He hasn't done badly, but if we are swapping players to give others minutes he'd be the first I'd take off he's been the lesser of the midfield. All of our players could do with improving the passing, as to many times we've misplaced passes.

Loved the goal, Lingard has been good in pre-season and I know he isn't everyone's cup of tea, but he does pop up with goals here and there. That's something our midfield has been lacking over the past few years.

Playing quite well as well, shocking considering he hasn't played competitively in almost a year.

I would like to see Valencia delivering the ball into the area without hesitation everytime. Good forwards will make even a percentage ball look good, if they know for sure it will come. I hate seeing him get to the 18 yard line and check back out.

Did we make any subs? I missed the beginning of the second half due to the wife.

That was rank by Fellani.

I have no idea what Fellaini is doing in the starting line up.
Carrick and Fellaini - weren't they LVG first choice?

Not quite sure why Fellaini is given so much playing time, I didn't rate him highly at Everton and I definitely don't rate him now.

Musa is one of my long odd picks for top prem goalscorer. He'll probably need time to adjust but he's a real livewire that would have been a good buy for us.

Time for us to make a sub or two now I think......

Way too much faffing about near the box, especially from Rooney.

Hopefully he's up for sale

Definitely hopeful of that and i'm sure Mourinho will finally realise after today how crap he is.

Come on Ibra, good assist by Valencia.

Not great news with both Mata and Lingard injured but good result. There were times in the second half where we looked as devoid of ideas as we did under LVG, but that was to be expected I guess. Bailly was mostly assured and all round good prep. Ibra has yet another trophy already

Leciester will be stretched by the CL this season but after watching that, I don't think they'll struggle as much as predicted.

Edit: Lingard only bruised.

Decent match. We weren't great in the second half, but good to see Zlat win it. That's what we've been missing up front since RVP went off the boil, someone who actually knows how to put the ball in the net!

Glad we won but we really need to trim some of the fat.

Who are you calling fat?

Acceptable pre-season performance and result.

Unless we get an offer we can't refuse I think Fellani is part of Jose's plans.

Till that back pass Fellani was having another good game, certainly better than Carrick. However, with the imminent arrival of Pogba, I can see him being Pogba's back up. Herrera did nothing after coming, so Carrick may survive once more.

As I said from the other night, Rooney and Ibra play a very similar game, though tonight they stayed out of each other's way a bit more. It's not a natural partnership, and I don't think it will last.

Fellaini did nothing, what game were you watching? He does nothing but wander around midfield passing the ball back to defence. At least Carrick passes the damn thing forward.

yep, totally ineffectual partnership. they both want to drop deep and dictate play, neither have the pace to run in behind. we will struggle against high pressing teams like city, arsenal and liverpool, they will push us back and nick the ball off of zlatan and rooney. klopp and guardiola must be licking there lips if they have followed our games so far, there coaching styles are kryptonite for the way we play.

Not sure how long Fellani has left on his contract so that might have an impact on whether we sell him.

Lol. Fellaini and another one I am not allowed to name until a few games into the season.

I'm sure there's a few licking their lips at the thought of testing city's defence too considering the money they might have to shell out for Stones.

So much negativity from one or two, anyone would think we were down in 6th. place at the end of March.

It may take a few matches but it will come together soon enough. Good to win a trophy so well done the lads, two goals and any trophy are positives compared to none of each. Oh, and hark at Mourinho defending Fellaini's misplaced pass that led to their goal, slow pitch it may have been but he'd had nearly an hour to get used to it!