I think he has to stick with it, if for no other reason than to see how it works against a better team than Spurs.I have to say... Fair play to Ole yesterday. He mixed things up and it worked. They got a good result on the road against a team who were above them going in to the game.
But now what? Does he stick with this formation?
And that's kind of the point I was going to get to. Where does it leave Sancho? Because if they aren't careful he could become another VdB. And this is why I still think a manager change will be needed. Maybe they can wait until the end of the season (I wouldn't but others would) but they are going to need to change. 5-3-2 is not the way a top club that wants to attack should play. United didn't really attack yesterday, they controlled things defensively and then used the 3 attacking players to create a little. But they didn't create a whole lot either. That was never the game plan yesterday.Where does this formation change leave Sancho though?
And that's kind of the point I was going to get to. Where does it leave Sancho? Because if they aren't careful he could become another VdB. And this is why I still think a manager change will be needed. Maybe they can wait until the end of the season (I wouldn't but others would) but they are going to need to change. 5-3-2 is not the way a top club that wants to attack should play. United didn't really attack yesterday, they controlled things defensively and then used the 3 attacking players to create a little. But they didn't create a whole lot either. That was never the game plan yesterday.
See I don't actually agree. You're telling me that Greenwood absolutely can not press? Sancho can because he did at Dortmund. Rashford is young with energy. These players (minus Ronaldo) can be taught to press. But united don't seem to work on it. They don't do it at the right moments. They don't do it in packs. Individuals press without doing it as a unit.His problem is his attacking players don’t/can’t work hard enough to fit them all into the side so in a 4-2-3-1 we become very stretched and everyone becomes very isolated as we struggle to really pen our opponent in.
See I don't actually agree. You're telling me that Greenwood absolutely can not press? Sancho can because he did at Dortmund. Rashford is young with energy. These players (minus Ronaldo) can be taught to press. But united don't seem to work on it. They don't do it at the right moments. They don't do it in packs. Individuals press without doing it as a unit.
If Greenwood, Rashford and Sancho can't press because they don't have the hunger or the appetite to then move on from them. The one thing every single top player should do is work hard.
And I agree with you but then this year he seems to have started this mild press?I think what we’ve seen is that Ole isn’t a manager that wants to press though in 3 years we’ve never really been a pressing side so don’t really see us starting now. It’s more likely we will go back to sitting off any trying to break on the opponent.
And I agree with you but then this year he seems to have started this mild press?
Do you genuinely believe that? Teams have been creating chances for fun and United have kept 1 clean sheet in 20 games.Bruno scores that one on one and it's a different game and Ole looks to have got things spot on
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