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Daily Manchester United - Episode 125 - Arsenal Draw & Bruno Magic
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Niall is joined by Tom to discuss the Arsenal match
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Introduction and Match Overview
00:00:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello everyone and welcome back to the daily Manchester United podcast. It's Sunday evening, half past seven and myself and Tom here are ready to react to the one-all draw against Arsenal that we saw on Super Sunday.
00:00:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
And yeah, plenty to unpack here. Tom, welcome to the episode.
00:00:27
Tom Cairns
Hello, Niall. Hello to everyone. Yes, a much better performance than they expected from Manchester United on the back of how they did in San Sebastian, I think it's called, in Real Sociedad. And so they came out with a yeah very convincing showing against ah an Arsenal side who were missing some of their star players of Saka, Havertz and Jesus.
00:00:50
Tom Cairns
But they still had the firepower to do it, I thought, did Arsenal
First Half Analysis: Arsenal Dominance
00:00:53
Tom Cairns
on the day. And United... Basically, kept them honest. All match. I thought Arsenal were comprehensively the better team in the first half, but i think in the second half, it was kind of even-steven.
00:01:03
Tom Cairns
It was that moment in the first half that what kept United in it.
00:01:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely. And yeah, let's, I suppose, start at the start. um Once again, you mentioned that Arsenal kind of dominant in the first half. And to be fair, they were all over United. It was a similar kind of story of what we've seen in plenty of other matches where we just looked a bit...
00:01:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
I suppose, lacking of ideas. It was a lot of kind of, ah if we won the ball back, kind of early balls into the channels, hoping that Garnaccio could kind of do something. And to be fair, he did quite well um on Califiori all game.
00:01:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, I suppose from from from my side, I thought Odegaard was probably the standout player in the first half. And it kind of comes back to that point that we've spoken about, Tom, before about having that two in midfield versus the three. And yeah,
00:01:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's very difficult when you have, you know, Rice making those penetrating runs and then you have Odegaard looking for spaces as well. there's only so much you can cover with Casemiro
Fan Protests and Global Support
00:01:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Bruno. So, um yeah, it was a tough first half for United.
00:02:01
Tom Cairns
Yeah, I would agree with that. I mean, like you say, Odegaard, I thought, was a huge, huge threat in the middle of the park, and he gave the likes of Fernandes and Casemiro a very hard time of it, and we knew that Casemiro wasn't going to be able to say sustain the level of pace and the amount of energy he was going to have all game, and Arsenal were always going to exploit that.
00:02:19
Tom Cairns
So the amount of clear-cut chances were very, very limited, if any at all, that Arsenal had.
00:02:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:02:25
Tom Cairns
They did have a few sniffs, but Anana was always able to get on the end of those, thankfully. But, you know, when Soppish time loomed Old Trafford at the end of the first half, we got a free kick in a reasonable position.
00:02:40
Tom Cairns
Fernandes took it and it just absolutely set Old Trafford alight and it got the fans believing in the side again. And that played a huge role, actually, is the level of support from the fans.
00:02:51
Tom Cairns
Given the yeah the protests that were happening before the game started, we saw it on social media, i saw someone on Facebook shown on their TikTok of the live protest on their way to Old Trafford.
00:03:04
Tom Cairns
How that had had a bearing on the game, I don't know. Probably didn't. But I would say that it just underlines that the fans at Old Trafford are really, really important.
00:03:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Definitely. How did it look? um the The protests in general didn't get a chance to look at it. Was it, were they out in their numbers or what was the kind of atmosphere around it? Did you see?
00:03:24
Tom Cairns
umm I didn't see a lot of it, but it looked kind of expected, but we didn't see any of what we had four years ago when some United fans broke into the stadium and ended up on the pitch in response to this Super League concept that United had initially yeah tried to apply to get into, which they didn't eventually.
00:03:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:03:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:03:43
Tom Cairns
And, you know, the fans protesting, I think, did play a part in reversing the club's decision, even though i wouldn't recommend anyone doing that kind of protest. But if you're going to protest, do it peacefully and do it properly. And I think the fans did it properly yeah this time around.
00:03:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
United's Performance Sparks
00:03:56
Tom Cairns
But yeah, I think it just ah sends a huge message to the board, particularly to Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who was at the game today. He's got to really look at that and think the fans are really important to the football club.
00:04:08
Tom Cairns
But I saw someone on social media as well, prior to the game, that when you look at clubs like AC Milan, who had been through such a torrid period, just like you United did have been,
00:04:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:04:19
Tom Cairns
The difference between Milan and Man United is that Milan have such a huge fan base, but only within their own area. With United, it's worldwide. So there's always going to be fans turning up to the matches. There's not going to be funds that have paid for tickets and then all of a sudden decide not to turn up because they wish to protest outside the stadium. You know, if you've got kids that are wanting to go to the games, you're not going to turn around and say to them, sorry, we we can't go to the game because we're protesting against what the club is doing.
00:04:46
Tom Cairns
It's just, it's not very nice on them. So you've got to really, you've got to be careful in what you do. But as far as the club is concerned in the way it's been run, something's got to change really, because it's gone from the richest football club in the world to not being able to cover lunches for the staff.
00:05:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:07
Tom Cairns
it's It's a laughing stock.
00:05:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. it's ah It's a good point you raised about the the Milan fans because, you know, in a way, the the and these are these are the United fans that go every week and live in Manchester or whatever, but as you mentioned, the the global fan base of it is that if that person gets an opportunity to go to Old Trafford once every 10 years, once every five years, then it'll always be sold out. And, you know, there'll always be a case saying, oh, well, there's like, I suppose, was plastic fans is probably what what they're called, but they're probably not.
00:05:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
They're probably following United every week, but it's just don't have a chance to go to the matches all the time. So it is a really tricky one as well with, them you know, with prices of tickets going up and and how you actually balance that between...
00:05:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know, the fans that are from the local area and then also the global fan base that you have. And and yeah, it's definitely not an easy job. but wouldn't like to be and in charge of actually trying to figure that out, but definitely from the protests that were, that were made today, it is sending a message that the fans are,
00:06:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know, are are wanting to get their way. but But also, you can't really fault them. Like, I mean, the performances this year have been so, so bad and they've basically backed the team throughout all of it. and All the matches that that I've seen and that I've been at, if the fans have backed them from the start to the end, really, which is kind of hard to do considering some of the performances we've seen. So, and yeah, it's an interesting one in terms of what the what the protests and maybe what impact might happen from them. But, yeah, you mentioned the goal. I mean,
00:06:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
it was the only person that was ever going to spark something into that United team was was was Bruno Fernandes. They were mentioning on Sky Sports, there was nearly like a whole section about it, about how far away the wall was from from the ball.
00:06:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
And to be fair, it did seem quite far away, but I don't <unk> know if and what your thoughts on it were, but they measured it at halftime and it said that according to their technology, it was 11.2 yards away from the ball.
00:07:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it did seem miles away. And then even Raya's positioning was quite close to the other post, leaving a massive hole for Bruno to kind of get so much power over it and get it into the far corner because, you know, it wasn't like in the stanchion or anything.
00:07:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was, you know, a good bit in from the post. So it was interesting to see how all that unfolded. But I mean, you can't take anything away from What a free kick. Yeah.
00:07:23
Tom Cairns
Yeah, we've not had too many of those this season where we scored directly from set pieces. So for Bruno Fernandes to get a free kick put away like that was absolutely brilliant. That was one of the best goals we've had this season, which I think had ignited United's urgency to just keep hold of the ball and take the game to Arsenal.
00:07:41
Tom Cairns
But it was a really good finish. And talking about that wall where it was like 11.2 yards away. you know Would it have made any difference if they crept a further yard forward? I don't really think it would have done.
00:07:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, probably not, yeah.
00:07:52
Tom Cairns
i think the wall i think I think the wall jumped as high as they could have done. But the free kick was just spectacular enough to just get on target and go in. Would Ryder have positioned better? Would he have saved it? Probably. But I think he was conscious maybe about...
00:08:09
Tom Cairns
Could he have got it underneath the wall had they jumped? Had he got it round the wall? Maybe gone to where Raya was positioning? I think that's what he was thinking.
00:08:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, 100%.
00:08:17
Tom Cairns
But it was the traditional way of how Rino took the free kick at the end of the day.
00:08:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's interesting interesting that you mentioned Raya second-guessing whether we go to his side, because as we saw, Bruno against Everton a couple of weeks ago went to Pickford's side and caught him off off guard.
00:08:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
And yeah, a Bruno has that ability, and obviously the confidence is up over the last couple of weeks in terms of his performances. Yeah. Yeah, outstanding free kick. The pace in the ball was unbelievable. And yeah, Raya probably could have done better if his positioning was different at the start. But yeah, it was definitely definitely the spark that was needed from United going into the second half because, and we'll touch on it very shortly, but that first half was very flat and we needed something to kind of lift it and and that free kick certainly did.
00:09:00
Tom Cairns
Yeah.
00:09:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll take a quick break there and I'll be back with a bit more coverage of the second half after this short break.
Second Half Tactics and Key Players
00:09:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
you
00:09:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
You mentioned it, Tom, that goal sparked United into life for for a completely different second half performance and actually enjoyed watching United um in the second half. And that's that's something I wasn't able to say a lot this season. But yeah, a big, big lift in in energy and actual output as well. you reckon?
00:10:12
Tom Cairns
And confidence to put it on top of that. I mean, if you look at Xerxe, I thought he could have got the winner for us or got that second goal that we would have roll got because we did create enough chances in the second half to go and win it.
00:10:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:10:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:22
Tom Cairns
Hoyland just needed to work on his first touch a little bit. The one where Declan Rice got back and was able to get a challenge in, which I thought was a very good challenge, by the way.
00:10:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Yeah, incredible save.
00:10:30
Tom Cairns
But I think Hoyland's control, just what cost him the opportunity just get the shot away. And then there was one where Delo played into Mats Raui, which how Raya say that, I do not know. there was he's been one of the best goalkeepers across the whole season in European football or even in world football put it into those terms but he's been absolutely outstanding as Raya and the other one where it was in stoppage time where Bruno Fernandes got on the end of Matsraoui's cross and then Raya somehow just got a pulled off a fantastic save to just keep Arsenal in it so yeah but that tells you something about your United and
00:11:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely, Yeah.
00:11:08
Tom Cairns
terms of how they've been doing going forward in the match compared to most of the other games. There's energy in there and there's confidence.
00:11:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:11:17
Tom Cairns
The question is, what have they been doing all season? Where has that confidence been?
00:11:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely. And it's funny because, to be fair, they did create a lot of chances and it was all down the one side. Like, we had zero outlet on the left-hand side. I thought it was interesting and from Amram to play Garnaccio on the right from the start and actually keep him there.
00:11:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
He seemed to... to get to the byline more and actually put crosses in rather than kind of trying to take on his man and cut back in for a shot, which we've seen a lot when he's been played off the left-hand side. And, uh, yeah, some of the chances were, were brilliant. And I thought some of the link up play as well between himself and Masrawi on the right-hand side was, was excellent.
00:11:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Um, Masrabi was definitely bombing forward a lot more in the second half um and actually getting involved in the play, which was really benefiting from us playing those wingbacks. And you could see maybe the potential of of what that'll look like when we get the personnel that we want within those roles.
00:12:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
and I thought it was very... Fitting as well, that Masraoui chance that you spoke around. Dalo played that ball and threw him from one wing back to the other um on a counterattack from United. And, you know, to be fair to Dalo, that piece of play it was excellent. It was a beautiful little dink cross to the back post. And Masraoui did absolutely everything right. Kept it low.
00:12:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was a hard shot as well. And then, like you mentioned, Raya just pulls off an incredible save. And, yeah, keeps it 1-0 to United at the time. But... Yeah, I was just i was just so so impressed, but then, as you mentioned, frustrated. you know like that We could be playing like this all the time, but the confidence of the team is just so, so low at the moment that they need something actually proven on the pitch to to spark that bit of life in them to actually provide those performances because in the first half, they just looked terrified to get on the ball, and once they did get it, it was just, let's get rid of it as quickly as possible and play something in the channels. So...
00:13:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
and It is encouraging, but yeah, also frustrating, like you mentioned.
Individual Player Performances and Upcoming Matches
00:13:11
Tom Cairns
And one player I'm going to give credit to as well when he came on in the second half was Aidan Heaven. I thought Aidan Heaven looked comfortable and he got stuck in straight away.
00:13:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:20
Tom Cairns
Signed from Arsenal in January, but he played with his heart.
00:13:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:13:24
Tom Cairns
He played so much of his heart when he came on for Lenny Oro, who went off injured at half-time. I don't know how serious the injury is. I don't think it's too serious, but maybe that he has to miss the Sociedad game on Thursday and come on as a sub in the second half. So that might be an opportunity for Heaven to get his first start for unit United.
00:13:42
Tom Cairns
But yeah, i' like you say about the confidence, we we need to be seeing that more often from the team.
00:13:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:48
Tom Cairns
Can we do that in the remaining games? Well, we've got Socia dead on Thursday and then Leicester away. We should beat Leicester anyway because Leicester don't score goals. And then we've got another game ah prior to the international break. I can't remember who it is we face.
00:14:04
Tom Cairns
I think it's at home that we face off against... Can you remember who we play um but before?
00:14:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
think it's I think we have Forest at some stage and then City as well over the next couple of games.
00:14:16
Tom Cairns
Yeah. I'm just looking at the fixtures as we speak, so just pardon me one moment. Yeah, think Leicester's the last game, yeah, because it's f FA Cup quarterfinals, isn't it, before ah we next play ah Forest away.
00:14:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:14:31
Tom Cairns
Best of luck to that. I mean, that's that's not going to be our season anyway. I mean, if get past Sociedad, then we can almost write off the game against Forest because that's not our season, of as I've only mentioned, but
00:14:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:14:43
Tom Cairns
But yeah, Thursday's game against Sociedad, as mentioned to Kieran, is going to be our season regardless of what we've got against Arsenal today. But that performance was much better than they expected. That's two games in a row where we've come away from it thinking we would have taken that performance at the start.
00:14:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, definitely. And I totally agree with you on the point around heaven. I thought um he was absolutely excellent. I liked what I saw bits and pieces of it against Fulham when he played the extra time, but he's he's is quite big, but he's also extremely agile and rapid. like he's he's He's got good movement to him as well, which is great. And he's also left-footed, which is nice and loves a tackle and is decent on the ball. And it's very encouraging to be fair to to see that and and he obviously had a bit of a point to prove you know he gave a bit of but of a fist bump to the crowd as well when he made a tackle in the and the second half there and you know he was training with Arsenal just a couple of couple of months ago um so it's got to be a kick in the teeth for him as well it it be kind of let go I suppose when you're when you're thinking there's a chance for you to get in there and
00:15:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know I'd say Arsenal in the back of their heads. Obviously, they have an extremely good back four now at the moment, but I'm thinking maybe we should have kind of held on to that for another couple of years and see how it goes because there is a bit of a fall-off in terms of the cover at centre-half for Arsenal. and If Saliba goes, if Gabriel is getting a bit older, you know there's there's a lot of things that could happen over the next few years and and that could have been your your backup centre-back for the foreseeable.
00:16:14
Tom Cairns
Yeah, well, you've got Heaven now. I think he's going to be a regular first-team starter, I'd imagine, at some point. i I can imagine he'll play the in the game against Sossie does. It's just whether he'll come on as a substitute or whether he'll be starting. But if Jorow isn't going to be starting, Maguire's not going to be coming back, Evans isn isn't going to be coming back, then you're probably looking at a De Ligt.
00:16:38
Tom Cairns
ah He's probably going Matsurori, De Ligt, and Lindelof in that back line, because Dogu, will still be eligible.
00:16:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll be back.
00:16:46
Tom Cairns
Yeah, because so it's a UEFA game, isn't it? So Doggy will be back in that left wing back role and Dullo will probably end up shifting to that right wing back role, even though I don't think that should be him in that because he's been woeful this season anyway.
00:16:59
Tom Cairns
It's an interesting one with Dullo. He put in a Marmite type performance where there are times where he he put in that dink for Matsurari, which could have been the winner.
00:17:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:17:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:10
Tom Cairns
But there was another one towards the end where I think it was further away and he just absolutely skied it when it should never have been sky in.
00:17:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:16
Tom Cairns
And it really annoyed me so much because I know he's better than that.
00:17:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:21
Tom Cairns
But as we all know, Delo is not a left wing back.
00:17:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it was it's still probably still traveling, to be fair, that ball. like it was It was so far skewed off to the left-hand side. It was incredible.
00:17:32
Tom Cairns
Probably all the way to Wigan.
00:17:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then, yeah, all the way, yeah. And the other moment was he made a great little tackle against Waniere and then breaks out and kicks the ball out of play when he's running up the pitch. So, like, just classic. I love your expression, the Marmite, because was such a good bit of play. And then no one around him just kicked it out for touch. yeah.
00:17:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
um yeah it's just uh it's a strange one with him because he's such like um i don't know if this is bad but like he's proper passion merchant like he's he's always like roaring into the crowd and like pulling on the jersey and showing the the badge but if he just kind of calmed down a bit and stuff gets so uh kind of scatty some of the some of his quality is great but he just he's very unpredictable so um yeah i definitely can i can see him shifting over to the right hand side anyway for that for that you're opening europa league europa league game but uh Let's take one more break and I'll be back with a bit more coverage of the the second half.
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Arsenal's Equalizer and Performance Analysis
00:19:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, Tom, we thought we were in for a big victory against Arsenal, but a brilliant piece of play from Lewis Skelly, or sorry, apologies, Timber in the box, and then a layoff to Declan Rice, and to be fair, an excellent finish, and our dreams of the three points was erased fairly quickly.
00:19:22
Tom Cairns
It was, but you can't complain about the goal because it was brilliant players you mentioned from Timber driving on that right-hand side and then playing it back to Declan Rice. He was completely on Martz. I think Fernandes was the closest to him. I don't know why ah Rice wasn't picked up, but there was another moment where an Arsenal player just got on the end of it and he was totally on Martz on the yeah the edge of the D where the penalty box was.
00:19:45
Tom Cairns
So that was another one that could have ended up being the yeah the winner for Arsenal.
00:19:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:19:48
Tom Cairns
But as it was, you can't complain about Arsenal's performance in the second half because United knew that Arsenal were going to come back, you know, just threatening and threatening and threatening all the time. They had more shots in the game than we did.
00:19:59
Tom Cairns
But I think we, in actual fact, in terms of the the expected goals or the clear-cut chances, I thought we had but more of them than Arsenal did throughout the whole match.
00:20:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, and it's it's shocking hearing that because the first half was so dominant by Arsenal, but as you mentioned earlier on in terms of the clear-cut chances, that's been it that's been an issue for Arsenal all season is that they dominate games, they have lots of good ballplayers around the back line in midfield, but they just don't have that kind of poacher in front goal, I suppose, to actually get them those goals and those tight matches. And that was seen again where...
00:20:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
They're only trying to walk the ball into the net because they don't have that kind of deadly striker to play it into. And yeah, and I don't disagree with that. I think in the second half, then United did create those probably clear cut chances and it would call for a couple of incredible saves from Raya.
00:20:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think the going back to the Rice goal, the there's a bit of stick online from him now about celebrating how he did and when when all his other teammates ran back to the halfway line. So they were kind of thinking, okay, let's let's get the ball and let's get the game going again. But I don't see anything wrong with it. Like, I mean, he didn't spend ages celebrating. just did a quick celebration, just the fans, and then went back. So I think it's nearly people trying to grab headlines than anything else.
00:21:17
Tom Cairns
Yeah, I would agree with that. i mean, I agree with what Gary Neville was saying, that he needed to get back to the halfway line just to get going again, because Arsenal needed to get another goal to win it. But in the grand scheme of things, the the race for the title was over anyway, because Liverpool
Arsenal's Prospects and Match Takeaways
00:21:30
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yet
00:21:30
Tom Cairns
are still too far out in front, and Liverpool have got a Carabao Cup final to focus on next weekend, whilst Arsenal have got their next league game to look forward to, as well as the Champions League game that they've got against PSV, because they...
00:21:44
Tom Cairns
Well, they've got that 7-1 margin, haven't they? So they can afford to just, you they should be okay with that, yeah.
00:21:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
they should be okay yeah
00:21:49
Tom Cairns
So they'll field a weakened team for it. But, you know, as far as the Premier League title race is concerned for Arsenal, it's all but done for Liverpool. But in the Champions League, Arsenal will feel that they can win it even though I don't think they will.
00:22:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah. No, they definitely have a good chance in the Champions League. I think they're on a decent side of the draw as well until near the end. Is that right? I think they're on the opposite side as the kind of the bigger teams. So there's an opportunity for them to get a bit of a run there and and probably meet someone in the final.
00:22:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
um So yeah, it'll be it'd be interesting to see how they get on. But I suppose main takeaways from from that game, Tom, like pretty poor first half Bruno sparks the team to life. Second half is really promising in terms of the energy, the application, the chances created. Like, you know, we didn't, we don't really create chances the whole season. We haven't really created chances, but there were today, even when Hoyland came on as well, he had a few chances that, you know, some of them were unlucky. Some of them, we probably just needed to act a bit quicker, like the Declan Rice tackle you mentioned. So, you know, we were creating chances.
00:22:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Are you, are you encouraged by that going into maybe the, the, the associate game?
00:22:57
Tom Cairns
I am, but ah I'm worried as to you how long it'll be before we go back to square one again. Because we've turned we turn it on the styles against City, then we went on that barren run over the course of Christmas, and then we headed to Anfield.
00:23:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:23:11
Tom Cairns
Not confident in any way, because fans thought we were going to be on a ah the wrong end of a drop-in.
Consistency Challenges and Closing Remarks
00:23:17
Tom Cairns
And we came away with a positive performance, with a positive result, even though I thought we should have won at Anfield.
00:23:22
Tom Cairns
Followed by the trip to the Emirates at Arsenal, where... United did put in a well-disciplined performance. Should have walked away with a win had it not been for that... and Well, Arsenal did score from open play, but it was that penalty that was given, which was saved by Bayern Dier, which, you know, justice was served there because it was a die for that penalty that Arsenal got in the FA Cup game.
00:23:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:23:41
Tom Cairns
But we got through in the shootout. And then it it wasn't until, I think, probably recently against Solicitor and then the Arsenal game we've had today where we've actually put in a convincing performance.
00:23:54
Tom Cairns
So I am worried now as to how long it'll be before we start you know putting in a run of performances, which the results will eventually align. Going back what you were saying about Arsenal in terms of the the draw they've got, should they get past PSV, which, let's be honest, they will, they've got either Real Madrid or Atletico in the quarterfinals.
00:24:14
Tom Cairns
And if they get through that, they've got either PSG, Liverpool, Bruges or Aston Villa in the semis. So I think you probably have to revoke what you say because I don't...
00:24:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah definitely I don't know who I'm thinking of then I'm i'm not sure who i'm thinking of one of the teams ah is on the easy side but anyway it's clearly not Arsenal
00:24:25
Tom Cairns
Yeah, that they definitely don't have an easy draw.
00:24:33
Tom Cairns
Yeah, it's definitely not Arsenal.
00:24:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, so that they're going to be all focused on that, I suppose, because as you mentioned, the league is the league is definitely over. So yeah, Declan Rice can celebrate as much as he wants, I suppose. But Tom, thank you for joining me.
00:24:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Let's hope we can carry on this this run of farm. We haven't even won the game, but let's hope we can carry on the run of farm into the Europa League. And yeah, thanks everyone for listening and follow us on all the socials, listen to wherever you find your podcasts and we'll see you in the next one.