The funny thing about the reaction to this performance is it sums up our fanbase.
Mount was anonymous, but he was very far away from being our worst performer. Yes, we looked discombobulated tactically, but given that it's the first game of the season, that can happen. For me, this is also particularly true because we didn't really get as much time with this set up as people keep thinking, particularly not with Casemiro, Mount and Bruno. There were games where Mount was actually playing closer to Casemiro than he was to Bruno. It will take time, but eventually it will work, just needs patience. The issues today occured as a result of this change imo. People are blaming the midfielders without realizing that we were struggling to adapt the patterns that we've been employed since last season into this system. Our full backs were struggling to invert, our three at the back build up was a bit of a mess as the team was taking to much time figuring out who would be pushing up or coming inside. And when you have these operational issues in a game where your opponents are playing high tempo, aggressive football; it doesn't give you time and space to fix those type of issues. I don't have cause for concern in this regard because I know and have already seen us build up really well under ETH. Tonight even Licha was struggling, that says it all really.
What was a concern was our attack. In my opinion, they were the reason we didn't look great. They were constantly losing duels and giving the ball away without a fight. Wolves are always a bit of a tug of war for us in midfield, but when you have attackers who don't hold up, don't create and make bad decisions in the final third, you are going to struggle in games like this. Garnacho in particular was really bad. Rasmus coming in and Rashford shifting left should help with this. However, when Wolves' attackers can make better use of space than our attackers can, that says something is wrong. We won't have many games like the one today with the dysfunction, in fact, we will dominate most games; but scoring and taking advantage of attacking situations we get is where the fear with this team really is.