Game intelligence

[elmo]

Basically our players don’t have it.

Dalot is a good example. He’s bang average - technically functional and unsuited to a team with aspirations - but more improbably he’s always been a dolt. People see him use his physicality every now and then get excited. Apparently one fullback position was “sorted” because of him.

Mass exodus needed. These players are too dumb, technically average and mentally weak.

I don't know how long I've been saying this... Literally every week he will do several things where you'll just think... What the feck are you doing.

And maybe the dumbest thing he does on a regular basis is that thing where he takes a throw him, tells one of our players to move further back from where he's stood, so that he can throw the ball to the opposition player who is now stood in that spot.

Join the club. I got slated for saying he was another example of a bad signing because he was unplayable for years and when he started playing at an acceptable level, we had to pay him despite him fecking up at least once every game.

Some people were even calling him one of the best full backs in football at the moment last season

He’s passionate and all, but god some of the stuff he celebrates are avoidable if he did the correct thing in the first place.

 

[gulli_G]

Our intelligent/potentially intelligent players:

Mazraoui, Amad, Eriksen (old), Casemiro (old). Ugarte, Yoro and Mainoo (TBC).

Rest remain to be seen, some are just dumb in game intelligence like:

Shaw, Rashford, Gernacho (maybe wilfully), Dalot

 

[Strachan8]

Or rather our players and their complete lack of it.

Is there another team in the league that does as many stupid things in the space of 90 minutes as we do?

Diogo Dalot for example. I mean I'm sure he has a functioning brain but it must live in his trainers or something because it doesnt join him on the football pitch. I've never known a player who not only makes the wrong decision so often, but even when there is only one decision to make, somehow invents another, stupid one, and does it so often it's actually a genuine shock when he doesn't.

Wasting loads of time when there was only a minute left trying to take a freekick in our own fecking half from the wrong place.

Bruno playing a stupid blind 1-2 in his own half and costing the team a goal, then losing the ball twice more after doing EXACTLY THE SAME F*CKING THING.

Conceding loads of needless corners the other night to probably the best team in the world at scoring from corners.

Constant high risk, low reward passes that almost never come off anyway.

Bruno firing every corner straight to the near post defender despite us evidently having better corner takers.

Martinez choosing to hope the ball goes wide instead of clearing it and then watching it bounce into the goal.

We're mind bogglingly dumb to watch.

Other teams eith the same element of control win that game today because they don't press the self sabotage button every 2 minutes.

Not in EPL. Watch Dortmund v Barcelona highlights and however lacking in football intelligence Utd’s players are rest assured they will always be trumped by BVB’s.

 

[Shane88]

How many counters did they cock up near the end? There was another one in the first half too. This should be the most basic shit to get right.