🚨🎙️ Jamie Carragher on Shea Lacey’s goal and the contrast with JJ Gabriel’s transfer saga:
🗣️"Look at the stark contrast in modern football right now.
Yesterday, all the noise coming out of Old Trafford was about a 15-year-old in JJ Gabriel refusing to train, submitting a de-registration letter, and demanding a move abroad before he’s even kicked a competitive ball for the first team. He was pencilled in to be in this very squad tonight, but entitlement got ahead of reality.
Then step up Shea Lacey.
He gets his starting opportunity under Michael Carrick in the EFL Cup, keeps his head down, and inside eight minutes, he produces a moment of magic to put Manchester United ahead at Old Trafford. That is the standard. That is what earned respect in this sport.
You don't demand a pathway; you earn it. You keep working, wait for your moment, and when that team sheet gets handed out, you step onto the pitch and show the world what you can do. Shea Lacey did his talking on the pitch tonight. For any young player looking to break into a senior side, that’s your blueprint right there."
🚨 PLEASE APPEAL THE BALOGUN RED CARD @USMNT 🚨
🚨 PLEASE APPEAL THE BALOGUN RED CARD @USMNT 🚨
🚨 PLEASE APPEAL THE BALOGUN RED CARD @USMNT 🚨
🚨 PLEASE APPEAL THE BALOGUN RED CARD @USMNT 🚨
🚨 PLEASE APPEAL THE BALOGUN RED CARD @USMNT 🚨
Harsh red card for USA’s Balogun. Two players going for same ball. Clumsy and looks bad in slow motion as they all do. Reckless and yellow would have covered it. It wasn’t one where Balogun was trying to ‘ leave one ‘ on opponent.
Today we aren’t Kentucky and Louisville fans, Duke and Carolina, Michigan and Ohio State, or even Red Sox and Yankees…
We are all locked in at 8 p.m. on USA Soccer 🇺🇸
🚨Matheus Cunha sat on the bench twice in a row. He came off the bench to assist against Manchester City and score against Arsenal.
But most importantly we didn’t see him call a press conference or make an instagram post. His brothers and sisters did not enter Old Trafford to demand he plays.
He simply came on against City and showed Carrick what he could do. Then when he got another opportunity today he scored.
Garnacho sat on the bench once and called the Daily Mail and Telegraph.
Now Chelsea is not even using him enough and he dares not raise his voice.
If you joke with Chelsea, you will first find yourself in Strasbourg and if you blink the wrong way, you will start learning how to speak with ‘Habibi.’
Manchester United over every ego! 👊💪