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The problems with our attack (self.reddevils)

sanchay_wadhwaHerrera が 投稿

Barring the games against Stoke and Burnley, there are a couple of things I've noticed in almost every one of our games so far, which were highlighted against Fenerbahce.

  • Players like Mata, who is our main creative outlet, needs people running in behind the opposition defense, stretching their back four and creating space. This absolutely does not happen with our team. Every once in a while I'll see Lingard or Rashford make a great run which goes unnoticed. Everyone wants the ball to his feet, and by the time we're attacking the opposition defense is compact and settled.

  • Our complete lack of width in some games is astounding. Darmian and Rashford were great at hugging the touchline against Burnley, but it was completely absent yesterday. It seems like all our players want to come inside, and with Ibrahimovic dropping deep, it leads to a lot of players in the same general area, and no creative play at all.

  • I absolutely hate to use these examples, but every time I see Liverpool or City play, the movement of their front four/three is really dynamic. If you look at Rooney's goal yesterday, it was fucking amazing, but every player around him was aimlessly drifting forward, with no real movement at all.

Why is it that after 3 years and 2 different managers (not counting Giggs) and spending a billion in transfers, we're still back at the same step? It hurts me to see managers like Conte and Guardiola doing good (so far) in their first season in the Premier League, and Klopp, who's completely transformed the way Liverpool play.

I'm not ranting or complaining. Just seriously concerned about the state of our club. Also, I die a little every time I see Ibrahimovic wave everyone off a 40-yard freekick just to smash it into the wall.

Thanks for reading.

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[–]zcba 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Really hard to disagree with you

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

good point on the width

we desperately need wingers

im pretty sure we could have signed a mahrez type players to give us that

miki, mata, rashford, lingard - these are not wingers

[–]sanchay_wadhwaHerrera[S] -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's kind of the point though isn't it?

After all the money we've spent, we don't need to need to buy more players (maybe a new RB). Martial, Rashford, Mkhi, Lingard. These are all great players, which most teams in the PL will want to have in their team,Its just that nothing is working for us atm

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

We can't play with Mata and Ibra. I said after the Burnley game that our chance creation is laboured with the two of them in the same side. Yes we created chances but we had lots of chances to counter, 3 or 4 passes and you're clean through on goal.

How many of our goals end up with 7 or 8 people in the box, it's so crowded. Think of Hull, or Watford or Stoke where we scored. The box is crammed.

We need wingers who LIKE going on the outside.

[–]United7s 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I agree, and, even though this thread seems to love him, I think Mkhi was a mistake by Mourinho.

He should've bought Sane instead.

Mkhi, at least last match, seemed to do what I've always hated Mata playing RW for--drift inside leaving the RB as the lone wing player.

Once the RB loses the ball, with these central players who are all just ball watching the RB, the other teams sets out on a counter attack down that right side and bangs us.

Martial, Rashford, Lingard, Mkhi, and Depay all want to come inside and play CF or CAM.

Rooney, Zlatan, Pogba, all want to play CAM when they're assigned different positions.

Our attack is too centrally focused. When Pogba is playing the best curls into the box as a CM, you know we're lacking true wingers.