Post by bestwasbest on Dec 31, 2015 13:22:47 GMT
Watching United the past 2 years has been a puzzle and a Rubiks cube of unsolved solution development.
When LVG was signed to take the team forward, word was we needed a "Big" personality with a strategic tactical Nois and CV of success. And yet after a net spend of 164MM pounds, various systems and shapes, numerou injuries etc the end product is in reverse of the required direction.
The 4-2-3-1 system along with glacially slow build up play has not served United well.
First the system...
Requiring 30 year old Wayne Rooney, with all the miles on the engine, to run endlessly side to side and up and down in a line of confrontation 70 yards from Uniteds goal makes no sense. United dont really press high up so whats the point? His days as a #9 striker are over and was never his best position. Equally wing requirements don't suit him. Yet LVG persists in playing him there why? (Because he is the smartest man in the room in his own mind.)
Wonderful Juan Mata is played out on the right wing where his speed is an issue. He is clearly an interior 10 player and his talent is mostly suited to that area. His football mind and tight space skill need to be box bound but aren't.
In the holding Positions he utilizes Carrick, Schweinsteiger and Schneiderlin. With Mata, Rooney and Fellaini on the pitch United are arguably the slowest (highly talented,) but slowest team in the premier league. Schneiderlin is the one player truly suited to holding with current EPL speed and toughness requirements. He needs to play all the time. But doesn't.
At the back...so many injuries. So a pass to LVG. But Blind in left side CB is simply not tenable. Little did I realize you had to be left footed to play the left side CB position. Really LVG? Take a look at United history and see wonderful right footed left backs. It's a shame Phil Jones can't stay healthy. He's a lot like Jack Wilshire in one sense...he gets too stuck in when not necessary and hurts himself. Yes I know the calf was an oddity. He needs to be coached to let the game come to him a bit more than not.
Now the Build Up Play...
The EPL isn't Spain and it isn't Germany. It is a ferociously fast, physical place inhabited by beasts, the best athletes if not talent in world football. LVGs system and desire to possess the ball to 70% of the time, allows virtually every team to put 9-10 men behind the ball and defend. Leicester have the lowest possession on average in the league and are somehow table top? 30% possession and table top. United make 70% of their passes sideways or backwards. To what end? The lowest shots on goal in the league and endless 0-0 draws.
LVG is the old dog and he seems not to be able to learn and adapt to his new league. Ego is superceding need. Intellect is not adapting and in place as it needs be. Overtraining methods are costing huge game loss time in soft tissue injuries.
Based on talent I'd like to see something like this...necessarily in a 4-1-4-1 due to personnel...
Martial
Young Rooney Mata Lingard
Schneiderlin
Blind Jones Smalling Darmian
DeGea
Cheers and best to all for the new Year
When LVG was signed to take the team forward, word was we needed a "Big" personality with a strategic tactical Nois and CV of success. And yet after a net spend of 164MM pounds, various systems and shapes, numerou injuries etc the end product is in reverse of the required direction.
The 4-2-3-1 system along with glacially slow build up play has not served United well.
First the system...
Requiring 30 year old Wayne Rooney, with all the miles on the engine, to run endlessly side to side and up and down in a line of confrontation 70 yards from Uniteds goal makes no sense. United dont really press high up so whats the point? His days as a #9 striker are over and was never his best position. Equally wing requirements don't suit him. Yet LVG persists in playing him there why? (Because he is the smartest man in the room in his own mind.)
Wonderful Juan Mata is played out on the right wing where his speed is an issue. He is clearly an interior 10 player and his talent is mostly suited to that area. His football mind and tight space skill need to be box bound but aren't.
In the holding Positions he utilizes Carrick, Schweinsteiger and Schneiderlin. With Mata, Rooney and Fellaini on the pitch United are arguably the slowest (highly talented,) but slowest team in the premier league. Schneiderlin is the one player truly suited to holding with current EPL speed and toughness requirements. He needs to play all the time. But doesn't.
At the back...so many injuries. So a pass to LVG. But Blind in left side CB is simply not tenable. Little did I realize you had to be left footed to play the left side CB position. Really LVG? Take a look at United history and see wonderful right footed left backs. It's a shame Phil Jones can't stay healthy. He's a lot like Jack Wilshire in one sense...he gets too stuck in when not necessary and hurts himself. Yes I know the calf was an oddity. He needs to be coached to let the game come to him a bit more than not.
Now the Build Up Play...
The EPL isn't Spain and it isn't Germany. It is a ferociously fast, physical place inhabited by beasts, the best athletes if not talent in world football. LVGs system and desire to possess the ball to 70% of the time, allows virtually every team to put 9-10 men behind the ball and defend. Leicester have the lowest possession on average in the league and are somehow table top? 30% possession and table top. United make 70% of their passes sideways or backwards. To what end? The lowest shots on goal in the league and endless 0-0 draws.
LVG is the old dog and he seems not to be able to learn and adapt to his new league. Ego is superceding need. Intellect is not adapting and in place as it needs be. Overtraining methods are costing huge game loss time in soft tissue injuries.
Based on talent I'd like to see something like this...necessarily in a 4-1-4-1 due to personnel...
Martial
Young Rooney Mata Lingard
Schneiderlin
Blind Jones Smalling Darmian
DeGea
Cheers and best to all for the new Year
