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Sunday Supplement

Did Man Utd get away with Brentford draw? | Who'll seal Champions League spots? | Is Alonso right to stay at Leverkusen?

Sunday Supplement

Sky Sports

Soccer, Sports News, News, Sports

3.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Vicky Gomersall and Darren Lewis are joined by Sky Sports News' senior reporter, Melissa Reddy to look back on Saturday's action from the Premier League and discuss Xabi Alonso's decision to stay at Bayer Leverkusen, despite being linked to Bayern Munich and Liverpool.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Sunday Supplement Podcast brought to you by Bet 365 and at Bet 365 they don't do ordinary.

0:07.3

It's where every game, every goal and every point matters whatever the sport, whatever the moment, it's never ordinary at Bet 365. Please

0:16.6

gamble responsibly, over 18's only. Hi there and welcome along to the Sunday supplement podcast with me

0:27.6

Vicky Gomosaur and the assistant editor of the Mirror Darren Lewis and

0:31.2

joining us this week is Sky Sports Senior Reporter Melissa Reddy.

0:35.0

Let's talk about yesterday because that was good as well.

0:38.0

Manch United, they suffered a major dent, didn't they, and their challenge for Champions League qualification.

0:42.0

They were held to one or draw by Brentford.

0:44.6

After a frantic finish in West London,

0:47.4

they're now eight points behind fifth place Tottenham.

0:50.0

And it looked, Melissa, like Mason Mount's first goal for them was going to give them the win and then Christopher I popped up

0:55.8

what was the time ninth minute of added time I think was it what united deserve from that game

1:01.5

united didn't deserve anything from that game. United didn't deserve anything from that match.

1:05.3

They were so poor, they were ceremoniously outplayed in every department.

1:11.6

We shot for how bad they were?

1:13.6

Yes and no.

1:17.2

No because I've seen the trend before where they have a very deliberate low block approach and Tenhark says it's because the players he has available are comfortable with that but what you allow to happen then is the opposition to build up play without interference, you're ceding territory, you're inviting pressure on

1:36.1

yourself continuously.

1:37.1

And United I've been doing that pretty much all season and every so often they've been getting away with it and he says then

1:47.2

they're justified right but when you give up such a high proportion of shots against you and 10 Harg always says but it's low quality shots it doesn't matter because you're actually not in control of the game and that's an issue with United they don't control the game in possession or out of it they're neither and so they're always relying on the opposition to miss their opportunities or to not create a high volume of really high quality ones

2:16.6

and for them to take their own chances it's not sustainable.

2:20.6

But I think yesterday just the manner in which there was so outplayed it I think Thomas Frank called it the most one-sided

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