Blaming Ronaldo baffles the sht out of me. If Ronaldo had even 1 or two good chances and missed then you could say he's to blame. Even if we had a good cross and you could say where was the striker that was an awesome cross and he's nowhere then yeah he's to blame. But our creators didnt create anything for him. 0 none nada. You could have put Haaland in there and he wouldn't have done anything because you simply cannot score without service. We need a striker for sure but we have had a few and they all stand there doing nothing because no one can get the ball to them. The problem isnt that they are trying to find Ronaldo all the time its that they are failing to find him at all
Bullshit. A striker creates his own chances or has the movement to turn good positions into good chances. A strikers quality would essentially be pointless if all the responsibility was on the teammates to create for him. We had 70% possession and were camped around their box. You put Haaland in for Ronaldo and he probably scores a hat trick and we get so many more chances. Instead, Ronaldo barely does anything. Hell, Rashford comes in for Ronaldo and has almost as many touches in 20 minutes as Ronaldo had in 70, and we create 2 clear cut chances in those 20 minutes.
We had 70 percent possession and how many clear cut chances and how many for Ronaldo? Rashford brought another dimension to our attack because he was doing something different to our other wide players in Sancho and Anthony i.e pace and running in behind. It wasnt his strengths as a striker that changed it a bit, it was his strengths as a wide player. That opportunity to Fred. The wide player should have made the run and the striker should have been in Freds position or at least a more attacking minded player. The header was the first decent cross and that was by Casemiro. The wingers and Bruno should have been doing that all game and a striker should have been on the end of it not a winger in Rashford. If Rasford came on for Sancho and those two chances fell for Ronaldo whether you think he's sht or not I would bet on him scoring over Fred or a header by Rashford. But he never got those opportunities. If you think strikers dont need service and can do it all themselves then I dont know what to tell you.
Strikers need service but it's much more on them to provide the openings for the service. This was not a game where we struggled to get into the attacking third so you can excuse the striker. The whole point of this thread is to click on the tweet, and look at the twitter thread that breaks down every single attack we had basically throughout the game and how we constantly got into good positions, but just ruined it with the final touch, final movement, final pass, whatever. If it was the Ronaldo of 2 years ago, for example, that pass Bruno played into him would've resulted in a great chance and probably a goal. But as it is, because he is slow and weak at this point, the defender was able to close him down, nudge him over sufficiently and the chance turns to nothing (still possibly a pen mind you, but younger Ronaldo wouldn't have given them the chance).
Well I agree with what you say. Ronaldo hasnt been great and we need to get another striker and it would help a lot. But I disagree where the biggest problem is. I still say our main problem is before we get to the striker. We are 6th in the league for big chances created, nearly bottom for crosses and mid table for number of passes. We have one dimension to our attack. We are really good at counter attacking with pace. We even have gotten better like at Newcastle with keeping possession. But we lack players that can beat a man, players driving from midfield, players that can get on the outside, players that cross, overlapping rb/lb etc. Its too one dimensional. We do the same thing over and over. Sometimes it works. Sometimes its even brilliant. But when it doesn't we are fkd. Ronaldo is sht but at least put in a few decent crosses and give him half a chance. When he has 0 good chances except maybe Brnos half chance then its hard to blame him first. We have seen it for years and years. Our strikers stand up front and get little service
But we need a player who can do what Bruno does but with consistently, Bruno is amazingly inconsistent with his passing. We also need a striker who has much better overall ability than Rashford.
Ronaldo is the wide pass, Sancho is through the middle who shouldve received it. Though yeah Ronaldo still fecked it up.If i'm not mistaken seeing that "analysis", that Bruno's pass is actually the correct one. As a striker, it was Ronaldo that fecked it up.
If i'm not mistaken seeing that "analysis", that Bruno's pass is actually the correct one. As a striker, it was Ronaldo that fecked it up.
