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The solution to this problem was to build a quality team that progressed to such an extent where these two have to work their socks off and perform every week to keep their place but sadly as usual we’ve failed in this regard. When you are poorly run, it gives poor performing players leeway and undue importance.Yep, this sums it up well. They're capable of match-winning moments more than most of our other players (though not so much recently, obviously), but their weaknesses are simultaneously holding us back.
He’s simply too sloppy and especially weak in tight spaces which is really problematic for a number 10. Where you want your number 10 to receive the ball on a tight space, skip away from his man and play a wide man into open space, Bruno is at best functional and at best poor in these situations. I don’t know how we are ever going to play fluid attacking football with him and Rashford as our supposedly iconic players.
I just wish we had a better squad to force these players to clean up their game.
He served Mount on a platter in the first half and he hit the winning cross. On top of this he did some decent defensive work.I don’t know why people have to lie about this guy. In what planet was that solid? fecking hell
He served Mount on a platter in the first half and he hit the winning cross. On top of this he did some decent defensive work.
Praising him for hitting the winning cross is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Just because it leads to a goal doesn't mean the most basic of things a footballer can do is something worthy of praise.
Leicester City I think last season where he was excellentCan anyone genuinely recall a single game where he actually performed well while playing wide? But that's more of a question for ETH
I'll never be able to see him as a proper leader of a team who's competing for the title, but I know he won't be dropped at any point
You even thinking That right there is a big problem and the fact it might actually be quite closer to the truth is an embarrassment for the Club of United's stature and resources .I love Bruno as a player and think he is our best footballer and has been since joining us but this season he's not been playing well. Won us 2 points on his own because we were terrible against Burnley, played a good game against Forest but that's only 20% of good performances. I can give him a little bit of leeway as he has had to play out of position, he's in fact had to play 5 different positions this season and that messes with consistency for sure but the basics just haven't been there this season and there's been less penetrative positives from him and worse finishing. Statistically, even though he's below his average in pass completion he's average 3 key passes per match which is quite high so he's at least doing something right each game
This is barely a sentence. What are you even saying? What are his good qualities? How is he limited? Why is it bad that he'd be a best player on a team? We scored 36 less goals than City last season but he had the same output as KDB, the best player in the league for several years now. Like KDB he also puts in a shift defensively. He's actually quite decent when the opposition has the ball. For the first time in a while we have a striker that makes it so his pressing abilities can be used more cohesively.You even thinking That right there is a big problem and the fact it might actually be quite closer to the truth is an embarrassment for the Club of United's stature and resources .
Bruno while being a Good player have few obvious qualities but is a fairly limited footballer otherwise and no Big Club having aspirations to compete at the highest level should have him as their best footballer or even Best player it spells trouble as we have seen with United .
This is barely a sentence. What are you even saying? What are his good qualities? How is he limited? Why is it bad that he'd be a best player on a team? We scored 36 less goals than City last season but he had the same output as KDB, the best player in the league for several years now. Like KDB he also puts in a shift defensively. He's actually quite decent when the opposition has the ball. For the first time in a while we have a striker that makes it so his pressing abilities can be used more cohesively.
He's so ridiculously underrated here at times. If you look at statistics, he's the barometer for several stats. Meaning out of all the footballers in the world he scored the highest. Not only that but he scores among the highest in several defensive stats.
People dislike him and they can't explain why. Probably because he moaned a lot and does what Portuguese players do (notice he's not done that this season, coinsidence?).
Not sure if serious...Lets be honest, he has been herre now pretty much the same period of time as Pogba was.......over his career here, has he actually been any better when you look beyond stats?
He served Mount on a platter in the first half and he hit the winning cross. On top of this he did some decent defensive work.
This is barely a sentence. What are you even saying? What are his good qualities? How is he limited? Why is it bad that he'd be a best player on a team? We scored 36 less goals than City last season but he had the same output as KDB, the best player in the league for several years now. Like KDB he also puts in a shift defensively. He's actually quite decent when the opposition has the ball. For the first time in a while we have a striker that makes it so his pressing abilities can be used more cohesively.
He's so ridiculously underrated here at times. If you look at statistics, he's the barometer for several stats. Meaning out of all the footballers in the world he scored the highest. Not only that but he scores among the highest in several defensive stats.
People dislike him and they can't explain why. Probably because he moaned a lot and does what Portuguese players do (notice he's not done that this season, coinsidence?).
Yeah he’s underrated and under appreciated. He’s frustrating to watch sometimes and does things that make people angry. He gets a lot of criticism on here but pundits on tv don’t really see him the same way. They don’t focus on the stuff that doesn’t come off.This is barely a sentence. What are you even saying? What are his good qualities? How is he limited? Why is it bad that he'd be a best player on a team? We scored 36 less goals than City last season but he had the same output as KDB, the best player in the league for several years now. Like KDB he also puts in a shift defensively. He's actually quite decent when the opposition has the ball. For the first time in a while we have a striker that makes it so his pressing abilities can be used more cohesively.
He's so ridiculously underrated here at times. If you look at statistics, he's the barometer for several stats. Meaning out of all the footballers in the world he scored the highest. Not only that but he scores among the highest in several defensive stats.
People dislike him and they can't explain why. Probably because he moaned a lot and does what Portuguese players do (notice he's not done that this season, coinsidence?).
Had a really hard shot saved too from the distance. Not his greatest game, but people just go black and white with the likes of Bruno and Rashford who xGI wise stil are ours and some of the leagues most involved players.
I hope so, but probably not. Bruno will bring the sack to ETH(one of the main reasons). You can't play top football when you constantly give away control and possession.Bruno doesn’t complain when he’s played out position, but when he’s played out of position his contribution is near zero. He’s never going to beat a defender on the dribble or do anything wide right, so we end up forcing play to the left, which means Rashford, which means attacks end when he takes on the 2-3 defenders on the dribble.
At some point Erik will have to accept that Mason and Bruno is a marriage not made in heaven. Or perhaps he spread knows that and is beginning his phasing out of Bruno.
Did the captaincy get to his head?
It can’t be. The critics are just louder now.Did the captaincy get to his head?
It can’t be. The critics have are just louder now.
Similar performances to last season without the goals and assists and he was called majestic. He’ll be called majestic again soon, because the expectations are currently plummeting within the fan base and such performances will get better appreciation.
The current expectations are higher and it’s exposing some players. When he first arrived expectations were low as well, just like last season. Gary Neville tried pointing it out against Liverpool but the fans attacked him because we were too busy scraping the barrel for droplets.
Did the captaincy get to his head?
Did you hear the whole rant? Or just the one sentence?Neville was making shit up about Bruno begging to come off the pitch, wasn't he? Of course our fans had issue with that.
Did you hear the whole rant? Or just the one sentence?
You know there is no GOTCHA in that bold bit. What’s there not to understand in “tried pointing out”?I read the whole thing. I was responding to your last point. Bolded to make clearer.
You know there is no GOTCHA in that bold bit. What’s there not to understand in “tried pointing out”?
You are right to be specific on wordings in your criticism of him but it’s not taking away the underlying points being made.
I hear you.It's not a gotcha, I'm not even arguing with your overall point.
It's just that United fans were attacking Neville because he was making things up on air to attack a United player (in a game where it's not like he didn't have a million other things to say that were actually true if he wanted to go in) not because he was generally criticising Bruno and standards are low or whatever.
