The battle is not Herrera vs Verratti but Verratti vs Pogba.
Who are these French pundits? The troll @BalanceUnAutreJoint ?
Dunno if he's quicker but you play Bailey up there like Smalling is slow. Smalling is one of the fastest CBs in the World at full sprint.
Yeah I've seen it mentioned a couple of time and I'm scratching my head. Smalling isn't as fast as Bailly. The guy nullified Vardy and Aubamenyang's pace like nothing. Even Rashford mentioned that Bailly is the hardest defender he's had to deal with in training and the kid is pacy.
You're not Ole! Who are you?!
Smalling is quick, Bailly is rapid!
Opinions are different and that’s why we have a forum. Bailly may be faster but is more errror prone and lesser experienced than Smalling. I like Bailly but for an important game, I would put Smalling if fit in there in a heartbeat.
Smalling is the fastest United player in the squad, according to the stats.
That comes from the reports and interviews and players saying Smalling is the fastest in the club. I think it was last season mind you and things change.
Stats only measure top speed don’t they? Remember Rooney used to top the charts a few years ago when everyone could see that he wasn’t among the fastest in the league. Bailly is as fast as Aubameyang. Smalling has a good top speed, but his acceleration is very poor, so poor in fact that I woudn’t call him a ‘fast’ center back.
Think this was stats from training, like official stats released by United and it was over 100m.
it will be. you going home or away? Or both?
Just the home match. Only way to get tickets was take the whole package from the agent. Ridiculous money but I agree, it should be a massive occasion. We need to make serious noise tomorrow.
Yeah, 100m is a very irrelevant distance when it comes to football. A pitch is 105m long, and a 100m test doesn’t really test acceleration. Players never sprint 100m during games. A 20-30m test would be far more relevant, and I’m sure Bailly would beat Smalling in such a test.
Nobody said Bailly is slow?
I wish I was going. This ballot for members is a load of bollox. Missed tickets to PSG and Liverpool games. Enjoy it man, I have a feeling we're going to shock a lot of people.
Its not that difficult. You are both right. In a sprint Bailly will lead Smalling the first 20-25 meters then Smalling will take over and probably beat Bailly with ease thereafter. They are both very fast players albeit in a ltb different way.
Yeah. Exactly. For the same reason top speed that is always quoted on here as eveidence is pretty much irrelevant as well since it is usually reached after 60-70 meters and its really not very often you run straight forward in a football game for that amount of distance. Would be interesting to see Smalling vs Bailly over 30 ms though, I agree Bailly would probably lead most of the race, but coming up towards 30m Smalling is a monster. He is probably one of the fastest CBs in the world over a ltb longer distance.
If Smalling had played the whole last game, I probably would have preferred him. But I think Ole gives priority to "safety" and chooses those who have played the most under him, Jones and Lindelof.
I thought he played the whole game against Fulham.
Without Cavani and Neymar, they don't have a better team than us, not at all. I also don't know any of their bench players being better than our starters.
As you can see, a lot of guys follow the G.W.Bush reasoning "you're either with us, or against us"
I must have dreamed it, of course you are right!
Ander Herrera
Nemanja Matic
Victor Lindelof
Paul Pogba
Luke Shaw
Ashley Young
Jesse Lingard
Marcus Rashford
Eric Bailly
Daniele Orsato
replaced by Alexis Sanchez
replaced by Juan Mata
replaced by Romelu Lukaku
