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Fantastic performance that, especially in the second half. Memphis absolutely tore their defence apart, where has that been all season? Needs to carry on like that now and let this game be the turning point for him. His best game for us yet. :thup:

The younger academy players should be very pleased too, Riley at LB look composed and did well just like on Monday night in the FA Cup. Rashford of course with the two goals, what a way to make your debut at OT at 18 in a European night!

Varela too, been impressed with him since he's come into the first team, nice assist for one of Rashford's goals too.

Schenderlin carried on from Monday's game too tonight, that what we bought him for. On another day he could have scored 2-3.

Young lads showing the senior guys how it's done! :cool:

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Although the horny comment was funny, and I've made my poor jokes too, we have a similar expression in Norwegian, and they probably have the same in Dutch. Directly translated: goal horny. LVG tends to directly translate a bit much.

Probably speaks better English than Rooney tho! :D

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Well that was quite easy in the end.

Memphis was class, I can't remember the last time a winger for us had such a good game. Amazing what a bit of belief from the manager and confidence can do. Hopefully he can continue against Arsenal.

Few boos from the crown when Herrera stepped up to take the penalty, followed by shouts of "Rashford!" but probably the right decision for him to take it considering the score at the time. If it was 4-1 when we got the penalty it may have been a different story.

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Never like getting the other English sides. Be awful if we were knocked out by them. Even moreso Liverpool.

50/50 though on who goes through, we're starting to get some senior players back now too.

Pleased Dortmund got Spurs as if we go through then one of the better teams will be out from that leg. :thup:

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Just watched the game.

Looked like it could have been one of those nights with Schneiderlin hitting the post, Mata missing a penalty, Herrera heading wide with an easy header... but we were too good for them in the end, though I wouldn't say we eased through.

Depay had a great match, but Owen said something about his confounding his critics which is total bollocks. Putting on that kind of performance regularly rather than for the first time since the Brugge matches will be confounding critics. Either way, was a quality display. Riley had a really good game as did Varela on the opposite side. Lingard continues to be a bit meh. Has his moments but in general is not really doing much atm. Was a dive as well, no doubt about it and a deserved yellow card.

What a debut for Rashford. 2 quality, composed finishes and an overall good performance with some nice little touches.

Nice to see Rojo back, need as many back as quickly as possible atm. And nice to see Poole get a few minutes at the end.

Carrick totally sold himself for their goal, even a Sunday league footballer would have stayed on their feet there. Herrera taking the penalty was the right decision despite those daftly saying Rashford should have taken it.

Liverpool next round is certainly one of the tougher draws we could have been handed but if we are going to win it then we'll have to play the top teams at some point. Probably wouldn't have expected to face them in Europe for the first time in the Europa League but it is what it is.

Big game Sunday, need to win really if we are going to genuinely threaten 4th spot. I think if Martial is fit then Rashford doesn't start but he should definitely make the bench either way. Maybe even a shout for him to start as well as Martial if the latter is fit, though that would have been easier to say if Depay hadn't had his first decent game in months. Could maybe switch Depay to the right, leave Lingard out and Martial back out on the left with Rashford up front, but then switching Depay after such a good game would be as bad a time to do so as it would to leave him out.

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We shouldn't expect much from Rashford too soon, in a way scoring two will only create extra pressure on him. He's got a few years learning yet and I think Arsenal are a huge step up for him.

Reading the Daily Mail article on him you would think he's the next Cantona. Really over the top. He's a good prospect though and I hope he goes on to be a top player.

Anyone who watches the academy regularly - any idea what's happened to Demetri Mitchell? Not heard anything about him for a while.

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Reading the Daily Mail article on him you would think he's the next Cantona. Really over the top. He's a good prospect though and I hope he goes on to be a top player.

Anyone who watches the academy regularly - any idea what's happened to Demetri Mitchell? Not heard anything about him for a while.

the reaction of the press is to be expected the articles...if you can call them that are written by kids and full of soundbites, if someone has a good game they are either a legend or world class or both;) they also like to set players/clubs/managers up to fail by over hyping and then sticking the knife in when things go wrong

our u18 are struggling but there are 2-3 players who will make it, the u21 are flying and play good football too

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Not sure why anyone is still even engaging Sid. The most obvious troll the forums have ever seen. Either that or genuinely the thickest cretin.

...coming from someone who thinks Liverpool was one of the toughest teams. You either have no clue about European football or just a ******.

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by the time we get to the liverpool game we will have the tea lady up front and the ball boys as a back 4 given how injuries are going.

what did nev describe it as earlier in season

'Dog and Duck versus The Red Lion'.

not a lot has changed since then, LVG has always won against them, hope it continues;)

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On Thursday Ed Woodward and Nicky Butt gave a presentation to the staff and parents of the academy. The youth team stadium that was rumoured last year is going ahead, no word on the location yet though. We're also appointing an Operations Director to work alongside Butt at the academy. We're going potentially to start appointing full-time scouts as part of a scouting overhaul, concentrating on the local areas whilst bringing in the odd star from abroad - Januzaj, Pogba, Fosu-Mensah level of ability/potential etc.

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On Thursday Ed Woodward and Nicky Butt gave a presentation to the staff and parents of the academy. The youth team stadium that was rumoured last year is going ahead, no word on the location yet though. We're also appointing an Operations Director to work alongside Butt at the academy. We're going potentially to start appointing full-time scouts as part of a scouting overhaul, concentrating on the local areas whilst bringing in the odd star from abroad - Januzaj, Pogba, Fosu-Mensah level of ability/potential etc.

Sounds good :thup:

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On Thursday Ed Woodward and Nicky Butt gave a presentation to the staff and parents of the academy. The youth team stadium that was rumoured last year is going ahead, no word on the location yet though. We're also appointing an Operations Director to work alongside Butt at the academy. We're going potentially to start appointing full-time scouts as part of a scouting overhaul, concentrating on the local areas whilst bringing in the odd star from abroad - Januzaj, Pogba, Fosu-Mensah level of ability/potential etc.

Good news that. :thup:

About time we heard something on that front.

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