You mean last year?
Yeah. Stats are here on how our front line pressed last year without Ronaldo (5th best in the league) to now 16th in the league.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.th...ester-united-have-a-cristiano-ronaldo-problem
Listen, Ronaldo is going to score tonight. No one doubts his ability to score, but its how now United are trying to get the best out of Ronaldo whilst everyone nearly everyone has started to have a problem with Greenwood, Bruno, Rashford, Sancho, McFred, Pogba, Shaw, Maguire, Wan Bissaka, Lindelof, Martial, Lingard and so many more for doing shit all.
Basically our two best and only players this season are De Gea - which wasn't the case last season but was the case in every season we were inviting the pressure on to us (we don't press like last years stats so no surprise) and now our main and only chance of scoring - Ronaldo.
We play to get the best out of him and if he doesn't score - everyone nearly everyone on the squad gets blamed except him. That's an amazing showing of love to a player.
Like look at Bruno. He has scored 4 goals in the PL. 3 assists in the PL. He has 5 assists in 4 games in the CL.
He has been a part of 12 United goals this season - but everyone is having a go at him for being shit. Whenever he does something like set up Ronaldo - he hardly gets called out for a good performance but Ronaldo puts the ball in the net and suddenly he is the only good thing in the world and everyone else is shit. When the whole team struggled and we dont score a goal - people still value Ronaldo's performances and protect him from getting any blame for that crap performance whilst everyone else gets called out for being exactly that.
Anyway, hopefully Carrick can use Ronaldo as a LW today or if he is still playing as a striker then he needs a striker partner.
Ronaldo is going to score today because he is our only main goalscoring outlet - but playing him in a 433 or 4231 as a lone striker gets the best out of no one except him (Zidane knew this), the opposite choice; playing in a 352 leaves alot of our main players from last year on the bench.