{"id":247822,"date":"2025-10-29T12:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/247822\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:08:11","slug":"man-utd-news-team-spirit-is-now-soaring-pat-nevin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/247822\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd news: Team spirit is now soaring – Pat Nevin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Think of what you could have done had you owned a crystal ball. Investing in Apple or Google when they were start-ups would have made a fortune and putting \u00a3100 on Leicester winning the Premier League at 5,000-1 in the summer of 2015 would also have been a nice earner.<\/p>\n

\u200cI think getting a bet on Manchester United being above Liverpool<\/a> and level with Manchester City<\/a> with a quarter of the season gone would also have delivered astronomical odds. Even a few short weeks ago, this would have sounded like delusional deranged ramblings.<\/p>\n

\u200cThere are a multitude of reasons for this incredible short-term turnaround in the fortunes of both United and Liverpool. United beating Chelsea<\/a> in a bizarre game a few weeks back helped, but not as much as their 2-1 win at Anfield.<\/p>\n

\u200cThis has led to a team spirit finally becoming visible from space, when you couldn’t see it from 10 yards with a telescope beforehand. It has given them that other secret ingredient too: confidence.<\/p>\n

\u200cFor the opener against Brighton,<\/a> Benjamin Sesko, Bruno Fernandes, Casemiro and Matheus Cunha were flicking balls to each other just outside the Brighton 18-yard box. There is no way they were trying such intricate moves just a few weeks back.<\/p>\n

\u200cRuben Amorim has to keep the work-rate up and retain that spirit, but if he can keep them as relaxed as they looked against Brighton, the nightmare might just be over for the Red Devils.<\/p>\n

Sign up to read more from Pat Nevin in his Football Extra newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Think of what you could have done had you owned a crystal ball. Investing in Apple or Google…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-247822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}