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2021-22 Performances

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Poor today, it is ok to say it without blaming everyone else.
 
Had absolutely no service today. Good ball into Pogba.
There is nothing else to say.
 
We have one of the best headers of the ball right here and our ENTIRE team cannot fecking cross a ball.

Where's David Beckham? We need him back.
 
Best striker in the world surrounded by some of the best creators in the world and we still can't create him 1 clear chance in a home game vs a mid-table team. Somehow people still want Ole to keep up the good work.
 
I'm not feeling him back in the first team.

He is one of my favourite players and my GOAT.

However the guy is 36 and you can't tell me that it doesn't show? He is only a poacher now.

He was suddenly available so was suddenly bought.

Our RW to this season was going to be Sancho. Our RW to nearly every match.

Our ST was going to be Greenwood. Likewise.

It has all changed to fit in a 36 year old.

As great as he is - he is old.

I think people need to realise the dribbling and shoot Ronaldo is gone, the only one who is left is a pure poacher. And a 36 year old poacher is not going to get in to the game.
 
Bebestation said:
I'm not feeling him back in the first team.

He is one of my favourite players and my GOAT.

However the guy is 36 and you can't tell me that it doesn't show? He is only a poacher now.

He was suddenly available so was suddenly bought.

Our RW to this season was going to be Sancho. Our RW to nearly every match.

Our ST was going to be Greenwood. Likewise.

It has all changed to fit in a 36 year old.

As great as he is - he is old.

I think people need to realise the dribbling and shoot Ronaldo is gone, the only one who is left is a pure poacher. And a 36 year old poacher is not going to get in to the game.
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Is that gonna be the next excuse
 
We aren't tactically setup to play to his strengths at all, he's going to have more games like this until that happens.

Plug in any striker, they wouldn't look amazing in this United side.
 
Bobski said:
Poor today, it is ok to say it without blaming everyone else.
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Agreed, but if Mason had eyes the narrative would be completely different. Ronaldo was getting into the right positions in the first half. We get the lead early and it can be a totally different game.
 
Bruno knows the importance of swinging the ball in early. Not too many others do.
If you have Ronaldo in the box and you have a chance to cross it, don't think, just cross it
 
Relevated said:
Is that gonna be the next excuse
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I'm not feeling Ole anymore.

But I'm not feeling Ronaldo.

If he couldn't do it with Juventus in italy at that age then let's see if he can do it in the PL a year older.
 
17Larsson said:
Bruno knows the importance of swinging the ball in early. Not too many others do.
If you have Ronaldo in the box and you have a chance to cross it, don't think, just cross it
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We do try to cross. The problem is that most of them end up at the corner flag...

Dear god, the quality of them crosses are abysmal.
 
It will seem strange given his goals but the Ronaldo signing has fecked everything up.

Sancho was signed to play on the right with Greenwood being given more opportunities to play upfront. Now we have Ronaldo who can only play centre forward meaning Greenwood has to play on the right and Sancho on the left.

Ronaldo was a very strange, last minute panic signing which has ruined the balance of the team upfront. His signing was unnecessary and will disrupt the development of Sancho and Greenwood in order to accommodate him in the starting 11.

The club continues to be a complete mess.
 
UnitedFan93 said:
It will seem strange given his goals but the Ronaldo signing has fecked everything up.

Sancho was signed to play on the right with Greenwood being given more opportunities to play upfront. Now we have Ronaldo who can only play centre forward meaning Greenwood has to play on the right and Sancho on the left.

Ronaldo was a very strange, last minute panic signing which has ruined the balance of the team upfront. His signing was unnecessary and will disrupt the development of Sancho and Greenwood in order to accommodate him in the starting 11.

The club continues to be a complete mess.
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It would have be true if Sancho was on fired and ready to start.

He was not.
 
The United said:
It would have be true if Sancho was on fired and ready to start.

He was not.
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When Sancho is fully fit and plays in the position he was signed for, where does Greenwood play, given Ronaldo's ego makes him a certainty to start upfront?
 
UnitedFan93 said:
When Sancho is fully fit and plays in the position he was signed for, where does Greenwood play, given Ronaldo's ego makes him a certainty to start upfront?
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Greenwood is not ready to play 9 full time. Also Ronaldo doesn't play every game anyway. This makes your whole agument moot.
 
UnitedFan93 said:
When Sancho is fully fit and plays in the position he was signed for, where does Greenwood play, given Ronaldo's ego makes him a certainty to start upfront?
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When Sancho is fully fit? Well, let him do that first. Greenwood will play CF in some games this season and was never going to play there whole season.

He is 19 and physically and he is not as good as Rooney was to lead a line.
 
Our strikers have been starved of service since the start of last season, it's nothing new and hasn't changed whether it's Martial, Cavani, or Ronaldo on the pitch.
 
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Has Ronaldo had a headed chance for us yet? I can't remember us giving him something to attack in the air (at least not successfully picking him out) which is ridiculous if true.
 
We need to have midfielders who can control the game to have the full effect of Ronaldo playing and stretching opposition backline.

What we do have is midfielders who can't control a fecking ball, let alone a fecking game.
 
UnitedFan93 said:
When Sancho is fully fit and plays in the position he was signed for, where does Greenwood play, given Ronaldo's ego makes him a certainty to start upfront?
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Dude has literally scored in every game until today. Are you sure that his ego is what makes him start upfront? I thought it was his quality.
 
bijitaq said:
Dude has literally scored in every game untill today. Are you sure that his ego is what makes him start upfront? I thought it was his quality.
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He has, but how have we played as a team in those games? Always going to score goals but at a cost, it seems.
 
He was fine today when he managed to get a touch, but couldn't get involved at all. He's 36 so can't run around like Mason forcing things the whole game. He needs service. Like mentioned a couple of posts up., he's barely been provided a headed chance at all which is just poor.
 
Orton said:
He has, but how have we played as a team in those games? Always going to score goals but at a cost, it seems.
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Things were going so great before he arrived? I must have missed that phase. United has always been average under Ole. Maybe blame the coach and not one of the best goalscorers in the history of the game.
 
bijitaq said:
Things were going so great before he arrived? I must have missed that phase. United has always been average under Ole. Maybe blame the coach and not one of the best goalscorers in the history of the game.
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Oh trust me I do blame the coach, and his lack of ability.
 
bijitaq said:
Things were going so great before he arrived? I must have missed that phase. United has always been average under Ole. Maybe blame the coach and not one of the best goalscorers in the history of the game.
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Imagine actually blaming the best goalscorer of all time instead of Ole. Denial as a defence mechanism well and truly alive here.
 
Majima said:
Greenwood is not ready to play 9 full time. Also Ronaldo doesn't play every game anyway. This makes your whole agument moot.
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The Leeds match showed the potential that Greenwood has in the number 9 position but I agree with you that he's not ready to play there full time. That is why Cavani was perfect last season for the role of coming in and out of the team with little fuss. The Ronaldo signing will massively reduce Greenwood centre forward opportunities given Ronaldo will want to start all PL games as CF as he chases goal scoring records. The problem is the knock-on effect that Ronaldo has on the team. Greenwood will have to play on the right and the guy (Sancho) we signed for the right wing will have to play on the left, but then where does Rashford play? Where and when does Cavani play?

The Ronaldo signing was a panic signing because he was about to go to City. We were never planning for Ronaldo and If we really wanted him we would have signed him months earlier. Now we are left with two forwards in their mid to late 30's in the most intense league in the world. A stupid signing that has unbalanced the squad.
 
The United said:
But at a cost, you say. What is it?
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The cost of having too many passengers in the first team. Especially when we don’t have the ball. This would work if we had a fully functioning midfield but we don’t and you can see how much we struggle off the ball.

Of course he’s going to bang in goals but we pretty much play hit and hope football even more now with him in there. Don’t see any game plan really, do you?
 
DickDastardly said:
We need to have midfielders who can control the game to have the full effect of Ronaldo playing and stretching opposition backline.

What we do have is midfielders who can't control a fecking ball, let alone a fecking game.
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PREACH. PREACH. PREACH. Holy shit, people can't be so blind that they still can't see how much of a problem our midfielders are. They are barely good enough for The Championship. Ronaldo signing has only brought positives if you ask me. Sancho has started two games, been bad in both. That is sure as hell not on Ronaldo, Ole or anyone else.. Or wait.. Actually, his central midfielders is.
 
Orton said:
The cost of having too many passengers in the first team. Especially when we don’t have the ball. This would work if we had a fully functioning midfield but we don’t and you can see how much we struggle off the ball.

Of course he’s going to bang in goals but we pretty much play hit and hope football even more now with him in there. Don’t see any game plan really, do you?
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We played with 4 midfielders and 2 of them were supposed to be specialist midfielders by trade.

So, in your mind, the CF should fix it or involve with that issue?
 
bosnian_red said:
About as well as we played in the previous 2 years Ole has managed us.
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Glad most people are starting to realise this now. It’s like Mourinhos last season. For us to move forward the romanticism has to end and we need an actual manager.
 
You buy him and use him as the man. Love Bruno but Cristiano should be the main man to take pens. You don't bring him and use him as a side kick.
 
Orton said:
The cost of having too many passengers in the first team. Especially when we don’t have the ball. This would work if we had a fully functioning midfield but we don’t and you can see how much we struggle off the ball.

Of course he’s going to bang in goals but we pretty much play hit and hope football even more now with him in there. Don’t see any game plan really, do you?
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Nail on the head.

Too many passengers are killing this team. Ronaldo can't press due to his age and Pogba can't be bothered to press. This is a massive problem given that pressing is vital in the PL.

The team is more unbalanced this season than last as a result.
 
He's a penalty box striker these days, if you don't create for him he's not going to do much, we knew this before we signed him.
 
The United said:
We played with 4 midfielders and 2 of them were supposed to be specialist midfielders by trade.

So, in your mind, the CF should fix it or involve with that issue?
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No, we should’ve sorted that issue before signing a CF we didn’t need, also pushing Greenwood wide and giving less chances to our big signing we wanted for ages. Shoehorning players in for the sake of it never works. This is why we are in this state. I love the fact we have Ronaldo and we have so many great attacking options. A pity we have no idea how to use them.
 
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