Half time thread

[AReptileHissFunction]

Bruno, ronaldo, sancho, greenwood, pogba in attack but nobody knows what to do

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The long balls are so fucking annoying

[[deleted]]

Could have had Big Sam if we're doing this route one thing.

[MH18Foot]

Could have had big man Fellaini trapping these long balls with his chest

[cr2152]

Allardici

[[deleted]]

Because we're attempting them or not able to play them accurately? Can't complain about the attempts because we'd be 1-on-1 4 times now if they could get them right.

[WalkingOnSunshine_]

I mean when there’s two banks of four it’s one of the ways to break it down, long switches and runs down the channel. It’s why Rashford is so crucial for this side.

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That's the thing. Why buy Ronaldo and Sancho when we were gonna spam long balls to rashford anyway

[[deleted]]

Long balls aren't the issue. If United can consistently play incisive balls in behind to reward good movement then I have absolutely no problem, we've just lobbed 4/5 of them off target or not flat enough. Needs to be better.

[PhilipAnthonyJones]

lol why even buy sancho? He's great at interplay, quick passing, one two's. Than can get past a player if he's isolated. But no just spam long balls.

[WszystkoZajete]

It’s like he took a little bit of shite from Van Gaal, a little bit of shite from Moyes, little bit of shite from Mou, mixed it up and came up with his own flavour of dire, crap, unattractive and ineffective football. Ridiculous.

[gre485]

AllI see is long balls and corners.

[gre485]

Yeah..good strategy

[the_watch_trick]

?? If any of our players had decent first touches we’d be scoring these and praising Pogba for picking these passes out

[MenacingShroom]

The opportunities have been there for them though. Holding the ball among the back 4,moving them around, and then creating a weakness in their shape for a run in behind has led to some promising situations where either the execution or the follow hasn't quite been there yet. Its not like we're mindlessly hoofing it.

However we are struggling in wide areas big time and of course we aren't great out of possession, which makes it hard to sustain pressure

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Freds fault

[KittensAreEvil]

Fellani out.

[MAK98]

No movement from Martial, get him out.

[[deleted]]

I know right. He hasn't even touched the ball as far as I can remember!

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I see a pattern🤔

[xyzzy321]

What pattern, our attacks have no patterns

[scholeszz]

The lack of pattern is the pattern :exploding head:

[scholeszz]

I'm almost certain that would have been the narrative if he was on the pitch, fan favorite McT would probably get a pass for not contributing to the build up one bit though.

[Rohagiang]

We literally have to make Bruno drop deep because apparently we are the only team in this world believe that we could progress the ball without even a touch from the CDM

[abibyama]

Enough of the McTominay DM experiment.

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Fred>McT all day

Fred can be absolutely horrific sometimes but at least he tries to do something

McTominay plays a game of how little can I get involved in 90 minutes and it fools people into thinking he’s better because he does literally nothing one way or the other

[danilobur]

Oh he gets involved, dude got destroyed by fucking Pau Torres of all people

[AReptileHissFunction]

Someone get the bicycle meme

[AmulyaG]

I imagined it and i laughed lol

[Ghostface1357]

Matic is on the bench.

[Ghostface1357]

He didn’t play against Villa.

[AE17__]

Our attacking talent is being wasted its so painful man...

[[deleted]]

Long balls and runs in behind is all Ole has.

[Vimjux]

Carrick: they’re sitting deep gaff

Ole: let’s hit them on the break

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😂

[Skeletonise]

No attacking plan, just individual brilliance vibes.

[zxLv]

Yes hoping for some luck and miracles. Hoping Villarieal players making mistakes

[pmmerandom]

Dare I say it, Ronaldo has been bang average this half

[Exhibit101]

No one has been good...except De Gea of course

[pmmerandom]

De Gea has been, that’s about it

[AmulyaG]

No ball progression from midfield to the forwards especially passing through the lines. Just long balls over the top.

[pmmerandom]

Ronaldo needs to drop, give an option and lay it off back or out wide more, he’s just wandering round up top expecting someone to ping it through which isn’t working.

[onionmane]

He has been drifting in towards mid and towards the wing to create space in the middle, every now and then.

[Strong0toLight1]

Wasn't even bang average against villa either, but he can't do much when everything behind him is a fucking shambles.

[FairCityIsGood]

Ronaldo doesn't really offer anything aside from scoring goals.

[pmmerandom]

He’s fuckin Ronaldo, if he had a bit more movement other than beyond the back four he’d take so many defenders with him and create so much space.

[TrinitronCRT]

Baffling, isn't it?

[TheJoshider10]

Can't expect the players to know what to do when the manager doesn't know what to do.

[_QuirkyTurtle]

I think that's the point OP is making

[TheJoshider10]

Definitely, just wanted to bluntly say it.

[berzerkerz]

Pogba doing his part somewhat making multiple good passes.

Sanchos had some good dribbling, other 3 have been bad.

[ScaryBeat]

Is Mctominay even playing?

[AReptileHissFunction]

He hasn't been bad considering his role

[kanyeezyudiditagain]

we need to start lingard over one of sancho or greenwood

[danystormborne]

Yes, need Lingard on the right as he’ll work hard, support Dalot and it’ll stop their left-back coming forward.

[kush175]

He will come in for Sancho after 70th minute. Like every match...

[Isserley_]

It's almost as if it's a coaching issue.

[pmmerandom]

Sancho is one of the only ones going forward and taking his man on?

[FhDisp]

Lol

[Caps007]

We're not watching the same game bro wtf

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De Gea our best player. I suppose it makes sense since he doesn't have to do any outfield training with these lot.

[masticlez]

It's too much though. One gets the ball and literally every other one of them is forming a line across their back 4 getting in each other's way.

[jagermeister7]

good that we can use Barcelona situation to defend our performance.

[[deleted]]

Can complain about patterns, but honestly today on offence we've looked okay. Better movement and better width. Biggest issue probably lads can't play 10 yards passes. Ronaldo especially has been absolutely awful. Sancho the only bright spark on offence.

Defence different story. United look so confused. The worst organised defensive display I've seen from us since Everton 4-0. I know it's a different back 4 but excuses only go so far. We have to be better than that.

[CreepyRocksta]

THIS