Mount on the right is the true realization we've just repeated the Mata deal. Hell I would even throw Bruno on the left until Hojlund comes back and play
Fixed. Eriksen needs to play deeper, Bruno higher. And Martial or Sancho in until Hojlund shows he can be the featured striker.
Madness. Two wrongs don’t make one right. Bruno’s passing is the key that unlocks our chance creation. He shouldn’t be playing the possession game. He should be feeding our goal threats, including himself. The possession responsibilities should lie behind him.
Frenkie de Jong archetype indeed. That’s who I thought would’ve been ETH’s main priority from the day he was hired. I have no idea why he deviated from that approach. It has been, is and will be the issue until he finds that type of player.
100% agree
Who else plays every game or is available? I say it because he keeps moving him to the wing when hes supposed to be our best creative midfielder. He did it last year with Weghorst at 10 as well. Im not plucking this bs from thin air am I. I’m giving an opinion on what I see, come up with a logical reason you would do that unless he doesn’t trust him/rates him as highly as most fans (not me) do.
Agreed. The advantage of Mount over Eriksen is his ability to press and win back possession. I would give it 10 to 15 games before passing judgment and making any changes, but some seem to have already concluded it won’t work after to 10 to 15 minutesCase must be fumming after last match
Doesn't help that he seems a player who starts his season a bit slow and would require a while to be in top form.
But this will eventually work imo. Once Case got his form back and Mount/Bruno get used to the new system. To me it seems like the idea is one would stay back a bit while the other ventures forward but they haven't worked out that yet.
I think regardless of who is a better 10 long term I hope we just start to see players dropped for poor performances.
Yes. Them playing too high stretches us too far. Casemiro needs support somehow, it should start with the CF pressing, but Rashford hasn’t been effective. If they both go up we have a massive hole behind them.
This is true, I certainly don't have confidence in the set up. You don't have to be a expert tactician to see the rationale in how a team is balanced it's the profile of players in the shape that is somewhat more important than the quality.
It depends on whether you survive long enough to find out but the smarter ones find out pretty soon and try to mitigate the damage. Under the Glazers though you might find yourself without funds to replace the mistake, I don't think Mourinho and Ole wanted Matic to stay as long as he did here.
Aye, cheers.
Yep. My guess would be Ten Hag is having them play a certain way with the understanding that when Hojland / Mainoo / Amrabat is available, it will click, instead of playing a different way until then. I hope. Cuz it makes zero sense to keep using Rashford as a CF.
That’s not looking like such a crazy idea now.
No doubt Rabiot and Arnautovic would have been solid signings with what this team current has available.
Come up with a logical reason why he would make him captain. You've not really provided any, could have easily picked Rashford, the darling of Manchester, or Varane even for the experience.
We have an obsession with attacking midfielders and all action to box type and utter contempt for proper passers / playmakers. Anyhoo hopefully we bring one more in and Mount adapts to a new role.
Agree but one is a suspected money grabber and the other is either a racist or something I care less about.
Hopefully common sense will prevail.
Yeah we lost but imo we saw a bit of how that would work in the first half. Sadly we run out of gas in the second half. We looked like we're just out of some heavy fitness sessions against Wolves. Then we looked quite fit in the first half against Spurs so imo it's ok to hope our players could get fully fit in the next match or the match after.Agreed. The advantage of Mount over Eriksen is his ability to press and win back possession. I would give it 10 to 15 games before passing judgment and making any changes, but some seem to have already concluded it won’t work after to 10 to 15 minutes
If the first match of the season we run out of gas that doesnt bode well.
It is madness. I can't wrap my head around the idea that there is a scenario in which Bruno should be playing deeper. This makes ZERO sense to me.
Bingo. For me it's really hard to judge Mount because I don't know if what he's doing is actually what ETH wants him to do. Normally I would say "no way this is what the manager wants", BUT Erik did the same with Sabitzer, van de Beek and even Fred (although Fred actually had some natural instincts to play a bit deeper, and this was by far the best midfield change ETH did).
Is this true?
Said before the season started there’s not a single combination of these players in the squad that make a good midfield on paper, to my dismay they look even worse than imagined in theory out on the pitch. Imagine that.
No it is not trueIs this true?
