At least he has not put Wan Bissaka down the left and Shaw down the right yetI also love it when things don’t work and he tells players to swap sides. I think even the CB’s done it this time. It’s as funny as the Kovacic for Barkley substitution.
.They was always going to sit deep and he played the double pivot. It wasn’t spot on and it wasn’t working.. we didn’t need two CM picking up the ball from our CB’s. Matić would have don’t that job and let the other two push forward. Then we occupy both of their sitting midfielders.. instead they was having an easy ride looking after Bruno.
It’s coming watch this spaceAt least he has not put Wan Bissaka down the left and Shaw down the right yet
I agree with you. Every Tom, Dick and Harry knows how Jose sets his teams up. It is not rocket science to see that. We fell into Jose's trap. Well you can't call it a trap as you would expect him to play like that. We should have not got Scott and Fred and Bruno in this line up. We should have dropped Scott and let Matic sit back, push Bruno further forward and dropped James for Odion. I would have also dropped Lindelof for Bailly. Yes Bailly could be suicidal but at least he has got pace. When we push up and try to play attacking football, Maguire and Lindelof is a liability.
What team sans Pogba would you have put out
LVG might have done something like that. Just like he put Jones on corners.It’s coming watch this space
There was a game AWB played briefly on the left. Think something happened to warrant though not sureAt least he has not put Wan Bissaka down the left and Shaw down the right yet
A draw maybe just like yesterday. Most people do not know and want to see what we do in the future.So what's the post-lockdown flavour then? Ole in or Out?
Were Rashford and Kane sharp in the first half, when they had not played 60 minutes?
4-3-3. Matić deep line and take your pick. Don’t however tell your two CM’s to mirror Mourinho’s negative formation. Made no sense and we literally lost the midfield battle with Spurs not even touching the ball in their. Silly stuff.
It's a little different playing against players who have started a game compared to players who have been playing for 60 minutes, no?
That's news, if there was a battle then Spurs didn't show up I felt.
In the 1st half Bruno was shut down, and Fred and Scott barely played a progressive pass.
We didn’t lose the battle if it was done to who had most of ball. But that wasn’t my point. Spurs did exactly what they set up to do. They didn’t want the ball and until Pogba came on we didn’t know what to do with it. Matić helped too.
You said Pogba looked sharper than the other two because they had played 60 minutes, seemingly as justification for the team selection, but they never looked sharp at any point all night. If they were not ready to look sharp against players who started the game, they should also be coming on for 30 minutes, no?
Correct me if I'm wrong but before the league was paused Pogba was far closer to making a comeback than Rashford was, yet against Spurs Rashford had played the full 90 minutes, whilst Pogba couldn't have started due to "fitness"?
Mate Rashford hasn't played for months either yet he did full 90 minutes...Pogba hasn't played for months and months, so he was either gonna start and not finish / not start and finish the game, so not surprised about that at all.
Agreed on James though, I'd have played Greenwood.
So yeah okay, he could have done one thing different
That's a poor excuse, Rashford was coming off an even bigger injury and prior to the league being halted, Pogba was about to make a return whilst Rashford was still projected to even miss the EURO2020, yet against Spurs Rashford had played full 90 minutes whilst Pogba was brought on for the last half an hour...
That was the first time Pogba had played since 2019. Rashford had last played a full month further along.
Fully agreed.
It's very convenient how you completely ignored the fact that he played Rashford full 90 minutes despite him coming off a more serious injury than Pogba. If anything it was more logical to play Pogba from the start since he was in full training longer than Rashford.
Well who has it to manage Manchester United? Mourinho? Van Gaal ?
What type of system? I struggle to see what we are trying to do... I can see what Bruno or PP tries to do, but the team? No.
Do you remember a few months ago?
He may not be fully fit to play the whole game, he may be rusty after not playing for an eternity and needs a soft start. You have a very simplistic view of things. Pogba good = play from start. In reality it's more complicated than that.
So, when Pogba played Vs Arsenal & Rochdale and was not fully fit, why did most of the caf blame Ole for his injury?
He still had a stress fracture and tried to play through it, he is supposed to not have that fracture anymore since March.
Yes, that is why Rashford played 90 mins.
This makes no sense, you are confusing fitness from an athletic standpoint and fitness from a medical standpoint. Both players will lack sharpness and feel for the game when they missed several months but in terms of fitness, you get in shape in a matter of weeks, Pogba has been training since February, he has been working on his fitness for almost 5 months while Rashford was unable to train and forced to rest for the better part of these 5 months. In terms of fitness they are most likely at the same level and a good one, the question is whether Rashford is fully healed because unlike Pogba, June was the optimistic return date.
