Was so happy to see him chuck Cavani on for Fred. All 3 of his substitutes, and Ronaldo, then created the winning goal. Ole, Mourinho or LvG would have undoubtedly just not made changes or at the most, like for like ones. We’d probably have ended up being sucker punched, ultimately losing the game.
Ralf’s in game management was poor against Villa, but boy did he learn quick, which I suppose should have been a given considering his status as a footballing professor back home. Shored up the Brentford game, and then won the West Ham game by adopting Fergie’s old ‘chuck all the attackers on’ tactic. Peter Schmeichel calls it risk mode in his book, where we just throw the kitchen sink at teams with an invincible aura. This is the closest definition to the United way, if there is something like that. I love that all this came about from him admitting his mistake in his press conference as well. Ole would have admitted it and simply done the same thing, while Mourinho would have blamed Shaw or Pogba or something like that. No ego despite his status.
He’s doing a good, 7/10 job so far. No matter how this season ends though, I know we’re in good hands with him as a consultant for the next two seasons.