Whatever went through Ten Hag's mind, it was peak stupidity to even think of making that change when everyone and the dog know that McTominay sucks elephant dicks as a deep midfielder. I would have send Hannibal to either support Mainoo or to replace him at best; McTominay should never be in any sane manager's plans to play as a midfielder.
Oh no doubt, anybody who’s watched us this year knows bringing in McTominay would make us more fragile at the back, that’s why I said it was a gamble.
I’d say the odds of having nothing in midfield and Forest cutting through us due to it was far more likely than McTominay popping up with a last minute winner. He’s not a DM, he came in alongside Eriksen who is also not a DM and who is also in his twilight years and looks gassed after an hour of play. This was a massive tactical feck up by Ten Hag, and he’s run out of goodwill to get away with it. These aren’t hail mary tactical decisions he’s making, they’re just basic, routine football stuff that he keeps getting wrong. No wonder we’re tearing our hair out game after game.
He confirmed it was tactical.
Gosh. That’s shocking.
Be fair, he didn't say it was tactical, what he said was, that he thought that Mainoos energy levels weren't good after having played so much in the last days. Thats not a great statement as well but lets not fabricate stuff. The original quote is posted one page before.
But it’s also fair to say that Garnacho stretching the play wider on the right and going on the outside, spread their defence apart, thus creating space for others to run into. Today, with Antony cutting in and never going behind, it compressed the play and made us predictable.
That's a tactical change. Eriksen was the player who should have came off.
That is not the point. He already knew the outcome of the change. Either with Mainoo not being in the game but playing or MCT playing it was going to be the same shit anyway.
It doesn’t take much hindsight to know that replacing Mainoo with McTominay was going to give the defence less protection and make us more likely to concede, and therefore lose. It happens pretty much every time he selects McTominay to play there. If you insist on putting McTominay in because our attack is so pathetic he’s our best chance of a goal (a damning indictment in itself), then at least put him in a position that is primarily attacking, with fewer defensive responsibilities. If half our fan base can see this, why can’t Ten Hag!?
Get rid, He thinks he is a lot cleverer than he really is.
No one is saying he shouldn’t have made a change…
Somebody give him a tactical slap and if he questions it then say don’t regret it.
I don't care if he regrets his decisions, but at least learn from them... just once.
He might have no regrets. We have plenty of regrets that he got the job though.
ETH didn’t actually say it was for tactical reasons, he said it was because Mainoo had low energy levels.
You overlook that Bruno was the only one who got anything done among our attackers. Antony, literally nothing. Garnacho, goal aside, didn't accomplish anything whatsoever either. Rashford, almost as little, beautiful goal aside. Bruno at least had about ten good, creative passes that actually meant something. Which is roughly ten more than anyone else. He's the last one who should have been taken off.
He’s an absolute clown.
And the worst part is…people still support his bullshit.
Not what he said.
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Overrun because he’s a young lad with Eriksen and Bruno for company
Ah that’s nice. He lets the lads relax,
He's 18! The kid's welfare is the most important thing.
And how about putting our "leading goalscorer" in DM position (that he hasn't played for us in like 15 games)?
Yeah exactly. He gave away a bad goal the other day late in the game. If we overplay him then we destroy an amazing long term asset. He's not a Rooney type that's built like a brick outhouse at 16. He has a bit of growing to do still.
We can give him some time when casemiro is back not before.
