That would be great if all Lukaku had to do was sprint for 10 seconds a few times a day.
Exactly, footballers run in so many different trajectories than a straight line too. It really is simple, Cristiano Ronaldo has achieved the ideal physique for a footballer, why don't most footballers try to have that kinda discipline to improve themselves ? Whatever Lukaku did, it's just wrong and not efficient for his role.
Add in how much more effective Shaw would be with better body conditioning.
Chicharito put on much too much weight before he left us and he definitely was worse for it
It's frustrating really, people with less ressources, less access to doctors and trainers can show more dedication to their fitness than this group of players. The way they all get tired around the same time in the game is fecking annoying.
I agree, but he's been talking about this since around October time and still seems to have the same issue. It might be hard to do during the season, I don't know, but months later he's still wrecked after half an hour.
All our players seem to bulk up. Ever since Ronaldo it seems like they expect a similar transformation, it’s really strange.
That's what makes him entertaining! How many other commentators would use the term "Knackered" in their commentary.
Great post. Was going to say that camera focusing on him blowing was just after a long sprint. Check the state of 100m sprinters after a race. It’s all about getting his heart rate back down so he can go again in say 15-30 secs depending on fitness and yeah he is is a physical specimen and at his size it’ll be a lot harder for him to do such things but as your picture shows he really has started to lean down.Funny, I haven't seen this mentioned in any matchday threads or in his performance thread. Ole is not alluding the conditioning problem to specific players, its an overall problem at the club, something Mourinho neglected. Its been said that fitness and conditioning drills were decreased under his regime. Moyes and LVG were obsessed with fitness, as Moyes wanted a hard working team and you could see that from his Everton days. LVG also had some very demanding fitness drills that some players complained about, similar to the ones Conte introduced in his time at Chelsea. Pochettino and Klopp are two other managers who are similar in this sense.
Mourinho was more relaxed, and you could see how most of our games under him were tales of two halves, high intensity in the first, lethargic and poor in the second, and its carried over into Solskjaers regime and he's set out to fix it, mentioning it first when the team had a training weekend in Dubai. Phelan's drills are intense, and the players took to it initially but their poor conditioning has caught up with them in this recent slump
https://www.independent.ie/sport/so...mprove-fitness-levels-at-united-37682393.html
“The stats say the workload has been a bit higher in the past five games in terms of sprints and high-intensity runs,"
They are gassed, they are not used to the high intensity Ole has introduced yet, its a work in progress.
https://www.90min.com/posts/6275008...d-fitness-will-help-man-utd-against-liverpool
This is not true, Im rewatching the first half right now, and I know the exact moment you're talking about, in the 27th minute (26:50 exactly) when he collected the ball from deep in his own half and busted a gut for about 60 or so yards to get a through ball to Rashford. That was the longest sprint by any player in the match and he of course had to recover from that as any player would.
I saw others accusing him of not running into the box but Rashford should've done better with the through ball and Mata was already in the box in a central position. He kept up that overall first half intensity and not long after that he outran and out muscled Azpilicueta, shoving him into the camera man.
He bullied Azpilicueta when he moved to the left. His energy levels only drastically dipped in the second half, and the same can be said about the entire team, even the hardworking Herrera looked gassed. Its easy to see how wrongly conceived narratives are formed based on a visual. If the cameras didn't show him right after that move no one would be saying this
Neville is an idiot. 'How is he not overweight'? He gained muscle for the world cup as the conditioning for Belgium required it, but its not the same at United and he's been working on it. You can't make that claim just by looking at him, you have no idea what physical condition he's in. This picture is from last month after the Southampton game, he's getting leaner, he was bulkier when he came back from the world cup.
"I put on a bit of muscle at the World Cup. I just felt great and I played great over there, and then when I came back, it is a different type of style.
"When you are in the Premier League, I cannot play with the same amount of muscle as international football.
"I knew I had to lose muscle so I stayed out of the gym, drank a lot of water, and ate a lot of veg and fish."
https://www.sportsjoe.ie/football/romelu-lukaku-man-united-187397
Maybe he has and he's using the beard to cover it up
Was huffing and puffing after that run early in the game. Looked like when you're only focusing on breathing and not much else because you're that out of breath
Neville said the same in commentary, that run was great but he was doubled over trying to get his breath back immediately after
Funny, I haven't seen this mentioned in any matchday threads or in his performance thread. Ole is not alluding the conditioning problem to specific players, its an overall problem at the club, something Mourinho neglected. Its been said that fitness and conditioning drills were decreased under his regime. Moyes and LVG were obsessed with fitness, as Moyes wanted a hard working team and you could see that from his Everton days. LVG also had some very demanding fitness drills that some players complained about, similar to the ones Conte introduced in his time at Chelsea. Pochettino and Klopp are two other managers who are similar in this sense.
Mourinho was more relaxed, and you could see how most of our games under him were tales of two halves, high intensity in the first, lethargic and poor in the second, and its carried over into Solskjaers regime and he's set out to fix it, mentioning it first when the team had a training weekend in Dubai. Phelan's drills are intense, and the players took to it initially but their poor conditioning has caught up with them in this recent slump
https://www.independent.ie/sport/so...mprove-fitness-levels-at-united-37682393.html
“The stats say the workload has been a bit higher in the past five games in terms of sprints and high-intensity runs,"
They are gassed, they are not used to the high intensity Ole has introduced yet, its a work in progress.
https://www.90min.com/posts/6275008...d-fitness-will-help-man-utd-against-liverpool
This is not true, Im rewatching the first half right now, and I know the exact moment you're talking about, in the 27th minute (26:50 exactly) when he collected the ball from deep in his own half and busted a gut for about 60 or so yards to get a through ball to Rashford. That was the longest sprint by any player in the match and he of course had to recover from that as any player would.
I saw others accusing him of not running into the box but Rashford should've done better with the through ball and Mata was already in the box in a central position. He kept up that overall first half intensity and not long after that he outran and out muscled Azpilicueta, shoving him into the camera man.
He bullied Azpilicueta when he moved to the left. His energy levels only drastically dipped in the second half, and the same can be said about the entire team, even the hardworking Herrera looked gassed. Its easy to see how wrongly conceived narratives are formed based on a visual. If the cameras didn't show him right after that move no one would be saying this
Neville is an idiot. 'How is he not overweight'? He gained muscle for the world cup as the conditioning for Belgium required it, but its not the same at United and he's been working on it. You can't make that claim just by looking at him, you have no idea what physical condition he's in. This picture is from last month after the Southampton game, he's getting leaner, he was bulkier when he came back from the world cup.
"I put on a bit of muscle at the World Cup. I just felt great and I played great over there, and then when I came back, it is a different type of style.
"When you are in the Premier League, I cannot play with the same amount of muscle as international football.
"I knew I had to lose muscle so I stayed out of the gym, drank a lot of water, and ate a lot of veg and fish."
https://www.sportsjoe.ie/football/romelu-lukaku-man-united-187397
