The whole point of the opening post was that the Caf in its infinite wisdom has latched on to the simplest of things time and time again and declared it the crux of the problem or the miraculous cure to the issue.
Then, one by one Van Gaal has tried these changes 3-5-2 change to Diamond, Di Maria back into Midfield, Rooney back up front, Herrera back in the side ect ect and funnily enough it's made either no difference or had a negative impact and the people who were calling Van Gaal stupid for not changing it before hand, completely ignore the fact they were wrong and move on to the next brilliant idea which at some point Van Gaal might coincidentally try and will probably again make no difference.
My tongue was firmly in my cheek when writing that post, especially the last bit yet that satire proved absolutely correct as a few hours after I posted this thread up pops another thread asking why we are not playing with wingers. So there you have it. LVG is stupid for not playing with wingers according to the Caf and that's the krux of the problem now.
Roll back to November when we were playing with Di Maria and Januzaj on the wings and the Caf was moaning about playing with wingers.
People here tend to moan a lot..
Diamond was a preferred formation here, now people want another formation. ( I want 4-2-3-1 for example
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And in the post above you pointed at a lot of things which were cause of our problems.
But did LVG help himself esp now we dont have so many injuries? Not exactly.
Playing Rooney in the midfield, playing with Falcao and RVP up front despite the fact they're out of form, constantly shifting ADM around, messing with CB pair even when we have 3 or 4 CBs fit being the prime example.
I know maybe this sounds exactly like you wrote in the thread, that people think the simplest of things are the problem but a lot of simple, small things caused a big problem for us this season.
Its not as easy as changing the formation and not playing Rooney in midfield for instance but in the same time its not as simple as you wrote above. Yes we have new players, new manager, we had a lot of injuries but nevertheless LVG didnt and isnt helping himself with some of his decisions. Not only that, our gameplay has been regressing in the same time while our players have been coming back from injuries.
Its not all his fault but he has a fair share of blame.