U19: Midtjylland vs United

[Sean_RedDevil]

Kick-off: Today 1.00 pm

Apparently at least 5000 people will come.

Hopefully we will see our best team
Starting XI: Kovar - Laird, Bernard, Ercolani, Williams - Garner; Gomes, Barlow - Chong, Greenwood, Bohui
Bench: Fojticek, Mengi, Puigmal, Traore, Levitt, Ramazani & Burkart

But Barlow, Laird, Kovar & Puigmal weren't involved in the last games for the U23 or U18 so hmmhh.

Will be also interesting to see how Gomes, Greenwood, Chong, Garner and Williams will cope with a UEFA-Youth League game after they were involved so much with the 1st team in the last two weeks.

Should we beat Midtjylland then our quarter-final opponent will be Tottenham or FC Porto.

Midtjylland's way to the last 16 Round
Domestic Champions Path 1st Round
Bohemian FC 2-1/2-1
Domestic Champions Path 2nd Round
Hamilton Academical 2-0/2-1
Play-offs
Roma 1-1, 4-2 penalty shoot-out

Thread for the other UEFA-Youth League games
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/uefa-youth-league.445219/page-2

Wikipage for the UEFA-Youth League
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–19_UEFA_Youth_League

 

[SqueakyWeasel]

FC Midgetland … ahh, the memories!

Rashford's starting debut IIRC

 

[pacifictheme]

Won't gomes / greenwood / chong be involved at the weekend with the first team?

 

[Cee90]

We should bring Depay back for this.

 

[roonster09]

Won't gomes / greenwood / chong be involved at the weekend with the first team?

FA cup game is on saturday. So they should be good to be on the bench.

 

[Scarecrow]

FC Midgetland … ahh, the memories!

Rashford's starting debut IIRC

And Memphis's goat performance.

 

[SqueakyWeasel]

Not sure, and I'm no expert, but I think that the youngsters will be training with the first team today. If they have to learn drills and tactics they only have today and tomorrow morning.

 

[SqueakyWeasel]

And Memphis's goat performance.

true

 

[Gordon S]

We should bring Depay back for this.

I hope their rb has recovered from that roast by now

 

[limerickcitykid]

Hopefully we will see our best team
Starting XI: Kovar - Laird, Bernard, Ercolani, Williams - Garner; Gomes, Barlow - Chong, Greenwood, Bohui
Bench: Fojticek, Mengi, Puigmal, Traore, Levitt, Ramazani & Burkart

O'Connor has started every game and he is miles better than either of Bernard or Ercolani.

 

[In Rainbows]

I don't want Bernard starting over Ercolani. Ercolani isn't some titan, but he has less mistakes in him than Bernard.

----------------Kovar
Laird---Ercolani---O'Connor--Williams
----Gomes----Garner---Barlow
----Chong--Greenwood--Mellor/Traore

 

[lysglimt]

Bernard - without trying to be too critical, I can see why Chelsea released him.

 

[Sean_RedDevil]

O'Connor has started every game and he is miles better than either of Bernard or Ercolani.

Of course O'Connor must play (I forgot him )

 

[RedSky]

Has youtube got this like the Lyon/Ajax match yesterday?

 

[Saffron]

FC Midgetland … ahh, the memories!

And the classic games vs Young Boys. Diminutive opponents seem to be our thing.

 

[NYAS]

Has youtube got this like the Lyon/Ajax match yesterday?

Not sure but if you’re in the UK it’s on BT Sport (2 I think)

 

[In Rainbows]

Has youtube got this like the Lyon/Ajax match yesterday?

Yes

 

[RedSky]

Yes

Awesome, cheers.

 

[RedMachine03]

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[In Rainbows]

How is Bernard starting over Williams? O'Connor is a better CB and that's not even his natural position.

 

[Vindal]

More than 6000 tickets sold, so quite a large crowd considering its a youth game

 

[Cee90]

More than 6000 tickets sold, so quite a large crowd considering its a youth game

That's actually crazy especially considering it is a 1pm kick off.

 

[Grande]

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Will that be a 4-2-3-1 with Garner and Traore in a pivote and Gomes as a 10, or a 4-3-3 with Gomes further back and Burkhardt and Chong tucked in?

 

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[In Rainbows]

Will that be a 4-2-3-1 with Garner and Traore in a pivote and Gomes as a 10, or a 4-3-3 with Gomes further back and Burkhardt and Chong tucked in?

Gomes has usually played next to Garner with Garner being furthest back. Usually Traore will be more forward unless Gomes sees an opportunity to join in the attack.

Should be a 4-3-3

 

[Grande]

Gomes has usually played next to Garner with Garner being furthest back. Usually Traore will be more forward unless Gomes sees an opportunity to join in the attack.

Should be a 4-3-3

Ah, thanks!

 

[Maciej]

More than 6000 tickets sold, so quite a large crowd considering its a youth game

Man United are in the town and their senior team are shite.

 

[AltiUn]

Midtjylland have already started pretty dirty great run by Traore but Burkart offside.

 

[Rolandofgilead]

Bugger.

Good strike though.

 

[In Rainbows]

That was poor from Kovar

 

[AltiUn]

That was dreadful defending, Kovar should have had that.

 

[RedSky]

#13 - Isaksen scores for Midtjylland. Nice run and accurate finish.

 

[RedSky]

Shirt Numbers for those of us who aren't familiar:

#1 - Kovar (GK)
#3 - L. O'Connor
#4 - Laird
#5 - Ercolani
#6 - Garner
#10 - Gomes (C)
#11 - Chong
#14 - Traore
#16 - Bernard
#17 - Bughail-Mellor
#18 - Burkart

 

[In Rainbows]

Gomes doing well

 

[In Rainbows]

Gomes and Garner are going to dominate the midfield. Even though Garner has had 2 mistakes, he's largely been positive and showed off his talent with his quick decision making.

 

[AltiUn]

6 fouls against us and typically no yellow card. Their keeper flies out and smashes against Laird and gets the foul given to him which is daft, that's far more reckless from the keeper than Laird. We're playing well despite the scorline, just lacking a bit of cutting edge at the moment.

 

[RedSky]

Chong really is an exciting player to watch.

 

[Grande]

Shouldn’t we be comfortably dominating Midtjylland with Laird, O’Connor, Garner, Gomes and Chong?

 

[sp_107]

Who ever is watching could you feel we can score 2 GOALS in this match?

 

[Zoo]

Good play Laird.