You take those 2 out of the team and effectively the team cannot build up from the back. I'd say Martinez is the more important of the two as he provides penetrating passes from the back. The drop off from Martinez to a Varane or Maguire in terms...
Its quite clear with EtH's style it requires a certain type of player. Not just comfortable on the ball but more importantly physically capable of playing his style. We simply do not have a lot of those players capable of playing a high energy...
1) confirm whether we as a club believe Ten Hag's desired style/tactic (which is similar to how his 2019 Ajax setup) is potentially a title winning tactic. If we don't think that it is we should get another manager.
2) If we do think his tactics...
Torn on Ten Hag, whilst I have been in the camp of give him another year, its hard to ignore how exposed the defence is. Whilst trying to implement his style made sense to try it during the season, now is the crunch time in terms of champs league...
Half the squad probably has to go anyway whether EtH stays or goes. However, EtH was brought in to implement a modern possession/high pressing style. Martinez, Onana, Malacia, Mount, Antony (despite his lack of ability to take on people) all fit...
I think we needed a larger sample size to see whether it would work, unfortunately we didn't get it.
The ultimate problem with Ten Hag's system (and any system really) is it relies on the players being able to play it. When you look at City some...
He does seem to be a bit more composed than Maguire when it comes to defending and has good postioning. However, there is virtually no difference between the version of Varane that we bought and Chris Smalling, apart from Varane being able to use...
He started because he was fit to start the game. Case and Mount both coming back from injuries so it made sense why he started.
Nothing Mctominay did today is a surprise, we all know he's not a United player however when half the midfield are...