Maguire is such a great defender, he decided to help opponent to defend as well

Underrated defender. We should be grateful we have him. For 80 million! 😂

Maguire did his job. He prevented a sure goal.

We only have ourselves to blame for this.
With 15 minutes to go, we opted to park the bus with a 5 man defence and 3 CDMs. And true enough, the bus sprang a leak.

The post match interview he said he forgot that he was at the other side of the field.
He should be scoring not defending.

when i look back at amad goal ,..oh my just look at that bruno pass, this is like prime pogba ..and the finishing is world class .. such beauty..

keep on repeat @ [1:01] .. its like pure instinct , on the run - without looking just turns his head - execute the header

This post has been edited by orga_laut: Mar 12 2021, 12:56 PM

boring first half.

amad goal is special. could have a special result and again lousy defending. even henderson can't save us from corner lol. if corner so weak don't simply give corner away la. brandon williams also another one. i thought that corner given away is a cheap shot.

matic also contribute nothing to att. mispass here and there

This post has been edited by IpohGuyz: Mar 12 2021, 01:11 PM

Not suprise at all. Typical Ole's tactic, hope for counter.

Maguire is so good that he helps out both sides with crucial clearance.

Captain Marvel indeed.

Watched the past couple of games for the full 90 minutes, and can't fault Ole for much except maybe parking the bus in the final 15 minutes for the Milan game.
He went for Maguire-Bailly for the Milan game which meant we played higher. The players just have to put those chances away, James especially.

Our midfield probably wouldn't start for the top half of PL teams. I sympathise with Bruno who is suffering from the 'starve the enganche' syndrome.
This is where you nullify an oppositions best creative outlet by cutting off the supply line. And with Fred, McT and Matic it is easy to do. Bruno doesn't get the ball enough. When he does, what a pass to Diallo.

We keep playing a double CDM pivot presumably because one isn't good enough for us. A pivot CDM shold be able to do 3 things : Shield the defence, offer an outlet to take the ball off the defenders and distribute up the field at speed.
None of our CDMs can tick the boxes.

Fred can screen the defence but does not have the passing range to get it up the field. He gives the ball away too often for a PL CDM.
McT can occasionally make the pass upwards but not often enough for a CDM. He is not naturally suited to a CDM role because he doesn't close down players fast enough. He is more of a BBM.
Matic is done. Off the pace of the game at this level.

Our transition speed is too slow, it gets held up at the CDMs. Usually by the time they get it out, the opponents have reset their defensive shape.
We can't seem to pick the ball off the defenders and move the ball to Bruno quickly enough.

As a legendary FM player (tongue in cheek please, hold up the hate posts), my first signing for United was a CDM.

apart from few attacking moves, terrible display from United..

thought it was going to be one of those poor performance but great result.. well United get what they deserve in the end.. 1-0 lead at home and yet couldnt keep the ball for more than 5minutes..

We are not getting through. Looked like we didn't even want to turn up. Good riddance of this cup which we don't deserve anyway...

We need a midfielder like Carrick to be able to make such long passing, currently Pogba is the one able to do that

Pogba can do it but he’s not a CDM. A CDM doesn’t need the expansive passing range like Pogba which is world class, having a midrange one is good enough. The most important criteria here is transition speed, how quickly the player can release the ball to the next player. Preferably with one touch. Our current CDMs have slow transition speed, usually needing a couple of seconds on the ball before releasing the pass. By then, the window for our creative player to pick the lock is gone.

I like Carrick. But if I could reach into the past, I’d go for Keane. He’ll do the job well, on top of giving our current Captain a bollocking every time the defence goes to sleep.

And mimpi ngeri again like last 2 years, city won epl, liverpool won ucl 😂

As far as I’m concerned we are still deep in the mimpi ngeri, that hasn’t ended since it started in 2014

And gets compared to city stones.. on those stats haha

Goodbye europa then

Focus in keeping 2nd place in the league more better

Amad Diallo awareness is something that Rashford need to learn.

So all forwards except Greenwood has injured and not available this weekend. And the worse, Greenwood has lost all feelings to score now. And he can't take ball while standing back to opponent CB.

Is it time for OGS to try something new?
Shortire for sure not ready yet.
Move Bruno as forward? Not my cup of tea certainly.
Bruno need to be on no.10 position, or else no creativity at all.

Make McTom as fake 9?
Well not KDB that type of fake 9 certainly.
He only has 2 jobs, pressing on opponent CB non stop. And take the ball while standing back to opponent player and quickly pass back to Bruno or both flanks.
And actually McTom can shoot, just cannot pass forward.

Well, it sounds stupid I know.
But one thing for sure, putting Greenwood as CF won't work. He has lost all his feelings now. From a scoring machine to almost a surplus. May be the problem is within himself, may be the problem is from OGS, keep develop him as winger while he is a pure striker.

Kennricky ure so funny lol