Manchester United Teamtalk/Transfer Rumours/Gossip 2020/21- Mod Notes OP [17/10/20]

Whatsisname

Only took Holding 4 fouls to get booked.

NITRO95

Diamond hasn't worked. Would love to see Ole change things for the second part of the first half

El Gato De Negocios

Arsenal are dirty enough aren't they the rascals.

Whatsisname

El Gato De Negocios wrote: »

Arsenal are dirty enough aren't they the rascals.

Straight outta the The Tactical Foul 101 by El Pep.

Tippex

NITRO95 wrote: »

Diamond hasn't worked. Would love to see Ole change things for the second part of the first half

The game is passing mctominey by I think its more the personnel. Bring matic on for mctominey

Arsenal. Getting more confident and committing more forward but we are looking more dangerous on the break as a result

We are being outplayed but we could easily catch them

NITRO95

Why the hell wasn't PEA booked for that challenge on Bruno?

El Gato De Negocios

El Gato De Negocios wrote: »

Big pressure on PP today. He had his best game in some time for us midweek so the expectation is that he will continue, hopefully that's the version we get today and not the more usual one.

Business as usual so far.

:rolleyes:

BenK

McTominay doesn't seem to know what he's meant to be doing. Game is passing him by.

Can't say anyone is playing well. For us maybe Rashford has been good off what he has got

beakerjoe

Drumpot wrote: »

What I’m wondering is how long they can go with this pressing game. Surely must be energy sapping, hopefully they run out of steam and we get more possession and opportunities.

The Homer Simpson Boxing approach.... nudge em.... nudge em.

nullzero

Desperate stuff so far. A tactical change is needed, we've been nullified completely.

beakerjoe

nullzero wrote: »

Desperate stuff so far. A tactical change is needed, we've been nullified completely.

Arsenal are very comfortable.

Drumpot

Feels like United are relying on players quality and bits of class to make things happen. Not sure this formation is gonna work today.

wadacrack

Pogba terrible on the left and not pressing/ tracking back

Man with broke phone

Looks like we are biding our time and saving our energy for something later.

Quandary

This has been abysmal from Utd

beakerjoe

wadacrack wrote: »

Pogba terrible on the left and not pressing/ tracking back

No one is pressing though. Well no United players.

El Gato De Negocios

2 bloody let offs there.

Drumpot

Ah something has to change , Arsenal could be 2 up at this stage.

I’d take a messy 1-0

Man with broke phone

Shaw lines up against the winger and turns sideways 5 yards away when they cross everytime. Wtf.

Alot coming from his side.

Zeek12

Living dangerously here.
Arteta has predicted how we would set up and pinned us back well.
Not helped by Pogba losing possession so easily

Tippex

Playing fred at the bottom of the diamond is stupid missing his energy that little bit further forward. Take mct off and put matic where fred is

Whatsisname

Why do we look like we're playing in quicksand.

Quandary

Quandary wrote: »

This has been abysmal from Utd

The norm. But continues to be disappointing as I try continuously to be optimistic

If we can get to half time and make some subs we could change the second half

Up to Ole

Dave0301

Midfield has been cack so far.

They haven't got a foothold in the match at all.

NITRO95

Seen this so often from Oles Utd. A great performance followed by absolute ****e

Mr.Crinklewood

Fred in a tightrope.

Anyone want a coffee at half time?

Man with broke phone

Again from shaw, cross away lads, pick your best pass, I wont put you off.

KH25

This is fairly rubbish. Too many passes going astray. Arsenal are playing this well.

Handball me bolox

Ref again after a good ball from Fred to Rashford

Father Hernandez

Only that Greenwood effort as the only shot so far, on or off target.

Giving the ball away, lots of offsides, not sure what the plan is for the attacking third.

Wednesday clouded our judgement.

BKtje

To be Fair, Bruno has given the ball away a lot as well. I don't see Pogba being any worse (or better) than him so far.

For me this diamond isn't working. Whether it's personal or shape or both I don't know.

Man with broke phone

Pogba seems to have pushed up

Weepsie

Some of that woeful early season defending is creeping back in.

Shaw not stopping crosses or putting enough pressure on Willian. Maguire headlessly running into space and Lindeloff and AwB failing to take responsibility for the player between them.

Liam O

Wake me up on Tuesday for the CL.

Tippex

For me Matic is what makes the diamond tick without him in the bottom of the diamond it just does not work

RasTa

Some difference in us v them playing out from the back.

Whatsisname

Performances like this after the one against Leipzig is exactly why people question Ole as a manager.

wanderer100

Piss poor half from United. Getting dominated in the midfield and have offered nothing going forward.

McTominay is useless, get him off for Matic and push Fred to the right hand side of the diamond. Fred at CDM is a waste

Drumpot

That was a very poor first half, the best that can be said is that they didn’t score but it was more down to luck and arsenal not taking their chances.

Ole needs to show some managerial acumen and make some changes even to the tactics if not personnel . If he starts as is and things continue on as first half he has to make changes within 10 mins of 2nd half. It really is only a matter of time before arsenal score in this tie,

0gac3yjefb5sv7

What's the story with AWB always leaving someone behind him at the back post? No need to mark Aubemyang?

nullzero

A completely inept first half display.

I won't be surprised to see a 1-0 win for Arsenal in this game. We need a serious kick in the hole here, our league performances are bordering on relegation form.

Quandary

Lack of width is making it very easy to pen Utd in.

Any goodwill built up from the leipzig win will evaporate unless Ole can make the necessary changes at HT.

Whatsisname

MattS1 wrote: »

What's the story with AWB always leaving someone behind him at the back post? No need to make Aubemyang?

Remember him doing it about 4 or 5 times against Brighton, he seems to really struggle to defend against crosses to the back post.

S.M.B.

RasTa wrote: »

Some difference in us v them playing out from the back.

Don't think it's entirely down to capability. They seem less aggressive but their entire team is super condensed. We are doing the opposite probably because our back four got burned so badly against spurs.

yourdeadwright

NITRO95 wrote: »

Seen this so often from Oles Utd. A great performance followed by absolute ****e

Its not surprising Leipzig and PSG showed United no repect and played far to open amd paid the price on the counter
Prem teams this seaaon have realised if you starve United of counter attacking opportunities you can get points

Ole still deserves credit for the champions league games but so far hes had no answer for the tactics team play in Prem games,
They even struggled in large parts in there two wins aginst Brighton and Newcastle

Whatsisname

Christ, thats awful.

https://twitter.com/TheManUtdWay/status/1322953126668881921?s=20

beakerjoe

Whatsisname wrote: »

Christ, thats awful.

https://twitter.com/TheManUtdWay/status/1322953126668881921?s=20

This doesnt bode well for us.

PARlance

Very clear that playing it out from the back duties have been taken away from Maguire and given to Lindelof.
Shaw was lucky against RBL and lucky on a few occasions today as well, can't wait for Telles to return.
Maguire, DDG and AWB are all susceptible to high pressing.

Definitely need a change early in the second half, we should be dominating Arsenal in midfield. McTom a bit lost in these games.