Jesus, one giant echo chamber in here… where art thou “The 418”?
Is there any single argument that remains to keep Ten Hag?
I’m actually really interested to see what a decent manager would do with DeLigt, Martinez, Garnacho, Mainoo, Mazraoui, Ugarte, Shaw and Hojlund.
There is a lot of complaining here (as there should be) about the first 11, the tactics, his deluded post match interviews, etc.
I’d like to point out though:
1. We still have a hard time playing through the high press. Several giveaways and horrible positioning.
2. We literally have no high press. Zirkzee and Mazraoui had absolutely no idea where to go, how to press, what the triggers were…. A fecking mess. Garnacho and Rashford were too far back. I think he just told them “It’s Fenerbace fellas, they’ve got too much quality” and completely removed it from the game plan.
3. We absolutely do not know how to position ourselves defensively. Recovery runs are into the wrong areas… such a fecking mess.
4. Patterns of play still not visible.
31 months in charge. 600m spent. 12th in the table, negative goal difference. 1 wins in 11 from Europe. XG / XGa / XGd awful.