When you manage anything, the first thing you do is analyse your resources in context of what you're looking to achieve. If you're managing car sales, and your team is a trio of 55+ geezers, the optimal management strategy isn't to rely on data-driven insights, regimented KPI adherence and looking to machine learning to optimise your CRM. Maybe you can move towards those things in time, but your strategy has to take into account your resources. So your strategy should leverage what those geezers are good at.
Same is true for us. We cannot play a high press with the players currently getting minutes. Firstly, Ronaldo is the anti-press - I believe he was literally the least pressing forward in European football last season, no matter this. Pogba is useless at the press, Matic is another anti-press. So, if you're going to field these players, you have to take that into account with your strategy.
There absolutely is a way to coach these players into a coherent, controlled formation. It has to involve a lower-block, has to involve a mass 'retreat' of the midfield and has to involve a more measured, dominant style with the ball. LVG would do it well imo, depressingly. Hell, even Jose's low block would help our current issues out. Compress the space between the lines, reduce the give-aways when players are up field and so forth. Go back to f*cking basics: if you don't concede, you're not going to lose.
What is infuriating is imaginging a slightly different series of decisions. A front 3 of Rashford, Sancho and Greenwood in front of Fernandes, playing a head of McFred is a pressing machine. Energy galore, decent pace and then you can bring on Lingard, Cavani etc and keep the press-party going. It's actually a good strategy, with the players you have.
Instead, Ole is either too dumb or too weak to see that he's using the wrong players for the right strategy.