Borys
Statistics Wizard
Seems it all started with Sabitzer - most of us thought he is a temporary Eriksen replacement, but it turned out he can't actually play as a midfielder so he was pushed to second striker role.
This resulted in Sabitzer scoring some goals, but at the same time made us very vulnerable defensively for obvious reasons.
I don't know if that was the moment ETH got his new ideas, but he's been pushing for this single #6 with two advanced #8s ever since. Whatever the squad available, we seem to play this setup every single game (I could probably name only a few games we played differently). Different players as the second advanced #8, but always the same idea.
We all know the problems that come with it so I will skip this part, but assuming everyone is fit, does anybody think it'll actually work the way it's intended? If yes, how do you see this working out and how are we going to pull this off with the squad we have?
Seems like everyone (fans, pundits, yt "experts") are calling out Ten Hag now on his naiive approach and United doing same mistakes over and over again. The injuries are still a valid excuse - although after a game against Tottenham B team that actually played some decent football against us on Old Trafford, it seems like the tide has changed against Ten Hag.
What Ten Hag sees that everyone else do not?
This resulted in Sabitzer scoring some goals, but at the same time made us very vulnerable defensively for obvious reasons.
I don't know if that was the moment ETH got his new ideas, but he's been pushing for this single #6 with two advanced #8s ever since. Whatever the squad available, we seem to play this setup every single game (I could probably name only a few games we played differently). Different players as the second advanced #8, but always the same idea.
We all know the problems that come with it so I will skip this part, but assuming everyone is fit, does anybody think it'll actually work the way it's intended? If yes, how do you see this working out and how are we going to pull this off with the squad we have?
Seems like everyone (fans, pundits, yt "experts") are calling out Ten Hag now on his naiive approach and United doing same mistakes over and over again. The injuries are still a valid excuse - although after a game against Tottenham B team that actually played some decent football against us on Old Trafford, it seems like the tide has changed against Ten Hag.
What Ten Hag sees that everyone else do not?