Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach

Yep, we struggle to play against teams that have a mid/low block at the moment because our build up is so pedestrian from the back.

We have had this issue for a while now, under Ole, Ten Hag and Amorim, we struggle to consistently beat teams that have a mid block, we end up conceding possession before it can reach the final third.

Personally, we need players that can keep the ball, receive the ball in tight spaces and keep it. I saw a passing network diagram where our most common pass is RCB to CB.. all within our own half whilst other teams have passing networks in the opposition half.
It's why we need a midfielder who can pick up the ball from deep and progress play.
 
What is his chant to the tune of? I kind of know but also don't and it's doing my head in :lol:
 
Guys i am high like a kite, in a club full of sexy women & it's 2am here and I Love Manchester United with my soul.
United by soul and blood.
Our good days are coming, everyone should keep faith. We have been through dark days already. When those glorious days come remember me please.
 
Guys i am high like a kite, in a club full of sexy women & it's 2am here and I Love Manchester United with my soul.
United by soul and blood.
Our good days are coming, everyone should keep faith. We have been through dark days already. When those glorious days come remember me please.
:lol: get off your phone and go dance with some of those sexy women around you.
 
Guys i am high like a kite, in a club full of sexy women & it's 2am here and I Love Manchester United with my soul.
United by soul and blood.
Our good days are coming, everyone should keep faith. We have been through dark days already. When those glorious days come remember me please.
:lol:
 
Guys i am high like a kite, in a club full of sexy women & it's 2am here and I Love Manchester United with my soul.
United by soul and blood.
Our good days are coming, everyone should keep faith. We have been through dark days already. When those glorious days come remember me please.

Say hi to Molly!
 
Guys i am high like a kite, in a club full of sexy women & it's 2am here and I Love Manchester United with my soul.
United by soul and blood.
Our good days are coming, everyone should keep faith. We have been through dark days already. When those glorious days come remember me please.

Post worthy of a new tagline.
 
It's been going for a little while. I think Palace at home was the first time I'd heard it.
It was really noticeable the other day, I miss some games because of work and have to catch up later, so maybe I'm just not all that observant haha.

Either way I liked it. Nice to hear some positivity when literally everything is terrible otherwise!
 
Guys i am high like a kite, in a club full of sexy women & it's 2am here and I Love Manchester United with my soul.
United by soul and blood.
Our good days are coming, everyone should keep faith. We have been through dark days already. When those glorious days come remember me please.
And yet here you are, posting on the Caf. Absolute legend.
 
Guys i am high like a kite, in a club full of sexy women & it's 2am here and I Love Manchester United with my soul.
United by soul and blood.
Our good days are coming, everyone should keep faith. We have been through dark days already. When those glorious days come remember me please.
We are the devils :devil: :devil: :devil:
 
Guys i am high like a kite, in a club full of sexy women & it's 2am here and I Love Manchester United with my soul.
United by soul and blood.
Our good days are coming, everyone should keep faith. We have been through dark days already. When those glorious days come remember me please.
I love it.
 
Guys i am high like a kite, in a club full of sexy women & it's 2am here and I Love Manchester United with my soul.
United by soul and blood.
Our good days are coming, everyone should keep faith. We have been through dark days already. When those glorious days come remember me please.

Is there a Hall of Fame for Caf posts? If so I'd like to nominate the above :lol:
 
Guys i am high like a kite, in a club full of sexy women & it's 2am here and I Love Manchester United with my soul.
United by soul and blood.
Our good days are coming, everyone should keep faith. We have been through dark days already. When those glorious days come remember me please.

I remember my first beer
 
Guys i am high like a kite, in a club full of sexy women & it's 2am here and I Love Manchester United with my soul.
United by soul and blood.
Our good days are coming, everyone should keep faith. We have been through dark days already. When those glorious days come remember me please.

This is the best post I've seen on the Caf and should be re-posted by everyone if we ever win a league title again.
 
Guys i am high like a kite, in a club full of sexy women & it's 2am here and I Love Manchester United with my soul.
United by soul and blood.
Our good days are coming, everyone should keep faith. We have been through dark days already. When those glorious days come remember me please.

You can’t bate those holiday yippers!
 
Guys i am high like a kite, in a club full of sexy women & it's 2am here and I Love Manchester United with my soul.
United by soul and blood.
Our good days are coming, everyone should keep faith. We have been through dark days already. When those glorious days come remember me please.
Top post. Can imagine him posting about United as his musses gives birth some day
 
Guys i am high like a kite, in a club full of sexy women & it's 2am here and I Love Manchester United with my soul.
United by soul and blood.
Our good days are coming, everyone should keep faith. We have been through dark days already. When those glorious days come remember me please.

How's the head today?
 
Goals and assists are not the only way to judge a player’s attacking ability, or their ability to change the dynamic of a team’s ability to attack. For example, the ability to beat a man can change the dynamic of a teams’s attack and open up an opposing team in a way that might not be reflected by direct assists. Watch Sporting play and you’ll see it. In fact, do you remember when you said a few pages ago that, and I quote, “Dorgu has made the difference”? He didn’t get any goals or assists though did he? Yet he still made the difference.

What you described is exactly what Amad or Garnacho are very good at. Hence why I said we should use this inverted wingback to allow them to express themselves but also remove Amad/Garnacho defensive responsibility as wingback.

And no, I’m not describing a playmaker. Do you not watch us play or something? Have you not seen Dalot and Mazraoui get in to attacking positions even as inverted WBs? You haven’t seen them get in one on one situations, or play forward passes, or get in to positions to cross the ball? Because if you watch the games, you will see them get in to those positions despite being inverted WBs, and you’ll see they are not particularly effective in those positions.

Literally, ever since Amorim moved Garnacho on the right and when Amorim deployed the inverted right wingback role, we’ve been much better as a team. The purpose of this right inverted wingback is to provide more balance for the team (not to offer more individual attacking threat to the team) and allowing our natural winger such as Garnacho/Amad to give them more freedom and express what they are good at. Hence why I said it compliments Garnacho/Amad’s strength, it doesn’t change Amorim’s system, and it compliments our limited budget to allow us to concentrate other areas especially focus on the backbone of the team.

You make assumption and you judge people if they don’t have the same view as your means they don’t watch the game, which clearly non-sense. You need to drop that attitude of yours and start to agree to disagree with different opinion not making non-sense assumption.
 
What you described is exactly what Amad or Garnacho are very good at. Hence why I said we should use this inverted wingback to allow them to express themselves but also remove Amad/Garnacho defensive responsibility as wingback.



Literally, ever since Amorim moved Garnacho on the right and when Amorim deployed the inverted right wingback role, we’ve been much better as a team. The purpose of this right inverted wingback is to provide more balance for the team (not to offer more individual attacking threat to the team) and allowing our natural winger such as Garnacho/Amad to give them more freedom and express what they are good at. Hence why I said it compliments Garnacho/Amad’s strength, it doesn’t change Amorim’s system, and it compliments our limited budget to allow us to concentrate other areas especially focus on the backbone of the team.

You make assumption and you judge people if they don’t have the same view as your means they don’t watch the game, which clearly non-sense. You need to drop that attitude of yours and start to agree to disagree with different opinion not making non-sense assumption.

This doesn’t make any sense. Whether the WBs are inverted or not, both the WBs and the 10s still have attacking responsibilities in possession and defensive responsibilities out of possession.

And you still haven’t addressed the fact that even when “inverted”, Dalot and Mazaraoui still regularly get in to attacking positions, and they are not very effective or productive in those positions.

You should also compare Dorgu’s heat map v Sociedad versus Dalot’s. The positions they take up are remarkably similar despite what you say about one being inverted and one not.
 
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Guys i am high like a kite, in a club full of sexy women & it's 2am here and I Love Manchester United with my soul.
United by soul and blood.
Our good days are coming, everyone should keep faith. We have been through dark days already. When those glorious days come remember me please.
The words of the prophets are written on the...Metrolink walls?
 
This doesn’t make any sense. Whether the WBs are inverted or not, both the WBs and the 10s still have attacking responsibilities in possession and defensive responsibilities out of possession.

I never say they don’t have those responsibilities. Each of them have attacking/defensive responsibilities but WBs, inverted WB and 10s have different kind of attacking and defensive responsibilities.

You mentioned Quenda or attacking wingback’s attacking ability: ‘’their ability to change the dynamic of a team’s ability to attack. For example, the ability to beat a man can change the dynamic of a teams’s attack and open up an opposing team in a way that might not be reflected by direct assists. ‘’

My response is that those attacking wingback’s attacking abilities you mentioned are what Garnacho and Amad are good at. Due to those attacking abilities, Garnacho and Amad fits Amorim’s wingback’s attacking abilities at sporting. But I don’t see them fit as Amorim’s wingback’s defensive ability because Amorim wants his wingback to join the backline to form back five during defensive transition and IMO this is not something Garnacho and Amad are good at. That’s why I suggested to play inverted wingback so we can play Garnacho or Amad as wide forward so they can use those wingback attacking abilities (that’s what I meant by ‘’to express themselves’’) without forcing them to defend like wingback ‘’forming back five’’ (that’s what I meant by ‘’removing their defensive responsibility as wingback’’).

And you still haven’t addressed the fact that even when “inverted”, Dalot and Mazaraoui still regularly get in to attacking positions, and they are not very effective or productive in those positions.

I have addressed this in best possible way for you to understand by:
  • Telling you that as inverted wingback, their attacking responsibility become less in comparison to attacking wingback (again, less or more don’t mean they don’t have responsibility in attack). But they primary will provide balance for the team and allowing our natural winger such as Garnacho/Amad to give them more freedom and express what they are good at. Hence why I said it compliments Garnacho/Amad’s strength, it doesn’t change Amorim’s system, and it compliments our limited budget to allow us to concentrate other areas especially focus on the backbone of the team.
  • And included the structure of how this inverted wingback operates (which I mentioned this last week).
Defensive transition:
GK
Inverted RWB - RCB - CB - LCB - LWB
Deep-playmaker - box-to-box
Wide forward - Inside forward
Striker

Attacking transition:
GK
RCB - CB - LCB
Inverted RWB - Deep-playmaker - box-to-box
Wide forward - Inside forward - LWB
Striker

You should also compare Dorgu’s heat map v Sociedad versus Dalot’s. The positions they take up are remarkably similar despite what you say about one being inverted and one not.
During defensive transition, they have the similar positions because they both operate similar like full back join the backline to form back five, which I have mentioned this to you last week.

During attacking transition, they have different position and different responsibility. Dorgu occupied more in the final third zone, while Dalot occupied more in the between, which exactly what I described about the inverted wingback has less attacking responsibility than the attacking wingback and they provide more balance.

Their heat maps fit the description of what I demonstrated in their role and the attacking and defensive structure.

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