There were a couple of moments were Zirkzee was exactly that guy to look for and he didn't receive the cross/pass/through ball on multiple occassions because it's glued to the wingers feet. Kind of like we saw with Hojlund last season.
Biggest issue to fix
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There were a couple of moments were Zirkzee was exactly that guy to look for and he didn't receive the cross/pass/through ball on multiple occassions because it's glued to the wingers feet. Kind of like we saw with Hojlund last season.
We need a proper established forward, a talisman. A Galactico sort of signing, if we ever want to be a perennial top four team not yo-yoing every year.
Someone like Kvaratskhelia, a player who can push our attack to the next level
Someone like Kvaratskhelia, a player who can push our attack to the next level
There's too many issues to pick one.
Theres not a single element of the team that you can hang your hat on and say "yeah we're sorted (top 4 in the league) at that"
Goalkeeper - dodgy
Defence - no left back, weak aerially, slow.
Midfield - Lack of physicality, can't keep the ball
Forwards - very little goal threat, barely create chances, physically weak
Tactics/style of play - no idea what they are/what it is
Set pieces - one of the worst in the league
Counter attack - closest thing we have to a strength but other sides are better
It comes back to the manager after 2+ years of shaping it.
Theres not a single element of the team that you can hang your hat on and say "yeah we're sorted (top 4 in the league) at that"
Goalkeeper - dodgy
Defence - no left back, weak aerially, slow.
Midfield - Lack of physicality, can't keep the ball
Forwards - very little goal threat, barely create chances, physically weak
Tactics/style of play - no idea what they are/what it is
Set pieces - one of the worst in the league
Counter attack - closest thing we have to a strength but other sides are better
It comes back to the manager after 2+ years of shaping it.
The biggest issue yesterday v Brighton and what cost us the game was defence. Both Brightons goals were easily avoidable.
Goal 1 maguire failed to deal with the first low cross.
Goal two no sign of any defenders on the left side despite 3 unmarked Brighton players in and around the box. No idea where Dalot who was voted by many as MOTM was hiding.
Just out and out rank schoolboy defending brought the defeat.
Goal 1 maguire failed to deal with the first low cross.
Goal two no sign of any defenders on the left side despite 3 unmarked Brighton players in and around the box. No idea where Dalot who was voted by many as MOTM was hiding.
Just out and out rank schoolboy defending brought the defeat.
There was a healthy majority of fanbase that knew ETH time was up at the end of season, a one-off performance kept him in a job ( a bit like Ole after PSG away in CL) we now have to suffer the consequences of this decision! I am convinced under ETH we will never mount a serious title threat, we barely trouble top 4, and that despite him having the resources that most other PL managers can only dream of. We'll get the usual excuses of course, ownership structure, poor form of players, injuries etc etc but the truth has been staring us in the face, we are just not willing to accept it.
The manager. All our issues on the pitch start from there.
Midfield and Fowards
Midfield: no proper structure, no generals who can hold up play, catch second balls, tackle properly and quickly move it forward. It would have be Casemiro but he’s 10 years too old.
Forward: first of all, need Rasmus fit and when so, be the focal point. Quickly transition from defending to attacking and I see glimpses but not enough, pressing was good yesterday and last weekend, but not enough quick turnovers and into attack.
Midfield: no proper structure, no generals who can hold up play, catch second balls, tackle properly and quickly move it forward. It would have be Casemiro but he’s 10 years too old.
Forward: first of all, need Rasmus fit and when so, be the focal point. Quickly transition from defending to attacking and I see glimpses but not enough, pressing was good yesterday and last weekend, but not enough quick turnovers and into attack.
The biggest issue is having three wingers who offer nothing, rashford, sancho, antony.
this....
take responsibility for defending
we used to criticise AWB positioning but Maguire for first and all for second was criminal
we are obviously struggling to create chances and score goals but unless we can defend competently we will continue to shoot ourselves in the foot
It’s Ten Hag. We get outplayed by teams with worse players than us constantly.
It’s mind boggling how he’s still in a job after last season. He’ll be gone by Xmas and this will be a wasted season.
It’s mind boggling how he’s still in a job after last season. He’ll be gone by Xmas and this will be a wasted season.
The biggest issue is the management.
Where do you start really?
I think most of the time we still don't look like a well coached team.
It's amazing, when I watch teams like Brighton play out from the press, it feels like the system provides solutions, players can make decisions quickly and confidently. With us on the other hand, it feels like the players have to create the solutions, thinking their way through it, which makes them slow, nothing is automated.
I think athleticism in midfield is still a problem, especially past the 60 min mark. There was a point there in the second half where someone nicked it off Casemiro while he was carrying it like the slowest man on the earth.
We really should have gone for Olise, our wingers just aren't good enough.
Amad was wasteful, in both execution and decision making. Also gave away fouls in very dangerous areas.
Rashford is playing like a player who had a lobotomy to remove his offensive brain.
People crying for Garnacho to start are ignoring how often he gives the ball away, in dangerous areas, leading to counters.
Amad and Garnacho are exactly what you'd expect them to be, inexperienced, inconsistent and frustrating. If we go into the season expecting starter level output from them, then our fault.
I think most of the time we still don't look like a well coached team.
It's amazing, when I watch teams like Brighton play out from the press, it feels like the system provides solutions, players can make decisions quickly and confidently. With us on the other hand, it feels like the players have to create the solutions, thinking their way through it, which makes them slow, nothing is automated.
I think athleticism in midfield is still a problem, especially past the 60 min mark. There was a point there in the second half where someone nicked it off Casemiro while he was carrying it like the slowest man on the earth.
We really should have gone for Olise, our wingers just aren't good enough.
Amad was wasteful, in both execution and decision making. Also gave away fouls in very dangerous areas.
Rashford is playing like a player who had a lobotomy to remove his offensive brain.
People crying for Garnacho to start are ignoring how often he gives the ball away, in dangerous areas, leading to counters.
Amad and Garnacho are exactly what you'd expect them to be, inexperienced, inconsistent and frustrating. If we go into the season expecting starter level output from them, then our fault.
For some reason he(dalot) and maz were the ones pressing the player with the ball. Casemiro has left the back post along with Zirkzee to chase the initial rebound out and then chases the ball around to where the cross is coming from leaving it completely open.
As ETH said there is enough experience and leadership on that pitch to see this and it should never have happened. But yeah 2 very poor defensive errors cost us.
However for me the biggest issue is still midfield for me. I think when Rasmus is back we’ll be more dangerous than what we currently are. He gives the pressing energy that Bruno and mount have been providing so likely is one of them drops out. So I don’t think that is as big of an issue as midfield is.
It needed rebuilding and as of yet hasn’t been touched.
The manager.
The manager.
Passing is a big weaknesses of ours.
Wingers and ST is a big issue for us. We create more than enough to win most games but we don’t finish anything off. This will also cost us with another very low GD.
In game intelligence is pathetic at times.
For every last minute winner they score, there is an equal number of times United throw away games in injury time.
Like a bunch of kids running around at times.
For every last minute winner they score, there is an equal number of times United throw away games in injury time.
Like a bunch of kids running around at times.
Somebody needs to teach our forwards the offside rule. 
Someone needs to tell our midfielders when to look up and release the ball.
The manager, over sentimentality and the United way/DNA.
Attacking players after Ugarte transfer. Team lacks goals
Might start considering getting rid of Rashford and keeping the rest of our wingers. That will help a lot.
We've missed more big chances than any other team in the league in the first two games. The biggest two problems we have in this team is not finishing our chances and losing control of games because our midfield doesn't have the legs to last longer than 60-65 minutes in games.
It is both. We are simply not hurting the other team enough and our ball retention in the last third is pretty awful.
Agree. The fact that Mount is the number 7 tells us everything. United have nearly always had great wingers/attackers in the past.
kvaratskhelia, Nico Williams or even Jarrod Bowen would be ideal. But don’t think we have the money or space in the squad unless Sancho, Antony or Rashford are moved on.
It’s… The manager
Arsenals attack is lacking that sort of player but they seem to be doing fine
We have the weakest set of attackers in my living memory - and I’m 36 - so I’d start there. Brighton have at least four attackers that would get games here - Mitoma and Joao Pedro would start. West Ham have at least two attacking players that would start - Kudus and Bowen. Newcastle have at least two attacking players that would start for us - Isak and Gordon. I could go on - these aren’t even the top clubs in the league. There aren’t many teams in this league who don’t have at least one attacker I would back on getting lots of games for us - people can bang on about defenders and midfielders but the top teams have the best attacking players and when they do they tend to win far more games than they lose. It’s extremely tiring to go into every season as we have done for a decade and look at our attacking options thinking how are we going to score goals - yet somehow despite spending the money we have that’s exactly what happens each year. It’s like we’ve looked at Ferguson literally signing top attackers any opportunity he had over any other position regardless of how many attackers he already had at the club and thought feck that - what did that ever achieve?
The biggest issue is the manager
You mean missing on winning the title for 2 years straight by choking at the last minute?
If they had a world class forward you know he’d drag them over the line.
Thats the sorta fine margins where having genuine world class players like City do matter.
The manager,... We need to play a structured football. Scale-able football.
Yeah we need a talisman
you can’t win anything without having a class forward.
Look at Rashford, he had a brilliant season and we made top 4, he didn’t perform and the same squad finished 8th.
People underestimate the effect a forward firing on all cylinders have on team morale as well.
They got to 89 points last season. How many times did Fergie even do that?
Stick a world class attacker into united and we'll still probably be shite
Yeah. Was excited when we were linked to Olise, so it’s disappointing we weren’t in for any alternative.
At the moment, Garnacho is our best winger, and he is still inconsistent. All the others are playing like squad players at best.
We desperately need a winger who can consistently deliver double figures in goals/assists.
There's other cups outside of a league. Funny how they've chronically choked since the FA cup win in all of them.They got to 89 points last season. How many times did Fergie even do that?
Stick a world class attacker into united and we'll still probably be shite
They got to 89 points last season. How many times did Fergie even do that?
Stick a world class attacker into united and we'll still probably be shite
The league has changed
I’m sure if Fergie was around he’d putting them numbers on the board.
Besides, Arsenal went two seasons leading City till Christmas I believe? Then choked and gave them the advantage.
That’s because they lack that killer instincts that the best in the world have.
Elephant in the room for me as a senior attacker. We should be getting so much more than we are for such a senior player.
This is a good summary. We havent got a mifielder who can control a game either. I am questioning if Ugarte is what we need or a player like Carrick, who can control the game and has a good passing range.
The midfield structure. We'll find it easier to attack and score when we're not so vulnerable to counters because of the space in midfield.