Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is relieved to have his Reserves side preparing for a first competitive game in almost three weeks.
The Reds travel to Hull City on Tuesday for an all-ticket match and, after facing Celtic in a mid-season friendly and staging a host of inter-squad matches in recent weeks, the match is a welcome return to meaningful action for the Norwegian.
"You can't beat proper games - it’s always nice to prepare properly and come in your gear for a game. You get that little buzz," Ole told ManUtd.com.
"We've played loads of practice games against the youth team behind closed doors, which makes up for the loss of competitive game situations, and we’ve not lost yet!
"They’re good competitive games because half the Reserve team are youth team players anyway, so they know each other."
The Reds will face the Tigers this evening and Middlesbrough next Thursday, with a behind-closed-doors friendly with Rosenborg in-between, marking a return to the regular action Solskjaer and Warren Joyce have been pushing for.
"We’ve been working at trying to have a game every week," said the Norwegian. "Now we have Hull, Rosenborg and Middlesbrough - three games in nine days - which is what the lads want because it’s like league football. We just want to try to improve them all the time."
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The Reds travel to Hull City on Tuesday for an all-ticket match and, after facing Celtic in a mid-season friendly and staging a host of inter-squad matches in recent weeks, the match is a welcome return to meaningful action for the Norwegian.
"You can't beat proper games - it’s always nice to prepare properly and come in your gear for a game. You get that little buzz," Ole told ManUtd.com.
"We've played loads of practice games against the youth team behind closed doors, which makes up for the loss of competitive game situations, and we’ve not lost yet!
"They’re good competitive games because half the Reserve team are youth team players anyway, so they know each other."
The Reds will face the Tigers this evening and Middlesbrough next Thursday, with a behind-closed-doors friendly with Rosenborg in-between, marking a return to the regular action Solskjaer and Warren Joyce have been pushing for.
"We’ve been working at trying to have a game every week," said the Norwegian. "Now we have Hull, Rosenborg and Middlesbrough - three games in nine days - which is what the lads want because it’s like league football. We just want to try to improve them all the time."
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)! They out-fought us ultimately; our players looked under pressure on the ball and intimidated - despite having a 5 man midfield and 3 good passers of the ball in the middle, we struggled to hold on to any decent possession. Macheda was isolated throughout, Eikrem was disappointing and our defence looked exposed.