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It would maybe not look like a back five, but more like this in reality:
The luck as in it happened to work out for the Spurs because they were awful and since then it's seen as a magical solution regardless of personnel or other considerations
5 at the back doesn't really matter. The main thing is how you utilize it.
And it didn't take long for Ole to revert back to his favoured 4231 when we were a goal behind against Atalanta.
Exactly. If the formation is the future then surely a CB would have replaced Varane and we would have kept on going. You don't see other teams abandoning their main formation when they go a goal down.
He had been shite. But he's not alone.
Yes but he is the captain and represents Ole on the pitch. Instead of being benched because he no longer should automatically starts, some solutions are found to help mask his deficiencies
James doesn't have the skills to become a real superstar. He has been ridiculed so much that it's better for him to leave for his own wellbeing.
He doesn't need to be a ''superstar''. I just think he'd be better suited to that role because of his skillset.
I get that but I think the 3-5-2 (5-4-1, let's be honest) is also masking McFred's deficiencies and giving us another body up top with Ronaldo to do some running.
How would the formation possibly hide their deficiencies ? I mean it's not like a 3rd midfielder has been added next to them. Besides Ole has never had problems benching one of them whenever he felt like it but Maguire has to play all the time. No matter how fit or his form, he has to play for him
In the same way people say 3 CBs would let us play Pogba in a midfield 2. When they invariably get ran past or played through, theoretically there'd be enough cover behind them so that not every mistake is punished severely
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This is such a funny post. I hope it does not happen. Sancho has so much potential, would hate to see him become like Van De Bench
VdBench it's pretty much game over for him as Jones achieved more in United's midfield... As things going at the moment, i'd be almost positively surprised if Sancho can contribute more than Memphis or Di Maria.
France also seem to have moved to this to, presumably because Deschamps is copying Mancini after Italy's Euro win. Coman started against Kazakhstan and they looked incredible, and while that's a smaller team, it suits them on the left side where Theo is a great athlete going forward, and Kounde being a small CB who can play the role you have AWB in, though I worry it's a bad fit for him.
To be a good wing back/attacking full back you need to be very good technically, like Trippier, Cancelo or Alexander-Arnold. Well coached opposition sides would press the players around him until James got the ball, knowing that he would be more likely to lose possession under pressure and would be less able to successfully pass it through them anyway. Thats part of the issue with Wan Bissaka and Smalling when he was here. James could play as a wing back for a mid-level counterattacking side, certainly, but look at all the best sides who are playing to control the game and theyre using players who are very strong on the ball in that position.
Coman at least makes more sense because he actually is a wide player that loves isolated one on ones and beats full backs. Sancho has collected his scorers and made his best plays cutting inside and playing between the lines for Dortmund. You would not only shoehorn a player who don't really has the important attributes for an attacking wing back (physique, pace, work rate, crossing) into a position he's not used to, you'd also use him in a different area of the pitch. I mean, Sancho played a very similar formation to the one you suggested for Dortmund regularly during his time there but he was a central player in it, not the RWB. That role was occupied by Hakimi and it would have seemed absolutely ridiculous to play Sancho there because he had such a different skill set.
Ole spent two years chasing him but clearly has no idea how or where to play him. Why do you think he is suddenly going to get a run of games?
Hence why I said ‘hopefully’.
I think they might be open for that if the player also signs a new contract
He would have to sign a new contact if he was going to a new club?????I think they might be open for that if the player also signs a new contract
I assumed it wasn't Solskjaer as much as the club hierarchy.
Apt username.
You've shown yourself up there because a cross doesn't have to be an aerial ball in.
It is not his preferred option, but he is decent at it. Still it is a waste to ask him to stay wide.
