I don't agree with your analysis of the Brighton match
@bosnian_red, I thought it was close and was decided by poor tracking of runners and poor decision making in the final third, particularly by Rashford, rather than tactics, but that's probably another conversation.
As for the sentiment in your post though, I wholeheartedly agree and I think if people look beyond the losses and scorelines, there are some promising signs.
One if the biggest is that we've become really good at winning the ball in dangerous areas - we're top of the league for high turnovers. Unfortunately we're bottom for high turnovers leading to a goal, which means we're either panicking, or aren't sure how to take advantage of those situations, but that's something that can be drilled and will come with experience.
On top of that, the players actually seem to be set up pretty well for the pressing system we're trying to play, but we're often being undone by individual mistakes and some lazy tracking. The former can be overcome with experience and drilling, the latter will hopefully improve when we get some of our more athletic and game players back from injury.
Another of our issues is that heads go down when we concede, and our system suffers for it. Hopefully once the above pans out and we start actually benefiting from turnovers and preventing the easy goals the players will gain more faith in it and themselves, which will allow us to respond to setbacks better.
Every match we've had apart from Wolves has seen us at least match our opposition, and even in the Wolves match we won the ball high so many times we really should have punished them and made it a different match. Once we start doing that consistently, our full 90 performances and results will improve dramatically.
