 

[Fts 74]

Come on now its pre season doesn't matter just like the other games we've won.

 

[evil_geko]

No way De Gea was getting that.... vs two big Villa players, our defence just turned off

Nah, De Gea is at fault for everything judging by hater squad on here.

 

[siw2007]

Not the way I would have wanted the game to end, as comfortable as the 1st half was, the team struggled in the 2nd half, Baily was pretty great for them. Pitch was terrible which probs played a part but the manager won’t be happy with what he has seen today.

We’ve got a week of training now and hopefully Eriksen and Martinez will join the team.

 

[RonaldoVII]

Don't know why you keep taking Chong along, when it's abundantly clear he's never going to be good enough for first flight football anywhere. Waste of space and time.

Just need bodies on tour, he won't be near the first team squad next season.

 

[P-Nut]

Don't know why you keep taking Chong along, when it's abundantly clear he's never going to be good enough for first flight football anywhere. Waste of space and time.

Lack of numbers in attacking areas really. We've got 3 main attackers and then Elanga. After that you're into young prospects in Amad, Pellistri and Chong, all of whom still seem a long, long way from first team football.

 

[Walters_19_MuFc]

Game of two halves. Dominated first half, awful second, which is what we saw at times last season.

We've been pretty much dominant throughout the games in most of our games on pre season. The subs and weather didn't help but ten Hag will want us to dominate games more consistently. I think for this reason, it's imperative we bring in a player like De Jong, who is amongst the best at controlling games.

 

[UnitedFan93]

Can we call back Henderson ?

DDG has been like flappy bird for every corner.

Henderson's just as bad

 

[Drainy]

I think Iqbal might be, he did well even despite those around him not getting up to much.

Nah, he's years off if he ever will be good enough.

 

[big rons sovereign]

How bad was that ref though? He pretty much just let villa kick lumps out of us.
Must be a Stevie fanboy.