acnumber9
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I thought he started the game poorly but very good second half. Hopefully playing himself back into some form.
He scored a penaltyBloody brilliant!! The way he left the pass to Mason , after Cavani was fouled is so good. Deserved a goal. Such a shame !
Bloody brilliant!! The way he left the pass to Mason , after Cavani was fouled is so good. Deserved a goal. Such a shame !
Got the peno
I think he meant the situation in question deserved a goal
He didn't. It wasn't given.He scored a penalty
There's been quite a few games this season where it's been accurate, in the same way it's been accurate when people have said it about Rashford this season. Today wasn't one of those days though, he was perfectly fine.This.
It's becoming a running theme to say "he had a bad game but...". It's nonsense, he was class tonight. People saying it over-and-over, obviously don't understand his role.
There's been quite a few games this season where it's been accurate, in the same way it's been accurate when people have said it about Rashford this season. Today wasn't one of those days though, he was perfectly fine.
5 chances created, goal and 2 assists, somehow that constitutes not playing well ... ?
Yeah I know, I was referring to some of the comments in here saying he didn't really play well, which I really disagree with.Think the tweet is trying to say he did amazing numbers in just 45 minutes.
No, but his goal contributions all came in the last 25 minutes of the game - maybe that is why. That said, a goal and two assists is of course an excellent statistics5 chances created, goal and 2 assists, somehow that constitutes not playing well ... ?
Yeah I know, I was referring to some of the comments in here saying he didn't really play well, which I really disagree with.
This is a good analysis. It may depend on who we have around him (Bruno) going forward. You can maybe have 1 or 2 loose players in the starting line up and control the game still but we have too many.It’s not a straightforward science. After all, you have even strikers like Aguero left out of a team despite scoring more goals for an inferior goalscorer at times.
Of course, creating and taking chances is important in football, that cannot be denied. But at the same time, we don’t want to be drawn into end to end football matches all the time, you also want some control - which I guess has the effect of giving you a platform to create chances but also reducing the amount of chances you concede.
Football is a results business, and Bruno has undoubtedly improved our results by impacting the scoreline. But I would say he has perhaps made our team’s results better more than he has made the team ‘play better’. This is part of the reason why pundits and commentators seem so confused by us continually picking up results. It’s because watching us - we don’t seem great, although we have players like Bruno who are deciding games in moments. But there’s always that lingering expectation that it’s not going to go well for us, and that is because we do not control games or generally speaking - ‘play well’. This of course is not exclusively down to Bruno - it’s more the type of team we have constructed with AWB, Fred, McTominay, Rashford too which means we are always going to be a moments and transitions team as these players lack composure and maturity in possession. They are all high impact players, as is Bruno. They are all about spectacular moments rather than controlled and composed domination.
Stylistically, we’re a bit of a mismatch, and this is where, despite being a big Ole supporter, I think we can look to the coaching. We’ve built a team with players who don’t look to control a game, and a few that do. Players like Shaw, Maguire, Martial and Pogba to a degree have a certain profile, and the others have the opposite. It seems that our strategy to an extent under Ole is just assemble good players and install them with the right attitude and mentality. At the very, very top - I don’t think it’s enough. So in Bruno’s defence, this isn’t about him per se, as I have said - he’s the right 10 for the team that we have now. The only issue is the philosophy of the team we have now probably won’t make us the very best IMO.
Its the same thing that happened with Rooney for years. Some fans loved to shit on him despite a goal or assist and the work rate. He turned into our all time leading scorer, so... I'll take it. Quite a lot of similarities between them anyway.Of course there has. He's had some awful performances but chipped in with a goal/assist. It just feels like it's the constant rhetoric when he comes to him now, though.
Is he really out of contract? If so, he is going to be well sought after.Fair play Memphis as well. Wonder if we'd ever consider him as a 9 as he's out of contract this summer and Barcelona ain't going to be paying big wages! Would be lovely redemption arc.