He literally had the best chance of the match second half and should have won the match for us.
Unpopular opinion: Ronaldo will be a huge miss
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Wonder if the real problem will be with Ronaldo wanting to win and Ole wanting to be nice and understanding.
He should've played the 90 minutes. After all, Ronaldo can often win a match with a half chance. What we signaled to Young Boys is that we were scared to lose and that's what made them go rabid. Ronaldo shouldn't defend even when we went down to 10 men. After the first substitution we had a fully manned defence and midfield. We lost the game specifically because we set out to defend for more than two thirds of the match.
Cavani offers more energy/pressing, better holdup and build up play. Ronaldo is better at literally everything else.
According to Allegri Ronaldo said to him he’s staying at Juventus and then things got messed up. I never wanted him to go like that way as I mentioned it many time here. So what I keep say is that he needs help which is clear to the eyes of football fans around the globe and Manchester United has a similar team to us, mostly youngers who want to show the world what they represent. He played one perfect game and one good game so far but I am not too sure this honey moon will last till the end. He will get frustrated and when he does that, him or the other 10 players go missing and that is when things go wrong. I have seen it on my own eyes for the last three seasons.
Fluffy rubbish. An ageing and injury prone Cavani was hailed as a revelation, after all of the same false criticism, yet a much more reliable and impactful Ronaldo makes no sense on a sporting level. Sure…
We didn't score 83 league goals, we scored 73.
Yeah, I thought that article was about signing Van Persie from the first line. Because that was the last time we hit close to 80+ league goals.
Hard to take any of it seriously beyond that, really.
Hard to take any of it seriously beyond that, really.
It's vintage Ronay - fully of clever word play and some amusing turns of phrase, but really isn't saying anything particularly profound. The Guardian has a few such writers on the roster, Ronay and the insufferable Jonathan Wilson being the most obvious examples.
What an absolute shimmering twat, mistaking City's 83 goals with us, as he's either looked too lazily, or just thought he'd go with the lie.
Pathetic pointless article, when Ronaldo coming back to the Premier league has been the biggest story in about a decade or more.
Every club's fans will look forward to it, it's brought massive interest to an already high interest league.
Yet he's describing it as if it's a 50 year old Pele coming to America for a merchandise tour.
Pathetic pointless article, when Ronaldo coming back to the Premier league has been the biggest story in about a decade or more.
Every club's fans will look forward to it, it's brought massive interest to an already high interest league.
Yet he's describing it as if it's a 50 year old Pele coming to America for a merchandise tour.
I'm going to get hated for this but I'll say it anyway.
The guy scores goals.
However we look slower and less fluid as a team compared to how we did with Cavani and the counter attacking half season of Martial.
I'm not complaining about him because I value his ability to put the ball in the back of the net - but I do think we play a bit slower and more tumescent way because we might at times miss a strikers ability to hold the ball up and bring someone in to play.
The guy scores goals.
However we look slower and less fluid as a team compared to how we did with Cavani and the counter attacking half season of Martial.
I'm not complaining about him because I value his ability to put the ball in the back of the net - but I do think we play a bit slower and more tumescent way because we might at times miss a strikers ability to hold the ball up and bring someone in to play.
This is the first time I’ve ever seen you criticize Ronaldo. You’re human after all
cheers friend and best of luck this season
Long let this anti jinx threat title live on.
Yeah he will if he gets injured. Fingers crossed he doesn’t.
For the love of God I am not his biggest fan and I was definietly pissed when he made the transfer back in 09 but this thread is an embarressment. He is obviously a pro and I don't care the fashion of his 25 to 30 goals a season as long as they happen.
Amen.
I don’t think that’s Ronaldos fault tbh. His movement would demonstrate that we should be even quicker as even counter attacking martial could still be stagnant at times.
I generally think with him in the side combined with Greenwood has teams a lot more weary of pressing us higher up the pitch because of how devastating they can be. Especially with Pogba, Bruno and Shaw feeding them both. So they sit deeper which is always going to slow down the play.
The problem is the slow build up from the back and the poor midfield. Ronaldo is best in a fast attacking team. This team is not unless there is a counter attack on. liverpool would have suited him better, for example. I still think he will hit 20 prem goals though.
Now working well for you till now, is it?
Can you make a “United won’t win the league” thread please mate? Thanks.
Two goals off keepers' mistake and two through the keeper's legs. Meh, even Martial would've scored those 4 goals.
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We only look fluid and fast when counter attacking, and as we well know that only works against teams who leave us space to counter attack into. Irrespective of whether Ronaldo is here or not.
I'll take a small drop in the speed of our counter attacking play in order to be able to score those tap ins against compact defences that normally we get nowhere near.
Sounds about right.
Yes and Sancho, Bruno, Pogba, Greenwood and Varane are all shit.
I don't think Ronaldo improves us.
You can all thank me now.
This aged well
Absolutely dreadful tonight, but…
There are certainly issues with him leading the line, but feck me what an ending.
His goals this season are the difference between us being still in the race in league and CL and us having a disaster of a season start.
Good to see this thread is still aging well…..
But he’s Ronaldo !
OP is right. Ronaldo will be a huge miss when he leaves.
He was crap almost throughout but feck it he got us the win at the end!
It's not like we would have played every match with 10 men if he didn't join this season.
I don’t thin he should start at 9 tbh. We’d be better with Cavani there and Ronaldo floating in off the left. It’d create space for him to attack.
Well no but I don't think there is any player in the squad who would have given us the same amount of goals, especially not the late ones. I love Cavani as well but when it comes to those important goals Ronaldo is still simply a class apart.
Tbh I started to see and feel this. The caf laughed at the Chelsea fans warning us about Jose so I'd listen to you Juve fans.
Ronnie surely is a fantastic goal scorer but truth is aside from the goals he offers very little to the general play. I'd say he even has a negative effect on how the team currently work especially in the building phase and pressing.
And regarding how Greenwood has been behaving recently I'm really worry about the team's harmony as well. It's never a good thing for the team's harmony to give a certain player a privilege compare to his teammates. On one hand I understand Ronnie has earned that privilege because he scores goals and his status, his history. But on other hand I also understand why Greenwood may think if he scores too he could be given that same privilege. Or Rashford when he comes back, or someone else.
Imo Ole must solve this asap before things would escalate. Of course many here who worship Ronnie won't like what I say but I have to say what I really think.
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