I bet if you were to check the heat maps of our games this season, you'd find that most players were either on the left side of the field, or just left of the central area. My theory is that teams know that with Shaw, Pogba and Martial all left that our play just constantly recycles out there all match and all they have to do is defensively load that area and it's a shut out.
It's become quite obvious that we have no interest in right side overload or overlap. The best it gets is a switched ball and a cross. Shaw gets way more passing and interplay options on his side than Young, for example, gets on his side.
This is a key point for me. Dalot, Rom drifting out there occasionally and the even more occasional good ball from Young aside there is nothing going on on our right flank, making us much easier to defend against. No combinations, no movement, and in any case we're too slow at switching it to catch any opposition teams out. We're struggling all over the park to play any kind of fluid, dangerous football but allowing the right hand side to get into this state is like having a fight with one hand behind your back.
It would be hugely instructive, not to mention painful, to be a fly on the wall in opposition meetings before and after our games with them. I wonder what dangers they're pointing to, and what weaknesses they're highlighting? Is the defensive part of the team talk almost as simple as 'strangely enough they don't move quickly anymore and they lack composure on the ball, so close down their passing angles, press them into mistakes, overload our right flank in defensive phases and we've got every chance of keeping a clean sheet', because that's what it looks like it could be at the moment given how slow, static and predictable the football is.