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Kick-off at 1pm.
Should be shown for free on UEFA TV I believe. https://www.uefa.tv/match/live/200078/2033542
UEFA Youth League | United U19 vs Villarreal U19
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Kick-off at 1pm.
Should be shown for free on UEFA TV I believe. https://www.uefa.tv/match/live/200078/2033542
Good team, but I hate that we have so many injuries all the time. Would love to see Elanga, Hannibal, Mengi, Hansen etc. Hopefully, we'll progress from the group stage and play a lot of games!
Looks a good team. Pity no Hansen. Would like to see Mainoo get some good minutes. Interested to see how Shoretire Fernandez Hugill etc do coming in with u23s fitness and experience and will that make a difference. Also always interesting to see what other clubs have got going on at this level.
Willy mistake.
Well not a good start. Soft goal conceded after a mistake from Kambwala. They’ve passed the ball much better from the off.
Bad defending and a stroke of good fortune gives Villareal the lead, 1-0.
1-0 Villarreal. Big mistake by Kambwala.
Disappointing to see so few English players starting.
Good work from Shola and Jurado. So close
Shola and Fernandez are our best players in the bit I’ve seen so far
2-0 Villareal, with their second rebound off the post 
Our boys look technically good and are the better team out there, two unfortunate mistakes. Shoretire looks like he will be special, no need to rush him, he has all the tools just let him develop and Fernandez is always exciting when he gets on the ball, just need him to work on his defensive game.
I still fancy us to get back into this but we could also get a hiding now chasing two goals. They aren’t two goals better than us on the balance
0-3. This is shocking
3-0 Villareal, bit of a pasting this so far.
3-0
FFS!
FFS!
Looks like an awfully coached side when I compare it to Ajax u-19 yesterday.
I think the team is talented and not sure if most of them consistently have played together.
For sure Kambwala and Hardley havent played a lot with Fernandez and Jurado. Players like Hansen, Mejbri, McNeil not playing but they look like they have no clue.
I think the team is talented and not sure if most of them consistently have played together.
For sure Kambwala and Hardley havent played a lot with Fernandez and Jurado. Players like Hansen, Mejbri, McNeil not playing but they look like they have no clue.
the kids are getting their arses kicked - and the back four have definitely been watching the first team: awful for the first, one CB marking space and the other not even in camera shot. Second not great and third, stood and watched (although the finish was brilliant)
Have to say (and I've felt this before), that when the teams below the 1st XI don't look great that it makes me wonder if there is a sickness at the heart of the club. t lad of these young lads look very lost (and, no shock here, don't see the coach doing anything about it). That said, it might be that Villareal are very very good (now absolutely nothing about their youth set up)
four down... terrible defending again
4-0
Poor pass from our GK.
Poor pass from our GK.
I'm not sure that logic follows considering how good some of our youth sides looked when Mourinho was here, a more logical explanation is that Neil Wood isn't a particularly great manager.
Agreed - and that coaching shone through on to the first team in the opening 45 against Galatasaray (could/should have been four or five up)
neither is Ole...which is pretty much making my point
I don't think your point is quite as solid as you seem to think it is.
I hope Harry Maguire gives a few names to our coaches to watch - some of Villareal's movement has ben excellent. And the finishes were all top class
It’s looking like we didn’t make any plan for them beyond play your own game and the result will come. Suckered all over the shop. Very effective pressing and direct counter play it has to be said. I think we are unlucky to be 4 down but it could finish 8 if we don’t tighten up
2 of them were tap ins, have you even been watching?
I hope not. but very few of the youngsters have made it into the first team in the past few years
the first was - after a very good strike. plus the guy was there to finish it off rather than standing and looking. same with second. how you can say the others were tap ins is a mystery. Have you been watching?2 of them were tap ins, have you even been watching?
This is not a performance. This is an embarrassment. Picking players from all of Europe, for incredible money, and this is their showing. So disjointed.
This tends to happen when you throw a load of kids from different countries together, City had similar issues for a while.
I think you mean Besiktas, but it is clear that there is a consistent style of coaching throughout the entire club.
It seems like that's the case at United as well to some extent.
If you had your way half of these lads would be on the fringes of the first team already?
I see a lot of loans in the future for this group
Didn't they draw 1 all with 9 men against PSG. Still. Not about results at this age is it.
Said it before. Philosophy has changed. Be very few local lads coming through going forward.
I do indeed mean Besiktas - and all that trouble making sure I spelt Galatasaray correctly. Still scarred by the Welcome to Hell match
and agree about the same at United
Most of the good ones aren't playing today, Hannibal, Elanga, Hansen, Forson for example. I like Fernandez though. The rest I think is very mediocre. Jury out on Kambwala though.If you had your way half of these lads would be on the fringes of the first team already?
We could end up losing this by six or seven, which, obviously, would not be good for the lads' confidence
I hope the first team don't play like this tonight.