No excusing the 2 goals today though. No one picked up Fernándes for the first one he was standing for ages and then made the run. Rashford the same for the second . No one talking or taking responsibility
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Egil Olsen
Player Valuation: £8m
I think the focus on the players is too one-sided. Of course, they have to take their share of responsibility, but they share that responsibility with the coach and the rest of the apparatus. Being a coach is not just about choosing a formation, and then choosing players. It is much more complicated, and there are many variables that come into play.
It is difficult to criticize Ancelotti when you do not have the full picture. However, we let in a lot of easy goals, and many of these are due to basic things like wrong body position, having only the ball as a reference, bad pressure on the player who has the ball, etc.
I also think we have too little intensity in our pressure game. We do not push well enough collectively, and there is too little intensity. The awareness of a good pressure game is perhaps what has characterized football in Europe over the last decade the most. Much of what we do is not worthy of a pub team.
Furthermore, our build-up play is simply ridiculous. It does not seem as if we have a good plan, and at the slightest pressure we send a rocket up to DCL. Too often we end up with a numerical minority in the last third, and then it is often 2 vs. 5/ 3 vs. 5 Then it is difficult to score goals.
The transition from defense to attack is also pathetic. When we have the chance to take the opponent in imbalance, it goes 10/10 times too slow. No movements in front of the player with the ball, except DCL.
Many of these things should be easy to deal with. It's about running, and running collectively together as a team. All players at this level should be in top form - something I reckon the physical trainers have control over - and Carlo's job is to coordinate this. Give players some guidelines, and practice this in training.
I do not think in the long run - something we now see - that he in PL can get away with playing with JR in that role. At least on a team that does not have top four quality. The teams analyze weak points in the opponent, and attack there. Something that MU was very aware of.
It is difficult to criticize Ancelotti when you do not have the full picture. However, we let in a lot of easy goals, and many of these are due to basic things like wrong body position, having only the ball as a reference, bad pressure on the player who has the ball, etc.
I also think we have too little intensity in our pressure game. We do not push well enough collectively, and there is too little intensity. The awareness of a good pressure game is perhaps what has characterized football in Europe over the last decade the most. Much of what we do is not worthy of a pub team.
Furthermore, our build-up play is simply ridiculous. It does not seem as if we have a good plan, and at the slightest pressure we send a rocket up to DCL. Too often we end up with a numerical minority in the last third, and then it is often 2 vs. 5/ 3 vs. 5 Then it is difficult to score goals.
The transition from defense to attack is also pathetic. When we have the chance to take the opponent in imbalance, it goes 10/10 times too slow. No movements in front of the player with the ball, except DCL.
Many of these things should be easy to deal with. It's about running, and running collectively together as a team. All players at this level should be in top form - something I reckon the physical trainers have control over - and Carlo's job is to coordinate this. Give players some guidelines, and practice this in training.
I do not think in the long run - something we now see - that he in PL can get away with playing with JR in that role. At least on a team that does not have top four quality. The teams analyze weak points in the opponent, and attack there. Something that MU was very aware of.
Blues Harp
Player Valuation: £60m
With a Moyes defence...then started the rot....50 passes to the halfway line some of the most horrible football I have seen in 60 years of watching Everton
Still record points, but it's history - we have lost one player due to suspension, and the wheels have fell off 3 defeats on the bounce - Carlo has to stop the rot ..
Liamliverpool86
Player Valuation: £8m
Needs to move allan up i think maybe get Godfrey or davies as the DCM .. near the end of the game allan was a threat driving forward anything is better then sig as the number 10
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Maybe its dumb yeah but I want us to try our best
We won't get a better opportunity than this weird season. And only a quick overhaul of this squad will work. If you standstill then your best players want to leave and we only have a few!
Top 6 has to be the target this year but you can't lose 3 in a row to these sort of teams and finish that high. Theres time to turn it round but it has to start very soon and we cant have another bad run of 1 point from 12.
I think he needs time and I think with time he will get better results and improve the team.
he was shouting ‘no foul’ and other things I couldn’t make out at the players today so many times. Most of the shouting was in vain. The camera panned to him joining his hands and looking to the sky and muttering to himself. Look at the state of the players at his disposal - or if that’s unfair, look how they have been performing - United brought Pogba and Cavani on and we brought in Tosun and Iwobi. (Albeit Iwobi did better than I thought he would)
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Blues Harp
Player Valuation: £60m
Agreed Joe, fingers crossed he can... After all he's only been at the club a year next month.
Problem is mate we can't keep sacking managers, we need to get some stability and IMO I feel Ancelotti can bring us that. His stature in the game gets us players who probably wouldn't even give us a second look. He knows what it takes to win trophies, he's got the mentality of a winner. Hopefully we can strengthen in January and then spend again in the Summer. If after that we're still going nowhere then I would imagine Ancelotti will be gone.
gianthogweed
Player Valuation: £25m
He was shouting at Bernard not to foul the player which he did and then turned around and looked at the manager Carlo probably called him a prick
JobForTheMoyes
Player Valuation: £40m
That's a bit of a myopic view. We would have been totally screwed had Moyes not build up the club with 20p and a Mars bar wrapper as his transfer fund!
Yep, really poor.
The Gordon one, fair enough. We have seen in flashes but maybe he's not showimg much in training, or maybe tactically he isnt good enough. But the Gylfi one is shocking. Regardless of what he does in training, how good technically he is or how much experience he has, once he gets on that pitch he's woeful and lacks heart amd fight and we can see it every game. We have done for months/years yet we see him again the game after
People criticise Iwobi but he runs at people, he tries passes Gylfi doesnt and he's so much more progressive than him. Same with Davies too, who im not a fan of by the way. He at least tries to go forward. Gylfi does absolutely nothing, bar playing the simple passes backwards. Any half decent footballer could do that.
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