The Debate - Are United now in a fight for top four?
The Official Manchester United Podcast
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🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Liam Bradford hosted yesterday’s show in the Megastore with guests David May, Ben Thornley, James Robson from Associated Press and Laurie Whitwell from The Athletic.
Topics
- Newcastle reaction/top 4 debate
- Brentford Preview
- Everton Preview
- Martial discussion leading on to strikers/Weghorst
- Macheda debut goal anniversary – our panel discussed their favourite debut goals
- Duncan Edwards anniversary – the panel discussed the best player they’d ever seen in the flesh (opposition included)
- Women’s team congratulations and title race discussion
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| 0:00.0 | Plenty to talk about on this week's debate, here's what's to come. |
| 0:06.0 | For this particular period of time, I think the area has to be starting, doesn't it? |
| 0:10.0 | That performance on Sunday is not just down to Kazimiro's absence. |
| 0:15.0 | United is all about winning things and it's going to win things and they've got to win these games. |
| 0:19.0 | We know he's a brilliant player, we know United are a better team within, in the team. |
| 0:23.0 | He can create moments of magic, but he just isn't there often enough and that's the problem. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome along to the debate available for you on MUTV and as a Manchester United podcast as well. |
| 0:40.0 | Let's introduce you to the cast, shall we? |
| 0:42.0 | We've got Laurie Whitwell from the Athletic, David Mays with us, so too Ben Thornley and from the Associated Press, it's James Robson. |
| 0:50.0 | I said there was plenty to talk about, we are going to have to talk about it, I'm afraid. |
| 0:55.0 | What went wrong on Sunday? There's a nice big question to start us off with, James, do you want to help us out? |
| 1:01.0 | Well, they all managed to make it out onto the pitch, that was probably about it. |
| 1:05.0 | It was bad from start to finish. |
| 1:09.0 | Almost from kickoff, it just felt like United weren't at it, just weren't there. |
| 1:14.0 | I thought they couldn't possibly be as bad in the second half as they weren't the first and they were worse. |
| 1:22.0 | Energy levels weren't there, creativity wasn't there, attitude wasn't there, everything was wrong. |
| 1:28.0 | Sorry? |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, I can't disagree there, James. |
| 1:31.0 | I mean, the concerning thing was Luke Shaw and Eric Tinhardt coming afterwards and saying character and determination was the issue. |
| 1:38.0 | I think there's also actually a question of quality, but those characteristics of things that I think we've said throughout this season since the Brentford game have been the main reasons why United have done well in the cups and have a resurgence in the league. |
| 1:50.0 | So I think that's pretty concerning, that they couldn't get themselves up enough for a game against Newcastle. |
| 1:55.0 | The new that they were going to be revved up after the car about Cup Final and the fact that they've got their own Champions League qualification hopes. |
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