Here’s our FPL friendlies 2019 article for Thursday 25 July. We cover Man Utd v Spurs and Wolves Europa League tie v Crusaders (not actually a friendly). We include the lineups, scorers and some brief comments on players of interest plus a link to a relevant article and video for further information
FPL friendlies 2019 – Thursday 25 July matches
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Man Utd 2 Spurs 1
Goals: Martial, Gomes, Moura
United: De Gea (Romero 45), Wan-Bissaka (Dalot 45), Smalling (Bailly 45) (Tuanzebe 57), Rojo (Lindelof 45), Young (c) (Shaw 45), McTominay (Matic 45), Pogba (Fred 45), Andreas Pereira (Lingard 45), Greenwood (Mata 45), James (Gomes 45), Martial (Rashford 45).
Subs not used: J. Pereira, Chong, Garner.
Booked: Andreas Pereira.
Tottenham: Gazzaniga, Walker-Peters (Foyth 45), Tanganga (Marsh 70), Vertonghen (Alderweireld 45), Georgiou (White 62), Winks (Skipp 45), Sissoko (Eriksen 62), Ndombele (Lucas 45), Dele (Roles 62), Parrott (Lamela 45), Kane (c) (Son 45)
Subs not used: Whiteman, De Bie, Lyons-Foster.
Booked: Dele, Tanganga.
Well that game threw the cat among the pigeons.
From a lineup perspective £7.5m mid Martial as a CF was a surprise. What’s more Martial was excellent. £6.0m mid Dan James was also excellent on the left further throwing confusion into the possible lineup.
£8.5m Pogba again played in the double pivot lessening his appeal.
For Spurs from an attacking perspective £9.5m mid Son was the star. Shame about the price and the 2 match suspension. With £5.0m Aurier still injured and AFCONed and £5.0m Foyth suspended for 2 matches we’re no closer to finding the magical £5.0m entry into the Spurs defence.
£4.5m fwd Greenwood started in the problematic RW position for Man Utd. It’s not inconceivable that we could have a front 4 of £7.5m fwd Rashford, James, Martial and Greenwood. OGS continues to play 4-2-3-1 which is promising.
£8.5m Alli continues to play further forward and has potential in this position but the Spurs star was undoubtedly Son.
Here’s a link to the Man Utd match report, a Spurs blog, a youtube video, a squawka analysis and a 90 min match report and ratings
Wolves 2 Crusaders 0
This was actually a Europa League qualifier not a friendly
Goals: Jota and Vinagre
Wolves: Patricio, Traore, Bennett, Coady, Boly, Jonny (Vinagre 64), Dendoncker, Neves (Jimenez 58), Moutinho, Gibbs-White (Saiss 84), Jota.
Unused subs: Ruddy, Kilman, Sanderson, Perry.
No surprises in the lineup. As expected Gibbs White steps in for the CONCAFed £7.5m fwd Jimenez who came on after 58 minutes which is good news. Traore played at RWB for the injured £6.0m Doherty who was on the subs bench which is also a positive on him being fit for GW1. £4.5m bargain Dendoncker started which was helpful. A great finish from £6.5m fwd Jota but the game itself was attack vs defence.
I suspect the imminent signing of Jesus Vallejo will be the end of Bennett but as he’s the same price at £5.0m Coady and Boly then it’s no loss.
Here’s a link to the Wolves match report and a short youtube video
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