LVG's game is insipid and boring to hell, even he admitted it once. But if you look at his coaching career, that is an rare incident, not the rule. He said it would take three years to build a team. I would like to believe last year's team was in transition.
No doubt LVG made terrible mistakes. Most of the Six players he signed last season did not fulfill his expectation, especially Depay was a huge and decisive disappointment considering the fact that his tactics relied heavily on two wingers. Plus, Schneiderlin did not show his ability he showed in Southampton to cover the back four. Lastly, Wayne Rooney's performance in central strike was pretty underwhelming.
In spite of all mentioned above, there were positive signs. As a transitional team, I saw a clear tactics. My understanding is LVG wanted his players to move the ball as quickly as possible to both dislodge the opponent's defending and stultify attacking. the result of that tactics was, generally speaking, the best defensive performance although not without occasional meltdown such as against West Ham and Liverpool. In terms of attacking, we were struggling to create many chances. Having said that, once chances emerged, it was good chance. For LVG, moving the ball efficiently is both defending and attacking. The ideal situation is to dispirit the opposite attacking and pass the ball to our strike, Mathial, Mata, Lingard, Depay when they have got only one or two defenders to beat. Depay's underperformance was fatal, so was Rooney.
Nonetheless, in my opinion, through one-season's experiment, we have known where our problem was and we kind of know how to deal with it. We need a central strike who can press opponents' central backs, a winger who can beat defenders like Mathial, a holding midfielder who could act like a metronome, covering back four and passing the ball to frontfield. Looking back on it, given the endless wave of injuries we encountered last season, the achievement was not unacceptable. especially when you look at where we are at the moment which was not unpredictable.
Mour simply was not good at building a team. Young players hardly thrive under his reign. We do not know how to play without a 36-year-old strike who deserves all the credits but who is not going to stay here for even two years. By the way, Zlatan's not very efficient in front of goal. Our defending is okay. But our manager's understanding of defending is different from LVG who does not distinguish between defending and attacking that much. Mour's performance in defending is made at the cost of attacking. I have to say, our attackers are top-notch, individually. But there was not chemical among them.
Not like LVG, attacking was never our manager's forte. I do not see any big change next season.
Ed Woodward has to be blamed. Manchester United is being transformed into a money machine. Even if you think LVG was inexcusable. You can not sack him and hire someone who has completely different philosophy of football. Time is wasted, and Manchester United do not have much time now. I am pretty demoralized these days. Obviously we can not afford to let him go now, we have to trust him, see what happens.
No doubt LVG made terrible mistakes. Most of the Six players he signed last season did not fulfill his expectation, especially Depay was a huge and decisive disappointment considering the fact that his tactics relied heavily on two wingers. Plus, Schneiderlin did not show his ability he showed in Southampton to cover the back four. Lastly, Wayne Rooney's performance in central strike was pretty underwhelming.
In spite of all mentioned above, there were positive signs. As a transitional team, I saw a clear tactics. My understanding is LVG wanted his players to move the ball as quickly as possible to both dislodge the opponent's defending and stultify attacking. the result of that tactics was, generally speaking, the best defensive performance although not without occasional meltdown such as against West Ham and Liverpool. In terms of attacking, we were struggling to create many chances. Having said that, once chances emerged, it was good chance. For LVG, moving the ball efficiently is both defending and attacking. The ideal situation is to dispirit the opposite attacking and pass the ball to our strike, Mathial, Mata, Lingard, Depay when they have got only one or two defenders to beat. Depay's underperformance was fatal, so was Rooney.
Nonetheless, in my opinion, through one-season's experiment, we have known where our problem was and we kind of know how to deal with it. We need a central strike who can press opponents' central backs, a winger who can beat defenders like Mathial, a holding midfielder who could act like a metronome, covering back four and passing the ball to frontfield. Looking back on it, given the endless wave of injuries we encountered last season, the achievement was not unacceptable. especially when you look at where we are at the moment which was not unpredictable.
Mour simply was not good at building a team. Young players hardly thrive under his reign. We do not know how to play without a 36-year-old strike who deserves all the credits but who is not going to stay here for even two years. By the way, Zlatan's not very efficient in front of goal. Our defending is okay. But our manager's understanding of defending is different from LVG who does not distinguish between defending and attacking that much. Mour's performance in defending is made at the cost of attacking. I have to say, our attackers are top-notch, individually. But there was not chemical among them.
Not like LVG, attacking was never our manager's forte. I do not see any big change next season.
Ed Woodward has to be blamed. Manchester United is being transformed into a money machine. Even if you think LVG was inexcusable. You can not sack him and hire someone who has completely different philosophy of football. Time is wasted, and Manchester United do not have much time now. I am pretty demoralized these days. Obviously we can not afford to let him go now, we have to trust him, see what happens.
