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2024-25 Performances

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6.2 Season Average Rating
Appearances
40
Goals
10
Assists
8
Yellow cards
2
Cutch said:
Realistically I'd say tomorrow is too soon, and plan would be to stay at home for further training, get a run out on sunday and start the second leg.
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We simply don't know. If he travels he will feature I guess, and having him for last 10-15 minutes could be crucial.
 
Cutch said:
Realistically I'd say tomorrow is too soon, and plan would be to stay at home for further training, get a run out on sunday and start the second leg.
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Yeah, to be fair that sounds like the safer option.
 
red_de_pologne said:
We simply don't know. If he travels he will feature I guess, and having him for last 10-15 minutes could be crucial.
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I'd agree if he travels then he may aswell feature, otherwise he'd be better off staying at home for further training. Just seems unikely that he'd board a plane later on the same day he returns to full training for a game tomorrow, after a long term injury where he's returned ahead of schedule. Would love him to be ready though as we desperately need him.
 
Cutch said:
I'd agree if he travels then he may aswell feature, otherwise he'd be better off staying at home for further training. Just seems unikely that he'd board a plane later on the same day he returns to full training for a game tomorrow, after a long term injury where he's returned ahead of schedule. Would love him to be ready though as we desperately need him.
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For pretty much every other match this season I'd agree but everything hinges on this tie. Maybe we'd be better off saving him for the next leg though. It's a tough decision and I don't envy Amorim for having to make it.
 
Raven said:
For pretty much every other match this season I'd agree but everything hinges on this tie. Maybe we'd be better off saving him for the next leg though. It's a tough decision and I don't envy Amorim for having to make it.
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Lets hope, he doesn't follow this mindset. I totally understand, why this match is so important for most people on here but no result is worthy of risking the health of very young player who comes back from an injury. It simply isn't and I'd say, if we force it, it reeks of desperation and it'd be another sign, that we arrived in a small team mindset.

It must be possible to go to fecking Bilbao and keep it compact and come back with a decent result where even a 1-0 loss wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. Amad is not essential for that. This should not be his first match coming back.
 
This guy has an unbelievable set of lungs. If be starting him tomorrow and taking him off after 60 minutes.

If he is back in training then he is ready to go imo

Doubt Ruben will risk it though
 
Raven said:
For pretty much every other match this season I'd agree but everything hinges on this tie. Maybe we'd be better off saving him for the next leg though. It's a tough decision and I don't envy Amorim for having to make it.
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I'm sure he'll be fit enough to play for 15 minutes. If it's confirmed he is fully healed, which by being in full training it will be. Then he just need to work on his full fitness. 15 minutes ought to be absolutely fine.
 
The most important is that we can use him for the home tie. I'm guessing he may get 20 minutes or so tomorrow to start building his sharpness.
 
NZT-One said:
Lets hope, he doesn't follow this mindset. I totally understand, why this match is so important for most people on here but no result is worthy of risking the health of very young player who comes back from an injury. It simply isn't and I'd say, if we force it, it reeks of desperation and it'd be another sign, that we arrived in a small team mindset.

It must be possible to go to fecking Bilbao and keep it compact and come back with a decent result where even a 1-0 loss wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. Amad is not essential for that. This should not be his first match coming back.
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I think it's just about having him as an option for the worst case scenario, since we have ZERO attacking backup. It's not like he'll be taking the place of anyone important.
 
Xeque_279 said:
I think it's just about having him as an option for the worst case scenario, since we have ZERO attacking backup. It's not like he'll be taking the place of anyone important.
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No I know and I agree but I'd still try to avoid it. Especially for the worst case scenario. If we are cruising then I'd say it could be fine to give him a run out for the last few minutes but a high pressure match is not the right place to "get some match sharpness", give him time against Brentford on Sunday. The home game against Bilbao is where it counts and where it would be great to have him. For keeping it tight to go away with a non-damaging result, he isn't essential.
 
Thursday is the most important game of the season, but with the second leg to come I’d not risk him for more than a cameo late on.
 
NZT-One said:
No I know and I agree but I'd still try to avoid it. Especially for the worst case scenario. If we are cruising then I'd say it could be fine to give him a run out for the last few minutes but a high pressure match is not the right place to "get some match sharpness", give him time against Brentford on Sunday. The home game against Bilbao is where it counts and where it would be great to have him. For keeping it tight to go away with a non-damaging result, he isn't essential.
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Quite the opposite in my opinion. If we're cruising we absolutely don't bring him on, he's anyway the kinda player who takes a lot of tackles and it would be a needless risk to take.

Now say we are maybe 3 goals down, I would defo get him on for the last 10-15 to at least maybe pull one back.
 
Xeque_279 said:
Quite the opposite in my opinion. If we're cruising we absolutely don't bring him on, he's anyway the kinda player who takes a lot of tackles and it would be a needless risk to take.

Now say we are maybe 3 goals down, I would defo get him on for the last 10-15 to at least maybe pull one back.
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Fair enough, not that I wouldn't understand where you are coming from but this is what I meant with the desperation part. If we have to bring on a 22 year old in his first real season after a week long injury break to be the saviour for us, I'd say we almost deserve him suffering a setback. But I know that a lot of people on here put a different meaning to Thursdays game than I do. Lets see how it turns out in the end.
 
Swedish_Plumber said:
Was watching the highlights of his hattrick against Southampton last night. Missed his intensity for sure.
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Unfortunately he fell off a bit after that hattrick. One of the only players aside from maybe Bruno who can produce that kind of performance though, we've desperately missed him.
 
Xeque_279 said:
Quite the opposite in my opinion. If we're cruising we absolutely don't bring him on, he's anyway the kinda player who takes a lot of tackles and it would be a needless risk to take.

Now say we are maybe 3 goals down, I would defo get him on for the last 10-15 to at least maybe pull one back.
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The words Manchester United and cruising don't really go hald in hand these days.
 
So glad he’s back to help us progress to the final. Need to stay in it this time. Amad will be crucial at OT next week
 
Is he actually ready to travel? seems too early for him, he needs couple of training sessions under his belt
 
With most players being off for a couple of months I’d say they’d need to be eased back slowly to build sharpness and stamina. However, Amad is very fit and I doubt that the missing sessions have affected his fitness too much. I’d definitely give him minutes tomorrow with the view to starting next week
 
OmarUnited4ever said:
Is he actually ready to travel? seems too early for him, he needs couple of training sessions under his belt
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Depends on what he's done behind the scenes. Amorim so far has been very cautious with returning injured players and expect him to continue being that way. He said in the presser that Amad and De ligt aren't ready to start but can contribute mins.
 
Amorim says he won't start but he is available. Didn't expect that!
 
Absolutely brilliant news. I can definitely envision us needing him for moments in the tie even if he can't start either match.
 
FrankWhite said:
Depends on what he's done behind the scenes. Amorim so far has been very cautious with returning injured players and expect him to continue being that way. He said in the presser that Amad and De ligt aren't ready to start but can contribute mins.
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That's great to hear, indeed we don't know what they have done behind closed doors, and it's kinda great to have both in the bench.
 
Instantly looked better than any of our other wide options in five minutes. He's so good. I still think he's ultimately home might be at wing back, he looked very dangerous there.
 
You could see as soon as he came on he was pushing much higher up the pitch that Maz and Dorgu did. Happy to see him back and looking in good form still
 
It's good that we shouldn't need him to start the second leg, can spend a few more games building up fitness.
 
Literally never in doubt he'd come back and be our best attacker. What a time to come back for us as well, I think he'll easily come back into the starting XI.
 
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