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The two problems with our attack (self.reddevils)

NosaAlex94 が 投稿

While everyone blames one player or another for our bad performances, I believe the problems in our team our that, first, there are too many players in our team who play better when the team revolves around them, and second, too many players that naturally play with the ball at their feet. their feet.

As for those who need the tem to revolve around them, players like Pogba, Ibrahimovic, Memphis, Rooney especially come to mind. Pogba had a free role to attack at Juventus, so to Memphis at PSV, Ibrahimovic was a god at PSG, and we know that Rooney's best individual seasons have been when he was our star player for those seasons. The problem is when players like this play together, they often conflict as they all want to do their own thing, for example, both Rooney and Ibrahimovic dropping deep, Pogba dribbling too much or Memphis shooting too often. None of this helps the team.

As for players wanting the ball to their feet all the time, players like Martial, Mata, even Rashford come to mind. Mata likes to cut inside and find a killer pass while both Rashford and Martial like to run at defenders with the ball. There are obvious exceptions like Mata's first goal against Liverpool in a 2-1 win in Van Gaal's first season. These two problems combined mean that although we have players that are good on the ball, there are few players making runs off of it, since they all naturally play with the ball at their feet.

Many people may criticize a player like Ashley Young, but when he plays as a winger, he is willing to stay wide, he is disciplined, combines well with shaw and also delivers good crosses. He may not be as talented as Martial or Memphis but sometimes you need these kinds of players playing on the wings. The same goes for Lingard and Mkhitaryan who i believe is great on the wings. We are more likely to get better off the ball runs, so that players like Mata, Herrera or Rooney can combine well with them.

Having a team of great players is good, but balance in your attack is better.

TL;DR Our two problems are players who are used to a team being revolved around them and too many player who want the ball played to feet.

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[–]Wow_such_alternateHerrera 2ポイント3ポイント  (5子コメント)

I think you bring up an interesting point about how many of our players are best with the ball at their feet. I think something we miss a lot as well is movement off the ball. I think we are too static when one of our players has the ball. But before we look at all of this I think we need to address the midfield, because without a midfield that can control the game, the forwards are sort of isolated from the defense and we'll have to rely on balls into Fellaini/Zlatan to advance the ball into the attacking third.

[–]NosaAlex94[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (4子コメント)

Yes I believe the midfield plays a part, I just didn't want the post to go any longer. Michael Carrick is the best player we have. I say this because he controls the game, and everyone else looks a lot better when he plays. I think he will be key again this season. That said, I think our transfer policy is another problem. We signed players who made the headlines last season but it's like we forget about the people who made it possible. Pogba for example, benefitted from marchisio/pirlo/Khedira. We need to sign those kinds of players since Carrick is getting old.

[–]Wow_such_alternateHerrera 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

I agree with you in that I'd love to see Carrick in the midfield. I think he is really the only player in the squad who can control the tempo and distribute well from deep. I think you're right that it would be great to sign someone like the players that you've named, but I don't know who we could sign that would be available.

[–]NosaAlex94[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Yeah, the best players are already taken like busquets or Modric. Then again Carrick wasn't world famous when we signed him, so hopefully there are these kinds of players playing for teams below us. Lets hope our scouts are doing their jobs.

[–]Wow_such_alternateHerrera 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Haha, agreed. I think Kante would have been a good fit in the midfield to free up Pogba and distribute pretty well. I think there was a report of us trying to sign him but he turned us down for Chelsea. Hopefully we'll see some more players in that role become available to replace Carrick eventually.

[–]black_squireMartial 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

The issue with out transfer policy is we don't have an underlying system for which we base our transfers. Under SAF we didn't have to worry about that because he wasn't leaving anytime soon and he knew what he needed and for how long. More importantly, SAF had the uncanny ability to make use of players in any way he found the most useful.

Since SAF we tried to continue that trend with Moyes and he bought players he needed.

When LVG came in, I believe we were attempting to change is this trend. We had plans to institute a new system and players would be recruited for the future towards the continuity of a particular style of play and system. In the last 2 years under LVG we've recruited based on profiles that fit a style of play. Now again that's been scrapped in favor of Mourinho to being immediate success. These players are not quite fit for Mourinho's style of play hence some of the issues we might be facing.

What I find interesting about Mourinho though is that when he took over Chelsea a second time, he cleaned house immediately and brought in his own style of players. Why hasn't he done that now if the current crop of players aren't what he needs ?

The club needs to settle on something fast otherwise we'll continue to have these short term coaches who need several transfer windows to get players they'll need for whatever playing style they desire.