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Today was abysmal, Jose is spot on about the forward players.... pathetic performance from Miki, Rashford, Martial and Lingard. That lot couldn't score in a brothal armed with a wallet stuffed full of £50 notes.
Miki was anonymous for the whole time he was on the pitch. I now have serious reservations about Martial and Rashford. What the £#%&! is wrong with these two? They couldn't hit a barn door and dont look natural centre forwards. When Fellaini is the best United on the pitch you know you are trouble. The same when United player of the season is Valencia. A converted winger to right back who couldn't cross a road let a lone a football. I am sick to death of seeing him bomb up the pitch, stop at the first defender and do some kind of shuffle from his right foot to his left foot then play the ball sideways. Granted he has improved as a defender, but he is £#%&!ing useless going forward. |
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Patience is required with Martial and Rashford.
At a club as big as Utd, you would expect these two to be playing alongside world class players in their prime. But we don't have any of those in the final third. Very disappointed with Mikhi today, we needed him to step up to the plate in the absence of the others, and he barely did anything of note. |
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Build up from defence through midfield was far too slow You need to get your forwards the ball in dangerous positions but our midfield or defenders never did that Missed Pogba's creative passing today |
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Joint 2nd for best defence, tying with Chelsea (23 goals conceded each) and only behind Spurs (21).
Unfortunately we've only scored 42 goals. The lowest in the top 7 by far - even Everton have scored 52. We've scored the same amount of goals as Bournemouth and only one more than West Ham. [/statto] Glaringly obvious where our problems lie - it was a similar story under LVG. Only managed 49 goals last season and conceded 35, so I think we'll have improved on both by the end of the season, but there hasn't been a massive shift in Mourinho's first season. How do we change it though? More squad upheaval? Spend another few hundred mil on players? Or is it more a mentality that needs to be ruthlessly dismantled regardless of who is brought in? |
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A decent midfielder and a somebody else up top we'll not go far wrong. |
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And you can't really throw money at it either. In isolation all our players are good finishers, but put them in a match and they're almost more likely to miss easy chances than score these days. All I can imagine is training against DDG and Romero or whatever shooting drills they're doing is not helping. |
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I see that Mourinho threw our forwards under the bus last night, publicly criticising Rashford, Martial, Lingard and Mkhi for not scoring.
Mourinho needs to look closer to home. He picks one of the fastest forward line ups in the league and then, instead of employing tactics to create space for them to run at or in behind the defenders, expects them to play a slow build up game that better suits Zlatan. It's ridiculous - Mourinho really doesn't have a clue how to adapt to the traditions of United and the evidence is on the pitch. |
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If instead we stretched the game, both by leaving a couple of players up the pitch when we defend and using the full width of the pitch then the game becomes more spread with much greater space for our attackers to exploit. It's obviously not as sound defensively and encourages the opponent to come out more but it opens up the game for better exciting, end to end action and creation of chances where the superior quality of our players will prevail. That is how Ferguson played and why we had all those 4-0, 3-2, 4-3, etc scorelines. In contrast, Mourinho's tactics give us greater control but shut down the game for both sides. It really needs a Ronaldo, Hazard, Neymar calibre of player to open up the defence and be successful. But then any manager can be successful with a player like that. What we need is a manager who knows how to play a proper attacking game to score goals as a team without that quality of player. |
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We're not even going to make the top 4 again. Absolute £#%&!ing shambles. Player recruitment has been shocking. |
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It's short-term bullshit. The rest of our post-Fergie buys speak for themselves. 3 or 4 of them might be good enough in the long term but none of them have convinced me 100% - the rest were or are shit. We need a squad of young, hungry bad losers. Hopefully Mourinho will put one together. Quote:
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