*** 2014/15 Pre-season Friendly Thread ***

Another lucky scrappy goal :D (and hilariously bad defending to go with it)

'Great strike', yeah about 5 foot wide you meff
 
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lol, still crap, commentator banging on all game about how great Navas was, he was crap all game long. Loads of pace, the easy beating against everyone they put in at left back against him. But his delivery was woeful, his shooting was woeful. Even the second goal was a really poor ball, Gerrard could and should have cleared that painfully easily.
 
Thought I'd grab a couple of hours sleep before the game last night but managed to sleep through 2 alarms and ended up missing it.

No idea how we played but both the goals (and Sterlings disallowed) looked very decent. Beat Milan and we'll probably end up playing Utd in the final.
 
elmuzzy66. said:
Diamond is the word you are looking for
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That's the one ;)

Not quite sure why they did it tbh. When I first saw a game on the baseball pitch I figured it was a whole boston red sox/liverpool owner publicity tie in.

But I realise the MLS season is underway and they don't want to over use what pitches they have so it's somewhat understandable and considering they aren't football pitches they haven't done a terrible job.

Pretty large number of teams trying to run preseason over there during the normal season. Though, NFL isn't on right now is it, Jets/Giants stadiums would have made more sense probably?


Arsenal's preseason is a joke this year. Wenger complaining about the game in new york, the training in Austria... we didn't have to train in Austria, we didn't have to do a single game in America, just train in america like everyone else and have 4 games there, one lot of travelling. Stop playing Barnet/boreham wood type teams every preseason, it's a waste.

Most teams are now travelling one large distance once, then doing their whole preseason somewhere with multiple games, then going home. Arsenal are bouncing around everywhere, getting no real games. Boreham wood.... useless, New York, we lost, crap game, didn't take a full team and played against an in season team that didn't want to play too hard. Now a rubbish preseason tournament that by design limits game time and forces players to play on consecutive games, increasing injury risk. Complete joke frankly.

Utd's first game was against an in season team, every one since has been basically very strong teams also in preseason.
 
BaZ87 said:
No idea how we played but both the goals (and Sterlings disallowed) looked very decent.
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Our fullbacks got bummed all game long by Navas and Kolorov, although they were not helped by starting off playing the diamond with Lambert and Sturridge up top. City were the better team in the first half but couldn't put it away. We struggled to get the ball in to the final third and our pressing didn't turn over possession enough and we kept getting caught on the break.

Midfield looked a lot better after Can came on for Allen, and central defense looked more solid after Sakho came on. Henderson had a cracking game, worked really hard to get in to the box and was rewarded with a goal for his efforts. Can also made some good surging runs forward and I think he and Henderson will work really well together in front of Gerrard. Mignolet was a awesome for the pens.

Sturridge looked a lot better after Lambert came off and we went 4-3-3, which also gave our fullbacks more protection and brought Sterling in to the game.

When we clicked we looked really good.
 
Fenerbahce fans are morons. Just set off flares and thrown one on the pitch right next to a bunch of players.
 
Broken Arrow said:
Our fullbacks got bummed all game long by Navas and Kolorov, although they were not helped by starting off playing the diamond with Lambert and Sturridge up top. City were the better team in the first half but couldn't put it away. We struggled to get the ball in to the final third and our pressing didn't turn over possession enough and we kept getting caught on the break.

Midfield looked a lot better after Can came on for Allen, and central defense looked more solid after Sakho came on. Henderson had a cracking game, worked really hard to get in to the box and was rewarded with a goal for his efforts. Can also made some good surging runs forward and I think he and Henderson will work really well together in front of Gerrard. Mignolet was a awesome for the pens.

Sturridge looked a lot better after Lambert came off and we went 4-3-3, which also gave our fullbacks more protection and brought Sterling in to the game.

When we clicked we looked really good.
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Have to agree you looked better once Sakho & Can were on. Never really rated Allen myself though.
 
Man Utd v Real Madrid in the USA

Did I miss this in a forum search? Couldn't find anything on it. Anyway, don't follow football much apart from when the world cup was on, so you probably all know about this. The third biggest stadium in the world, they're playing to 109,000 people, and it was sold out in an hour. :eek: Getting big in the states now.

http://www.theweek.co.uk/football/p...real-madrid-could-be-a-play-off-for-us-hearts

http://www.manutd.com/en/Tour-2014/Tour2014News/2014/Aug/real-madrid-opposition-tour-profile.aspx

http://www.goal.com/en-ie/news/3908...ont-face-manchester-united-confirms-ancelotti
 
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