United v Galatasaray, Sweden at Saturday, 7:30 PM local (6:30 BT)

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Was just looking at Gala preseason to see how many games they played and it seems Bruma has scored 5 in the last 4 games
Quite impressive given his league form
 
We are not going to change the team now are we?, they have barely played as it is this pre season. Same thing happened with Chelsea last season and look what happened to their season!.
 
Some here need to get a grip. The US tour was much better to gain match sharpness as we simply had more games. Having only two preseason games up until this one is a joke.
 
Still have a hard time believing Rooney's only 30. He's been finished for almost 3 years now, possibly even more while Zlatan's coming off his best ever scoring season at 34. No idea how he's still at the club.

Oh and Carrick needs to start ever game. Only player capable of playing in the pivot at an acceptable level.

As it stands, if carrick gets injured we might be fecked. Been this way for many years now.
 
Some brilliant one touch passes and movement. Zlatan is so good n bringing others to play . Martial looks very sharp. Rooney a, Herrera and Morgan needs to improve.

A typical preseason match !
 
Morgan and Herrera not doing much when we are not on the ball. Opened up a few times through the middle. Rooney the usual 5 games to get going...
Morgan is doing his part, Herrera was the one who got caught ball watching and lost bruma I'm that give and go
 
Unsurprising how people instantly come to an assertion that Rooney and Herrera have been poor, but in reality it's everyone. Only Bailly and Mkhitaryan look sharp in their movements.
 
Means nothing, these are professional footballers for god sake they should be able to have months off and still be able to play the basics of football

It means a lot. You need to regain fitness and match sharpness.

You could have all the technical ability in the world, but if you lack match sharpness and fitness, it's moot.
 
This is a lot more worrying than the Dortmund performance. Galatasaray are a poor team who finished 6th last year in Turkey and they are easily outplaying a side with many of our 'best' players.
 
Herrera proving again he's not a central midfielder. A no.10 perhaps. I honestly had no idea Schneiderlin has been on the pitch. Central defense very shakey.
 
Rooney plays with too much bullshit in his game. He looks older than Zlatan.

A bit of a liability, so much so when you see him pick up the ball it feels like it's going to break down, I pray he has a better second half.

Jack of all trades, master of none. Not enough Acceleration or dribbling ability to play the #10
 
People really calling JM out,or trying to dumb shit on LvG regarding pre season?! This place is bonkers
 
Lots of rust to get out of the system, we really don't look up for it. Not many players on our side that are successful taking a defender on and no creating chances.

Lot of these players first match back so understandable, but let's hope they can get going in next couple of weeks.
 
Was this match added recently? Was van Gaal really going to have us play two fecking preseason matches?

Yes 2 only. Wigan and Gala were added.

We're still paying for LVG's mistakes. How he only set up 2 pre-season games is a mystery.
 
I haven't seen any of our two games thus far. But Jesus, we're nowhere near...
 
The Schneiderlin-Herrera combo in the midfield can only produce something when the instructions are to press and steal balls near the halfway line area. You can't just sit back, absorb pressure and then ask of them to play the ball out of the back. None of them can do that.
 
Zlatan
Martial............Henrik.............Depay
Carrick........Pogba
Shaw....Smalling....Bailly....Valencia
De Gea​
 
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For this talk about Rooney not being a CM he's still better than most of what we have there. He's far better than Herrera. At least he can pass the ball. Future forward he's becoming pointless. Jose's stance that he's a 9 or 10 is fecking dumb.
He is not !
 
Think that esrly goal made us take the foot off the gas for some reason. After that we just didn't even do anything well. Galatasaray have kept the ball well and played 1-2s all over the park.
 
This is a lot more worrying than the Dortmund performance. Galatasaray are a poor team who finished 6th last year in Turkey and they are outplaying a side with many of our 'best' players with ease.
Calm down man. Rooney, Zlatan, Martial, Schneiderlin and De Gea are all playing for the 1st time this pre-season.
 
Probably not. It doesn't seem to be his game at all. We'll need Carrick fit and on form because the rest are useless.
If Pogba cannot help, what is the point spending all the dough on him?
 
For this talk about Rooney not being a CM he's still better than most of what we have there. He's far better than Herrera. At least he can pass the ball. Future forward he's becoming pointless. Jose's stance that he's a 9 or 10 is fecking dumb.
His passing has only been worsened by his awful touch. He's no CM at all.
 
How are these people promoted my I ask? Or do newbies also have access to this match?

Some shocking comments in here just because we are 2-1 down in a meaningless game!

It has nothing to do with being 2-1 down, it is just a horrible performance from the team. Misplacing passes, not putting pressure on the opponent, not defending properly, seems like we aren't even trying to play a decent game.

People have every right to be pissed for such a performance. We will have to step up massively with the season starting in two weeks.

The team looks like they are not fit, not sharp, no idea how to play together, fecking shambles of a preparation.
 
I will give this to Rooney, compared to last years pre-season he's playing like Zidane out there.

Cracking goal from Zlatan. Bailly's looking awesome.

Anyway, this team is very overrated and even with the addition of Pogba and Smalling we'll struggle for top 4, nevermind challenge for the title. I was scared that José would play Mkhi on the right, with a Rooney or Mata behind Zlatan and it seems he's going that way. Hopefully he doesn't take a good chunk of the beginning of the season to figure out that Mkhi isn't a RW and Mata and Rooney aren't good enough as #10s. Getting more games under our belts isn't going to change that.
 
This forum :D:D
Seriously, we always had bad pre seasons under SAF, we had very good pre seasons with LVG. It means absolutely nothing as Mourinho said they don't even analyse opponent team. However a very low number of pre season matches is a bit worrying, we might have a slow start of the season.
 
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