this is the best post on here.
The ones that are throwing Amorim under the bus after less than three months are ridiculous. He hasnt even played his one transfer in yet and has his hands tied with no LB fit, or any good, Rashford, Casemiro, Dalot, Onana and other over the hill and/or bang below average players and two forwards who would struggle at Championship level to score.
Lets at least give him a transfer window in the summer, to get a couple more of his own players in and next season before you throw him to the wolves.
It's far from the best post on here. I agree with some of it, but it's also not outlandish for people to be unhappy with a manager coming in and throwing ever changing combinations of players onto the park in his preferred formation when the results and performances don't look particularly good for it, nor do they look like they are improving much either.
There are a lot of issues with the squad, it certainly has it's flaws but I highly doubt it's as bad on the whole as is often made out.
Amorim so far, and Ten Hag most of the time in my opinion play(ed) in a way that appears to sacrifice numbers in midfield which then often exposes the lack of pace that definitely is a big issue across most of our defenders.
It's not a coincidence that we've sometimes played better against the bigger teams as it requires a different approach and there's more space in behind for us to exploit.
We struggle against teams that sit off and they then pick us off.
We're supposed to be moving to new styles of play that are a bit more proactive and will help us with that, it doesn't look like that's happening. It's only been three months under Amorim, he's got us holding the ball better but the same problems that have plagued us persist. We're being outnumbered and overpowered in midfield, as a result exposing the defenders lack of pace and mobility, we're trying to get the ball to stick to strikers that clearly can't do that particularly well when under pressure and we don't get many bodies in the box, or put the ball in early enough often enough.
I'm obviously just a fan and not a highly paid coach, but it appears to me there's too much focus on technicalities of systems and build up when the solutions may in essence be a bit simpler. You're more likely to score by having bodies in around the 6 yard box and actually putting the ball in early than you are shuffling the ball across the park at a snails pace. See Elanaga and Wood at Forest for how effective this can be.
To do what we appear to be trying to do, the little give and goes around the box need to be quick and on point, as do the positions of the players in the box and the accuracy of the pull backs. 9 times out of 10 we get this wrong, so we probably don't have the players for it.
