People always slag off the French league yet want to sign all their young players.
Manchester United vs Lens (Sat 5th August, 12:45 UK time)
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God do you ever get tired of being so negative? The lad hasn’t kicked a ball yet and you’re already writing him off.
MUTV is nauseating. The positivity is sickening.
There is a clear difference with Onana, we have another dynamic to our play.
I have seen Thibaut Courtois being first and foremost the master of his own penalty area, never caring about moving so far up the field. Is that enough for you?
He doesn't play any higher than other keepers like Ederson or Allison. We have to cut those errors out of our defence to enable him to do what we bought him for.
Ah ok. But I'm sure this has come into consideration.
You can't judge the physical aspect of a team during pre-season, it all depend on the training they went through. If the workload was high, it's normal for them to be tired.
This is a very good practice game
Yeah, but isn't this just how he plays all the time? I still fail to see it with him. I'm more worried about how anonymous/poor our new no7 has been tbh.
"Great tackles" don't happen in a vacuum. With the way we're setting up to play and with the keeper being an additional passing outlet - there should always be a passing lane open. There's obviously a degree of risk, but it's how we want to play.
Again, a simple 10 yard pass being fluffed is not on the keeper
He really does.
If you've been paying attention, when Lens are on the attack, Onana gets back in position very quickly. Even on that goal he was merely a fingertip short.
When your RB messes up a basic as hell 2 foot pass and the opposition takes a first time shot, to complain the keeper was out of position is trying abit too hard to force the blame elsewhere.
If they our defensive line was 1 meter further back, Onana would have been too. He moves forward when the defenders do and back when they come back.
Wake up.
He passed it straight to himPeople blaming Delot for the goal. He’s literally halfway up the fecking pitch.
Very underwhelming/late signings coupled with a very disjointed pre-season. Hopefully EtH makes it click in time for the season kick-off.
We'll need to change managers cuz ETH wants Onana to play like this.
It’s not suicidal though, our right back should not be giving away possession there. Dalot is 100% to blame.
Yeah. I don’t get it.
Do you think he would have been stood where he was if he knew Dalot was going to do that?
If the answer is yes then you’re right, he’s suicidal and stupid and we shouldn’t have signed him. If the answer is no then maybe Dalot is a feckkng idiot?
Agreed. The change of shape from 2-1 to 1-2 isn’t looking great.
It's on both Dalot and Onana,
Dalot with a stupid pass, Onana due to absolutely horrendous positioning.
Licha is bit off today from his usual standard
Lens have been really solid, have to give credit. Tbh, look the better team imo.
Why are we so crap at passing?
Much like long periods like season, I'm not overly confident we'll create goal scoring chances when we break. Under Ole we looked so clinical.
Agreed, not been great defensively or in possession.
I'm not debating Dalot is an idiot, but Onana shouldn't be that far out, there's no need for it.
It's on both players, this hasn't been the first time Onana has been beaten like that ...
Lack of physicality in this team is one of the biggest issues.
Yeah sure, Courtois proves everything…
He's up there because we had secure possession and he's forming a tight triangle to break the line in midfield if it's passed to him.
It's not his fault if Dalot misplaces a 10 metre pass and he is supposed to act on the basis his teammates can pass
I wish. We were winning titles then.
On a side note, Kevin Danso looks pretty good. He's fast, physical, defensively solid and good in build up play.
What’s with all the blonde highlights? Looking like the 1998 Romanian World Cup team
We are going to be the possession-based long ball specialist.
Nobody can explain why being a few yards deeper when we have the ball would be a negative. Maybe on this occasion he was higher than he should’ve been.
I don't get people blaming Onana. It's like walking through East London at midnight wearing a £5000 suit and a bunch of flashy watches and then saying you weren't at fault for getting robbed. It was the robbers fault!
We didn’t sign Courtois. We didn’t sign Onana to play like Courtois. Get a clue.
Didn’t take long
Can’t wait until the posts about wanting keepers to make saves first and foremost pop up
There’s nothing in our transfer business or pre season performances that suggests our passing, close control, composure and decision making will improve. Hopefully it just clicks but we’re miles off competing when we make so many simple errors and bad decisions.