How Brentford demolished Manchester United
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 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.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | There is only really one subject for today's podcast |
| 0:06.8 | and that is Saturday's game at Brentford |
| 0:10.5 | where the homestide blue Manchester United away. |
| 0:14.0 | Adam Crafton and Jay Harris were there to witness it |
| 0:16.7 | and we'll talk about it next. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Mark Chapman. |
| 0:19.4 | This is The Athletic Football podcast. Tony. Now he looks for And Bombo. And Bombo it's four! |
| 0:41.1 | It's brilliant for Bradford. |
| 0:47.2 | They are demolishing Manchester United. |
| 0:49.2 | Absolutely demolishing them. |
| 1:02.6 | Well, before we talk about United, let's talk to Jay about Brentford. |
| 1:09.3 | I mean, the difference, Jay, was stark in every single department, really. |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 1:14.2 | And this is a team who pays such meticulous attention to detail you know in the build-up to this match thomas frank and his coaching staff went back and |
| 1:18.6 | analyzed all of mansellor's preseason games obviously the two one defeats of brighton and they |
| 1:23.5 | kind of had a sit down and kind of looked at what's kind of the best possible approach for us to take to try and win this game. |
| 1:26.7 | And in the build-up to this match, I think people had kind of forgotten. Every time Brentford played a top six team at home last season, it was a really big occasion. So I had a feeling that something was going to happen in this game. Whether Brentford were going to win or whether it's going to be a really high scoring match, |
| 1:44.5 | you think of the two no win over Arsenal, the three will draw with Liverpool, even when they lost one-nil to Chelsea. And then when they lost a three-one, when they lost three-one to Manchester United in January, that's the game where Thomas Frank came out afterwards and said, we absolutely destroyed Manchester United. So I just had a feeling that something special was going to happen in this game. |
| 2:02.8 | And as I've already kind of mentioned, the way they approached this tactically was just simply phenomenal. |
| 2:07.8 | They played with a four three three against Leicester, switched to a three five two, and it just worked perfectly. |
| 2:13.3 | Before we go into the real detail of behind the scenes at Brentford and what they've been doing |
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