Ex-Man Utd starlet plotting Man City FA Cup upset by using Pep Guardiola tactic

Ethan Galbraith is thriving astatine Leyton Orient successful League One having travel done the ranks astatine Manchester United and earning a first-team debut from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

Ethan Galbraith started the week unsure if helium would beryllium making a deadline time move. He volition extremity it looking to onshore 1 of the top ever Cup upsets.

Leyton Orient rejected a bid of astir £1m from Swansea for Galbraith connected Monday. And portion the laidback Northern Ireland prima insists the sound astir his aboriginal “was rather casual to ignore”, the imaginable of hosting Manchester City successful the 4th circular is “massive.”

Galbraith, 23, is acquainted with respective of Pep Guardiola ’s squad having faced them portion helium was coming done astatine Manchester United. “All apical players,” helium says. “But I cognize a spot astir their quality.”

He names Oscar Bobb arsenic the astir talented of Guardiola’s existent squad that helium has taken connected - “coming up against him was tough” - and helium was besides successful the aforesaid property radical arsenic Cole Palmer and Morgan Rogers.

But play-off chasing Orient, defeated for the archetypal clip since November successful the league past weekend, are affirmative that they tin marque things difficult.

“We’re confident,” Galbraith says. “But if you’re connected a bully tally and look excessively acold up of yourself, you tin sprout yourself successful the foot.

“We’re going to person to beryllium bully defensively, we’ll person a batch of clip without the shot but erstwhile we bash get the accidental we request to beryllium clinical. We’ll enactment them nether unit whenever we can.”

Galbraith is thriving arsenic an inverted afloat backmost nether O’s brag Richie Wellens - a maneuver that Guardiola reintroduced during his clip astatine Bayern Munich.

Having arrived arsenic a midfielder, helium has been comfy adapting and a large motor means helium feels well-equipped to grip specified a physically demanding role.

“I’ve ever been rather fit, the moving stats and that person ever been astatine the apical end,” helium says. “I’ve not had to alteration overmuch but it’s demanding to get wrong erstwhile connected the ball, sometimes overlap and get up and down. I’ve had a laughter with wingers astatine times erstwhile bombing on.”

He looks backmost connected his clip astatine Old Trafford and a azygous first-team quality nether Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with immense pride. “I number myself fortunate to person played with immoderate of the players I have, immoderate of the prime was unbelievable. I learnt a lot.”

Yet having grown up successful northbound Belfast, helium feels astir comfy among the East End grit of Orient. “It’s the household feel,” helium highlights arsenic the club’s biggest asset. “There’s nary 1 amended than anyone else. It’s an casual radical to perpetrate to. Where I’ve travel from it’s not flash. I’m much utilized to this environment. It’s a large spot to travel to work.”

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