Exactly, this is basically it in a nutshell.
Unfortunately on here, if you don't think Ole is good enough = You're an Ole hater. We don't hate the guy, we just think he hasn't shown anything special enough to qualify as a Manchester United manager. Wish we can collectively set our standards higher and not reward mediocrity.
He has changed formations multiple times to beat Pep, draw against Klopp, beat Poch and Jose.
Some of his formations include 442 diamond vs Spurs, 352 vs City, 4231 vs City...
When you can beat big teams in big games playing different systems, against managers that are deemed to be better than you tactically, then it has to mean you are tactically competent yourself. It's pure logic.
We have struggled against low block teams. Sure, and we have addressed that in the second half of the season.
The new season has us struggle due to the lack of preseason.
And maybe there are some decisions to take. Ole wants us to hammer any team, including teams trying to press us, but it doesn't seem to work well right now.
In this case, we have 2 options:
- We either go back to a midfield of Scott and Fred both protecting more the defensive line, but then, the attacking patterns are bit less expansive, though we can be incisive, e.g. 1st half against City in the 1st game in the league
- And we use Pogba and Matic with Bruno only when we are certain to dominate the team, as they can keep creating offensive phases
But what we all want to try to do is to make Pogba and Bruno play together even against high press teams, and big games in general. Right now we struggle, so the only question is whether we keep trying or we for now switch back to a "safer" option that will guarantee us points as we've done it before, even though everyone thinks it's "counter attacking football".