Ibrahimovic has produces 13 goals and 4 assists in his last 14 games in all comps.. Plus he did score a crucial goal against Liverpool in the dying minutes. I am pretty sure also that most of his goals do come at the last 15 minutes of games, well at least 50% surely.
Completely agree. Pogba seems to have too much license to do anything he wants. He doesn't pass with urgency to anyone except Zlatan.
Berbativs best season for united yielded 21 goals, 5 of those in 1 game, 3 in another.
Well there's probably no hope of us winning the title or even getting a top four with Ibra leading the line for us either, this season or even next. He's been great for us there's no disputing that especially given his age, but if we're going to get back to the top where we want to be, we'll need someone who doesn't need so many chances to score, more mobile and not at the tail end of his career as our main striker. It's just my opinion, nothing hopeless about it because it doesn't fit with yours
summed it up pretty well there.Then you come to our goal, a ridiculous hit from a hard angle, miles out
I think this is a false assumption but just my opinion. If you don't count his unfortunate period during 6-7 matches (october) he has been pretty good at scoring. Basically one chance and one goal. The reason he his conversion rate is not as good as other strikers is that he takes shots from very different and difficult angles. He has come back from illness so he might still not be 100 percent fit and Ibra usually needs a couple of games until he's in top form - played two games now after a short break so he'll most likely (hopefully) be really good next game.
Exactly, enough to make you pull your hair out. Miss nailed on chances then score from a position you have no right to score from. You have ones claiming it was a cross. I think frim his set up and the way he hit it, it was clearly an attempt on goal.
But Mourinho is crazy in his decisions
They are creating chances to be fair, it's just that the ball somehow doesn't go into the goal sometimes. Either the ball hits the post or a goalkeeper stops it. Especially Pogba's shots on target either hits the post or it gets saved at close range. But as you saw the own goal, others teams get lucky and get goals.
I do think that if we get Griezmann then Jose will revert back to a 2 man midfield similar to your line up above. Where that will leave Herrera mind i'm unsure.
I agree with this so much, it's why I think we should focus our attack more around Martial instead of Ibra and Pogba. Right now Pogba is missing too many chances, taking wild shots sometimes, he needs to pass up and wait for his opportunities to score.
Letting Mata out of jail for that absolute horrific miss is quite a thing.
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In a nutshell. We just arent finishing. I include Zlatan in this.... 2 clear blown chances v Stoke which I can only put down to his age. Too slow to bury those.... Costa would have, Solkjaer would have, even Defoe.
Yeah that did make me smile. NO excuse for that Mata miss. Was just plain rubbish. Same with Zlatan actually, he was really poor and didn't look his usual confident self.Zlatan gets poor x2, Mata misses an open net = bad luck
Does Sky include penalty shots in their clear cut chances, similar to Opta including pen shots in their big chances?
I don't even think we can use the bad luck excuse anymore. We are getting tons of ball in the opposition 18 yard box, players are shanking them left, right and centre, or hitting them down the throat of the keeper. Missing open goals!
We don't really have a left winger. Martial is the closest we have but has only been decent for a few games. We probably finally have a right winger in Mhki.
Got to agree. We need to up the quality as Martial might be two seasons off finding consistency for all we know. Zlatan won't be around much longer than two seasons so it's not like there isn't space for him.
He has said himself that his biggest weakness is heading, so it's hardly surprising. It's frustrating sometimes when he should head it, he tries to take it down instead or just heads it towards another player instead of on goal.
you sure about that stat? I know we've been shy on goal, rediculously so, and how i'd love to have RVN in our squad now. But I really don't recall us having an 27 shots per game all that regularly.
Yeah, I meant to put a little disclaimer saying I hadn't fact-checked the stats, it was just in an article I read.
could very well be right, just seemed a little stretched. I know you get the odd match where a team has 20odd shots on goal and only score 1 or so - but I was just surprised we had that in 6 matches.
Matas was poor but the bad luck element is the ball bouncing. Should have scored bit as ive said, the ball was bobbling. They are more awkward than they seem and he wasnt the first or wont be the last to get caught out like thatZlatan gets poor x2, Mata misses an open net = bad luck
