2013/14 Pre-season Friendly Thread

NokkonWud · 29 Jul 2013 at 14:30

Januzaj has been my player of pre-season, he's been excellent again this game since he's come on. Hope he gets his chance as Kagawa's understudy in this upcoming season. So fleet of foot.

Robbo · 29 Jul 2013 at 14:33

NokkonWud said:
Januzaj has been my player of pre-season, he's been excellent again this game since he's come on. Hope he gets his chance as Kagawa's understudy in this upcoming season. So fleet of foot.

I really like Januzaj and Lingard, I just wish one of them was a central midfielder. It sounds like that was Pogba, and he's gone.

Edit: 4-2 now, Kitchee get another.

fez · 29 Jul 2013 at 14:33

Remind me why we bought Buttner?

Shamikebab · 29 Jul 2013 at 14:34

What's happening? Poor defending?

ONESHOTKILL · 29 Jul 2013 at 14:35

i hope moyes gives zaha a good run in prem

Robbo · 29 Jul 2013 at 14:38

Shamikebab said:
What's happening? Poor defending?

The first goal was just a belter, but the second wasn't great defending really, stood off the player too much.

ONESHOTKILL · 29 Jul 2013 at 14:39

keeper should have saved it,super de gea would toed it past the post

ONESHOTKILL · 29 Jul 2013 at 14:43

christ he is gonna risk RVP on this pitch

ONESHOTKILL · 29 Jul 2013 at 14:44

wow lingard,who is this kid

fez · 29 Jul 2013 at 14:45

Great finish but he had half an hour to decide what to do. That looked like a training session strike where you have acres of space and loads of time.

Robbo · 29 Jul 2013 at 14:45

Top notch goal from Lingard. So nice to see players with some confidence with the ball at their feet.

Shamikebab · 29 Jul 2013 at 14:46

He has scored some impressive goals so far, that's his 4th isn't it?

Robbo · 29 Jul 2013 at 14:46

Shamikebab said:
He has scored some impressive goals so far, that's his 4th isn't it?

Yeah I think so.

fez · 29 Jul 2013 at 15:01

Still not going to start ahead of Welbeck though is he..

ONESHOTKILL · 29 Jul 2013 at 15:04

hopefully he will go out on loan

Bucket · 29 Jul 2013 at 15:21

Hold the **** on Anderson completed a full 90 minutes?

Praise the Moyes, he's finally gone and done it!

NokkonWud · 29 Jul 2013 at 15:28

Anderson has played the second most minutes of anyone this pre-season, if not the most (the other being Cleverley), so it's no surprise. He was one of the real highlights of todays performance too.

fez said:
Remind me why we bought Buttner?

Could have done better for the goal, but didn't do too bad today. Still not sure he's a left-back, looks more like a left-winger to me, which is no bad thing given his competition.

Bucket · 29 Jul 2013 at 17:02

NokkonWud said:
Anderson has played the second most minutes of anyone this pre-season, if not the most (the other being Cleverley), so it's no surprise. He was one of the real highlights of todays performance too.

Could have done better for the goal, but didn't do too bad today. Still not sure he's a left-back, looks more like a left-winger to me, which is no bad thing given his competition.

If Anderson can stay fit and injury free I have no doubt he will have a great season. Problem is that's the case every year and it doesn't really happen for the lad, last season started brightly too and then injurys got him and he didn't quite get it back and turned into 60 minute man.

Buttner used to be a left winger for a while at Vitesse and then got shifted back into defence.

dmcg · 29 Jul 2013 at 19:15

i like that moyes held his promise to stick with youth it looks like it is paying off too

fez · 29 Jul 2013 at 20:04

dmcg said:
i like that moyes held his promise to stick with youth it looks like it is paying off too

In what sense? This game was vs a team that is not doing that well in their league and Chelsea pasted the league leaders 8-1 a few days back. I wouldn't have said today has told us anything we didn't already know.

Januzaj, Zaha and Lingard have all looked good on tour whenever they have played but I won't hold my breath till we see them in the PL a few times.