United 3-1 Club America.....27/07/03.....FR

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I know this is a friendly/exhibition, but with the way Lynch and Pugh play at FB, United definitely need to buy an experienced defender before the CL campaign deadline.
 
hows the match going though...who has most of the possesion? are we passing,defending well?
 
Originally posted by MrMarcello:
<strong>I know this is a friendly/exhibition, but with the way Lynch and Pugh play at FB, United definitely need to buy an experienced defender before the CL campaign deadline.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Agreed, they've been abysmal.
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Corner us, Giggs to take... Johnny tries to bring it down on his boot, but he can't control.

FT 3-1.
 
Forlan wins man of the match...although I felt it should have been either O'Shea, Veron, or RVN. Just becuase a player scores two goals doesn't mean he was the game's best player.
 
Diego is Man of the Match for me, with Seba close behind and Ruud close behind Seba.
 
Originally posted by MrMarcello:
<strong>Forlan wins man of the match...although I felt it should have been either O'Shea, Veron, or RVN. Just becuase a player scores two goals doesn't mean he was the game's best player.</strong><hr></blockquote>

After the first 20-30 minutes, he looked great in the attack. A great headed goal and a great tough finish, with the former being the match winner. What more do you want?

And what did O'Shea do to warrant it? Not saying he was bad, he was very good in fact, but not outstanding.
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Thanks for the commentary lads. Any indicators as to the formation ? 4231 ? Posts made it look like 442.
 
Originally posted by Rod:
<strong>Thanks for the commentary lads. Any indicators as to the formation ? 4231 ? Posts made it look like 442.</strong><hr></blockquote>

4-4-2 all the way through.

Started

---------Ricardo-----------
PNev---Rio---OShea---Fortune
Bellion-Butt-Veron-Richardson-
-------Forlan-RVN-------------

Finished

--------Ricardo-----------------
Lynch---Rio---OShea--Pugh--------
Fletcher-Butt-Veron--Giggs-------
---------RVN--Forlan--------------

:)
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Originally posted by RedInMyVeins:
<strong>hows the match going though...who has most of the possesion? are we passing,defending well?</strong><hr></blockquote>


We played well. Had about 10 good chances to score, 5-6 were a quality ones that should have gone in. We kept good possesion, had a great play in the midfield and we were very dangerous on the counter attack. We couldn't play the standard english build-up football do the the fouls that were commmited in the midlefield by CA.
I like the fact that we never panicked and the defenders were always calm and knew what they were doing. Forlan had about 5 chances that looked good, but he converted only two. He is under microscope right now, so he feels the presure. The fact that he had 5-6 chances means that he was involved in the game and can position himself well for oportunities like those. He needs to work on his finishing touches, but that comes from experience. He needs to learn to remain calm when he is one on one with the goalkeeper. Veron, Scholes, and Giggs will be the backbone of our team next season feeding Ruud great balls, and hopefully make him the golden boot of Europe.

I personaly liked what I saw from Butt today. He had some good tackles, passes and shot. Rio also shined.
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i know it was only a preseason friendly, but that freekick that we conceded..
why are our keepers so crap at trying to keep freekicks out
bloody midgets
 
Originally posted by Alek M:
<strong>I personaly liked what I saw from Butt today. He had some good tackles, passes and shot. Rio also shined.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Butt looks like getting back to his World Cup form. I am happy to see that even without our traditional hard players Gary and Keano, we can put up quite a fight with Fortune, Butt, Rio (surprisingly physical in these two matches), Phil, Ruud, and even Seba ( :eek: )
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the things that stood out to me is that bellion didn't link up well with phil's forward runs and the fact that richardson looks stronger than he was before

veron played well, but if your pessimistic he was playing against south/central american opposition
 
Originally posted by BusbyReds:
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Butt looks like getting back to his World Cup form. I am happy to see that even without our traditional hard players Gary and Keano, we can put up quite a fight with Fortune, Butt, Rio (surprisingly physical in these two matches), Phil, Ruud, and even Seba ( :eek: )</strong><hr></blockquote>

Rio is class, just wait and you will see! ;)
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Originally posted by beergod:
<strong>the things that stood out to me is that bellion didn't link up well with phil's forward runs and the fact that richardson looks stronger than he was before

veron played well, but if your pessimistic he was playing against south/central american opposition</strong><hr></blockquote>

But Bellion did link up well with Ruud (except for getting in Ruud's way once), Seba, and others and he did so against Celtic as well, working especially well with Scholesy.
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Originally posted by VanNistlerater:
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Finished

--------Ricardo-----------------
Lynch---Rio---OShea--Pugh--------
Fletcher-Butt-Veron--Giggs-------
---------RVN--Forlan--------------

</strong><hr></blockquote>

No it didn't.
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Originally posted by and Solskaar has won it:
<strong>2 nil to the goodies half an hour to go :) </strong><hr></blockquote>

Your post was timed at 1.47.

The game finished - according to other posts - at 2.04. Where did you get half an hour from?!
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