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Results before and after the injury crisis indicate that the injuries were a huge factor in that respect, though. I'm expecting at least two significant attacking additions for the line up. And ideally we will have more off the bench. Spending pretty much the whole season without a striker on the bench was insane. Especially as for the first 4-5 months of it our striker was poor. Tactics overstated. With proper options up front we'd have lots more points. LvG hung himself with Rooney, really. £#%&! throb for starting this thread btw |
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I suppose it's possible that along with coaching, development and innovation, they might be ahead on fitness regimes too |
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our defensive record was good, but not because of any great structure. anyone who watched us play could see we were all over the place and did a lot of last ditch defending, plus we had dave. the only structure came in the attacking sense, where you don't want structure that is restrictive and lacking spontaneity. the structure in the midfield was awful. apparently, the midfield is just for passing back to and not for providing adequate cover or to launch attacks. we were never reliant on rooney. we could have been reliant on a bit of consistent pace, trickery and tracking back from memphis. lucky for us we weren't, eh? our great possession stats were largely due to teams knowing we couldn't hurt them in our own half. |
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One of my mates is a Sports Nutritionist and said Strudders advised against LVG's demands of double sessions etc so LVG got in somebody else he knew who would just go with it. No idea about Real and Barca. He said Leicester have a great set up which Ranieri has really embraced but that luck also did play apart to why they didnt get any key injuries. |
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United also had the highest percentage of touches in the opposition third of any team in the league. So what we have here is a team well organised, who concede few goals and the goalkeeper faces few shots, enjoying plenty of the ball high up the field. That was a good structure for the players to do their part. They didn't, for various reasons, including being short of numbers in attack. Btw, us having such a good defensive record despite being abysmal defending set pieces is true testament to our positional play Quote:
United had a similar injury list around the same time last season, and it cleared up during the run-in just the same. Coincidence? Or did they £#%&! up again and put it right? Most of the major ones were impact injuries during games, but conditioning must come into that too. |
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Rashford and Martial and Lingard played with the expression of players not hampered. Mata floated about with plenty of freedom, too. It was a typically positive setup. It just didn't work. |
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Only After Rashford arrived did we start to play with any degree of freedom. |
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no idea why van gaal opted to go in with just rooney up front, but nqat he was taking a big chance if he hoped memphis and martial could adapt immediately...
the idea van gaal brought keane back as some kind of desperate bid to bale himself out, and that this means he rated him ahead of rashford, is hilariousness itself though... the real disadvantage of united's injury crisis, especially given how van gaal works, was in training sessions and preparation. the actual starting formation was just about retained throughout, though no thanks to memphis who was no help to the manager at all. |
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