Manchester United 3:1 Crystal Palace (Tue 19th July, 11:10 UK time)

[micmac]

The season we finished 2nd, didn't Chelsea strengthen? They spend 250m?
Didn't Arsenal strengthen?
Spurs as well, they backed Jose that season.

I never understand when people say the league was weak and stadiums empty. Another one is that Liverpool had a lot of injuries. The defensive issues they had sounds like when united always had defensive injuries and still performed optimum.

 

[saik]

Fighting in a pre-season game . This is pathetic.

 

[MichaelRed]

Ayew is such a twat.

 

[the hea]

Vieira needs to take Ayew and Mateta off, no need for stuff like that in a friendly

 

[cj_sparky]

Can someone just flatten Ayew please.

 

[Godfather]

Thugs the lot of them.

 

[bdecuc]

They don't take well to being outclassed.

 

[FootyGirl88]

Ayew needs a slap

 

[mu4c_20le]

What did Donny ever do to anyone to deserve that.

 

[charlenefan]

21 is coming

 

[fergosaurus]

Palace losing it over how dominant we are

 

[Wicked_Badger]

What’s Ayew on? Looks drunk

 

[dannyrhinos89]

Bunch of dirty cnuts

Mateta and ayew need subbing

 

[DWelbz19]

Ayew’s lost it. That receding hairline is the root of it, I reckon

 

[SirAnderson]

Got to love Fred…..

I thought he was going to be a peacemaker there, instead he gets all over him

 

[FiiiiveTenHaaags]

Bunch of thugs .. coached by a thug

Is Keano a thug? Cantona? If not that’s got fairly racial undertones you might not be aware of pal

 

[Yagami]

I never thought I'd say thins, but Bruno needs to shoot more often.

Nooooo, I'm loving these cutbacks! Unselfish Bruno is best Bruno!

 

[avgp_1]

Should have scored Palace

 

[Godfather]

Bruno a bit too causal at times.

 

[Beans]

Should be a red

 

[AltiUn]

Ayew should be off for that, you can't push someone when you're already on a yellow.

That 2nd goal was a thing of beauty.

 

[Widow]

Wonderful

 

[mikeyt]

Bruno has been very underwhelming in pre-season. Shades of the 2nd half of last season. Wasteful and erratic.

This! In the games to date of the 'senior' players he's shown the least for me.

 

[Massive Spanner]

Sancho and Martial

 

[Champ]

National team is Scotland and he doesn't even start in midfield for them. Not good enough but we're in a ridiculous position where we haven't bought a holding midfielder since Matic.

btw "Refuses to acknowledge existence of Ukraine"? Yeah you're getting ignored.

Interesting to note how open midfield is now that McT has gone off, am sure you probably haven't noticed that though!

That comment regarding my tagline goes to show how little you know!

 

[sglowrider]

We really do need someone who can take proper freekicks and corners.

 

[SirAnderson]

I JIZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZED!!!

D:<LFJKSD:LFJFJKLN:LSDKJ!!!!!

 

[hellhunter]

We're so fecking sexy

 

[criticalanalysis]

Sanchooooo

 

[Dante]

I've just cum

 

[Who's Kissing Cameras?]

Rashford in that goal was incredible.

 

[pratyush_utd]

Martial and Sancho

 

[bringbackbebe]

What a counter!

 

[avgp_1]

Martial Ballon d'Or clause still active??

 

[Godfather]

What a goal. Tony is absolutely killing it out there.

 

[the_cliff]

Palace are getting frustrated. They're hardly touching the ball.

 

[Tom Van Persie]

Another great goal. Martial is unreal.

 

[villain]

What a fantastic goal! Martial my god you sexy human

 

[Irrational.]

If Android Townsend was playing, he’d definitely get one back for Palace from 30 yards. Plonker only ever scores against us.

 

[Fortitude]

The below written last week:

It's a very precarious situation all round really. For reasons others mentioned regarding team harmony - if Martial gets shafted again for another big name, we really will have lost even the remote hope he can come good - as well as his ego and powers of influence on and off the pitch plus the notion of him grafting in a World Cup year, where he'll be saving his legs for a last hurrah... on top of that, him not accepting rotation or being a sub...

It's a potential minefield, for sure. I think he'll want to exit mainstream football on his own terms - if he ever goes back to Sporting as a player, it'll be when he's absolutely done, and accepts it, not whilst he's still able to hit 20-35 goals a season at the top level.

ten Hag looks like a perceptive guy, so I hope he has contingencies and plans in place no matter which avenue things go down. He really doesn't need a circus during his debut season.

‘This isn’t going to be pretty. Martial is playing in a manner that earns a player a start to the campaign proper - is that just going to be yanked away from him if Ronaldo can’t find a club?