Didn't see the game, but looking at the score line why are people moaning so much in here?
It’s the way we played against a team 16th in league two, we allowed them far too much space after the first 25 mins where we should have been 0-4 up then on 55 mins they drew level and our porous midfield allowed them far too many chances. We didn’t really control a game against a league 2 team and still an ETH side can’t score more than 4 goals, reality check - we’ve played 31 games this season won 14 drew 3 lost 14 and have scored 40 goals (Average 1.29 goals per game) and we’ve conceded 44 with a negative GD of -4 (Average of 1.42 goals conceeded per game)
ETH spent £400m in two summers and this season he’s gone backwards, his management methods, his in game management everything.
Last season his United team played 63 games, won 42, drew 9 and lost 12 all season. More importantly than his 67% win rate was that the team scored 107 goals which is 1.70 goals per game and only conceeded 57 goals which is 0.90 goals per game. We can’t say the CL was a huge uplift in quality because two of the teams in our group were Europa League teams, we came bottom of the group.
My point is how can the manager be allowed to spend £47m on a goal keeper who is at least two tiers down from DDG, mess about and tinker with his best CB pairings by upsetting most of them while his best and only decent signing is out for most of the season, upset two multiple CL winners who may be on the decline but could be used differently, have so much blind faith of the worst right winger in the PL, yes Antony is that bad, 1 goal and 1 assist in 26 matches, yes I think Sancho and Rashford are incredibly immature and probably deserve to be moved on with the manager but last year Rashford got 41 goals and assists in 55 matches and Sancho 11 in 40, when you have such an ineffective blunt instrument of attack this season why switch them both off so early in the season when you have not replaced those goals yet, personally both of them are prima Donna’s and need to be shifted out of the club, but don’t think they won’t score and assist multiple goals in a more harmonious environment, many more goals and assists than Antony will ever score away from old Trafford.
We needed goals and more cutting edge upfront to get the team averaging 2 goals a game and we needed to tighten up defence and midfield to get the 0.90 goals conceded to 0.75, small margin like Brailsford says wins you trophies.
We didn’t need to change the GK this season, we didn’t need a crock like Mason Mount had we used that £100m to go get a proper number 9 like Osimhen or E Ferguson we would have had more goals this season and the defence who had trust in DDG would have never been as bad as this season?
Eric constant tinkering, constant stubbornness to play a 4-1-2-3 formation which does not work with a calamity goalkeeper now means that United after spending another £170m this summer concede 1 extra goal every 2 games and during those 2 games we score 0.8 goals less, most of the decline is on the coach as well as the inept players who have proven they can’t string two decent seasons back to back!
Brailsford been watching games and as yet he’s seen mediocrity at best served up!
I’m sure they’ve made their mind up not just about the managers but certain players too!
