Massive game and I'm gonna say it again.

Check out the preview from last night.

No excuses, no excuses.

Wolves have bean toe Manchester City and beaten them.

Narrative beaten them this season.

They are no great shakes in the back.

They haven't got a Guero.

They are there to be beaten.

And I think, Look, I said at the start the week I thought we would lose this game, but let's not have our expectations lowered.

Let's not be a Burnley who beat Spurs and has a party about it and then goes and get smashed by Man City.

With This is a Manchester Darby.

We go and win this game.

I'm not having expectations lowered.

If this team really is as good as it's meant to be, then momentum needs to become part of the thing.

There were some good questions about that.

I just also want to say I'll be reading an email out at the end.

Email from Phoebe Williams.

Her dad, who watches the show, passed away only 52 years of age last week, so thoughts with Phoebe and her family on may rest in peace read your E mail out later.

Really didn't touch me on that one.

But let's fly straight into this Manchester United Only gonna social press conference.

The injury news is what we want to talk about first, of course.

No Paul Popper.

He's not back on.

I feel for those fans who were expecting him back this week.

I never expected Papa back.

I mean, the reality is, if you follow his instagram feed, it is only just started training this week back on grass.

So he's no.

It was never going to be back the Spurs game, and I never thought he would be back for this game.

So Paul Pogba is not part of this game.

Marcie l could be on the bench, and I think that is quite significant because when you look at that bench on Wednesday night, it's so good that it went right with the 11 that we had because there was nothing on the bench for the front three positions we had.

Greenwood was playing and then we add of James and Rashford.

But the bench was matter and Pereira as the attacking options.

Really, I think we had also gone up, but then it was too full back to sense back in the goalkeeper.

So even if Marshall only makes the bench, I think that is really, really important for Manchester United on Popper.

I know people are still saying You'll never play for United again.

He's going to leave Ali himself said that.

He said he hoped it would have been back by New Year and he's still hoping with that.

So pop it pop, it will play for Manchester night again.

He will play tonight again and I can't see how he goes in January.

So you probably played quite a few games.

He'll probably go in the summer.

But all this talk of Pope but not playing for Manchester United again.

I just don't believe in that, Nana Artoo says.

Ali didn't sound very confident in that press conference, almost as if he was trying to lower expectations for this match.

I agree on that.

We're gonna come back on that he actually uttered the words 24 hours less recovery than Burnley, he said.

It shouldn't it shouldn't be a factor in it because we're a young team and adrenaline but dropping it in there, I agree.

Let me just play you this, though.

This is this is something I really a rip talking about, Manchester, Darby that we're building up for.

Just listen to this.

That is totally and utterly plastic.

In the modern era is a bygone relic of a near has been left behind.

People like Edison Alison test a gunman only were absolutely unequivocally 1000% better for this game of football today.

So the hair is a relic.

Andi.

People like Edison to stay gin on manual.

Now on Alison are way, way ahead of the hair.

I mean, look, check out the link in the video description.

There's a lot more than that said by this Manchester City fan on dhe You Kenly.

I've left my comments on that video.

So the link to the video description Go and check it out after this one and have your say all I would say stunning stuff, studying stuff that that a Manchester City fan know so much about Davadilla to know that he is done at this level.

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David A had a very bad season last year because of Ed Woodward on his contract negotiations with the man with the play that needs concentration.

So I agree that the hair had a bad season by season, but to say is done.

I mean, you know what?

Go and check out that guy's videos on new Tubas.

Well, Man City, top 12 titles in a row can barely get 10,000 views on and he's the biggest you do before.

Man City just says it says everything about Man City that does that.

Nobody's interested in your shit opinions.

It's not an unpopular opinion.

It's just a totally and utterly trying to be controversial opinion.

But check out the video and and have yourself that I remind you at the end.

But let's get back into a real football knowledge.

Manchester United versus Manchester City Press conference reaction So Pope was not going to play.

Marshall will be on the bench.

And actually, if I had to choose between the two, I probably would have said Marcel, not because Marcel's better than Popper, but we haven't got any attacking options.

So having Marcelas an option tomorrow is more important than probably have imposed, but because yet Pope, what makes us about a team.

But you know, if James gets injured or as a bad game, we've got no one to bring on.

So having Pope having Marcel back is important.

Be great to have both back.

But you know Tommy and Fred are playing so well at the moment, so on.

We've had a crap number 10 all season, so we just go with what we've got, he said.

Very interesting question.

Ali was a bit hesitant in this one on Dhe.

I agree with that previous commenter.

It has almost comes across as Ali's nervous about this game in the press conference because he was asked, Is this a better team than the team that lost to Manchester City in April on Da Ali was instantly hesitant.

Andi, journalist had to say, had to add another bit to the question.

He said.

I mean in relation to you.

No confidence on DDE where the team is going on, Ali said.

Well, you know, the boys are up for it on Do you know this is where he said, we've got 24 hours less recovery, but that shouldn't be That shouldn't matter too much because we'll play off adrenaline, so it was hesitant to, so I would have thought you would have jumped straight in on that and said, Well, remember where we were last April?

We were crap on where we are now and we're meant to be all about the future.

But I don't know why he was hesitant on that.

Maybe didn't understand the question, I don't know, but it was a little hesitant on that.

He was then also asked what I felt was the best question.

I think it was Simon Stone to ask this, he said.

You know, we've done very well against the big teams that Chelsea's, the Spurs, the Liverpool's.

Why can't we build on that effectively?

How come we're, you know, basically, why does the team get up the big games but can't get up for the last two games on Da Ali?

I mean, some of these answers to this what some people will find a little bit funny to this.

I mean, he said, Premier League is hard.

It's a compliment to how hard the league is on its fine margins, apart from molester Chelsea City Liverpool and I thought, Well, you've just named four teams who don't struggle with fine margins there and where Manchester United, who always should be one of the top four clubs in the country.

So, Thio answer that question.

Are you gonna socialize?

Theory is that the reason we're good against but good seems, but we're not so good against the so called last teams is because the Premier League is so competitive on its fine margins and anybody can eat Beth.

Anybody could be anybody, which actually is accurate because we are a mid table team, so a mid table team can beat the teams above them and teams below them.

The reality is we shouldn't be in that position, and he's blown his own excuse apart because live Lester not struggling for consistency in Chelsea, not struggling for consistency and didn't have the budget and their managers came in after he did.

So.

He has just exposed that he's massively under performing with a poor excuse for me there.

You can't just say Well, you know, we're losing to the last two teams because it's fine margins and it's really competitive when we've got the biggest wage bill in the league on we're Manchester United, we're underperforming.

I would like to have seen a more honest answer that because at this moment in time with Ali, there are people who are backing him.

There are people who are not backing him, and when he's asked a question about why are you really inconsistent?

I think it's a real cop out to go.

Are the league's competitive?

You know, we'll look at Leicester less money than is.

They're not struggling Chelsea.

They're not inconsistent.

You've got the biggest wage bill, You've got the biggest club in the country and you're gonna hide behind the fact that it's a competitive league.

It's a load of nonsense.

That's that's a rubbish response.

What you should have said is it's not acceptable.

We are very good against the top teams, but we've got to find that consistency against the lesser teams.

You know that it's not acceptable that we're putting in those performances because the players need to get that message on what again, what what message of the players get one if they watch his press conference today.

Oh, it's a really hard league, so you're gonna win, so we're gonna lose.

It's not the mentality to have and this is not digging Ali out what all this is from top to bottom at the club.

When you're asked why you're inconsistent, you can't just say well, the league's really competitive.

You can't put yourself on the same page, is born both within 11,000 capacity and barely got the budget.

Of all the squad that we've got, we've got to be better than that.

There's got to be a message from the club that, as I said after the Spurs game, this is not acceptable.

It's not acceptable to beat Spurs and then lose to born within West Ham and Newcastle.

That's not acceptable and he saw advances it that it is acceptable because it's a competitive league.

No, we got the biggest bloody wage bill with the biggest club in the country.

It's not acceptable and I would like him to have said that to get the message across to the players that it's not acceptable.

He should have said Look, we're doing really well against the tops six, which shows we can be in that top six area that we want to be, but we've got to be better against those lesser teams.

We've got to be more consistent cause it's not acceptable.

We need some strength verbally.

We need some strength from the club you also set.

But you did say in fairness we need consistency.

We've got to turn that doubt into belief on then on.

The way to do that is obviously he said that we came into the Spurs game.

There was a lot of doom and gloom, not from us.

We know we believe in ourselves.

We've got to go and turn that doubts into belief on that's exactly spot on our lights that because that is what that is, what he's got to do and that's why I think tomorrow against Manchester City we've got to go and get the results and I think many people would be very happy with the drawer.

We'd be over the moon with a win over the Blue Moon with a win but what we cannot do is go and lose that game of football and I even I before the Spurs game was like Well, what we get against Spurs or we're going to get City again.

The beaters and we aren't favorites against City.

I'll even said that they're probably one of the best teams in the world at the moment and I wouldn't go that far.

But we have got to go and beat them tomorrow or get a drawer out of them.

We cannot just sit back and wait to be beaten because we will be beat on.

We've got to go and cause them problems on.

The reality is I've said this before.

If you're not confident about tomorrow, just think about this for a minute.

What's Manchester City's weakness?

Well, Aguero is not playing.

That's a big loss, LePore.

It's not playing.

That's an even bigger loss because it makes them weak at the back there, A possession based team, we're gonna have a lot of the ball.

They're gonna leave space at the back.

What demands?

You know, I'd like to do sit back and hit a team on the brake on Dhe.

We've probably got the most informed striker in the league at the moment with Marcus Rashford.

So it sets up nicely united If we defend well and we hit them on the break, well, we can win that game.

It might not be pretty.

It might not be the way we want to be playing in over the next few years.

But for the now I think it's set up the united swing and let's not forget it's not that long ago that wolves and Wolves beat.

I think Wolves beat Man City when they had a gray really might not started but they certainly wasn't injured.

I think that even if he wasn't united have got to go and win this game of football or get a drawer.

It's not acceptable and I'll be very angry tomorrow night if we we get this result against Spurs.

That I think is open to interpretation as to whether it was a tactical master class or not.