The So, Oh, how you doing? A marvelous, thanks Ed. Just about recovered from the knot of frustration that was watching Monday

United against Stoke and just about warmed up after that too.

Yeah, strange game wasn't it?

Because the United credited like 25 chances or something crazy like that.

A lot of chances, although not too many of them actually very good chances.

And I suppose you know there was a level of intensity and determination in the second half which has now become

a hallmark of Marigno's team, I think it's fair to say, not surprised anymore, is it?

Getting a late goal.

About the first half, man, was that pretty rubbish?

Yeah, it was real, real bad.

I mean, in terms of the quality of chances, whatever the faults of XG are or are not, it's a decent kind of,

at the very least it's a decent snapshot of the quality of chances and Stokes was 0.2 and United was 2 which I think

sounds about right a 2-0 wins the United probably would have felt pretty fair on the balance of playing that game.

But yeah, the first half was a complete. I mean, they sort of grew into it a bit in about the last 10 minutes of the first half I think as they kind of warmed up and maybe thought about the rollicking that they were going to get at half time.

Yeah, I guess so. It was just just it was slow and it wasn't very, there wasn't much from

united in the attacking sense. I mean it was good to the final third wasn't it?

And then there are a few longer-range shots quite a lot of

block shots it's not as if you know I see we were carving stoke open all the time

although perhaps one math to should have scored in the right end.

Was that in the first half?

It was.

Yeah, yeah, it was from like a yard out or whatever.

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