Hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show. I am your co-host for today Taylor Rockwell because I'm joined in studio by the man the myth of legend Darryl Grove back for the weekend review.

What an intro, yeah we fired Ryan Bailey. Oh man well first of all we put on a two week suspension until he gets it together and stops caring about tennis. He'll be back next week. You're here with me now and I will say now with confidence it is way easier to do the introduction with a person in studio.

Face to face. Yes I did. And not being like we have neighbors all around us who are hearing me scream at nothing.

Ryan Bailey will return. Yes he will continue to get Monday's off. You want to recuperate. Yes but I'm here today. You are. I've got one phone up, thumb up and one thumb down and I can nearly say the whole phrase. It's a thumbs up thumbs down weekend review.

But you can take over hosting now. I just wanted to do the introduction. Okay. It's a surprise everyone. Well like we said thumbs up thumbs down. Yes. First of all I forgot how much work it is to do thumbs up thumbs down.

There's a lot of soccer on the weekend. There is and then like I was at a town this weekend so with MLS playoffs and coming back I felt that we were in an area with very limited self reception. We didn't have Wi-Fi and so suddenly when we did it was like this we're returning to civilization and everyone had aged 100 years and things had advanced and I didn't really know what was happening. It always takes some time.

All the time was a change to you. Exactly.

Pinch of Emma less teams are eliminated. Yeah. It is a lot. So I appreciate you doing that. We should note that we're going to go sort of late on MLS on this episode because we're going to have Joe Larrie joining us to do a more in depth tactical analysis of the games that happened and the

analysis that's a better way to put it. Yes. I want to start with the big game in England. All right. Not Wolf's have something. I want to start with Manchester not a Liverpool. Okay. So finish one one. Rashford scored in the first half. There was a late equalizer from Adam Larrie. We also coming of all people of all people. I'm going to say thumbs up to Ola Gunnosovi for getting his tactics right even though it finished one one. I was really impressed with how so.

I set up his team and then changed the shape throughout the game. It should have been enough to get the win. If young and Rojo hadn't kind of switched off right at the end. I agree with you now on everything you just said in the moment when I saw that lineup. I was a little bit terrified. I did put myself at a position to have cell reception to be able to watch that game on my phone. And when I saw the lineup, especially with Juan ZB going out with Rojo coming in, I was sort of concerned confused back three was a little bit questionable. Now I'm a little bit more into it. So you were just going to ask.

I can just look at them cold and be like this works. This didn't work. Oh no, I get that. But I'm saying when you saw those starting 11s, I'm going to assume that you thought like this could be bad. And that's kind of where I was with this is. I generally thought really that's a lot of pace up front. Really. Yeah. Yeah, because I'm treating by this. We've seen many night kept a counter attacking game before. That's how so shall set them up. Right. It's essentially a three four one two. Yeah. Is that fairway to describe it? And the front two were Marcus Rashford and Danny James and then I was going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say

that, then when when they would test against this Danny now Danny James can be limited but I like одинnie He just seems young when Charles in Jerry. Yeah, Danny James. When you haven't would counter attack those two strikers would pool wide that almost become wingers and then Pyroora would bum through the middle like a like a young Frank lampard he would like go straight through

like the middle of the gap that was opened up is the best use of pyroora I've ever seen self, not. I've not been impressed with them at all for magical

intention. I did this is the game where he looked really useful and the other advantage of this is he kind of had a free role right there's

Mac Tom and I and David defense prefer to was Fred. They had to sit but when Liverpool had the ball per ever could essentially just be a pest

right and just chase Liverpool around and hassle them and I thought you did a pretty good job of that as well. He also seemed to be the trigger for the

times that United would press there was a couple sequences when in which like Perera has dropped in and then suddenly he would go try to put

pressure on that deep or a bridge of end ache when that happened it seemed like the rest of the United team kind of moved with him. So it's a lot

responsibility. Yeah, keyed on parrari. Yeah, really interesting. And then the other thing I notice is because Rashford was pulling left and

Danny James pulling wide right when you know to counter attack one basacca and Ashley Young the fullback slash wingbacks weren't really

tasked with getting forward which meant United never got pulled out of shape right because they were never exposed

in the wing. They had the back three that had things locked up in the middle and all the evidence was there in the

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