Spot on
Which play does he dictate,
this is the reason why we fall behind we keep players who have no business being at United.Which play does he dictate,
Liverpool OT - we had 30% possession.
Arsenal OT - we had 39% possession.
City OT - we had 30% possession.
Arsenal away - we had 43% possession. Last 25 minutes of that game was absolute car crash.
City Away - 38% possession first half when the damage was being done. 2nd half we had 56% as City had scored 4 goals already...
All those games against better teams in League Eriksen played, where did he dictate a game?
Should I add all the away results? Of where he went hiding..
As someone said in another thread, Eriksen is a Mata, good to the eye, gets bypassed by games, good human being, importantly not good enough for where the clubs wants to go.
We are still conceding goals, as before. Nothing to do with us playing attacking football.
It's how we set-up.
As you have rightly said, with Mourinho and Ole we setup defensively but still leaked goals, now with 'attacking football' we are still leaking goals what's the common denominator in all this...
Our structure and set-up. Remove Bruno+Rashford we have no attacking pattern..
We don't even press anymore.
We don't control games.
We don't win away from home.
We still get overrun in games frequently.
When the last time we dominated a team, probably Spurs at home.
We conceded over 40 goals a season.
All I'm saying is, Ten Hag is continuing with the same set-up which he found here and which has failed miserably.
Up until he changes the team set-up and structure don't expect big things.
We will buy all the players in the world but with wrong set-up things will fall badly.
If we go next season with 4231 expect carnage at the end of it.
Even Arteta had Saka as a wingback, playing back 3. When he changed the set-up things flourished.
The Hag has to do it, if not he won't survive another year. Because such results will be coming.
It shows we have changed players in midfield and defence but we still get hammered from time to time.
We even have Casemiro a 5 time champions league winner in our midfield but still get dominated. Not McFred who we used to curse.
We have Varane multiple winner, yet hammerings are here with us. Not Maguire Lindelof who we want both to be sold.
In my main point is, since January 2020 when we signed Bruno our midfield in big games against better teams crumbles in absolute epic fashion.. when we get pressed in midfield we crumble.
Eriksen, Casemiro, Pogba, Matic, Fred, McSauce have all played a part in the sequence of events.
They all have their positives and equal limitations but in modern day game you cannot play with midfield of 2.
An overhaul of our midfield set-up is the most pressing thing.
This just isn't true.
sorry but we have scored 46 goals this season in the league.Thats because we have no proper CF and depend on Rashford for goals mostly. Nothing to do with - ETH keeping the same set up as before...
City have scored 32 goals more than us.. Remove Hallands goals they still have same goals like us. That's without any other replacement.
Arsenal have scored 28 goals more than us, with their main striker injured for 5 months.
Newcastle have scored more goals than us.
Liverpool have scored 10 more goals than us.
Spurs have scored 11 more goals than us.
Brenford has scored more goals than us.
We've only scored 5 more goals than Leicester at number 19 on the log.
But you know what, we are doing very okay attacking wise.
People will bury their heads in the sand but nothing fundamentally has changed on the football pitch, alot of our positive change has been outside the pitch which is 100% commendable and vital.
I'm 100% Ten Hag fan but a realist. The summer clear out is the most important thing.
We need a striker... Somebody who is killer in front of goal.. When was the last time we had a 20 goal striker ..We have Wout on top.. Who hasn't scored a goal since he arrived ..We need that one CF to click with the team, then everything will come in place
City have scored 32 goals more than us.. Remove Hallands goals they still have same goals like us. That's without any other replacement.
Arsenal have scored 28 goals more than us, with their main striker injured for 5 months.
Newcastle have scored more goals than us.
Liverpool have scored 10 more goals than us.
Spurs have scored 11 more goals than us.
Brenford has scored more goals than us.
We've only scored 5 more goals than Leicester at number 19 on the log.
But you know what, we are doing very okay attacking wise.
People will bury their heads in the sand but nothing fundamentally has changed on the football pitch, alot of our positive change has been outside the pitch which is 100% commendable and vital.
I'm 100% Ten Hag fan but a realist. The summer clear out is the most important thing.
Yes you are strawmanning hard, I never said any differently but we have had this problem for many years. We simply do not have the players to do any better.
City have scored 32 goals more than us.. Remove Hallands goals they still have same goals like us. That's without any other replacement.
Arsenal have scored 28 goals more than us, with their main striker injured for 5 months.
Newcastle have scored more goals than us.
Liverpool have scored 10 more goals than us.
Spurs have scored 11 more goals than us.
Brenford has scored more goals than us.
We've only scored 5 more goals than Leicester at number 19 on the log.
But you know what, we are doing very okay attacking wise.
People will bury their heads in the sand but nothing fundamentally has changed on the football pitch, alot of our positive change has been outside the pitch which is 100% commendable and vital.
I'm 100% Ten Hag fan but a realist. The summer clear out is the most important thing.
Even instead of going to far, see below metrics.
- We have never breached the top 4 metric of average possession.
Is it a coincidence we have never been in any title race ever since?
Is it a coincidence we are not a consistent top 4 team any more?
It's clear as day, for you to achieve the required points to win the league you need over 63% average possession, we have never breached the 57% mark.
- Score around 80 goals.. we have only breached the top four of goals scored once, when we scored 73 goals 2021. All other season we have been out of top 4 metric of goals scored.
https://www.fotmob.com/leagues/47/stats/season/17664/teams/possession_percentage_team
True. I said the same thing.
Couple? 3 games ago he went in so hard he got a 4 game ban!
