Imo this is pretty bang on. But beware his fans will jump on you.
It's not just offensively but defensively as well. Him not pressing and focus only on sniffing a goal cause our other forwards to be much more selfish than previously (Greenwood) and lazier. Which leads to the tremendous pressure on our poor midfield. They're often badly overnumbbered and overun. Which in turn leads to our defense got badly overrun too and always out of shape. Teams carve us apart with ease. If one match, two matches it maybe a bad day. But every match? It's a fecking system and tactical issue.
Tbh now whenever I see Ronaldo in the lineup I always expect an offensively disjointed, clueless and defensively tragic performance. A shitshow. And tbf I've not been disappointed much recently.
I mean just from his lack of pressing surely its obvious - his ability to make runs behinds the defence isn't there anymore. Do you really see him making a Lindelof pass to Rashford run? Sure it's unfair - but old is old and a tree is a tree.
The players who did this last season were Rashford and Greenwood. Bruno used to make those runs too or cavani if not they would be interlinking with each other.
It doesn't happen with Ronaldo. There is a lack of runs and interlinking ability and our football as gone to very basic crossing to Ronaldo or as you say; players like Rashford or Greenwood doing their own thing. Do you remember yesterday when Rashford went on that very good run and took all the Liverpool players out at the corner line? Where was Ronaldo? I think he was still ball watching.
Ronaldo at his peak needed Rooney and Tevez when playing out wide, Benzema, Dybala- why oh why would he suddenly he be bossing it by himself centrally with two inverted forwards?
In the Ronaldo thread - someone was complaining about this. That Rashford and Greenwood does not get the best out of Ronaldo and that we need to use more traditional wingers or striker partners to get the best out of Ronaldo. This is 100% accurate.
However, are we really going to get the best out of a 36 year old player as our main tactic and drop Rashford and Greenwood because they don't get the best out of him
it highlights the problem. Just as much as Rashford and Greenwood does not get the best out of Ronaldo, Ronaldo does not get the best out of players like Rashford, Greenwood or I'd say an inverted forward version of Sancho or Martial. Players like Cavani and Bruno Fernandes playing further up the pitch and closer to the goal was the more balanced option.
Now what do you see our main attacker from last season doing most of the time? Trying to whip in a cross to Ronaldo alot of the time like we a bloody Stoke.
I'm telling you that we were in control of the match vs Everton when we played Cavani. Soon as he was gone for Ronaldo - we lost all of our control in the match. The ability to hold on to the ball. The ability to interlink. The ability to press.
People just value his ability to put the ball in the net though.