Bruno at His Best, Arsenal’s Teen Sensation & Neville’s Chelsea Huddle Rant
3/15/202643 min
Gary Neville reacts to Manchester United’s win at Old Trafford, praising Bruno Fernandes’ outstanding form and influence. He also discusses Arsenal’s teenage star Max Dowman making history, Manchester City’s difficult week, and delivers a blunt verdict on Chelsea’s unusual pre-match huddle.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 0· Host0:00
Welcome along to the Gary Neville Podcast. We have been at Old Trafford today to see Manchester United give a considerable boost to their hopes of being in the Champions League next season. That felt like a, a big result for them, Gary.
Gary Neville· Guest0:12
Yeah, really big. I thought before the game that Manchester United would win. My actual only concern, it was actually a question that I asked Michael Carrick before the game when we spoke to him, was th-this 11-day break that they've had. Uh, look, you can, you can build it as having time on the pitch with the players, but then there's a lack of rhythm that you build in your competitiveness, and just having too many days in between sort of matches I think can be a problem sometimes. And maybe that's, uh, you know, what we saw in the first half, a result of a quite disappointing forty-five minutes from both teams. The game didn't really get going. I actually asked a couple of fans in there when I went into the toilet [chuckles] at half time, said, "What do you think?" They said, "Boring." And it was. It was just a little bit like... You know, Amad had the header. There were two or three really good crosses put into the box, but there was a real lack of urgency. We'll come onto Villa obviously shortly. But for United, it was a must-win today. Uh, and I think it was really important that they showed some sort of level of performance because I think in the first three or four Michael Carrick matches, there was a really high level of performance where I was like really excited. And then in the next three or four, the results were there, but the performances weren't quite at the level, and that can happen when you're sort of playing matches and you don't always play at sort of a real high performance level. But eventually, when you play sixty-forty matches, fifty-fifty matches, and you're winning them, eventually you will get caught out, and that happened against Newcastle, [lip smacks] um, when they obviously lost their