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I didn't see that today. What I saw was too many players being forced to look for Cavani or Ronaldo instead of taking the man on. I saw Greenwood and Sancho both do this (although Greenwood also blasted a shot over instead of playing in someone). I see players with instructions that make them do too much second-guessing and not playing instinctively. Part of this is they have their pressing / defensive duties in their minds so any time they lose the ball (like AWB did a few times) suddenly they are miles up the pitch, leaving Varane 1v1 on too many occasions.
tl;dr we don't have the player for this system, and this system is basically modern football, not some crazy ass LVG style. We need upgrades on at least half the team. I'd opt for youth team players rather than persisting with senior players who can't perform.
Out of today's bunch I'd give passing marks to Jones, Varane, DeGea, Greenwood, and Sancho is on the fence. Everyone else was poor.
I mean in the wider squad.
There's a huge list of players that seems to grow every week of lads that just don't want to be at Utd anymore because they aren't playing. Henderson, Bailly, VDB, Martial, Lingard and Pogba all seem to want out, Cavani sounded like he would be up for a move too. Been saying it for a while and it maybe has been exagerrated by our early league cup exit but there's way to many players at this club with no Europa League this season he hasn't been able to rotate as much midweek as he normally would.
Those who are playing don't look happy Wan Bissaka, Shaw, Maguire, Rashford, Ronaldo, Bruno all look miserable whenever they are on the pitch.
It's only a personal theory but I think the dressing room/training ground is a negative place at the moment because there's to many unhappy people coming into work every day and that mood seems to show on the pitch. The buzz has totally gone from the squad and that'll be a tricky thing to bring back. For me getting a few of those unhappy faces out in January even if just on loan might be enough.
Another positive is for the next 2 weeks unless games get rescheduled which I doubt they will Utd actually have two full weeks of training so hopefully Rangnick can start getting some of his ideas across.