To be honest, we played well at the beginning and if we scored first or even got to 1-1 at HT, it might have been different.
We always seem to start brightly in games. The fact is we are more dangerous out wide and a diamond restricts our width. I would have rather have Garnacho starting on the right.
That’s not going to matter. Any team in the top 3 divisions in England would have scored th goals Brighton scored against us today. There was nobody near the ball throughout the entire buildup. If he can’t fix this first he won’t last the season.
Difference between Pep and others is Pep would simply not play Mctominay and these other garbage players at all. He'd go and find players in the reserves pending the transfer window where he'd sign his preferred players. He would not persist with dreck and cry woe is me. For all the heat Pep gets on his spending, i'd trust him far more to give good youth players much more of a chance than any manager who has managed United in the last 10 years. Rico Lewis and Cole Palmer have far more big game experience than any of our youth players. If anyone had a ready-made excuse to not play youth players it would be Pep. Yet he gave both those players more than their fair share of consistent chances.
League cup mate, which is next to the community shield a mickey mouse cup. He would have lost against Pep, as usual.
I wouldn't go so far in extrapolating this early in the season.
Mourinho did not finish 3rd in his first season, and Ten Hag never bought the player you refer to. That player was a chronic underperformer from a previous regime, under a previous CEO.
Not to mention that it killed us as a counterpressing force and had us conceding overloads on the wings from which all the goals came. The fullbacks, Lamptey in particular, had a field day.
Agreed, and that doesn't happen overnight. It does seem like there's a desire to improve from our new footballing structure, there have been a few great posts on here detailing the changes and greater attention to that side of things post-Woodward, which is promising, but it'll take time.
I’d love for there to be a point to debate things like this, but when there is no effort or teamwork none of this matters. There is no tactics or formation that can compensate for the amount of jogging present for all of their goals.
Well ETH has him NOW. I don’t buy into all this ‘inherited squad’ crap in situations like this. Do you think Sancho will even dream of not coming to training under Pep?
Has ETH being able to spend a lot of money? Do the Glazers pick the team, the tactics? Right now, manager just not good enough on and off the pitch, he is carrying an ego that is totally unearned
To be fair we limped through the second half of that season. It ended well but it was pretty grim stuff at the time and lots of talk of fatigue (ie players not being bothered). Mourinho is no slouch anyway.
True but it just feels so hopeless right now. How can players in a Man Utd shirt play with such lack of energy and spirit?!
For whatever reasons, there are people in this forum that genuinely believe that ten Hag is there with Klopp, and even Pep.
De Zerbi and I think Gross said in their post match interviews that they struggled a bit at the start because our change of system surprised them and it was not what they had planned for. Once Brighton settled and figured it out, they started keeping the ball a lot easier.
And this, in turn, will encourage shit like Maguire not to move because they know they will get chances to stink up the place. Why not, say, play Dan Gore as a second 6 besides Casemiro seeing as the latter is struggling to cover ground? Like today he played the diamond just to avoid starting Pellistiri or Garnacho and we paid the price.
These owners let him spend half a billion.
That covers it for me. Until they're working their ass off and fighting for 90 minutes i find it hard to be critical.
That is a common element in Brighton's game. They sit and wait for you to press. The correct tactic is cutting options and passing lanes.
What are you on about? I've never said he inherited a crap squad. I said he inherited a bad apple.
Same thing. Either way I don’t think this would happen amongst the likes of GOATs such as Pep and Fergie
Yes, we are on the right path and it takes time. But I do worry about the Glazers. With them as owners we might not get a proper setup. Only half way there.
Yea man. I'm so disappointed. I didn't feel like this even when we got spanked 7-0 against Liverpool. I don't want to say and don't think that anyone seriously does it but my mind always goes back to thinking he wanted to sabotage this match. There is literally no other way I can describe his decisions today. Being stubborn against Sancho I'll give you that but why play Bruno as central defender? Why not bring Maguire? Being stubborn with that system and didn't change anything until we already lost that match. Bringing on Martial when we were chasing a game. He was as invisible as McT today. Didn't notice him at all.
Pep would take out his chequebook and sign great players which Erik hasn’t so far, sign great players.
Those owners employ Murtough and Arnold.
New owners will sack him.
If that happened only against Brighton it would of been acceptable but when do we ever intercept the ball in the opposition half, regardless of who do we play against.
Pep would look at his leading players first if they were performing like ours are. Absolutely ludicrous to even mention McTominay or any other rotational player for that matter. Pep stripped the likes of Foden, Bernardo Silva and even Aguero of their status as regular starters, and flogged Cancelo off in the blink of an eye. Wtf is the point of talking about McTominay right now?
Agreed and seemingly far too easily overlooked, also multiple players regressing under him
