Lovely strike from Garner and effort from mejbri
U23s - Manchester United vs Newcastle
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Could anyone please PM a river ?
Jones would be proud of that bit of "defending"Bailly
TFM looking like Kante and Mejbri has made Angel Gomes inessential. He is bigger, faster, more tenacious. Why can't he play in the first team and why can't Timbo start?
Mejbri is still 16?
Yep, turns 17 on January 21st.
Mejbri isn't like Gomes. Just because he's playing as a 10 doesn't change that. He's a box to box midfielder. Timbo wasn't all that great today either.
This is a pretty weak u23 side they’re up against. Just what they need though, very promising
Is today’s Mejbri better than Lingard?
The current one or when Lingard had half a season or so of form several years back?
this season’s Lingard - the one who starts nearly every game lately
My 14 year old son is better than this seasons lingard, and he only plays once a week with mates.
Quality goal from Newcastle. Our keeper looks 15
He has characteristics of several players. I like to think of him as Ander Herrera, but more skilled. Very scrappy player, but with the technical quality and vision that Herrera doesn't have. If I was to think of a player similar to Zidane it would be Rayan Cherki in technical skill. However, the midfield qualities make Mejbri more similar to Zidane than Cherki, who is more of a forward.
Out of our midfielders I think of Levitt and Gomes as more similar. Similar, but different just like Modric and Kroos are.
I don't know. Mejbri has qualities of a lot of players. He's a very well rounded player. I think it would be fun to rank our youth midfielders on certain qualities like technical skill, vision, touch, tricky feet, quick thinking, passing technique, striking, etc...
Since we see that Lingard about twice a half, and maybe doing one good thing in 90 minutes then yes I'd say Mejbri is likely to have slightly more influence on the pitch already
Made hard work of that, like watching the first team for the last 15 minutes, get a lead and hanging on.
A little bit of a young Fabregas I would say.
God, when Traore is awful he is truly awful. Not a winger, I think we can say that.
Very impressed by Mejbri, Laird and Bernard. Timbo and Mellor were decent. Traore not so much, seems to rely too much on his physical attributes and technique looks a bit raw, clumsy even.
Think Mejbri probably has great potential, but I think he’s in a situation where all of the poor stuff is ignored because some may be desperate to label him some generational talent. I see a lot I like when I watch him, but then I see him produce poor touches leading him to a tackle very often, and i’d like to see him dribble away from his man more often too. For me, his standout quality so far seems to be his understanding of the game. He has great spatial awareness and knows where to be. He also has a top passing range. He’s only 16 of course, and there’s more to come.
I watched this live ( my first reserves match) the atmosphere was great, nearly 2000 people on a Friday night in Leigh. Bailey looks like he will struggle in the first team TFM would get away with it in our midfield but seriously wtf is Ole playin at, play garner for feck sake we need midfielders and we have a brilliant one here.
Do all reserve games get this many fans attending ? I wasn't expecting half of the amount that turned up.
Do all reserve games get this many fans attending ? I wasn't expecting half of the amount that turned up.
He did nothing other than that run in the second half where he nearly scored.
Wasn't really given a major role tbh. Just seemed to be in a dcm position where he would lay the ball off and break up play every now and then. It's the minutes he needs.
Haha, in fairness all us regular reserves watchers have been raving about how good Garner is for a few years now. I like to believe Garner would’ve seen some minutes over December but he seemed to get injured at the wrong time, same as Levitt, we had quite the midfield injury crisis from top to bottom. I’ve surprisingly seen a few doubts about Garner on RedCafe and Reddit but in my opinion, he’s one of the best midfielders I’ve seen at the academy in years, we’d be a bit mental not to give him a couple of appearances in the first team this season just to get a little bit of experience.
From what I have seen of him (not just tonight) he deserves a chance, especially considering how depleted we are in midfield at the minute It would be criminal to leave him out.
Watched it on the replay at 23:00 as I usually do, got to circa 52 minutes and Mengi and Garner had exchanged half a dozen passes then Garner set himself for a big diagonal, then click, the screen went black and stayed that way for 5 minutes then when it did come back on it was Ryan Giggs friggin golf day, followed by the Official Utd Podcast featuring Jesse Lingard 
Did anybody watch it @18:30, and did the same thing happen then?
Did anybody watch it @18:30, and did the same thing happen then?
Might be a bit rusty since he's not played a match in 9 months?
Two elements that are extremely difficult to coach or train. The technique can be drilled, and physicality and getting better control over the body as he gets used to his frame will also happen as he grows older.
Wonder if we will let couple of players on this side out on loan so that we can play Hannibal/Helm more on the second half of the season. We have too many midfielders as things stand.
Yep. It's understandable. It's not even that he played badly. It's just that if you compare him to him from years ago at youth level, he used to tackle more in the middle of the park to win the ball back. He seemed quite reserved this match. This was more of a fitness match to me.