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Episode 63 - Amorim Era Has Begun... Its going to take some time isnt it :/
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Niall is joined by Ollie to discuss the frustrating draw at Ipswich
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Introduction and Mixed Emotions Post-Game
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the Daily Manchester United podcast. My name is Nyle Hannigan, and I'm joined by Ollie Piddom. Ollie, how's it going?
00:00:18
OllieP
Not bad, mate. Not bad. Mixed emotions. Very mixed emotions at the moment.
00:00:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that was a bit of a roller coaster, wasn't it? um Yeah, so we're recording this about an hour and a half, two hours after the the game against Ipswich.
00:00:27
OllieP
Yeah.
00:00:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
um I'm really torn as to how to feel like we spoke, we were on the crossover with the Ipswich Lads earlier and we were both really excited.
00:00:36
OllieP
Hmm.
00:00:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think we predicted a 3-0 and a 3-1, but um I'm feeling, I don't know, I think I'm a bit deflated just because the rollercoaster, Ollie, tell me, walk me through your emotions here because um I need to gather myself.
00:00:44
OllieP
Yeah.
Reflection on High Expectations and Team Transition
00:00:54
OllieP
I know. Me too, mate. Me too. it's It was just a long wait, wasn't it, as well, after the international break. So, like, two weeks we've waited. The excitement built so much. And I think there was just so much expectation.
00:01:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:01:05
OllieP
And I think we just went in there, kind of, like, blinded by how well he's done. And obviously, he's he's just come in. He's just come in. I think we're just being a bit, too. Big Simon Tanhead coming out, going out, and him coming in.
00:01:17
OllieP
We just got a bit too overexcited, I think. But we need to calm down, take stock, and i just accept it's it's it's a transitional period. It's transitional period.
00:01:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:01:26
OllieP
It's not the result we wanted, but it's the result we got, isn't it? So I kind of feel there's a lot.
00:01:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's a strange one because I was trying not to get my hopes up around it and like, you know, being quite, I thought I was being very rational about it, but for then when I looked back and gone, oh yeah, it is the same players from two weeks ago and he's
00:01:38
OllieP
Yeah.
00:01:47
OllieP
Exactly. <unk>s Exactly.
00:01:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
he' just put them slightly different position. I'm like, okay, right, there we go.
00:01:51
OllieP
Yeah.
00:01:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I just, I bought into the hype with him. And to be honest, I still am. I think he's great.
00:01:58
OllieP
yeah
00:01:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think you you made a good point that it is going to take months for them to,
Player Positioning and Lineup Surprises
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OllieP
o
00:02:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
first of all, adapt and see if he thinks that they can play his system.
00:02:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And if not, I need to find the players that can.
00:02:08
OllieP
Yeah.
00:02:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I mean, I thought, I thought we were going for the league after two minutes, Ali. I mean, a lot of it.
00:02:16
OllieP
I know. That's it. We all got very excited. We had to, didn't we? It was just like, oh my God, it's worked. It clicked straight away. Just like, how could it work so quickly? Just like, it's got Ahmad playing as a wingback as well.
00:02:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:02:30
OllieP
I thought, is he's going to work this? And then he stormed down the wing and he's putting him across to Rashford. I was like, wow. Just come out of nowhere, but. I don't know, it's going to take a lot of time. It really is.
00:02:40
OllieP
We were just so flat for the rest of the game. It was just awful. No energy, no pace, ah just making runs in the wrong places. It was, yeah, it was just poor to watch.
00:02:50
OllieP
It really was. But like you said, it's the same players. It's not a lot of the same mentality. It really is. We we had a good run with Rude, didn't we? I think that was their honeymoon period for a lot of players.
00:03:00
OllieP
A lot. Oh, it's the old managers out. I can sort of take my time quite relaxed.
00:03:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah um the well it was questionable like you play Leicester twice they've sacked their manager when they're going at Leicester like you know I don't know it's just like I don't know what about the lineup while they will start there I mean you mentioned Ahmad was probably a bit of a shock to start him out in a wingback.
00:03:09
OllieP
Yeah, that's it
00:03:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've chatted a lot about the different types of player profiles you can have in all those positions in an Amorim system and and he mentioned in his interviews about maybe starting with a bit more defensive players in those positions and then eventually being able to get to putting more attacking players in. Now he's probably bluffing a bit in that interview where he then springs Amad in a right wing back position but and when you saw the 11 what was your initial thoughts because i was I was quite encouraged when I saw it the way it was lining up.
00:03:49
OllieP
Yeah, um I expected Kazemiro to start. I didn't expect Ericsson to start though.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I was a bit of shy.
00:03:55
OllieP
i I was trying to think who's going to go in the middle, because obviously the three, four, three. It's kind of a three, four, three, four, two, one, isn't it, really?
00:04:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:04:03
OllieP
Rashford going up front. um But I was kind of shocked. um Well, basically seeing Shaw back on the the team sheet that he was available. I
Tactical Adjustments and Defensive Concerns
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OllieP
was shocked, because I didn't think he'd play.
00:04:13
OllieP
I really didn't think he'd play, because has he played any like under 21 games? is he He's kind of risky bringing him back in.
00:04:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, it's very important. Isn't it suspect though that him and Molassie are going to the game after 10-Hag gets sacked?
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OllieP
Yeah, it's weird.
00:04:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's no way they would have been playing after the international game in 10-Hag.
00:04:28
OllieP
Exactly.
00:04:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
No way. Like, it's really doesn't sit well with me.
00:04:31
OllieP
Yeah. It's odd.
00:04:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:04:34
OllieP
Nice. Oh, very odd. He's been out since February. ah That's a long time to be out. That's what we're talking.
00:04:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
He played in the last game he played with the Euro's final, wasn't it?
00:04:40
OllieP
We're talking nine months.
00:04:43
OllieP
Yeah, oh of course. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah.
00:04:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:04:44
OllieP
Playing the auros. But ever since then, he's been heavily injured and he's not played any games behind the scenes.
00:04:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:04:51
OllieP
He's not been warming up.
00:04:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:04:52
OllieP
Molasses has been on the training program. you've played like 121 games so you kind of expect him to come back in the fall but not not sure he's just come out of nowhere he just got back straight off of holiday and just uh straight into the team it's bananas yeah yeah i'm available guys i'm ready now
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Global Sports Podcast Network
data
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Strange one. It's like, it was a new manager. So i'll and i have a fe I was like, oh, what did I don't know.
00:05:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:05:16
OllieP
But he came when he got some minutes, which is always good, because it is quality. When he's fit, when he's fair and he's wearing to go, he is absolute quality.
00:05:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes.
00:05:23
OllieP
um But yeah, I was i was quite surprised. At the back, I kind of expected it through injuries. Obviously, Martinez, he's out at the moment. So I expected Evans to start.
00:05:34
OllieP
um And it kind of made sense to put Maserawi in there with the licks. And they did well.
00:05:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:38
OllieP
I think they did quite well. There was a few times when We did allow them to shoot. It reminded me of last season a little bit. There was a few shots that they had to kind of untested, which is kind of annoying.
00:05:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:48
OllieP
You don't want to see that again, because we did that countless times last season, and we paid the price for it. um But I thought Dallow did well. Dallow did well on the left. I expected him to go on the left, actually.
00:06:00
OllieP
But Ahmad, I'm a bit concerned. It's just like, do I want him as a wingback? Is he going to burn a lot of energy? Are we going to see him just wasting energy playing as a wingback? because he's an absolute, the right cover I'll have to do.
00:06:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
I get it. yeah
00:06:13
OllieP
It's going to be insane. It's not what he's used to over it. So it's a lot to ask and then to bring to attack as well.
00:06:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. It is a lot to ask. um I think though.
00:06:21
OllieP
Hmm.
00:06:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think it makes sense because I don't yeah its ah feel like those two players in Behind the Stryker are more central than wingers and probably Ahmad is it better with with space in front of him and defenders don't really know how to defend against a wingback because you know he is doing a lot of running, you're right right just covering like and getting back into shape.
00:06:33
OllieP
Yeah. Hmm.
00:06:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
but he's
Mentality Issues and Praise for Ipswich
00:06:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
he is fit enough for it and he's rapid like i think it's a lovely pace to get back in front of Smadex i know Dilap should have buried that chance but he did get back in front of Smadex, Smadex did well to get it across now but he there's not an awful lot of options there if you're looking for an attacking player that can play that position um so yeah i do see that but i mean him going forward like it was incredible stuff today like even at the even at the end when
00:06:47
OllieP
Yeah. Yeah.
00:06:59
OllieP
That's it. Oh, it's brilliant, yeah.
00:07:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, it's one-one. The game the game is in the balance. We'll speak later on about you know the general play, but you know no one's creating anything. No one's taking any chances.
00:07:20
OllieP
No.
00:07:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then he picks up the ball with, but first of all, the goal. I mean, I'm jumping all over the place here, but the goal wasn't a good move. He literally picked the ball up from his own half, sprinted past about three or four players, and then a brilliant cross at the Oxford.
00:07:29
OllieP
Yeah. Did all himself.
00:07:33
OllieP
Yeah.
00:07:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Then at the end of the game, he does something similar where he picks up the ball, goes past one or two in the box and gets a shot away, like creates something out of nothing that no one else in the team is even willing to try, you know?
00:07:43
OllieP
Yeah.
00:07:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
So he's he's become all of a sudden one of our most important players.
00:07:45
OllieP
Hmm.
00:07:49
OllieP
stand out players. Yeah, because ganache on ganache he's doing what ganache did last season.
00:07:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
like
00:07:56
OllieP
I think it just like he was he was beating his man.
00:07:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:58
OllieP
um He was finding space to shoot. He's out he's got a few goals this season ganache, but he's not looked the same as last season. Well, that's because he's not had as many stats he deserves to because of Rashford.
00:08:10
OllieP
um But Ahmad has just been stand out player, the stand out attacking player that we've got in this team at the moment. He looks the most likely to score as well.
00:08:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:19
OllieP
He looks like he's he's good at finding space. You find those little pockets of pocket spaces to get a shot off. And it was, he looks like an actual last season, and but shame we can't get him far enough all cylinders, the two of them together.
00:08:32
OllieP
um ah But how do you feel about Hoyland?
00:08:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:35
OllieP
How do you feel about him?
00:08:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
i I think he should have started. like i mean i know i know last I think he's brilliant and hes i think he suits that system so well.
00:08:40
OllieP
I think he should have started.
00:08:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:08:47
OllieP
Yeah.
00:08:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
i mean Rashford got his goal, yes, but I was disappointed in general play.
00:08:51
OllieP
That's it. That's gonna save him.
00:08:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
like there was a well but like that was there was zero urgency in anything he was doing.
00:09:00
OllieP
Yeah, yeah.
00:09:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
He just looked, he was kind of moping around and it just looked really bad because everyone else was putting in a shift. And I'm like, if he's not putting in a shift on the first game with a new manager, then he's not putting in a shift.
00:09:10
OllieP
Yeah, it's not bad, it's not good.
00:09:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's the only time that you would put a shift in if you're a player that's not.
00:09:15
OllieP
Yeah, I know. He's not worried, is he? He's not worried at all.
00:09:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:09:20
OllieP
There must be someone in his contract that just says, you will start every game. It's just very odd. It's very odd. His mentality is just not right.
00:09:30
OllieP
It really isn't. Even after the game, do you see him after the game, a bit of a smile on his face?
00:09:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:34
OllieP
I thought, what are we smiling for?
00:09:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:35
OllieP
There's nothing to smile about. You got your goal.
00:09:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:38
OllieP
Maybe that's him. Maybe he's just like, I got my goal. I'm good. But that's not the mentality we need, not from a senior player.
00:09:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's what I feel like it was like it was really like. I know it was really like throughout the game. and He was like, well, they can't come back on me because I've got a goal.
00:09:50
OllieP
Yeah, that's what it feels like.
00:09:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's like very sensitive when you're watching him play and it's just, I don't, I don't get it. Like, I mean, the attitude from what he had six, seven years ago to now is just different.
00:10:00
OllieP
Yeah,
Strategic Changes and Player Evaluations
00:10:01
OllieP
it's different.
00:10:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's often a different player and Highland has that hunger, like, he's a perfect number nine he can't play anywhere else but number nine so he loves pinning the striker the amount of fouls he won when he came on as well always looking to take a man on running behind the channels put pressure on and and he's good in front of goal as well like i'm a big fan and i think he's perfect when he has he'll have now two that are supporting him along with the wing backs i think it's i think it's made for him but um yeah like you said the rest of the goal might save him for another few weeks we might not see highland featured
00:10:09
OllieP
No, no.
00:10:13
OllieP
Yeah.
00:10:21
OllieP
Yes, yes. me
00:10:32
OllieP
I think it will. I think it will and it's it's worrying because I'm hoping this Amorim's come in and he's going to be like, right, whoever's playing well will play. No, I'm not going by names or I don't know, or just by past.
00:10:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, which I think he will I think he will I think he's
00:10:47
OllieP
Eventually.
00:10:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
looking at it like the amount of players he brought on, he brought them on you know with a good bit of time to go as well. It wasn't like he was kind of bringing them on in the 80th minute. I think he had nearly all the subs on with 20 minutes to go.
00:10:57
OllieP
Yeah.
00:10:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
So he clearly just wants to see who's actually going to run here, who's going to actually play it for me, along with him trying to get a goal, of course. But he he did give a lot of players a run. But um yeah, hopefully he doesn't kind of just pickup pick on names.
00:11:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I just i don't think he will.
00:11:12
OllieP
He seems like a good guy, isn't he?
00:11:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think he's that that type of manager, I think,
00:11:16
OllieP
Yeah, ah yeah exactly.
00:11:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's like, if you you know if you're going to work for me, yeah I'll play you. But if you're not, I'm not going to care. like you know
00:11:23
OllieP
Yeah, that's what that's what essentially I kind of feel that's what got 10 eggs act. He was playing the same players who weren't performing his loyalty is blind loyalty towards Rashford.
00:11:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:34
OllieP
and I think that cost him his job. I really do. um He's just been detrimental to the team.
00:11:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:40
OllieP
He really has um like it.
00:11:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Did it just give up? Yeah.
00:11:43
OllieP
No.
00:11:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:11:45
OllieP
and I know crazy times.
00:11:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Anyway, we'll take a quick break here. We'll be back with a bit more reaction to that game because there's too much to discuss.
00:12:04
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00:12:31
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a
00:12:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sorry about that interruption there. and So, I mean, the goal went in from Rashford and I think we were all thinking we are back.
00:12:39
OllieP
Perfect timing.
00:12:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like it's, it's happening.
00:12:46
OllieP
Yeah.
00:12:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's, we're 90 seconds.
00:12:48
OllieP
Eyes were big. Yeah.
00:12:50
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It's like he's, he's like, he's found ah the secret weapon here.
00:12:53
OllieP
Yeah.
00:12:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Never. Ipswich absolutely dominated that game from start to finish.
00:12:57
OllieP
They were brilliant.
00:12:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was.
00:12:59
OllieP
They were absolutely brilliant.
00:13:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, it was awful. It was hard to watch.
00:13:03
OllieP
And that's it. It's like, look, we're speaking to a ah Rob on the crossover and just saying, ah you He didn't really mention how many good players there are in that team. I've not really been following Ipswich that much.
00:13:14
OllieP
But there were some standout players there. I'd say four. It wasn't just Dilap. I thought Dilap was going to be the only guy who actually really put any pressure on us. But there was about four standout players in that team. That's Smodich, Hutchinson.
00:13:25
OllieP
They were all absolutely brilliant, honestly. Technical players, they were causing us problems all game, honestly.
00:13:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:31
OllieP
it I don't know how.
00:13:33
OllieP
We should have lost about 3-1. We should have lost about 3-4-1. it's If it wasn't for an Ana, making his heroics again like he did, making some unbelievable saves.
00:13:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:13:42
OllieP
We'd have been in a lot of trouble in this game.
00:13:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:43
OllieP
We really would. We owe it to him completely because defense was poor today. Absolutely poor. We were letting shots come in left, right, and center, and we just couldn't we couldn't handle them at all. I don't know what was Casimir offering absolutely nothing.
00:13:56
OllieP
Ericsson, he's not a defensive player. We know that, and he's not going to pace, but we were just getting cut through the middle. It was poor, honestly, really badly.
00:14:04
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yeah
00:14:05
OllieP
but Hats off to Whipswitch. They look like a good outfit. They can't be worried about going down. They just look like the real deal.
00:14:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
they are and they have some super fucklers like and you can name them all around the pitch I mean and they're so like they know exactly what to do man hutch was everywhere and like he was brilliant and the two are who hold them a feelers of Casimir and Erickson just looked like they that know like they were dizzy looking at him and a Hutchinson skinned Evans a few times as well and you're looking at them why are we why do we have all the 32 year olds like our
00:14:15
OllieP
Yeah. Yeah.
00:14:21
OllieP
He's brilliant, wouldn't he?
00:14:30
OllieP
Yeah. Yeah.
00:14:36
OllieP
no
00:14:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
but How does that happen? And like you're looking at the bench going, OK, we are playing. I don't know if it's our best team. It's not our best team. But like you know like we're just getting rad rings around.
00:14:49
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And like Hutchinson, absolutely loving life, just playing in between the lines.
00:14:49
OllieP
Yeah!
00:14:53
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I mean, God bless. Johnny Evans was caught on the half of line with him a couple of times. And then he tried to make up for a tackle and launched in for a tackle on to lap.
00:14:58
OllieP
Got spurned in eh?
00:15:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
One of three, Hutchinson had a good free kick.
00:15:03
OllieP
Yeah.
00:15:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I made a good save. but like uh like oh nana oh my god they were incredible saves like the dilapone i already had already nearly counted it like as a goal i thought i came off his face initially but i came off like his upper arm but he spread himself incredible stuff like really but yeah you're right smartix good irish man he's playing well as well for years but yeah it just
00:15:10
OllieP
eight
00:15:14
OllieP
Yeah. Yeah. How his hand was in the right place at the right time. Yeah.
00:15:27
OllieP
Yeah. He's brilliant. He's really well.
00:15:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
it it was It was annoying because you know if you weren't watching the game and you saw ah United 1-0 after two minutes and then Ipswich didn't score until maybe five minutes before the end of halftime, you're like, United must be on top.
00:15:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
like Didn't have a kick.
00:15:43
OllieP
No. No.
00:15:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
couldn't Couldn't get out of... What I find frustrating was they would build up from the back and they couldn't seem to get it into midfield for a man that could actually turn on the ball.
00:15:52
OllieP
Yep.
00:15:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was just the back three in and over and back to each other.
00:15:55
OllieP
Yep.
00:15:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
And when it got out to Ahmad, there was a couple of times when he maybe linked up with Bruno. Bruno would kind of go long and then come back short.
00:16:01
OllieP
Mmm.
00:16:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
But on the Dallow side, Dallow had no options whatsoever.
00:16:04
OllieP
No.
00:16:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, whether it was meant to be Erikson or Casamiro or Garnaccio, it just wasn't working. And like, that's what that's the thing that'll take time where we need to find the right players that can play in those positions.
00:16:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because, you know, Garnaccio find himself very central to it. I don't think that suits him. He's not like...
00:16:20
OllieP
Nah, not at all. He's a wide player. He's a wide player, actually.
00:16:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
and well know know small spaces he needs like a bit of space to run into. um And that's maybe where like when Maina comes back, Ugarthi possibly mount, you know, they're kind of better technical players that we need him at field.
00:16:27
OllieP
Yeah.
00:16:33
OllieP
yeah
00:16:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
But we had no way to get out and Ipsos just pinned us in every time.
00:16:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we had to go along so back to what we're kind of used to with Rashford in behind or, you know, Gurnachu in behind. And that's no one plays like that. You can't just live off, you know, defenders are fast nowadays.
00:16:37
OllieP
Nah, not at all.
00:16:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
You can't just kick the striker running behind.
00:16:49
OllieP
Yeah, that's it.
00:16:52
OllieP
Yeah, that's what Bruno was trying to
Midfield Partnerships and Managerial Confidence
00:16:54
OllieP
do. I think he was getting a bit desperate at one point, wasn't he?
00:16:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:16:56
OllieP
Kept trying to play the ball over the top and we just won't find the man. And there was a couple of chances where I think we were one-on-one, but then um I think Gennacho a couple of times, but he just didn't have the pace. They're just so quick at the back.
00:17:06
OllieP
They recovered every time. So they've got some really good players, quick players, powerful players. And we, we just, we just weren't the better team by a long shot.
00:17:17
OllieP
They were the better team by a country mile.
00:17:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:18
OllieP
They really were the shame on them.
00:17:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:17:20
OllieP
They didn't win actually good for us. Obviously we don't be slipping down the table anymore, but they look like a team that should be way above us in the league.
00:17:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:28
OllieP
They really do. They were brilliant.
00:17:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know.
00:17:30
OllieP
They were really good, but I know I'm hoping there's going to be some changes next week.
00:17:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:35
OllieP
I'm hoping. It seems like there should be.
00:17:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:17:38
OllieP
Maybe he's just trying to figure out, maybe he started you start with a team he kind of thought right. out Let me figure these guys out first. probably not the people I'm going to be using in the future.
00:17:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Exactly.
00:17:47
OllieP
ah These are people that I'm going to probably rely on very seldomly.
00:17:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:52
OllieP
um So I just thought put them out first, see what they look like, which kind of makes sense. Because like you said, they're in their 30s now. Erickson's got no pace. Kazimiro's not really got any pace.
00:18:02
OllieP
Johnny Evans, he's like late 30s, man. it's It's absolutely crazy. These are players for the future. These are players who probably leave in leaving at the end of the season. and so
00:18:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:14
OllieP
Yeah, so i hopefully there will be some changes next week and we'll just see a bit more pace injected into the squad hopefully.
00:18:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it was it because it was like. you know the first 10 minutes you were you're looking at going, okay, there's a bit more intensity about you know our press and stuff, but then it it's just just kept playing through us.
00:18:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
like you know it wasn't like It wasn't like, oh, we've got on top of them.
00:18:31
OllieP
Yeah.
00:18:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
like We were never really on top of them. like We didn't create that many chances either after the goal.
00:18:36
OllieP
No.
00:18:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
they they yeah Like you said, it should have been three or four, one. But yeah, it just that's why that's why I think I'm so deflated after it is that,
00:18:48
OllieP
Yeah, it was horrible to watch again, wasn't it?
00:18:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:18:50
OllieP
Yeah.
00:18:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, it was just like the usual. And I don't know why, but every week you're like, you know, for five days out from the next United game, you're like, oh, yeah, like, don't want to watch another game. And then four days out, you're like, you know what?
00:19:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, there' it can't get any worse. And then three days out, you're like, it's going to get better. And then two days out, you're like, and then you're like, and then it's just the same cycle again.
00:19:08
OllieP
The torment.
00:19:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, you know, we're sitting here Sunday evening just deflated, going, nothing's changed.
00:19:16
OllieP
I know, I know.
00:19:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just got a new head.
00:19:18
OllieP
It was, ah we expect I think we just expected such drastic changes. And this is sort of a shock, isn't it?
00:19:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:19:24
OllieP
It was like, what were we thinking? Because it is the same people. It is the same personnel. ah We just played in a bit more, a bit of a different formation. That's all. But it is still the same players. They're not going to suddenly just turn into like super superstars again.
00:19:38
OllieP
It's going to be the same sort of thing, but just with a different formation. But hopefully it's going to work. It's going to take time, like we said. He's obviously a good manager, a really good manager, and I like him.
00:19:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:49
OllieP
I like him straight away. He's a likeable guy, and it seems like the team like him as well.
00:19:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
I like it. Yeah.
00:19:54
OllieP
So let's give him time. Let's give him a chance.
Squad Dynamics and Defensive Strategies
00:19:57
OllieP
This could take well into next year, do you know what I mean, before we actually see any results. But who knows? It's good times, though.
00:20:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:04
OllieP
It's good times. We've got to stay positive.
00:20:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Tough pillows as well, but I think it's the only option.
00:20:07
OllieP
ah and and I know.
00:20:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll take another quick break here. We'll be back with a bit more coverage from the game today.
00:20:22
OllieP
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00:20:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
We mentioned that a lot of the players that that were playing might be in the second team or you know we had a bunch of 30-year-olds playing. If you had all the players available, Oli, how would you line up within that system kind of based off either performances today and also players to come back in?
00:21:05
OllieP
Yeah.
00:21:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know everyone's Everyone's a full bill of health, how would you do it? because I think that's ideal ideally where we want to get to. And there's probably maybe four or five changes from today that in an ideal scenario, we'll be able to get a bit of repetition with those players.
00:21:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
But how would you kind of light it out? Maybe starting with the back three and the, and the fullbacks.
00:21:32
OllieP
Yeah, so the full backs, I've got to go Luke Shaw.
00:21:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay.
00:21:36
OllieP
Dallow did work dallo delo okay today, but Luke Shaw, he's just naturally a left-footed player and he he's probably won the best crosses in the team as well.
00:21:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:44
OllieP
So got to put him as i got to put him on the left.
00:21:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
e dallo Did you notice that he was he's good, but he was restricted because he was dribbling with his right foot on the left side.
00:21:52
OllieP
That's it. It's not natural to him.
00:21:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
it was like and he He always wanted to cut back in and likes it's fine to have inverted players, but I think he was wasn't wasn't comfortable in that position when episodes were so high.
00:21:58
OllieP
Yeah.
00:22:00
OllieP
Hmm.
00:22:03
OllieP
No.
00:22:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I think that's a good shot.
00:22:06
OllieP
Yeah.
00:22:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
We only need on the left-hand side anyway for a bit of balance.
00:22:10
OllieP
Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen him cross with his left foot. I'm trying to think there's been occasion where he's crossed with his left, especially when you're running at pace as well. If you're trying to beat your man and then try to cross it in, it's it's not natural to him.
00:22:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:21
OllieP
So I think molasses, it has to be molassier or short. It has to be when they come back in. Short's the most natural, so definitely. ah Next to him, um I'm not sure what his side yorro plays.
00:22:32
OllieP
And I've still not seen him really play that much, but is he a more or less? Yeah, yeah.
00:22:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
What was that preseason path against?
00:22:36
OllieP
No one's seen anything of him really apart from apart from the um yeah preseason. Yeah. We've not really seen anything, have we?
00:22:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:22:45
OllieP
But it has to be, he's obviously you got to go into the team somewhere and I'm guessing he's not the center of that. So it'd be Martinez, Lenny, and Delict, I'm guessing.
00:22:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:56
OllieP
And then I'd put on the right, it's either going to have to be Maserawi. Maserawi's been brilliant. But then Dallow, it's his natural side.
00:23:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:03
OllieP
So at least we've got options. So one of those two. So hopefully Molassia on the left or Shaw and then on the right, we've got Dallow or Maserati, which hopefully that's going to help us out.
00:23:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
You're not going to go Ahmad.
00:23:15
OllieP
Say again.
00:23:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
You're not going Ahmad after his performance today.
00:23:18
OllieP
That's it. That's the thing is. ah mike He did play well today, played okay, played all right. Obviously that run was amazing and right at the end of the game, like you said, but we just need someone who can bomb constantly up and down though ah but on those flanks, really do. um and And it is because I want to see him play every week. I want to see him getting games constantly and getting as many minutes as possible. But I think that's just my solid choice because those guys are better at defending on that right side.
00:23:47
OllieP
because you've got Dallow, he can defend, can't he?
00:23:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:50
OllieP
And I didn't don't think I really saw, Am I got back? But did he really put in a challenge or does he know how to defend properly? Is he going to be culpable to giving away free kicks, penalties?
00:24:02
OllieP
We're asking a lot from him. We really are. He's a second player. He's not a wingback. He's been brought into that role um just just because the manager wants to try him out there.
00:24:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:13
OllieP
So who knows if it's actually going to work or not. Moving to midfield, which is central to I want you guys and mainly playing together Obviously main news the more creative player.
00:24:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:22
OllieP
He knows how to link up with the the Attackers better. So we'll have you got sitting a bit further back um But yeah main news got to be there. Hopefully many is gonna be our main man He's going to be able to control that midfield a lot more and he's going to link up with ah Bruno.
00:24:38
OllieP
and But it's's it's just hard. It's it's hard to decide how the team's going to work, what shape we're going to go for. Because it's all good while all well and good saying three, four, three.
00:24:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:24:46
OllieP
But does that work in an ideal world with the players that we have? There might be a bit of a cutting and changing there. so Who knows, but definitely I'll be taking Rashford out of the team.
00:24:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think I can agree with that.
00:24:59
OllieP
ah He needs to come out of the team. He needs to come out of this team. um He shouldn't be starting. 100% should not be starting. But then Gennacho.
00:25:11
OllieP
I'm trying to think now. I'm just trying to think of the shape. That's it. I'm still getting used to how the shape works.
00:25:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Yeah, yeah.
00:25:17
OllieP
Yeah, and and how it's all going to come about.
00:25:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah.
00:25:19
OllieP
But I want to see ganache, Ahmad and Hoyland. I want to see him ah as our main attackers, but it's just difficult. Where do we put Bruno in then? And it's it's then I feel like he has to play really.
00:25:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:25:31
OllieP
It's. Where would you sit where would you put a position, everyone?
00:25:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
i Yeah, the Ahmad one is interesting because I was a bit shocked.
00:25:39
OllieP
It is where do you go?
00:25:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
I was a bit shocked when I saw it because I was like, okay, dialogue perfect for right wing back because
00:25:46
OllieP
Hmm.
00:25:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
he he can he' he has the engine for it and he's he likes attacking anyway and he can also get back at the end and he'd be that kind of dogged player that would work hard for a new manager, you know?
00:25:52
OllieP
Yeah.
00:25:56
OllieP
Hmm.
00:25:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I was like, okay, that's fine. And then when he was in left wing back, I was just like, we've just kind of hindered that side before we even started because he's just not comfortable on that side and he won't he won't be as aggressive going forward as he would be on the right.
00:26:05
OllieP
Yeah. No.
00:26:10
OllieP
Hmm.
00:26:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
and But I think, having if Shaw was playing in that left wing back then you could probably afford to have a more attacking player on the right side because when they do talk back Shaw is comfortable as a left back and ah defensively as well so i you kind of have that forward and then Ahmad gets in it's ah an earlier bonus.
00:26:21
OllieP
Yeah.
00:26:31
OllieP
Hmm.
00:26:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
um so if you wanted to and it depends against the opposition as well i think if you're if you're thinking that you can get out in opposition and you're the ones that have most of the ball and you need to create the attacks then you will need to have an attacking player in the wingback but if you're playing a little girl or if you're playing a city then you're probably thinking dalo and shaw as the wingbacks or muzz rally and then they talk into a nice five defenders across the back so definitely um
00:26:43
OllieP
Yeah. You need a both. Hmm.
00:26:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah opposition related, I would agree with Meinu and Agarte in midfield, and moving forward you'd want them to create some sort of a partnership. um i mean I'm still not convinced about Agarte but we don't really have any other options there in terms of a player in the future that
00:27:04
OllieP
Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
can nail down that position but I'm not i'm still not sure about the legs in that midfield between Menu and Ugarte because we know Menu needs help in that department, I'm just not convinced of Ugarte and then yeah the interesting question obviously Bruno has to play, I will play Heulin as well in the nine and then I would probably, I want to get mountain to that team as well somewhere but
00:27:22
OllieP
Yeah.
00:27:30
OllieP
yeah
00:27:37
OllieP
So difficult, isn't it, to position everyone?
00:27:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
its Well, yeah, and then also, OK, well, if Bruno and Mount are playing behind Heulen, there's not much pace going in behind, so you probably do need a Garnaccio maybe, or depending on who you're playing right wing back then, and Ahmad.
00:27:44
OllieP
Yeah.
00:27:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
And Ahmad would be interested in behind the striker as well, just for that pure pace and pulling runner and pressing and everything like that.
00:27:52
OllieP
Yeah.
00:27:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
So yeah, and I think Mount as well could probably play him beside Menu if he was really disciplined. I think he's he can play deeper as well, but and that's where I see him. If he's going to play, it's going to be either the two and behind the striker or are sitting two in deep as well.
00:28:13
OllieP
Yeah. Do you reckon we mate? Do you reckon it's possibly a sacrifice in Ugar maybe and then bring in, so I don't know, sort of a shift of Bruno a bit forward from Maynu. Do you reckon that's a gamble?
00:28:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:28:25
OllieP
I think it's a possibility, because obviously we're going for two quite different...
00:28:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean who is the deepest lion player?
00:28:31
OllieP
Yeah, yeah. And just, it's kind of, it's a gamble, I guess, but...
00:28:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think yeah it depends on opposition, also size and legs, because like our Namad field is quite light.
00:28:39
OllieP
Yeah.
Managerial Challenges and Future Outlook
00:28:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Just think of other leagues or other teams in the league.
00:28:42
OllieP
yeah
00:28:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
You might get completely run over but then Yeah, I'm interested to see how this system plays against different types of teams, because today I would assume Amran probably thought, OK, it's Ipswich.
00:28:54
OllieP
Yeah.
00:28:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't have a clue who Ipswich are. We'll probably dominate the ball. So let's just put Ericsson in there, because we have a player that is comfortable in the ball and deep-line positions.
00:29:02
OllieP
Yeah.
00:29:05
OllieP
It's technical, yeah.
00:29:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ipswich are extremely aggressive on the press against us.
00:29:10
OllieP
Yeah.
00:29:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
We can think about it. And actually, in the first half, dominate possession. um So I want to say it against, you know, even not even the best teams, but like, you know, a big midfield or athletic midfield like Newcastle or Aston Villa.
00:29:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, how how does that, how does that two midfield deal with just.
00:29:24
OllieP
Yeah.
00:29:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
just athletes in midfield.
00:29:29
OllieP
Mm.
00:29:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know a eleven for example i so Are they going to get bullied?
00:29:31
OllieP
You have to get bullied or not.
00:29:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
How does the backs play in that midfield?
00:29:34
OllieP
Mm.
00:29:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Are you really isolated in midfield? Did the two further in front drop back in to create like a box? I don't know. so um it if You can say all this stuff, but it is the same players, and if you don't fix the mentality, you're screwed anyway.
00:29:47
OllieP
Exactly.
00:29:52
OllieP
We need to get the checkbook out, I think, for amaranth for but Christmas. Give them a nice Christmas present with a nice 200 million pound war chest. I think that's what the guy needs at the minute.
00:30:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll end up with Manchester like, yeah.
00:30:03
OllieP
I know. Do you know what? He looked at the start of the game. He'd had a big smile on his face and at the end he kind of looked like, what have I got myself in for?
00:30:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
age that
00:30:11
OllieP
I felt so bad for him.
00:30:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:30:13
OllieP
He looked like he just got home from holiday and just like realized he had the holiday blues already. It's like that poor guy, honestly. But we wish him the best of luck. He's going to do well. I believe in him.
00:30:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, practice and this was in Lisbon, right?
00:30:24
OllieP
We believe in Amorim.
00:30:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then he ended up in Ipswich two weeks later, like...
00:30:33
OllieP
how the world's changed so rapidly.
00:30:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
ribbly and his it' I assume he's married. I don't know if he's married or not. His wife's like, are you serious?
00:30:40
OllieP
What have you done?
00:30:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
What have you done? Why are you in such a good life?
00:30:44
OllieP
These are, oh man, these are all for divorce, aren't they?
00:30:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:30:47
OllieP
Oh my God, he's put a strenuous marriage to the poor guy.
00:30:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Yeah, yeah. It's like, oh, it's not too bad. You can go to episode, but then you come back to Manchester. He's just like, oh, it's not too bad.
00:30:55
OllieP
It could have been Italy, Eddie West, France. Oh man, poor guy, poor guy. He'll get there though, he'll get there.
00:31:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
He will, yeah. I think it would be burning if he does, because I really do like him. I want it to work.
00:31:08
OllieP
I do, yeah.
00:31:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I do think as well that for the system he's trying to play, I think we do have the players that are there. I think the profile of players are are there and can play in those positions. It's not as if we're looking at the wing back positions and going, we'd be really forced into a different position there.
00:31:23
OllieP
There's no one who can do it, yeah.
00:31:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
like I think there's plenty of options. um It's just trying to settle on what that best 11 is. And I think he's just trying to see who who actually who's actually going to run for me.
00:31:32
OllieP
Yeah, completely.
00:31:36
OllieP
Yeah, that's it. that's It's finding out who's going to sweat blood for me. That's probably what he wants to figure out at the moment and hopefully he'll make the right decisions, not make the error that 10 hag made because it cost him his job.
00:31:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:31:49
OllieP
So yeah, find out who the cool guys are, who the best guys are for the job and just stick with them and stick with those guys and hopefully it's going to work out best for us.
00:31:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely.
00:32:00
OllieP
But what a day.
00:32:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:32:01
OllieP
What a day, mate.
00:32:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Anyway, that was a good therapy session, Ali, so it was good.
00:32:04
OllieP
It was, it was, I feel we've aired, we've vented, it's good.
00:32:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah, we're going to have to send that out into ether now. You can all enjoy us ranting about. That much has changed, but we're still here.
00:32:16
OllieP
I know, absolutely but it's absolutely crazy, it really is. The world of Manchester United, it really is a crazy one.
00:32:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Anyway. I know. I know. And everyone, every other team is enjoying watching it as well. and No doubt.
00:32:28
OllieP
Yeah, we're a show with a fair of dreams, isn't it?
00:32:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
So.
00:32:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:32:32
OllieP
Fair of nightmares at the moment, but...
00:32:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
You're welcome. You're welcome, everyone. Anyway, Oli, thanks very much. and we have yeah We have a bumper week ahead back out of the International Slump.
00:32:38
OllieP
Mate, it's been a pleasure.
00:32:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we'll have Tactics Tuesday tomorrow for you guys and all the rest of the ones. And yeah, if you like the show, leave us a rating and follow us on the socials as well. And we'll see you in the next one.
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OllieP
Take care, guys. Bye-bye.