Even in the tactical role Ten Hag has him in, he sucks at. A player in that role obviously needs a great first touch, ability to spring attacks in the half turn, through ball ability, and preferably dribbling. So he check marks 1/5 qualities that role should have. How else is an overload meant to give United a tactical attacking advantage?
It is an idiotic set up by a manager out of his depth. Just frustrates me that some people continue to harp on shit like passes completed as if he is still playing DM and not showing for the ball. The issues you point out are far more key, teams have also already adapted to that right channel run that was having success so the goal threat he was bringing is much more sporadic.
I don't think he was particularly bad yesterday in terms of numbers, 89% pass completion 31/35, 4 aerials won, 3 tackles, 5 clearances, and for me kept Soucek very quiet, but there was no attacking threat, and he along with too many of our other attackers has a painful case of tunnel vision when he gets around the box, add that to his technical issues and you are rarely going to get any creativity for others out of him. If he has to play it should be as a part of standard 3, were he can make late runs into the box but plays in general play much closer to the DM, not this nonsense that Ten Hag has inflicted on us.
Utd have been on a death spiral since the league cup final, and for a large portion of that McT was nowhere near the starting line up. I think as a fanbase we like to push many of the teams issues onto 1 or 2 players, hoping when they are removed we will see huge improvements, it is not a realistic mindset, the issues are far greater than one player.
