I've been part of Ole is just not the right man for the long term crowd for a bit but, find myself reconsidering at least the "out" part till end of season but, the club has absolutely got to back him for another CF and midfielder in January. The few games before McTomminay got injured showed when we have the current players available, we can even be pretty good against the not big sides.
Today's game was yet another example of how Ole wants to be able to play and frankly, with the players we do have, when we are given the chance to play like that, we can be absolutely scintillating. Against the better teams or even teams that do want to attack with numbers, it works wonders. Also, there is no doubt that as a team he has us well drilled / organized defensively, and it's been some poor individual mistakes have cost us quite a few goals.
The problem I find with what Ole keeps talking about building seems so our attack is tied to the quick direct with intent as he put it (said counter-attack has a negative connotation today) approach. That cannot be the only thing he is building us for. There are too many teams we will come across that where we just won't be given that space where we have the likes of our front 4 having space to attack one on one or get in behind. What I have failed to see from him so far is getting the team to move the ball quickly in the final 3rd when the other team is setup with men behind the ball. We don't need to be able to City/Barcelona-esque but, we can't only then rely on a moment of brilliance in those games but, we have got to have a better approach to breaking down a low block.
The other thing is in games like today, it again is one of those cases where when things are going well from the off he looks really good but, his decision making and or lack of decisiveness to adjust when things are not going right is a glaring issue. Sheffield he waited too long and Aston Villa he should have done a lot better to get a hold of midfield because having forced to use Perreira in there by making the likes of James/Rashford come help rather than leave them out there twiddling their thumbs and hoping we can break.
Let's see with maybe Pogba back and us against some of the sides where we will have to break teams down, see how we do with a mostly fit side and a lot of the players playing really well, he may prove me completely wrong.