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The Athletic FC Podcast

How Brentford demolished Manchester United

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic's Adam Crafton & Jay Harris - who were both at Gtech Community Stadium on Saturday - to explain how Brentford blew Manchester United away. Hear details from both clubs as to how they prepared and the fallout out behind-the-scenes at United featuring a an extra running session , strained relations and Ten Hag changing his mind on Ronaldo. We also get a report from The Athletic's Spanish writer Dermot Corrigan as he left Camp Nou on Saturday after Barcelona’s frantic week to register their new signings for their season opener. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Athletic.

0:03.0

There is only really one subject for today's podcast and that is Saturday's game at Brentford,

0:10.0

where the homestide blew Manchester United away.

0:14.0

Adam Crafton and Jay Harris were there to witness it and we'll talk about it next.

0:18.6

I'm Mark Chapman.

0:19.4

This is the Athletic Football Podcast. athletic football podcast. He's at the ground with either Tony.

0:34.0

Now he looks for a bomo.

0:36.0

And bomo, it's four!

0:38.0

It's brilliant for breakfast.

0:46.0

Manchester United.

0:48.0

Absolutely demolishing them. kingdom. to Jay about Brentford. I mean the difference Jay was stark in every single department

1:08.9

really. Yeah definitely and this is a team who pay such meticulous attention to detail

1:14.4

you know in the build-up to this match Thomas Frank and his coaching staff went back and

1:18.6

analyzed all of Manchester United's preseason games obviously the two-one defeats

1:22.4

of Brighton and they kind of had a

1:23.9

sit down and kind of looked at what's kind of the best possible approach for us to

1:27.7

take to try and win this game. And in the buildup to this match, I think people had kind of forgotten.

1:34.0

Every time Brent had played the top six team at home last season,

1:37.0

it was a really big occasion.

1:39.0

So I had a feeling that something was going to happen in this game.

1:41.0

Whether Brentford were going to win, or whether it was going to be a this game. Whether a Brentford were going to win or

1:43.0

whether it was going to be a really high scoring match, you think of the two-noin over

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