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Saw most of this one and think you've actually been pretty generous on Odegaard. He was playing the wrong pass all day - or playing the right one poorly. I like him, but he wasn't at the races today.
It was a poor performance but an excellent result. As you say we've had plenty of games at Old Trafford where the reverse has happened so I'll take it.
The goal was a mess from the Utd point of view. I don't think we set out to defend a 1-0 lead for as long as we did, I was quite pleased with the way we were going forward today - it seemed we were doing so more quickly. But we were never able to play the final pass to unlock things.
At the back, a few shaky moments but overall we dealt with them well. Raya made two very good saves and we were a bit fortunate with the one that hit the post. But given all their possession they didn't really create that much. Utd dominated but they weren't that good.

Hard to draw conclusions from opening day fixtures. Some definite alarm bells but in a game like that you just want to get the hell out of there with the 3 points. We did, so that's fine with me.


Except he hasn't been at the races since he came back from injury.