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I don't know what to infer from this except Mendy is a better keeper than De Gea. What does this have to do with "We are an awfully coached team"?Tweet
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My main gripe with Ole is we're way too predictable in our play. If the opposing team is out of position we can tear any team apart which I suppose is coaching in itself but teams have known for the last couple of seasons if they sit back it's very hard for us to break through. Whats more worrying is particularly against Villa and even Wolves they didn't sit back, came at us and we still looked lost in attack reverting to shooting at the slightest sight of goal. I think we've had 54 shots at goal in the last 2 matches with something like 8 on target which to me shows it isn't working.I can understand this, however the old adage comes to mind of 'if you don't shoot, you don't score'.
When you factor in the amount of goals we have scored so far this season I'd say that the policy seems to be working more often than not.
But I can get how it can be frustrating, and yes it may highlight some limitations in our play, but I don't feel it demonstrates lack of coaching ability.
All of this post would 'suggest' is you have no clue what you are talking about, with the upmost respect.1. We do have a method of playing. Obviously.
2. It's hard to tell what we "look like " to you, but at least we are not by most measures particularly vulnerable at the back. That of course is by measures such as how many goals we actually allow and xGA.
3. We create more good scoring chances than almost all other teams. Again on the basis of real things like goals scored, xG etc.
4. We can obviously play football, given that we were the second best team in the PL last season and is currently 4th.
5. All of this would suggest that we have a certain ability to "impose ourselves".
6. All of this would also heavily suggest that it's self-evidently absurd to state that "more often than not teams outplay us".
7. As you have apparently also seen "Wolves, Southampton, Aston Villa, West Ham outplay us", this all leads towards the same conclusion, which is that the problem here is probably your vision.
With the utmost respect, read the post I was responding to.All of this post would 'suggest' is you have no clue what you are talking about, with the upmost respect.
It isn't obvious what our method of play is. We still play with no virtually no style.
Throwing things like xGA and XG around is just meaningless, when the eye test shows we are overall poorly coached, rely on individual brilliance to win games, look pretty shaky at the back and can be beaten by anyone. Aside from Leeds (which was more of an anomaly) we have never imposed ourselves and truly dominated 2-3 games in a row for years now, so saying things like 'suggest' is just a load of rubbish backed up with absolutely no proof.
Important context in a six game comparison like that are the fixtures.Tweet
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I don't think this was always true though. I distinctly remember getting pissy about us having less possession than Southampton at OT under Fergie in a game that we won because I was complaining to a mate about our centre midfield options (what I'd give for Cleverley and Anderson now) and how lucky we were to win the game.I don't know about that. Under SAF lesser teams played the entire game in their box at Old trafford. The one exception was the final season or two where he employed some really defensive tactics in the league but asided that many younger fans didn't even know what it was like to have a worse team have a go at us till Moyes came along and wrecked the fear factor. Having a go at us became a common phrase that season. The norm before that among lower to midtable teams was to park the bus when playing us.
Yeah of course. Its De Gea's fault. Jesus.I don't know what to infer from this except Mendy is a better keeper than De Gea. What does this have to do with "We are an awfully coached team"?
It's more to do with the poor midfield why we take shots the attack know most of the time if it's passed back to Fred he will look to passing it backwards or sideways a bad pass or lose the ball generally. therefore losing the imputusBased on the last game and a bit, one thing I hope our coaches do immediately is get our players to stop taking stupid shots from distance instead of being patient actually building to high quality chances.
The amount of good chances we've had relative to the volume of shots we've taken over the last game and a half is poor.
Doesn't that tell you how amazing we're playing?
This place couldn't even wait until half time.
Ah yes, just one of those days. Funny how frequently "those days" tend to happen.Things are just not falling for us, players are panicked and under pressure. The amount of times I’ve read coaching or coached in this thread is amazing
Do they? We’ve had good runs and bad runsAh yes, just one of those days. Funny how frequently "those days" tend to happen.