Watching United is becoming something of a "had my teeth fixed, now my mouth won't work" experience. Accepting the Palace team were now at full strength or near to it, we should be considered not far off with the team put out yesterday. Most of our injuries are to defenders, our problem yesterday was in attack, not defence.
Our approach play was marginally better, but the final ball into the penalty area was terrible, my granny (if she were still with us) could have defended against most of those efforts. Palace never really looked in trouble apart from a couple of times when miscued shots/passes from us nearly caught them out.
At times we had some smart back-to-front movement, quick balls played out from Casemiro/Amrabat, to feet or to run onto, but as soon as anyone, especially Rashford got near the box it was the same old same old...! What does it take to convince Marcus he cannot barge his way through 2 or 3 defenders, especially when they are lined up in such as way as to anticipate such an attempt, why can he not seem to understand his presence is a danger, it draws defenders, look to pass around them give your mates at least a chance of hitting the target?
Rasmus has got the right kind of striker sense, but he needs more help in terms of his runs and the service he needs, surely its Bruno or Mason's job to give him that support, he needs an 8 or a 10 close to him to feed him, or off him, at the moment it looks as if ETH is trying to get Marcus and Rasmus into some sort of partnership, but their natural styles seem to clash.
I suppose given the amount of possession we had there is some marginal improvement, in part at least, but it looks like we are starting again, either that or the 'ground-hog day' hex as taken over.