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They were also 24 and came in from different leagues. Alexis hasn't been that good this season even for Arsenal truth be told. We just had it down to him downing tools due to not wanting to be at Arsenal anymore but there might be more to it than that.
IMO this is precisely our Sanchez problem, particularly when Pogba starts as well. Both operating on the left, both drop back deep for the ball, both trying to hold on the ball too long and taking on 3 defenders at the same time. With Sanchez playing deep, there is no-one on the LHS corner, hence no-one to stretch the Palace defence. If and when Young fill up that area, it was already too late with 4 defenders guarding the corner. Beside, Young dare not venture on too often with his defensive duty. Because MU players often pass the ball to the LHS, Lingard and Valencia were never able to stretch their defence neither. So we end up having 5 players squeezing in the middle, plus 6 Palace defenders, while Sanchez/Pogba trying to dribble pass them, and I mean all of them.
Pep never dumped him. Infact he'd already left before Sanchez. Yes he gives the ball away a lot but the key is to have him operating in areas where there is less risk to the defence when he gives it away. He's too deep at the moment and you can't afford to lose the ball cheaply in the midfield like he's doing now. He'll try things and is one of the few gamechangers we have so have him further up the pitch and further away from our goal.
He's less predictable when playing through the middle or on the right. On the left he's always looking to cut inside.
Sanchez lost a lot of possession in Arsenal as well, this is what he is, although most of the time he would race back to press.
I'm hopeful he'll settle down long before next season. It's still very early days in his United career. A lot of his current problems are down to taking too much on. Once he gets a couple of goals under his belt and the pressure eases a bit I'm sure we'll see an improvement. And each game/training session he plays with his new team-mates will be a step in this direction.
This, basically.
Spot on.
Disgracefully bad is an overstatement. I just saw a rerun, whilst the first half performance was awful(the same as per all of our team), he played an huge part in the second goal and played a very little part in third goal. Still can get a lot better but he doesn't hide when things aren't going well.
He gave the ball away 20 times in one half - that is disgraceful. He was so bad I wouldn't bat an eyelid if it was suggested he should be docked a weeks wages.
What?
This tbh. Sanchez clearly hasn’t bedded into the team yet and he is without doubt off-form, but is one of the few players who doesn’t seem to be bouncing around on the pitch like a balloon waiting for things to come to them to do something, but instead seeks to influence and make a difference. He will come good. It’ll take some time I think.
Pogba's form was already shaky before Sanchez, and I don't think it's effected him all that much. Martial I'd agree with as it's completely knocked his rhythm as he was moved over to the right and lost his definite starting spot that he'd earned over the last couple of months. Not sure about Lingard - I think his loss of form was more because he was moved into a deeper role in a midfield three, so I don't know if that happened because of the arrival of Sanchez or if that would have been tried anyway.
Lingard was never gonna keep that incredible scoring run anyway so a bit unfair to think that Sanchez affected.
2 of the games prior to Sanchez's arrival was Everton away and Stoke at home where Pogba was MOTM in both, he was definitely better before Sanchez's arrival
Ffs
Comparing a 29 year old PL veteran to Evra and Vidic. You have to realize the situations are not comparable at all.
