He'll definitely start and be such an important player this season.
I don't buy into the McTominay abuse either. He's not going to start for us but he's a decent squad player.
Manchester United 4:1 Melbourne Defeat (Fri 15th July, 11:05 UK time)
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I don't buy into the McTominay abuse either. He's not going to start for us but he's a decent squad player.
They haven’t played since may, similarly to us.
ETH's system and tactics is going to highlight even further just how poor a lot of our players are both in and out of possession.
So many of this team are positionally poor, have a dreadful first touch and can't move the ball quickly enough. I fully expect after ETH seeing a season of this, the likes of McTominay, Elanga and others will be gone next summer. We'll have to stick with a lot of them this year to be bodies in the squad but hopefully the likes of Hannibal and co can step into the squad consistently while the dross gets phased out.
So many of this team are positionally poor, have a dreadful first touch and can't move the ball quickly enough. I fully expect after ETH seeing a season of this, the likes of McTominay, Elanga and others will be gone next summer. We'll have to stick with a lot of them this year to be bodies in the squad but hopefully the likes of Hannibal and co can step into the squad consistently while the dross gets phased out.
Sancho has no left foot :/
Don't sit on the fence, tell me how you really feel
A chance for EtH to see where we have struggled for a few years, breaking down a low block and being caught on the counter.
Decent cross from Friern Barnett
Maguire could have easily have intercepted the last pass if not for him being slow.
It's funny how our left side was always our most dangerous now with Sancho and Dalot playing the left is useless.
Was just thinking about this. There's little space to move about.
Still very clear who the weak links will be
McTerminator needs to go back in time and become a postman or something.
It's a spot on analysis tbf
I’ve been watching him throughout this game.
He’s all over the place.
Slow, not anticipating play and moving up into positions to revive a pass, wondering around aimlessly.
He’s playing walking football.
If Maguire had a brain he would step up and play him offside. Baffling how you can't see that.
Beckham kicked Elanga. Should have been red.
Fred has lost possession or made the wrong decision on the ball at least 6 times this half. Dreadful.
It’s like Fred wants to get dropped
That Melbourne no. 6 is a cnut.
ETH visibility shakes his head at Fred
ETH is furious with Fred 
I wish I had the same level of self confidence as Fred does when he decides to shoot
Fred scores a lob with his weaker foot in the last game and now he thinks hes the pre season pirlo.
I think Dalot has been good, and from looking at what he's been asked to do, I don't think AWB has a chance of being able to do that role well at all.
Freds playing where Frenkie de Jong will play. Mind boggling how different they'll be.
Imagine Eriksen in the positions Fred has found himself in today
Seems deliberate as there is lots of room to make the pitch wider.
I'm still waiting to see ETH do on Fred a Roberto Mancini on Mario Balotelli now.ETH is furious with Fred
Agreed, pretty decent.
Exactly where I am at. McFred and Elanga you can see don't have the touch and quality for this type of possession based attack vs defense.
He's a one man midfield at the moment.
I'd like to see his number of touches and passes compared to his midfield partner.
Elanga needs a loan, he's nowhere near good enough
Thanks for writing it, I don't have to now.
I swear he's always worn gloves (also 11C there currently, winter and that).
Lindelof and Shaw are both beaten easily and an attack let down the right hand side which never should have happened. Maguire has a split second decision to make and decides to track back instead. I can't blame him for that when two of his teammates made far worse errors.
Elanga has no finesse to his game at all.
Don't think any amount of coaching will help a few of these players. Some are simply fundamentally nowhere near good enough for what Ten Hag is trying to implement
He was covering for Shaw who was the fecker in No Mans landWhat exactly was Lindelof trying to do there?
He wasn't close enough to cut out the pass or block off/cover the run. In no man's land.
everything is going through Dalot-Sancho, there's no communication between shaw and elanga.