Men's Soccer (Football) Thread Soccer • Page 38

Zubimendi isn't following on from his MOTM in the final pre-season game.

 

Looking more at Saliba, Gabriel, Raya, and Ødegaard tbf ha

 

Yeah Saliba has been uncharacteristically sloppy. Making really weird decisions.

 

Arsenal time wasting not even 30 minutes in. Got their jammy set piece goal and are content to sit back and play it long for Saka on the counter. Thought these guys were meant to be ballers?

 

taking 5 mins to kick a corner is coming

 

We aren’t doing that at all. We’re just playing badly lmao.

 

This has been truly painful viewing on the Arsenal end. Playing like it’s still preseason.

 

Gyökeres killing attacks at will.

 

gonna miss the second half since I gotta go to work, but United have looked decent so far I think? didn't watch a lot of us last year because it was a hassle to make my "broadcasts" work but considering how people were talking about the team last season this doesn't seem as bad as I expected.

 

Cunha and Mbuemo look very fun going forward but United just aren't getting anyone in the box.

We've been really sloppy, and I would quite like to see Madueke coming on for Martinelli who just looks hopeless recently.

 

For sure it’s an encouraging performance from United, but you can see the limitations in their game at the moment with a Bruno/Casemiro CN pairing and without Amad and Sesko out there. Would like to see them make those changes earlier than later and really go for it before Arsenal get another corner.

 

The connections just aren’t there right now. Feels like Odegaard and Gyokeres in particular just aren’t finding each other.

Not been a great debut for Viktor but it’s a tough match when the team aren’t used to playing with a proper forward, I guess. It’ll improve with time, just a shame about our really tough start.

 

Get Dowman on and just let him let rip. Or is he not Mathew Etherington enough?

 

Not in the squad. He did last season, into England U19s, into our pre season.

Arteta felt he needed a break during the summer given that he’s just 15, which is pretty fair.

 

Completely understandable.

 

What are we doing

 

Would’ve preferred Heaven on for Shaw instead of fucking up our whole back line.

 

This has United late goal all over it

 

Don’t understand why Arsenal are such a bore to watch. They have so many great players.

 

So VAR doesn’t exist this season?

 

new rule

 

Looked like a pen to me

 

Tbf, i’ve seen us turn up to OT, play well, and lose comfortably more times than I can count. So I just want a result today.

The performance has been really bad though. It’s weird cause we looked electric against Athletic. What happened?

 

I’m not a Casemiro guy at all and I keep telling myself maybe I am just wrong but I truly don’t understand what he does alongside Bruno that 100 other players they can afford can’t do better.

 

We did not deserve to lose that.