We are an awfully coached team

I cant disagree that our coaching isn't the best. There are big tactical flaws especially in our defensive organisation when we are prone to ball watching. My biggest tactical beef is defending set pieces - corners and free kicks - where we put EVERYONE in the penalty box so there is never an outball if we clear our lines. And often we make daft decisons on who marks who - putting a small player in a taller one. Our setup leaves us open to shots from the edge of the area...or the ball being put right back into the danger zone.

There are real flaws that cost us. Despite that we are second.
 
Rossa said:
What about our first goal? Coaching out just pure luck?
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It was just multiple individual moments of brilliance that just happened to be strung together.
 
To keep your cool, to not panic and keep winning after going behind (even after referees’ mistakes) is a sign of a team which knows what they are doing and what they need to do in the 2nd half to win. This is a priceless characteristic to have and very well done to whoever external coaches we have hired for half time speeches.
 
Today we got everything right. We have not played like this before. We have counter attacked before. We didn't today. We pushed players forward. The three goals we scored we had at least 5 players in forward positions. AWB was pushing forward. So was Fred. We should play like this always.
 
Well we know he has at least one coaching method now because he told us about it - he doesn't feed them if they roll around on the floor too much.
 
That first goal was just another case of multiple pieces of individualism strung together in a sequence. It keeps happening.
 
The first and 3rd goals were really lovely plays similar to our goals against Spurs. I like this, more of this please.
 
Still plenty of room to improve but I think the last few games have been better from Ole. I've been pretty critical but team set-up with Martial out seems pretty good and the substitutions also. Signs of life. They still start too slow and set pieces are still an adventure but Ole seems to be starting to find another level.
 
el3mel said:
The first and 3rd goals were really lovely plays similar to our goals against Spurs. I like this, more of this please.
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We’ve scored team goals like this a bit under Solskjaer, they’ve just been followed up the next week with dross which masks over it.

Feel like we’re seeing more consistency and our coaching is starting to show what we are actually capable of. Some of the team football we’ve played has been beautiful to watch. We really are not far off.
 
Getting better. Probably the best I have seen us play under Ole. Keep going like this and think we can finally agree, something is being cooked.
 
In the attacking phases today, we looked good and even excellent at times. However, there are huge question marks about our ability to defend set-pieces and we continually concede the same goals and chances every single week due to our bizarre obsession with placing our most aerially-dominant players inside our own six-yard box whilst our vertically-challenged players pick up the opposition’s biggest threats. It’s actually bonkers stuff yet we continue to persevere with it.

How anybody can look at that aspect of our game and think we are a well-coached side is absolutely beyond me. A major overhaul is needed in this area of our game, IMO.
 
Buchan said:
In the attacking phases today, we looked good and even excellent at times. However, there are huge question marks about our ability to defend set-pieces and we continually concede the same goals and chances every single week due to our bizarre obsession with placing our most aerially-dominant players inside our own six-yard box whilst our vertically-challenged players pick up the opposition’s biggest threats. It’s actually bonkers stuff yet we continue to persevere with it.

How anybody can look at that aspect of our game and think we are a well-coached side is absolutely beyond me. A major overhaul is needed in this area of our game, IMO.
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Only three teams in the division have conceded fewer goals than us.

Burnley are good in the air, it’s no shame to concede a goal against them. Harry could have been stronger (although the lad had his forearm on Harry’s shoulder).

I’m not against improvement but it’s not a massive coaching issue. The bigger problem is CM going awol but that looks more like individual discipline than coaching.
 
I think we are better with out Martial. He is rarely in a goal scoring position.
 
I have seen Carl Anka of The Athletic saying that he asked Ole about the space and lack of movement and he said that he doesn't do like to play like space and that sort of thing. To Carl it was puzzling as to why he thought he said that. He doesn't know if Ole thinks he does not have the kind of players to play like that or simply he does not believe in playing like that.
 
We started well for the first 15-20mins and then fell into a lull as Burnley regained some confidence.

These are the parts where Ole needs to improve. He's far too happy to wait until half time.

He should on the touchline screaming at the players to take back the initiative and up the tempo.

Subs were inspired and changed the game but for me it comes back to Plan B worked well, Plan A wasn't good enough.
 
Man Utd Win: For some reason, these talented players are stringing things together consistently over the entire season! Ole is a lucky coach.
Man Utd Lose: Ole is a shite coach, he can't coach "patterns of play" to get these talented players to string things together.
 
Foxbatt said:
I have seen Carl Anka of The Athletic saying that he asked Ole about the space and lack of movement and he said that he doesn't do like to play like space and that sort of thing. To Carl it was puzzling as to why he thought he said that. He doesn't know if Ole thinks he does not have the kind of players to play like that or simply he does not believe in playing like that.
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Was it as puzzling as your sentence?
 
Foxbatt said:
I have seen Carl Anka of The Athletic saying that he asked Ole about the space and lack of movement and he said that he doesn't do like to play like space and that sort of thing. To Carl it was puzzling as to why he thought he said that. He doesn't know if Ole thinks he does not have the kind of players to play like that or simply he does not believe in playing like that.
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Roux said:
Was it as puzzling as your sentence?
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I was about to post the same thing.

Can you try again @Foxbatt ?

You've completely lost us here.
 
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