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No Question About That - a Manchester United podcast

Setting Unrealistic Benchmarks

No Question About That - a Manchester United podcast

Studio 1878

Soccer, Sports

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

#459. United sneak past FC Copenhagen to book a place in the Europa League semi-final, but it took extra time to do it. Ed & Paul look back on Monday's victory and wonder why the game was so close despite United having 13 shots on target. Then there's a look ahead to Sunday night and a one-off semi against Sevilla - José Mourinho's nemeses from 2018. For backers, at look at the current state of affairs in the Champions League. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The No question for that. Well, we roll on Manchester United Fruit to yet another semi-final Ed.

0:31.4

Yeah, semi-final the FA Cup, semi-final ed yeah semi-final the FA Cup semi-final league

0:36.8

uh third in the premier league I make that a quadrupleple. H.

0:44.0

Some very horrible headlines in the mirror saying that Solshire had said that winning the Europa League

0:52.0

would be better than the treble basically when what he actually said

0:55.9

was he would be unbelievably proud it would be his personal proudest achievement which is a very very

1:01.2

very different thing.

1:03.0

But yeah, sad state of journalism today that they need that in order to get the clicks

1:08.3

through to the article where everyone reads the quotes and goes, oh, okay, he said nothing of the sort.

1:14.1

Yeah, but the level of literacy is not yet high enough

1:19.4

that the headline won't be used as a stick to beat

1:21.5

So I shall with by some people both in good and bad faith.

1:27.0

Will the performance against Copenhagen be used as a stick to beat Sochire?

1:31.0

I mean I have to say I sort of took the temperature of various

1:34.6

United groups and it seemed like everyone was extremely miserable. I

1:39.5

thoroughly enjoyed that game. I don't know if there's something wrong with me. Of course it was a bit frustrating that...

1:44.6

Well yes, but yeah, let's talk about the football.

1:48.4

It was a bit frustrating that we kept hitting the post and that the goal, the first goal was slightly offside and there was another

1:54.1

offside goal and you know there was that kind of worry about whether we'd get through or not but as I've

1:58.6

said a number of times on the show all I've wanted in the latter Van Halen all the way through the Marino period is for United to be fun to watch.

2:07.6

And I will take our number nine trying to beat 15 men while the 17 year old striker tries to score

2:13.8

wonder goals and the attacking midfielder behind him is trying to thread through

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