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Our distribution from the back is also absolutely woeful at times. Lindelof is a £#%&!ing disaster and Wan Bissaka looks like he's legs made of cheese string when he's trying to play it. It doesn't help one bit and as you say it leads to the forwards straying about the pitch looking for the ball. You watch Liverpool and their distribution from the back is impeccable. It's their best feature. The other week we pressed them high and Alexander-Arnold just looked up and pinged 60 yard pinpoint crossfield passes to Mane. Every time. It's a major issue for us and one which would improve greatly if we could find an upgrade for Lindelof. |
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You can see the difference Williams has made by just being comfortable on the ball. Maguire in a five at the back gets more space coming forward. Lindelof is a weird one. His passing isn't too bad, but he has that immobile awkward technique that Smalling has. Makes everything look difficult. |
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If you watch Liverpool they aren’t pinpoint at all, they drag everyone over then hit balls into the space that their rapid as £#%&! players can get to ahead of the opposition. It’s percentage football in a way. I’ve watched them a good few times this season and they absolutely love a hoof into an empty flank. Doesn’t always come off, but forces the opposition back etc.
Lindelof’s distribution has been one of the strengths in recent weeks, picking out balls hard and low into the feet of advanced midfielders and forwards, can’t do it against Liverpool and City as we’ve all dropped off too much and isolated the forward giving him no options, or against Burnley it was into Pereira who £#%&!ed it up, which is hardly Lindelof’s fault. We get in trouble when dawdling and dicking about between keeper and CB’s, not getting it forward quick enough. Problem is the lack of quality across the front 4-5 when one of Rashford or Martial aren’t playing is so apparent it’s easy for us to be marked out of the game meaning we can’t get the ball forward quick. Fergie said something along the lines of; if you have one or two goal threats, the opposition can deal with it most of the time, if you have 5 or 6, they don’t know who to mark/stop or how to mark/stop them without freeing up someone else.. that’s what we haven’t got. |
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He looked afraid tonight. Zlatan would've engineered a move or two. Ronaldo would've probably scored. Rashford. Even that lump Lukaku. |
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Terrible touch, bad positioning, zero effort. I don't see what his positives are.
The sequence just before Matic got sent off summed it up. Desperate for a goal, not much time left and Martial is standing on the left with three other United players. No attempt to create space, make a run, offer a target n the middle. Just standing still. Rashford's injury has at least confirmed that Martial is no longer potential. He's just not good enough. |
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and a scowl. Just like Natalie Imbrugliuglia - I'm torn on him. On one hand, I expect him to be Superman. On t'other - we are so inconsistent with a soft centre that it is hard for a player like him. He needs Take That to sing 'Shine' to him - or even Aswad - but also he needs better midfielders behind him and more experience next to him. He'd actually benefit from one of these moody tough guy Eastern European centre forwards. someone whose name ends in '-ovic' ideally. Someone who can cause havoc and let fancy dan twinkle toed Tony 'Boney' M be daddy cool and drown our opponents in the rivers of babylon, football wise. What the £#%&! was in my coffee this morning |
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When he has the ball at his feet facing defenders then he’s fairly shit hot. But he just doesn’t work nearly hard enough at the rest of his game. You look at all the top strikers and they bust a gut to find space and get on the end of things whilst tony somehow gives the impression that he doesn’t need to try too hard because he has a gitane to smoke. Even Vardy works his socks off.
For me it’s his attitude not his ability and ultimately, people have to eventually stop making excuses for him. Frustratingly there’s a fair few players at united who show glimpses of greatness but otherwise put in shit performances. For too long we’ve been blaming every other factor we can find other than the player themselves. |
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Been done with him for a while. Useless without someone next him with talent that does all the hard work. Rashford was papering over all his failings as a player.
He's pointless. Would be OK as backup but no-ones going to be happy with that arrangement so just get rid. Perfect for PSG and the majority of Micky Mouse fixtures they play. |
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Suarez. Firminho. Aguero. It's right up there with an African energetic midfielder in my Football Racial Profiling Team Selector. |
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I knew Rashford was gonna make it when he stepped up to take a free kick in the dying seconds of a match we were losing, and losing in a terrible manner. He missed. But that wasn't the point. And obviously there was the penalty in Paris. Martial is not that guy. What irks is that he's done the whole contract/shirt number thing like he deserves special attention. Hasn't earned it, has he? In his defence, the lad will score goals and be a threat. He has been trying harder of late. And he's still nowhere near as toxic as Pogba. |
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I’m not even convinced he’s that good when facing defenders. Nine times out of ten he runs the ball into a defenders shins or gets the ball stuck under his feet. |
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