Manchester United vs Perth Glory: Football friendly live scores, blog

Yes I was awake at that point :)

Popa, was experimenting with away tactics for the up coming ACL matches in the future.

You do realise Stevo, Man U in the second half made 11 subs. (a virtual Man U first choice starting XI for the second half).

So, the preparation is totally different. ManUtd play competition in 4 weeks, Their preparation will be completely different level to Perth who begin competition in 3 months. I can agree with this. We go through this rubbish every 12 months when teams visit. If the foreigners don’t win, the reaction is “they’re not trying, they’re in preseason and they’re here on holiday”. If the local team doesn’t win, the reaction from the same people is “what a big gulf in quality there is between A-League and foreign players”, who are paid 20x the Salary. This was not part of my comment. I expect people outside football to have such boringly predictable reactions. Disappointed when it comes from people who I thought understand the game. This flows from the previous para so doesn't apply :)

The big difference is that one group of players have 10 week off-season, the other group of players have 20 week off-season. So, the preparation is totally different. ManUtd play competition in 4 weeks, Their preparation will be completely different level to Perth who begin competition in 3 months. We go through this rubbish every 12 months when teams visit. If the foreigners don't win, the reaction is "they're not trying, they're in preseason and they're here on holiday". If the local team doesn't win, the reaction from the same people is "what a big gulf in quality there is between A-League and foreign players", who are paid 20x the Salary. I expect people outside football to have such boringly predictable reactions. Disappointed when it comes from people who I thought understand the game.

I was very impressed with Fornaroli, he was matching it with the opposition when it came to ball control. Unfortunately you don't do wayward passes against EPL teams, they make you pay very quickly. I wasn't impressed with these so called football fans in their epl jerseys, support your local sport people it's embarrassing.

Before blowing a head gasket Nem you should have done some basic homework. MU commenced pre-season on 1 July https://www.manutd.com/en/news/detail/man-utd-players-return-for-pre-season-training A-league teams similarly. So our EPL giants and HAL midgets got back into the swing of it at around the same time.

Roar had their first pre-season game yesterday, v Redlands Utd. Enjoyable game, so many new faces.

"Even in early pre-season for both sides". You're kidding? ManUtd kick off in the biggest, richest domestic league in 4 weeks. Perth Glory kick off in the ALeaugue in 3 months. If this match hadn't been organised, Perth would have just come back to training. Melbourne Victory just started pre-season training 5 days ago.

How long have Perth Glory been back training following their Grand Final defeat? I reckon it has not been long. I should know this but don't they have about another month or more before their FFA Cup match against WS Wanderers?

To state the obvious, a gulf in talent on the pitch. Even in early pre-season for both sides, the MU lads just seemed bigger, quicker, more adept with the ball. Popovic’s preferred style of being as tight as and not conceding was on show but this was in contrast to Victory playing Juventus a few years ago - a more entertaining game. Popovic is a talented coach but sometimes I wonder.