A fine start to the season to put Utd in their place for a while.
Made a few changes to the team that played in Kazakhstan on Thursday:
Ward
Logan-Taylor-Quinn-Considine
Flood-Shinnie
Smith-McLean-Hayes
Rooney
After a while of Rooney struggling to make any impact against the centre-halves and Smith and McLean looking dangerous, things wer switched round a bit with Rooney moving right and Smith and McLean drifting around trequartista/false-nine types positions.
Overall a pretty solid performance where we controlled the tempo for long periods and took few risks in possession.
Quinn had a poor game and all Utd's danger came through that.
Our final ball/decision was poor, so there weren't the number of chances created that there should have been given our control in the middle third of the pitch.
Utd aren't the soft touch that they have been for most of the last few years any more, but there ain't much ability in their squad now. Can see them struggling to score enough goals to win consistently.
Strong statement to go and rest key players and still win away to a team that thinks they should be able to compete with us and who much of the press think are of comparable standard to us. We were miles ahead of them last season and we've got stonger over the summer.
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Exciting to see McLean looking like the player I thougt we signed (and more).
Getting goals, but also looking sharper and being more generally influential that he was throught the second half of last season.
Was always hopeful he just needed time to understand how to play in our system and the existing players needed time to understand his style.
Now we appear to have a really strong trequartista.
Last season it was that role and goalkeeper that really cost us, but now we appear much stronger in both.
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Ah, the inevitable fate of a journalist in Scotland who is not just obsessed with Glasgow and pandering to Rangers (old and new) and Celtic:
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/interview-with-jim-spence/
Can't say what you want because of the BBC.
Can't say what you want because cuntish Weegies will threaten you and your family.
Can't not talk about cuntish Weegies because BBC Scotland isn't interested in anything happening outside Glasgow.