Solskjær press conference vs Le Arse (H)

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Look, there are things that go well above your little head. Xg and Patterns of Play and, it's complicated. Concepts like the importance of a pre season for both general fitness as well as match sharpness are things you don't get in OPTA Sports and other stats programs, so they don't exist, for that you need to do the unthinkable and actually watch football for a period of time. Get with the programme of the modern hipster football journalist that actually understands the game less then my grandma.
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I only have one thing on my mind, can we trigger a response with this team when we go a goal behind and attack the opponents because that is only thing on my mind these days. When we start well and have control over the game and score first, we generally end up winning by good margins but when we go down early, I don't know if we can cope with it and react quickly to go to the other end and attack attack attack... We are still very very tediously slow in possession and that can go against us as well. I hope we can take advantage of the way Arsenal play ( open and expansive ) and break them. Hoping for a huge victory and lots of positivity on Sunday. Let's go! No Mata and James please.
We did just that against newcastle.
 

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He’s cute though. We’re a couple of places above the relegation zone, we’re basically one loss away from being out of the title race after 6-7 games, I’d hold the aspirational talk about winning trophies for a couple of weeks.
What the feck are you talking about? Win our game in hand and we're 3 points off the top.
 

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Its only strange if you don't think he's a cnut but then that's on you.
He may or may not be a cnut. But then if someone goes on an Ole press conference thread for a game against Arsenal and keep saying "Look at Mou", then it is because they can't get their heads out of Jose's a**, even after he stopped stinking up this place ages ago.
 

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Nah was a bs rule designed to support the big clubs who have huge squads and dont want to dissappoint their players
Everyone has a maximum number in their squad. The better teams have better squads, water is wet eh? 3 is normally enough, I think. This season it should absolutely be 5. Could be 3 years without a proper break for the top players, especially in England. Injuries galore is coming.
 

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The big clubs also play a lot more games because of European tournaments. Let's see how the 'small' clubs fare after Christmas when fatigue and the fixture congestion starts taking its toll..
After Christmas the small club's will only have their league games to worry about as they will be knocked out of the other comps so it will not be a concern for them.
 

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After Christmas the small club's will only have their league games to worry about as they will be knocked out of the other comps so it will not be a concern for them.
The schedule up to that point might leave them with injured squads barely scraping the barrel. But they might also get lucky and survive.
 

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The schedule up to that point might leave them with injured squads barely scraping the barrel. But they might also get lucky and survive.
Club's have been playing FA and League Cups alongside their respective league games for decades and years back they were doing it with one substitution.
I am not against it but this has nothing to do with the smaller club's it is all about the big boys chasing the money.
 

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Club's have been playing FA and League Cups alongside their respective league games for decades and years back they were doing it with one substitution.
I am not against it but this has nothing to do with the smaller club's it is all about the big boys chasing the money.
This season is very different though in terms of getting a break though right? There was a month between our game against Sevilla and the opening game of the prem. That's a pretty unprecedented rest period considering they usually have over three months between seasons.
 

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Club's have been playing FA and League Cups alongside their respective league games for decades and years back they were doing it with one substitution.
I am not against it but this has nothing to do with the smaller club's it is all about the big boys chasing the money.
What money? How are the big clubs making money by having 5 subs?

And you must be really lazy to check or just can't comprehend the difference in the schedule this season compared to past years...
 

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This season is very different though in terms of getting a break though right? There was a month between our game against Sevilla and the opening game of the prem. That's a pretty unprecedented rest period considering they usually have over three months between seasons.
But that is us and that was a Euro semi. I am not talking about us I am talking about the many clubs whose only glimpse of Europe is their summer holidays.
 

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What money? How are the big clubs making money by having 5 subs?

And you must be really lazy to check or just can't comprehend the difference in the schedule this season compared to past years...
Because they have bigger and better squads, have more rotation to not be weakened at home and in Europe thus progressing further in mentioned competitions which brings more prize money, TV rights and sponsorship.
Can you comprehend????
 

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Because they have bigger and better squads, have more rotation to not be weakened at home and in Europe thus progressing further in mentioned competitions which brings more prize money, TV rights and sponsorship.
Can you comprehend????
So, the 3 subs would somehow make the smaller clubs get European competition places? Are you mad?
 

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So, the 3 subs would somehow make the smaller clubs get European competition places? Are you mad?
No!
But it might keep them in the Premier League.
Try and broaden your horizons and actually watch a game that does not involve the top ten teams in England Or the best teams in Europe and you might realise that most teams do not have the luxury of having internationals on the bench and are weakened considerably when playing teams that do.
 

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Club's have been playing FA and League Cups alongside their respective league games for decades and years back they were doing it with one substitution.
I am not against it but this has nothing to do with the smaller club's it is all about the big boys chasing the money.
These are totally unprecedented times. Honestly, it’s nothing to do with big boys and money. Watch how knackered the players will be by the time the next season starts after a gruelling full season with the Euros straight after.
 

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With the subs rule I would imagine it’s the clubs who are usually not in Europe who voted against the 5 sub rules. Would have been really good for the players of the better clubs this season as they would get some rest between so many games for club and country.
But the other clubs - let’s take Newcastle or Palace - who aren’t in Europe and don’t have many players playing for the national teams will have a marginally better chance to win games against big clubs with only 3 subs after a midweek CL or EL game. Small margins, but can’t really blame the clubs who couldn’t care less about players’ health or injuries at bigger clubs.
 

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No!
But it might keep them in the Premier League.
Try and broaden your horizons and actually watch a game that does not involve the top ten teams in England Or the best teams in Europe and you might realise that most teams do not have the luxury of having internationals on the bench and are weakened considerably when playing teams that do.
Exactly this. Yes, as a United fan I would love 5 subs. But lots of teams do not have that syremghr in depth and have a considerable drop off in quality after the first 11. In fact, many of them only have a few top class players. Then City have a squad of their insane depth and play 5 amazing subs too. If you can't see the issue with that, you're willfully naive.
 

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Exactly this. Yes, as a United fan I would love 5 subs. But lots of teams do not have that syremghr in depth and have a considerable drop off in quality after the first 11. In fact, many of them only have a few top class players. Then City have a squad of their insane depth and play 5 amazing subs too. If you can't see the issue with that, you're willfully naive.
Glad someone gets my drift as some are just clueless.
 

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Exactly this. Yes, as a United fan I would love 5 subs. But lots of teams do not have that syremghr in depth and have a considerable drop off in quality after the first 11. In fact, many of them only have a few top class players. Then City have a squad of their insane depth and play 5 amazing subs too. If you can't see the issue with that, you're willfully naive.
Glad someone gets my drift as some are just clueless.
It's not about what's best for the clubs. It's what's best for the players.

They are the ones going out there picking up a significantly higher amount of injuries. They are the ones out there putting their bodies on the line. They are the ones who are going to have to play three seasons in a row without having a proper break because of international competitions in every window.

Also, how's it going to 'keep them in the premier league'? How is the team coming 17th going to handle it better than the team who comes 18th? Every other league is doing it even though the gap in depth between the top and bottom teams is probably even bigger than it is in England, and the fact that many of them started earlier so their games aren't as condensed together, and the fact that most of them play less games in total over the course of their season. They realise it's for the good of the players in these unique times.
 

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Exactly this. Yes, as a United fan I would love 5 subs. But lots of teams do not have that syremghr in depth and have a considerable drop off in quality after the first 11. In fact, many of them only have a few top class players. Then City have a squad of their insane depth and play 5 amazing subs too. If you can't see the issue with that, you're willfully naive.
On the flip side, these weaker teams will also be screwed if they don't have the option of taking off their players to rest and their thin squad gets hit with muscular injuries
 

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No!
But it might keep them in the Premier League.
Try and broaden your horizons and actually watch a game that does not involve the top ten teams in England Or the best teams in Europe and you might realise that most teams do not have the luxury of having internationals on the bench and are weakened considerably when playing teams that do.
I do watch quite a lot of games from the PL, involving all teams. And btw, all other leagues on Europe kept the 5 subs.

Also, the teams that survive usually do so because they beat their peers. Not sure how having 3 subs and not 5 will help them achieve that.
 

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The big clubs also play a lot more games because of European tournaments. Let's see how the 'small' clubs fare after Christmas when fatigue and the fixture congestion starts taking its toll..
So you mean the rule that has been in place for decades currently isnt effective. Bless him wanting 5 subs every game. Next you will be telling me we should bring the water breaks back at 20 min interval so the players can have a refreshment and an orange.
 

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He may or may not be a cnut. But then if someone goes on an Ole press conference thread for a game against Arsenal and keep saying "Look at Mou", then it is because they can't get their heads out of Jose's a**, even after he stopped stinking up this place ages ago.
Fair enough. Personally I’d be quite happy to read abit of Mourinho bashing in every thread I head into :)
 

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Solskjaer on diamond formation used vs Leipzig/demands of full-backs in that system
Well, it’s different demands in different systems, we’re still the same, call it the same principles of a Man United full-back - you need to be good at defending and good going forward, we need assists and goals from them [Wan-Bissaka and Shaw], both of them have played and developed and we don’t really have wide wingers like Giggsy and David Beckham, and are more dependent on full-backs coming on and giving us width.”
"We need assists and goals from them"(AWB and Shaw)

I'm really happy to hear that from Ole because fullbacks need to contribute in the transition.
 

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So you mean the rule that has been in place for decades currently isnt effective. Bless him wanting 5 subs every game. Next you will be telling me we should bring the water breaks back at 20 min interval so the players can have a refreshment and an orange.
Has the game had this schedule for decades too? I seem to remember differently. Also, if rules that were in place for decades were never supposed to be improved, you'd still be fearing Primae Noctis..