Worst attacking subs ever?

Classical Mechanic

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Rashford
Pogba
Cavani
Mata

Cavani 5 touches
Pogba 9 touches
Mata 9 touches
Rashford 12 touches

0 shots
0 key passes
0 dribbles

Between them all!

Rashford 44% pass completion
Cavani 50% pass completion

Incredible stats

Ralf takes a good share of the blame given the kitchen sink destroyed any team cohesion.
 
Classical Mechanic said:
Rashford
Pogba
Cavani
Mata

Cavani 5 touches
Pogba 9 touches
Mata 9 touches
Rashford 12 touches

0 shots
0 key passes
0 dribbles

Between them all!

Rashford 44% pass completion
Cavani 50% pass completion

Incredible stats

Ralf takes a good share of the blame given the kitchen sink destroyed any team cohesion.
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Yeah it's a tactic that just backfired
 
His subs are monumentally stupid. Hardly any modern manager now just throws away his midfield, to just lumps forwards up front. It doesn't work anymore, unless you've got a menace like Fellaini
 
Can’t believe I’m going to say it, but we were a far better team with McFred on the field.
 
Aren't these the players we had to put on? It is what it is.

I don't think knockout stages CL is when we want to experiment with Phil Jones up top.
 
Classical Mechanic said:
Rashford
Pogba
Cavani
Mata

Cavani 5 touches
Pogba 9 touches
Mata 9 touches
Rashford 12 touches

0 shots
0 key passes
0 dribbles

Between them all!

Rashford 44% pass completion
Cavani 50% pass completion

Incredible stats

Ralf takes a good share of the blame given the kitchen sink destroyed any team cohesion.
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I was quite game for Pogba coming on. Cavani to an extent, seeing as we’d been reduced to lumping it in there. Rashford is just depressing to see what he’s become and Mata reeked of utter desperation
 
Ragnick messed up, it may be due to frustration but the subs only weakened us. We generated nothing and besides Varane's header they had a calm night. We couldn't even get the ball.
 
Bruno and Elanga off for Rashford and Pogba was a pisstake. No chance that was ever going to help us.
 
It used to wind me up when Fergie put 4 strikers on for the last 5 minutes and barely managed to create anything because we had no midfield; doing it with 20 minutes left when we were controlling the game is so unnecessary.
 
Skills said:
His subs are monumentally stupid. Hardly any modern manager now just throws away his midfield, to just lumps forwards up front. It doesn't work anymore, unless you've got a menace like Fellaini
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It was obvious the moment he made those changes that we were going to lose the plot and had no hope in the game.

The worst subs I've seen at this level in quite a while.
 
It's because of that time he made all attacking subs and we scored, he thought he could do the same.
 
The subs were not bad. How they played was bad.

you chuck on those players and go long. Yet we played them just to go short and try the same failed build ups.
 
Fully agree. I thought Ole was bad. He usually made the right decision but 20 minutes too late. Ralf is on another level. None of his subs make sense half the time.
 
Changing three players at once wasn’t great. I’d have brought on Cavani for Elanga first and gone from there. That being said Bruno was absolutely abysmal and could’ve come off at half time.
 
Fred should have stayed and Elanga. I don’t mind subbing Bruno for Pogba because Bruno, while being able to produce a moment of magic, is likely to waste 9/10 key passing opportunities and in a match where chances are limited I get it.

The excessive amount of subs ruined the structure and game plan.
 
Not much he could do, looking at the bench, there’s absolutely none of them that can change this kind a game. Mark that down as Oles trash bag squad building.
 
Skills said:
His subs are monumentally stupid. Hardly any modern manager now just throws away his midfield, to just lumps forwards up front. It doesn't work anymore, unless you've got a menace like Fellaini
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Dan_F said:
It used to wind me up when Fergie put 4 strikers on for the last 5 minutes and barely managed to create anything because we had no midfield; doing it with 20 minutes left when we were controlling the game is so unnecessary.
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Yes, he does it nearly every time we are chasing late on. In fairness, we were creating feck all with the starting XI tonight, but it was another match where Rangnick’s changes gave us less of a foothold in the game.
 
Can't blame him too much for that really. That was the bench, and with 10-15 minutes left you've got to put on the subs. They were shit, but so was everyone else.
 
DeGea’sFeet said:
Fred should have stayed and Elanga. I don’t mind subbing Bruno for Pogba because Bruno, while being able to produce a moment of magic, is likely to waste 9/10 key passing opportunities and in a match where chances are limited I get it.

The excessive amount of subs ruined the structure and game plan.
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Bruno had assists in all CL games he played up until this one, whereas Pogba has recorded zero assists in the CL.

This + Rashford on at all, regardless of whom he is replacing are probably the dodgy ones.
 
slored1 said:
Bruno and Elanga off for Rashford and Pogba was a pisstake. No chance that was ever going to help us.
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Taking Bruno off was mind-boggling but Rashford for Elanga made sense, at least on paper. It isn't entirely Rangnick's fault Rashford has become this shit.
 
Kopral Jono said:
Taking Bruno off was mind-boggling but Rashford for Elanga made sense, at least on paper. It isn't entirely Rangnick's fault Rashford has become this shit.
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Disagree, Rashford has shown so many shit performances in a row, he shouldn't be allowed to come on. At least put Lingard there or something.
 
Worse than LVG bringing on whoever the hell it was for Mata away to Wolfsburg
 
Bringing on Mata to save us in the CL in 2022 sums us up how desperately poor our team is.
 
Taking Bruno off wasn't a good idea, and putting Rashford on the pitch was criminal.

Outside of that though, the options he's been left with are pretty shite. I'll take "chuck all the attackers on and hope for the best" over Ole's 86th minute like-for-like subs.
 
They came on to play a game of kick-rush. I genuinely believe you could swap a few starters for subs & you’d see a similar number of damning statistics when they come on.

For all the bluster of changing the coach, we’re just as clueless as ever in the way we play the game. It’s a chore to watch & the players really aren’t hiding how much of a chore they find it to play.
 
Harsh on Mata, as your own stats show, he touched the ball just as much as the other in a quarter of the time!
 
Chasing the game. Bring on 3 subs with 15 mins to go, bring on Mata with 6 mins to go. What else can you do??

Bruno invisible all game. Rashford has been piss poor for a long time but who else can you bring on for Elanga?
 
PSV said:
Bruno had assists in all CL games he played up until this one, whereas Pogba has recorded zero assists in the CL.

This + Rashford on at all, regardless of whom he is replacing are probably the dodgy ones.
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That’s the smaller picture. But on the bigger picture Bruno Fernandes gives the ball away a lot. This means a lot of opportunities that could end up becoming goal scoring chances don’t. I’m not saying he regularly ruins the last assists but very often he gives the ball away in positions where he could be the 2nd/3rd/4th pass from a goal scoring chance.

That player is often the most important in the modern game, the one who retains possession in the attacking half when many waste it with a bad pass or wild shot or simply get dispossessed. His pass might be simple and not directly create a chance but 2,3, 4 passes later a goal scoring chance arises. That’s why players like David Silva, Iniesta, Zidane etc are so highly rated.
 
Classical Mechanic said:
Rashford
Pogba
Cavani
Mata

Cavani 5 touches
Pogba 9 touches
Mata 9 touches
Rashford 12 touches

0 shots
0 key passes
0 dribbles

Between them all!

Rashford 44% pass completion
Cavani 50% pass completion

Incredible stats

Ralf takes a good share of the blame given the kitchen sink destroyed any team cohesion.
Click to expand...

The “team cohesion” that had led to (counts fingers) zero shots on target from half time until the subs were made?
 
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