Manchester United vs Burnley (Behind closed doors friendly)
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
How did we get on against Everton last week?
We are going to get relegated
Insert ah ha ha gif
Is it common to have those sort of friendlies while season is going ? Youth teams playing all the time sure... I suppose it's what it is : Mostly an Academy backbone with a few seniors for some pre-post-season.
Good intense run out for the 2nd string it seems. How and why we lost by 3 though I will never understand.
It’s quite common in the start of the season, yeah. To get minutes in the squad/fringe players’ legs.
It's because we seem completely unfit
Something seems really off at the moment. All these added friendlies, regressive form to start the season... EtH is clearly not happy with something.
Probably a combination of players not coming back fit enough, having to work with players he'd expected to feck off, and not getting the replacements needed.
Could be a tricky season.
Probably a combination of players not coming back fit enough, having to work with players he'd expected to feck off, and not getting the replacements needed.
Could be a tricky season.
I mean people want Pellestri in for Antony, Martial at CF and McT in instead of Eriksen…
Another season where just doing enough to keep his job (top four) will be qualified as a success, but he did more than that last season. I really don’t know what to make of all this.
I imagine those friendlies are not high intensity but yeah I'd think those players are not expected to start the next PL game.
Maybe I just never paid attention.
To stop the silly doom mongering, this is nothing new. We've been doing behind the door friendlies at the beginning of the season for awhile now even under Ole. The aim is to give the rest of the squad who isn't getting games and players needing fitness a more competitive run out than just training or an U23 match. Nothing to see here.
Jesus Christ
Why does it matter? The result is basically of no consequence
We won 2-0
Good job no one will blow this out of proportion
Sure we scored 2 goals. Reminds me of North Korea who told their people they were winning every game at the 2010 World Cup.
Burnley have some good players to be fair.
I dont understand this kind of response. It was the same when we were losing games in pre season too.
Good teams win football matches.
It seems that all the confusion around the clubs ownership has trickled down and we don't have the organizational leadership/capacity to operate at the standard required.
All our signings are clearly coming from EtH, which isn't the way a club should be run and, amidst this, we can't get rid of the shite that needs clearing. It's the same things we've seen for more than a decade now.
Expect a Hail Mary, panic buy splurge if we lose to Forest.
Can't imagine it was their starters tbh
Means nothing, these happen regularly and player's are hardly going to be going at it 100%
Basically we can try some tactics things + everyone gets a run out
Basically we can try some tactics things + everyone gets a run out
Cheers
Antony vindicated!
It’s understandable as the clubs quite often keep these under wraps.
Well technically we only scored 1 (McTominay) as the other was an own goal. Considering how epically bad Everton are at the moment and the fact that they were playing their second string just like we were it is hardly an accomplishment but still, better than losing 3-0 to the Burnley Academy.
Someone said "We are not allowed nice things" on some other thread, and it seems just about right at this moment.
I wondered if rather than their existence it's the reporting or labels that were different.
I suppose this means Evans is still under contract ? Was under the impression he hadn't signed a full 1 year deal.
It’s also not like we are playing well in any other games. Potentially worrying sign
Results are never important for United fans.
It (the temporary contract) was apparently from mid-July until the end of August.
Ouch. Losing 3-0 is always bad no matter what team we played. We are 2 games in to the season and we should be atleast physically fit as others are.
This season preparations have been quite low by top flight standards
This season preparations have been quite low by top flight standards
You spelt @UnitedSofa wrong
That'll do wonders for squad confidence and morale
We need to do a Bayern and fix ourselves some nice easy friendlies, rather than difficult ones like Burnley.
Antony definitely started as well
Yeah, we should have gotten our first team to play against our bench.