*** Pre-season Friendlies Thread ***

Arsenal looked reasonably good when they had the ball, they're just beyond woeful when it comes to defending. All over the place as per usual. :p
 
It seemed to be a case of nothing too risky from either manager as neither wanted to lose.

Without further signings though, neither will be challenging for a Champion's League place.
 
It was a poor tackle, but I don't see him clearly try and injure Bale at all.

You see tackles similar to that in almost every game...
 
Sir Alex Ferguson has given the biggest hint yet of how Manchester United’s defence could look on the opening day of the new Barclays Premier League campaign.

The Reds travel to Everton on Monday 20 August to kick off the 2012/13 season, but it’s a game that will come too soon for injured centre-backs Chris Smalling (metatarsal) and Jonny Evans (ankle). Throw into the mix the fact that Fabio has been sent on a season-long loan to Queens Park Rangers and Sir Alex’s back four will almost pick itself.

The boss will find himself with a similar selection non-dilemma on the European leg of Manchester United’s pre-season tour, a three-game trip that begins in Oslo this Sunday with a match against Norwegian side Valerenga.

“Chris Smalling is out for 10 weeks with his metatarsal operation and Jonny Evans is still just in light training," Sir Alex said. "They’re big losses at the moment and they will miss the start of the season.

“Rafael is away [on international duty with Brazil at the Olympics] and Fabio is away on loan so there are four defensive players that we don’t have for the back four positions.

“We do have Phil Jones, Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand and Patrice Evra, though. That will be the back four on tour. Hopefully we don’t get any more injuries as it would leave me a bit short.”

News of Vidic’s return is particularly pleasing for United fans, who haven’t seen the Reds skipper in action since he injured cruciate knee ligaments against FC Basel on 7 December 2011.
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http://www.manutd.com/en/Tour2012Te...d-for-manchester-united-europe-tour-2012.aspx

Nice to see Vidic back. :cool:
 
Well left back is the only problem area (when Rafael comes back) as Jones can/should play CB.

If Evra gets injured then, at present, we're a bit stuck. Which is probably why we're looking at Baines, yet refuse to pay £12m.
 
simulatorman said:
That wasn't the new season starting team. I guess that one day you’ll get to understand pre-season friendlies. :p
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Er, no, but it was an incredibly strong team and it lost against Brighton.

If they played exceptionally well, they would have won, correct?

So, they either played badly, were incredibly unlucky, or didn't put any effort in... or something else?
 
Moses said:
It's pre-season, bad stuff happens :shrug:.

Brighton's third goal was when Chelsea thought there was a foul, then all stopped and appealed. It wasn't given, so the fact Brighton played on meant they scored.

Apparently, the first was just them giving the ball away stupidly, and the other was just a defensive mixup.

Nice to see the wolves are circling, though! :o
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I didn't watch the game. I wanted to know what happened. That's all.

Simulatorman seems to have taken great offence to my question, which is odd, as I wasn't mocking Chelsea, just wondering what happened. Such results are generally expected in pre-season when you field some reserve/youth players, but not a near full strength first team.
 
simulatorman said:
Er yes, you clearly don't have much of a clue about pre-season squads, their sharpness and fitness or managers tactics preparing a squad for a new season. Maybe you should watch a few pre-season games then it would help you understand.
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Nevermind then, I seem to have clearly offended you. That wasn't my intention.
 
Manchester United team to face Valerenga:

Lindegaard, Valencia, Ferdinand, Vidic, M Keane, Young, Carrick, Scholes, Nani, Welbeck, Rooney

Bench: De Gea; Anderson, Berbatov, Chicharito, Powell, Kagawa, Macheda, Lingard.

Kagawa not starting. He's had a few games though so it's fair enough I suppose.
 
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