4-3-3 hasn't been great either. If anything our best football under Mourinho has come in 4-2-3-1 with games like Leicester at home in 2016 and even games like the 0-0 draw with Burnley but we still had something like 40 shots on goal. 4-3-3 will only work if you have goal scorers out wide like Bale. Players like Mata and Lingard don't have enough end product for us to play the extra midfield player.
Unfortunately, I did watch the pre-season games. The plan was to win/draw games by scoring 1 goal.I can’t wait for the season to start! Haven’t watched any pre-season games (normal for me) so I’m not as miserable as the majority of the forum.
I certainly do have a pair, but going into a season, where we don't have the weaponry to compete against the best teams is depressing.The real fotball starts now! Maybe keep that in mind, all of you who I’ve seen calling this season a write-off alreadyWe’re Manchester United, grow a pair and find your cool people
If we are going to challenge for the title, we are going to do it by grinding out matches, with low scorellines.
)Rather play Mata in midfield and put martial or rashford on the right. Mctominay is pointless.de Gea
Darmian Bailly Smalling Shaw
McTominay
Pereira Fred
Mata Rashford Sanchez
Bench is difficult to judge - could include Fellaini, Pogba, Lukaku, Martial, Lingard etc. However, it's probably more likely to include Jones/Lindelof/Young. José will just be praying that he can have game changers and players with physical presence to push forward at the end if it comes to that.
At least this is probably a Leicester without Kante, Mahrez, Maguire, and Vardy for the first time? Wouldn't be surprised if that's the case (especially as two of them don't even play for Leicester now
Amazing how short we look on this team prediction. Vital we start with a win, otherwise the knives will really be out for Mou.de Gea
Darmian Bailly Smalling Shaw
McTominay
Pereira Fred
Mata Rashford Sanchez
Bench is difficult to judge - could include Fellaini, Pogba, Lukaku, Martial, Lingard etc. However, it's probably more likely to include Jones/Lindelof/Young. José will just be praying that he can have game changers and players with physical presence to push forward at the end if it comes to that.
At least this is probably a Leicester without Kante, Mahrez, Maguire, and Vardy for the first time? Wouldn't be surprised if that's the case (especially as two of them don't even play for Leicester now
I get it, but it’s still way over the top to call it a ‘write-off’ before the season has even begun! I share your concerns, but this is interesting in it’s own way. José has been backed in his time here, and if the board believes he hasn’t delivered (which I agree with) then he has to rise to the challenge or be gone next season. Perhaps some underachievers start to show their true colors, and the team performs, the summer will then be forgotten. If not, well, maybe José has lost his mojo after all. All pure speculation and conjecture at this point anyway.Unfortunately, I did watch the pre-season games. The plan was to win/draw games by scoring 1 goal.
Unfortunately, 1 goal per 90 minutes is all we had in our locker.
I certainly do have a pair, but going into a season, where we don't have the weaponry to compete against the best teams is depressing.
To know, that the board have effectively said that they don't want to push to win the league and that we have to make do with the squad we have, while having plenty of money in the bank (MUFC have plenty of cash to splash, if they choose to do so), also adds to the depression.
The only hope we have is that Jose creates a tactic which gets us results - maybe allows us to win every match 1-0 or something like that, which somehow gets us the league title.
Your glass is always half full.To all Manchester United fans,
The transfer window is pretty much over, and as we all know it wasn’t a great one. However, as we all love our great club, Manchester United, lets forget all about this transfer window before this season and this opening game starts and get behind the team! To all the match-going fans, sing and cheer your hearts out tomorrow and be the 12th man for the team to win. We have been handed the opening game this season for the entire league, so lets get a nice and exciting win to set a good tone for our season and the season in a whole itself. Lets go lads. This season will be a rollercoaster of emotions, lets hope in a good way!
COME ON UNITED
Assuming so. José specifically mentioned only Romero, Valencia, Herrera, Dalot, Rojo, and Matic as unavailable. Although, PhysioRoom.com suggest Bailly is likely to miss the Leicester game with an ankle injury. So, make of that what you will.
I like the look of this team the most but probably too attack minded for Jose to put out.
When did Jose say this?
Personally I'd swap Martial and Sanchez. Sanchez is proven centre forward but lacks the pace on the wing, while Martial always seems to end up on left anyway.
This sounds interesting, could you point me to where he said it?
I suppose it's a change to accommodate the youth temporarily
Well, he's talking about changing the tactic but not being able to train on the changes until 'his' players are back. So I doubt it's to accomodate the youths.
Thanks. I interpreted that to either mean changed due to players coming back, or changed in the sense that he changes tactics for each opponent. Hope you're right, and in a good way.
From what I've heard, Mou has been saying the preseason is meaningless and the entire time was spent trying to avoid losing big.
Well whatever he's talking about (for me it's unclear), he specifically says he can't work on it until he has his senior players back. So no, it wouldn't have been noticeable in pre-season, when we were fielding a hotchpotch of fringe players and kids.
I mean, we weren't very exciting for parts of last season but at no point did our football in any way resemble what you describe. Not all 'bad football' is the same.
Luke Shaw
Eric Bailly
Andreas Pereira
David de Gea
Fred
Victor Lindelof
Juan Mata
Andre Marriner
replaced by Marouane Fellaini
replaced by Scott McTominay
replaced by Romelu Lukaku
