Leftback99
Might have a bedwetting fetish.
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We have top quality forwards but when you are playing against sides with better midfields week in week out it's going to be a struggle and renders them pointless.
They have better manager/coaching setup, not better midfielders.Most average Premier League teams have a better midfield than we do thesedays, it's embarrassing.
That’s more the issue than why Harry is playing I think. We are allowing them to play. Bruno seems the the only guy doing pressing.Why do we constantly give them acres of space to play through the middle? They can play in slow motion and still get the ball through to their attacking players.
Nope. All you ever do is posting negative stuff about our manager and most our players apart from a couple who don’t even play well. Oh and your repeated victim lineI could ask you the same question
Feels like it happens when anyone plays.This happens EVERY SINGLE TIME Matic plays.
But not in midfield where it counts the most.exactly. instead we have endless debates about mcfred etc etc.... man for man we have a better lineup out there and yet were being schooled.
No we wouldn't, it is what was expected. 3 weeks is plenty to lose sharpness. Its not like this thread wasn't full of people predicting this.If we started Bailly and Maguire was on the bench then everyone would be whinging. He's missed 3 weeks - hardly going to lack sharpness. Bizarre pinning that goal on Ole.
He may not have done so directly, but there were two occasions where it was revealed he was unhappy. I think there were some quotes just before he signed his new deal on the eve of some European game last spring. I forget when. He was moaning about not getting a run of games. So strange he got a new deal when he's not good enough, not fit enough, and Ole clearly does not trust him.When did Bailly talk to the press? I don't remember that at all.
Absolutely this. Two sides who have good qualities but are nowhere near the level they each should be. Hard to see what we can do to up our game in the 2nd half.... maybe Donny time..Typical of our season so far. One moment of absolute brilliance, one brain dead mistake at the back, patchy build up play and the midfield is wide open. We can win for sure, Leicester look nervous when we get close to their box, but we need to go up a gear or two.
Give it a rest. We have a better midfield than many teams in the league, and Young boys for that matter, and we still get outplayed.We have top quality forwards but when you are playing against sides with better midfields week in week out it's going to be a struggle and renders them pointless.
Very Clear. Ole has spent damn near 400 Mill since becoming manager. We still play the exact same as when he took over and we were starting Perreira, Lingard, Mata and the likes. People on here assume spending 80 mill on another CM is the reason why we look outclassed by Aston Villa, Everton and now Leicester. This season we don't have the luxury of a Liverpool injury crisis and Lampard at Chelsea for half the season. We're gonna see this season that finishing above them last season was a fluke and not progress.It's very clearly the fault of the management.
No matter the lineup we can't.
1. Play well
2. Control the game
3. Keep a clean sheet.
That's on the management
Basically been the story of United since SAF retired.For the players we have, we are not very good. Sad really. No identity whatsoever. Just a collection of very talented footballers making it up as they play.
From the Leicester point of view.He has been absolutely perfect. Fantastic honestly.
They have been terrible in possession, what are you talking about?Not a great watch so far.
Midfield is our best combo when in possession, but arguably the worst combo when not.
Oh yeah, the way they've continually waltzed past him in midfield has been phenomenal. Are you even watching? Genuinely. There's a reason why they keep picking the ball up behind him.Is that all you can offer? His range of passing, positioning and overall play in this game is better than anything McTominay has mustered this season
Sancho has had one or two moments, one drive in particular looked particularly good to me. He's being fed off scraps though, we cannot get this midfield going at all so we're trying to launch it over everyone like we're Big Sam's Bolton.Maguire looks awful and not fit. Rushed back for sure.
Pogba looks like his usual self. Total liability yet people will continue to delude themselves.
Ronaldo barely getting ball. Sancho doing nothing.
It's a real mess.
Or get a new manager in who plays to the strength of the players he has?There’s just no balance, Pogba has little defensive qualities, and Fred, Matic and Mctominay just about equate to 1 player. If we’re sticking relentlessly with 4231 this season, I’d argue we need 2 new CDMs. One who can go box to box, and one who can sweep up.
Your ratings are far too high.HT - LEI 1-1 MUNSamuel Luckhurst
Half-time ratings
Here are your half-time ratings...
De Gea
Could do nothing about the goal. 6
Wan-Bissaka
Positive performance so far. 7
Lindelof
Steady. 7
Maguire
At fault for the goal. 5
Shaw
Involved in attacks. 6
Matic
Read the game well and passed adventurously. 7
Pogba
Caught out a couple of times. 6
Greenwood
Great goal and United’s biggest threat. 8
Fernandes
Wasteful and impatient. 5
Sancho
Bright at times. 6
Ronaldo
Squandered a good chance for 2-0. 6
Craig Pawson