You're kneejerking hard.
The defence is better because we have two cdms every game protecting it.
I am with you. What I saw in the first 20 mins tonight gave me further belief.
That was my point with the unambitious part.
You can't say this squad only needs two players to be great and then question somebody else's sanity. You're dreaming.
Spot on to be fair.We're second in the league ? We can't be that bad ? Again today sucked, sh*t on LVG all you want but we've got a squad lacking a finishing touches, it would be foolish to sell them we should only look to bring in talent.
Leicester are top of the league. I wouldn't hold it up as a sign of how good we are. I'm not suggesting we sell every player but clearly there are players who could go and not be missed at all.
Opposition managers have a lot more respect for this United side than you do, that's for certain.
They look terrified when they play us. I'm sure our Europa League opponents will be shaking in their boots. I just hope we don't draw Anderlecht.
We're not in the Europa League. On Saturday, we may very well be top of the league. Not terrifying, but impressive all the same.
i don't think they do TBH. i think they know we'll get frustrated maybe change the team (see LVG's subs) and still struggle. they know they can shut shop and get a point.
Or come the start of next week we could be fourth. There's nothing impressive with being second in November, knocked out of one cup already to lower league opposition for the second year in a row, on the brink of being knocked out of another and offering as much threat up front as a puppy with no teeth.
They do. Opposition sides respect the quality of our goalkeeper and our defensive organisation. They know we win the ball back aggressively. They're aware of the fact we keep the ball better than more or less all of them, and they plan to beat us around that, usually on the counter attack. It's a good tactic, and we do struggle to break sides down.
respect maybe , no team fears united under LVG. he's not a great manager now. he's meh , moyes but with more power to get good players. moyes was shit as a manager and no one really wanted to come and play for him
Every dog has his day - Even a blind pig finds a truffle now and then - Even teams in the relegation zone register the occasional good performance.
Ifs and buts. You have zero interest whatsoever in looking at anything United with a positive outlook. Being second is November is clearly impressive given where we were this time last season. That's irrefutable.
If they weren't useless in attack they'd have had a field day today. No way we can play like that against Leicester.
Are you really subscribing to his idea that this squad needs yet another clean out ?
Ay, Van Gaal is David Moyes.
then why does louis defend with 7 men? or does he fear all comers? it's bad football when no team wants to score.
We defend as an eleven, that's pretty obvious. We don't attack as one. The hope is that this can change. We clearly go out there to dominate games and score goals.
then LVG has failed. boringly so.
Considering the quality of the PL we could win it I think. But yeah, more down to the lack of quality in the league than Van Gaal's quality as a manager.
Keep telling myself what? Or are you suggesting that we don't try to dominate the ball? Or that we don't want to score goals? Because we obviously do, even if it doesn't always work as we would like it.
How can he have failed when our league position puts us in with a fighting chance of a title crack? It's November for feck sake.
It is not changing, you can see that by how our players position themselves when we are in possession. No one try to create angles for the passers and the passers have absolutely no intention to play a pass when opponents are between them and their teammates.
Doesn't that apply to every team, ever?
Of course not. Some sides, like Leicester incidentally, play a completely different way. They have no real interest in dominating the ball and controlling the match like we do. Nor should they, as what they do right now is working for them.
I remember seeing Smalling make a few decent quick passes and also inject some pace into coming out of defence with the ball and thinking to myself, if our Centre Back is our best passer and quickest player on the ball, we've got problems
I'd like more risk, I don't disagree. That said, with a couple of better players in attacking areas I think the game plan would work that bit better in an attacking sense.
Didn't van gaal say that his philosophy is to retain the ball then be ready to capatilze on any errors? Think he said that start of the season.
