The midfield has zero creativity / quality.
12 consecutive games scoring a goal or less
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Yeh. It's like thinking that Liverpool score more because they have Van Dijk instead of Salah, Mane, or Firmino.To be fair it was an absurd and laughable suggestion at the time, let alone in hindsight after it made no difference, or perhaps we are even attacking worse.
Having said that the people who suggested it are still maintaining that its a thing
Disgraceful to expect us to score more than a goal a game, seems some of our 'supporters' should be off at City if all they want quality football.. the United way is not about having shots on target vs Europa league fodder..
Mourinho is actually a good manager. There’s a massive difference. We had a plan and won with his plan more times than not. It’s just the fans didn’t like his style but his sides scored more goals than the current one.
You’d bet on a manager like Mourinho to win us the Europa league even with this squad imo. Our defence is class when they are all fit. We don’t concede much at least so Ole has that going for him.
Ole: "I want to play attacking free flowing football"To be fair it was an absurd and laughable suggestion at the time, let alone in hindsight after it made no difference, or perhaps we are even attacking worse.
Having said that the people who suggested it are still maintaining that its a thing
Hires 2 defenders and sells the striker.
im sick of this writing off season’s mentality. What a waste of everyone’s time. Even next season won’t promise to be anything then we’ll hope again for the following.
Don't forget...Bruno doesn't misses too many passes, provides too many assists, scores too many goals
Consistency!
Just looked back and at the end of his second season we went 8 games scoring a goal or less. That run included games against liverpool twice, city, spurs and everton. Lvg lost his job.
It's the United way only Ole gets!
At this rate Chelsea will be demanding that opening game be replayed.
Pretty sure Ole mentioned wanting players to take more risks, yet there were rumours floating around about not wanting Fernandes because he takes too many risks. Probably bullshit but it made me laugh
Ha. Stewards inquiry
I can only go by what he has said. I can't read his mind.
There is a middle ground between everything is awesome and a tantrum.
Yes we did have periods like this under LvG (though not quite as long as half a season). And that's why he got sacked.
Yeah I get that, I just think that neither has really shown they have the killer instinct needed to score twenty plus goals a season.
Martial maybe more so than Rashford.
Lukaku has, which is why I find it bizarre that the gamble was taken to not replace him.
I'm pro-Ole. I think he should stay until at least the end of this season. But that's probably an equally damning statistic as your overall league points total.
Getting the right manager would automatically change things, whatever people say.
We haven't had a manager doing the classic "sum greater than the parts" maximising the team's level since Fergie now.
We need a manager who can bed in a style that is attacking, that over time we get the right players for. ie what Klopp has done.
Even when their squad was toilet near the start they still had goals and a certain style about them.
We have neither. a year in.
It is not only that we score so little, but that we also don't create that many chances.
We are sorely lacking in quality but,above all else, a real enthusiasm in our play. There's no bounce. No enjoyment. No determination.
Our play is flat and our players look like they rather been somewhere else, illustrated by the majority of our players last night just ambling along.
I do believe alot of our players are mollycoddled too. Some of them dont realise who they're playing for. They seem to lack self motivation and determination to go out and show themselves to be capable of playing at this level. Some of them need a rocket up their butts to get them going and I dont think Ole,Mike,Carrick and McKenna are capable of doing it.
We're just slowly cruising with no direction and people seem quite content with that.
Our play is flat and our players look like they rather been somewhere else, illustrated by the majority of our players last night just ambling along.
I do believe alot of our players are mollycoddled too. Some of them dont realise who they're playing for. They seem to lack self motivation and determination to go out and show themselves to be capable of playing at this level. Some of them need a rocket up their butts to get them going and I dont think Ole,Mike,Carrick and McKenna are capable of doing it.
We're just slowly cruising with no direction and people seem quite content with that.
1 shot on target in open play throughout 3 Europa League matches. We have 7 points.
Clinical.
Clinical.
That's amazing
Now that some surgery has been done to the defensive department. Yes, the cohesion between midfield and attack can be addressed.
Maybe Lukaku was let go regardless, because he was toxic in the dressing room? I'm not an expert in gardening but don't you pluck out the weeds before planting good seeds to grow?
Jesus... We. Are. Not. Creating. Chances. It. Does. Not. Matter. If. We. Have. Lewandowski. If. We. Are. Not. Creating. Anything.
There have been plenty of crosses when we had no one in the box. I'd wager Lukaku would have been in there causing problems and would have gotten on the end of some of them.
Although there was no way to keep him, given his behaviour I think he would have been a disruptive influence, he should have been replaced.
It is the right decision going with Rashford, Martial and giving Greenwood the opportunity. Although they will probably have some problems this season (expected) it will give us more in the long run, right there I'm with Ole. The bigger problem is 1) his tactics (should get more out of the team) and 2) the midfield which needed to be strengthened but was not. We have zero creativity and only Palace and Newcastle have created fewer chances. But maybe people here think we have worse players than Southampton, Sheffield United and Aston Villa, then it's probably normal.
It's abysmal football but the United way and all that.
It's not the right decision at all.
I think you are being a little bit kind there, I wouldn't say mollycoddled, I'd say a bunch of spineless, gutless posers, more concerned with Schilling their latest line of branded shite and what colour to have next year's Bentley than winning football matches. We have gone from warriors like Bruce, Keane, Robson, Cantona and schmeichel to pussies like Shaw, lingard, Mata and rashford, we have no backbone or determination.
I didn't watch the Leicester game and I know there are various circumstances that make it not exactly the same set up but when you see them continuing to score goal after goal especially in the Southampton game which fair enough they were against 10 men but still 9 goals, then you have us clinging to 1-0 leads and often leading to us conceding and ending up drawing. I think further questions need to be asked. That used to be the United way more often than not unless the game dictates a more conservative approach. Not sitting clinging to 1-0...
I will rather be eight with Rashford and Greenwood playing than sixth with some dinosaur Mandzukic playing who has no future with us or in the game. But that's just me. That's why I think it's the right decision, Greenwood will be a fantastic player but he can't be that if he won't be played. I can say the same for Rashford (who I think is better as a left-sided striker than a number 9). In that sense, our plan is good and sensible. I just hope that I would see some development regarding our playing style but that's up to our manager and not so much our players imo.
Some will tell you its because we sold all our attackers in the summer... even though it was an issue before the summer
Attacking, offensive football.
Even if we have Lukaku, doesn’t change the fact that we are lacking quality & creativity in our team which is the reason why we struggle to have a shot. We have seen him enough that Lukaku isn’t a type of player who can create a chance for himself, he needs a provider who can supply him good service. So stop using non sense excuse about us selling him, it won’t change the fact that we are poor in creating chance.
If there is one man in our current squad to make us more open in creating chances is Pogba. Playing him in advanced role will give us a better chance to score more than one goal in a game. Really hope we are signing a midfield in January.
If there is one man in our current squad to make us more open in creating chances is Pogba. Playing him in advanced role will give us a better chance to score more than one goal in a game. Really hope we are signing a midfield in January.
And what else do we have? Who are there to create goal scoring chances? We've got Lingard as a starter with Mata, Pereira, Greenwood, Chong and Gomes as our backup whilst relying on Daniel James who has only played 1 season of championship football.
With the squad that we have we should be playing defensive football and relying on counter-attacks for goal. 1-0 wins is as good as we can hope for.
At the end of the day it's about scoring goals and our attack was never ever going to score enough. It's bad bad planning.
L, L, W, L, L, W, L, L, L, D, D, L, W, D, L, D, W, W, L, D, D, D, L, D, W
The record to go with it. 13 times that we score once, only 3 wins. The 3 times that we did manage to score once we won.
F@ck, I passed a remark about Ole going grey watching this lot, now I'm going grey myself. Probably be white before the season ends.