We have had a very favourable run of fixtures and still been unconvincing. We've also scored 1 goal or less in 10 of his 13 games.
Something is badly badly wrong still. He's not an elite coach. He's done nothing really in the club game and been out of it for a very long time.
Seen a better reaction from Villa players under Gerrard ffs. That says it all.
Results and performances are very different. I think you are being deliberately obtuse here, just like you limit an assessment to ‘Pogba has only scored one goal’, for example, although you are aware that is not the metric that determines whether he has played well or not. Anyone can see that we have only scored a goal a game. They can also see that it is not due to the fact that Rangnick cannot set up a team to create more than one opportunity a game, so it bears no relevance to how well his tactics are set up. The amount of chances missed by Ronaldo isn’t a metric that measures tactics.
Top teams are built on a foundation of principles, understanding etc - and results are often the last part. Our results have not been good enough, but they would have been if we’d have taken more of our chances and not made as many individual defensive errors. Which, from a ‘building something from scratch’ perspective, is actually a good thing. When people say things like ‘trust the process’, that means that you should believe that better results will come once the work is complete. We have an ageing pair of centre forwards and the manager has publicly stated we will be looking for a new one. That is encouragement that our current issue of failing to take the many chances may be rectified soon. We are conceding less chances on our goal than we did at the beginning of the season too. I’m confident that if we continue on the path that we are on, so long as it is not derailed by a loss of confidence, which comes with poor results - we will get there. Our issues are personnel. The errors are individual. But as a collective, we are making more chances and we are conceding less chances, which must be a sign of coaching progress. Coaches can’t win the games themselves.
United finished 2nd in 2017 under Mourinho, largely with all results and No performances. As a result, the summer wasn’t filled with optimism, whereas everyone felt Liverpool, who finished 4th, were about to challenge. What they were doing was clear, and their very good coach had done well to get their problems down to personnel. Which he then corrected with Van Dijk and Allison and they improved immediately.