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Episode 195 - Chelsea Review (H)
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Kieran joins you after the 2-1 win against Chelsea at Old Trafford. Buckle in and join the conversation on our socials!
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Transcript
Introduction and Setup Apology
00:00:14
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Hello everyone, slightly different background behind me and maybe a slightly different kind of microphone so I do apologise, I'm away at the moment and I couldn't really watch the game in full because I was out and about.
Game Summary and Unexpected Win
00:00:26
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However, I've tried to keep up, I've watched the last 20 minutes, it was horrendous, let's go through it from what I can see.
00:00:34
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I mean, um it's, what are we? Three points, great, fantastic. um That goes against what Nile and I thought. yeah We thought going get battered. We might got slightly battered, but not on the scoreline.
00:00:47
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But just trying to just piece together what I've got and what happened in the match. So I won't go into detail about, oh, I don't think this, I don't think that. I'm just recording my pure relief about how finally we've got three points. We've got three points. It's unbelievable.
00:01:04
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It is.
Key Player Performances
00:01:05
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I go went into this game and I went into the Chelsea game just thinking yeah, we were going to get slaughtered, all that good stuff um but somehow we didn't somehow we didn't and somehow it's all okay and we got three points, three points that I definitely wasn't expecting, three points that Niall wasn't expecting when we were on our preview episode Garnaccio never made the field Casimiro did start, he scored and got sent off, just dropped a Casimiro performance like as always, we had a
00:01:35
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Bruno Fernandes' goal as well, so my fantasy is going up in that own value. We scored, or we conceded a typical United to concede goal. The game had everything. The game had everything.
00:01:45
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And including when we went 2-1 up. No, not when we went 2-1 up. When Chelsea scored that goal to make it 2-1, that's better phrased, I instantly thought, well, we're going to lose from here.
00:01:58
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We're 13 minutes to go. And I just thought, we're going lose from here. I was so tuned in from last season and each tuned in to last season that all I could think of was, here we go again.
Match Statistics and United's Performance
00:02:09
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But no, we we held on um and and we got three points and three points that we sorely needed, sorely, sorely needed. Just looking at the the game and the and the stats in that game, just having a look around.
00:02:24
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I mean, we we made the better chances. it It seems like if you're an XG believe, which I have to be in this case, because I didn't see a lot of the game. However, 1.74 XG for for Manchester United compared to 0.39. Now, Tom in our chat, he's also away. He can't be here tonight. However, he did say in our little group chat that we weren't clinical.
00:02:45
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And once again, it it kind of shows, you know, we We obviously outscored our XG, brilliant, fantastic. 11 shots on target. 11 shots in total, 4 shots on target.
00:02:58
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um I mean, it's not it's not the worst thing. and To be fair, throughout the whole game, there were 16 shots. 11 of them to um were to Man United. And it's fair to say that as soon as Sanchez got sent off for bringing down Mbomo as the last man, it it kind of made sense.
Controversial Casemiro Sending Off
00:03:17
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that it would go that way. But why does Casemiro, know, how does he get in a position where he gets himself sent off and makes it 10v10? I don't understand that.
00:03:28
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Surely as game management, even if they're on a yellow card, you sort think, I don't really need to make this tackle. I think we'll we'll be okay. And that's why I'm sort of a bit haphazard into into really putting a gauge on how this game really feels. Because It should have been 11 v 10 throughout the entire match. There should have been no need and should have been no real reason why we went down
Season Outlook and Casemiro's Impact
00:03:52
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to 10 men.
00:03:52
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But Casemiro opened up that opportunity by getting a second bookable offense. It just makes sense, right? I don't understand that one. But anyway, um it was it was good to actually see a victory, which is very, very nice indeed.
00:04:07
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um And yeah, I mean, two bookable offense. So for Casemiro, it couldn't be looked at essentially because it's a booking. So, hey, it is what it is. But with that victory, it takes us to nine points for the season. Well, hey, well hey we're we're cooking now. where We're well on our way to equaling what we got.
00:04:29
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I mean, it was, um yeah, i or I mean, according to to the Premier League, I'm just looking at the Premier League app, since his debut, Premier League debut in August 2020, Casemiro has now been shown three red cards, ah has been shown more red cards than any other player in the competition.
Praise for Fernandes and Chelsea's Challenges
00:04:52
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ah i I'll be honest with you, 2022, I didn't realise he'd been at the club for over three years now. That's that's quite that's quite amazing. But yeah, Fernandes on his 200th Premier League appearance gets the three points and...
00:05:06
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Well, Dimitar Berbatov actually on on the Premier League app as a pundit ah said this of Bruno Fernandes' goal. I think he's the most creative player in the team. He knows how to pass, how to create. Sometimes if you stop the cross, you'll stop the goal. Sometimes it's not that easy, but it's a great goal from Bruno. And that's coming.
00:05:23
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from Dimitar Berbatov, who, you know, first class, first class, first touch, and everything in between. So that that that puts it that puts it in ah in and in a great light. um I mean, Glenn Hoddle on the Premier League app,
00:05:37
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It says for Chelsea, I think going down to 10 men so early in the game is harsh. They have to readjust and they probably readjusted a bit too quickly. The second half, they looked like the team that were in it. United were hanging on, but they got over the line. You could see the relief that they did from the players even.
00:05:51
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It's a massive three points for them and it's something they can build on. and And somehow, Amarim's got back-to-back Premier League victories.
00:06:06
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Make of that what you will. Make of that, I mean, we'll see. We'll see. ah it's ah It's a lot to sort of take on board. It really is. so But that now takes it, um you know, don't know why it said that. Because we clearly lost against City.
00:06:22
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Oh, it was home victories, wasn't it? That's why. that's what i was about to say, no, that doesn't sound right. We lost, we got battered by City. It's pre consecutive Premier League home game victories. And...
00:06:32
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It also makes us so that Chelsea have not won at Old Trafford since 2013. That memory and that record will live on, at least in the Premier League, for the rest of the season until next year.
Line-up Analysis and Tactical Decisions
00:06:45
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Huzzah! We're going victory at long last. Anyway, I need a breather. I'll be back after this.
Game Closing Moments and Player Maturity
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So looking at the the line-ups there, as we predicted, alai started in goal with Le Mans still not starting for Manchester United. Again, we're not really sure why, but it is what it is. Altai starting and by the sounds of it, he didn't have a lot to do in the game.
00:08:11
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but again it's cross that comes in and it's just poorly dealt with as always really so is there much you can do with that one i don't know maybe command of a better area i don't know um i didn't really see the goal in full i sort of had it know just around me so i'll um i'll let you be the judges of that but uh Yeah, we we started with De Ligt, Maguire and Shaw, and I really wasn't sure of Shaw going into this game.
00:08:38
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um i I respect, you know, Amaroom's trying to give him this position so that it's not as physically demanding on an injury-prone player. But I feel like, you know, Leni Jouro kind of should be in that position. He should be starting at that centre-back. I mean, we started Maguire, which in a big game like this, where we needed physical presence as well,
00:09:01
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Makes sense to start Maguire. I think he's been pretty decent when it comes to it. De Ligt as well, having a decent game. Mas Raui, think some of the recovery tackles he did in the game towards the end, phenomenal. Stopped Chelsea multiple times in that one.
00:09:17
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Yeah, starting with Fernandes and Casemiro in that and that deeper role. I mean, until Casemiro got sent off, he was having a good game. Almost cost us the game, but there you go. I mean, no, to be fair, there were 10 other people on the pitch at that point, but it doesn't help.
00:09:30
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When the man advantage you have, you just wipe out cleanly. Masraou and Dorgou started as our wingbacks, and then we had Ahmad and Umbermo and Sesko up top. And again, it comes to this point of Ahmad, you know, he drew a lot of he drew quite a few fouls in this game, which is yeah pretty good. You know, he's a very tricky kind of winger player.
00:09:51
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And I raised on ah on a previous episode as to how effective he is when you push him narrower into the pitch, making more of an attacking midfielder. And I wonder how much of that gets taken away. But from the details I saw, from the brief moments I saw him winning fouls, was kind of what we needed in a game where we were 2-0 up and starting to struggle towards the end. And we needed to sort of you know play the game out.
00:10:16
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Maynou as well came off um off the bench. A lot of talk about whether he's actually going to be a Manchester United player in the future. I hope he is. For Sam's sake on this podcast, I hope he is as well.
00:10:28
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In any case... In any case, we need to sort of talk about how the game was wrapped up in a way. Mainu came on in those last few minutes and, know, it was a counter-attack that was, i think, Kunia was there, which, you know, he came off off the bench, which is great to see. I thought he wasn't going to be included in the squad at all. So great to see him on there.
00:10:53
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I just think as well, know, Mainu coming on, We talked about how an important player he can be and how important it is for him to have minutes on the pitch.
Match Highlights and Player of the Match
00:11:02
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And i think he was, it was a very mature, you know, ah cameo appearance, if you like, to to see the game out and and the skill he was doing.
00:11:11
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in the Chelsea end and actually won a corner from that as what one of the last pieces of action in the game, ah just shows you, you know, we needed we needed to shut that game down. We needed to make sure that Chelsea weren't getting back into it because they had ah too many chances. ah There was one towards the end, right towards the end, where somehow it gets blocked. I can't remember, we know.
00:11:31
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right off the top of my head who it was who got the block in but I think I was just trying to see through the red that was across me at the time I was furious with how we once again led a game that we were you know 2-0 up and somehow you know the creeping in that you know another team could try and steal one point or three you know it was it was infuriating to watch however we got there in the end hey we got there in the end and that's I guess the most important thing we got the three points um If I had to give, you know, a player of the match, I'd probably give it
Podcast Production and Zencastr
00:12:04
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to Fernandes. You know, he was a goal scorer and was mature enough to, you know, stay on the pitch and not get himself sent off.
00:12:11
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Sounds a bit harsh, but it's true. Casemiro needs to learn. when you are 11 you know you've got a man advantage probably wise and why is this to keep the man advantage especially when we're going through such a sticky patch of form and we have been for at least a year now so hey it is uh it is what it is we got the three points and i'm and i'm going to you know just sleep on that now i can watch match of the day which is great that's that's all this matters it's all that mattered um
00:12:44
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Hopefully you enjoyed this a little bit of a shorter episode. Again, apologies for if you're watching on YouTube, which you can watch us at GSPN Daily Man United podcast. It's so long, so you have to remember it. You'll notice I'm you know missing a few frames from my camera. It's because I've had to set up a very temporary one.
00:12:58
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And believe it not, there's no desk in here. So I've had to improvise. I hope it's not you know too jarring, this one. That goes the same as well. If you're listening on Apple or Spotify, make sure you do follow us on the podcast you get a push notification when it goes live on match days we try and make it as soon as the match finishes we start to record so it's normally hopefully within the next 30 to 45 minutes of full-time whistle so hopefully that goes to plan here today as well fingers crossed and yes you might notice there's a drop of audio quality apologies that is again a temporary setup hopefully won't have to use that too often but as well as that with this recording software that you're listening that I've recorded on Zencaster
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Conclusion and Gratitude
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00:14:04
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In the meantime, we've got three points. We won a Premier League Go and celebrate. Enjoy your Saturday night and we'll be back to give you a little bit more of an in-depth review once we've all regained our composure or I've regained my composure and we can do it all over again and relive a win against Chelsea.
00:14:24
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In the meantime, thank you so much for listening and watching. Take care of yourselves. Enjoy your Saturday night and we'll talk to you soon. Bye-bye.