I am sorry too because I couldn't reply yesterday as
I only have 5 posts/day in the mains, I would be glad if you could give me the formula to get more likes and be a permanent poster on here!
Yes we forced Hull, or whichever average team we faced, to sit deep because we are bigger than them and have by far better players, so they have no choice than to come against us, sit deep and try their luck on counter; don't forget that those kind of teams are satisfied with one point against a geant of our size! So I think we did force them to sit deep but they have no other alternative.
Celta Vigo are a mid table la Liga team, even if they eliminated Madrid in the Cup I don't think Real Madrid displayed the kind of performance we showed against them at OT. Madrid came and played their game but it is a cup game everything can happened. I don't think we should win every game by 4 or 5 goals but we should be playing better against some 3rd zone teams like Rostov, Celta. Feyenoord, Swansea or Bournemouth!
I stand by my opinion that we weren't marginally better over two legs! Firstly we displayed a good performance against them in the 1st leg but they were the better team in the 2nd leg, and no their good form didn't last 45 min as they completely took control of the game after we scored in the 1st half, even my 12 year old nephew said that we were lucky to have conceded only 1 goal!
In the same way you are bringing the miss of our players in the 1st leg, I want you to watch again the 2nd leg and tell me how many chances they miss too!
For the City game you are right that Pep changing the system was strange but City started to play on counter in the 1st half after going 2 goals up, not only at the start of the 2nd half!
Beside it was Jose's fault to leave Herrera out and play Fellaini against a pressing and mobile team. Everyone knew it was a mistake leaving Pogba alone with Fellaini.
LVG was teaching his players how to accurately have a better shot, for example he told Herrera to have a touch and control the ball before shoting it and you know what, Herrera had a better shoting accuracy under him than this season as most of his shots tend to go in the stands!
LVG system was designed to create optimal situation to put his attackers in a better conditions to have a free shot or put our forwards in a better conditions of 1 vs 1 situation against an opponent, our conversion ratio was better under him even if we created less and our wingers were beating players for fun!
Add to that if players are managed well and are calm and happy mentally then they will start to make good decisions in specifics situations! Players like Martial and Mkitharyan plays on confidence, if it is short then they'll make wrong decisions which can explain the misses.
But all of this is just my opinion at the end! Let agree to disagree then!