Caporegime
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Meh, personally never been a proponent of the idea that kicking a ball long is bad. However statistically if Utd averaged 65% possession and had a similar number of long balls to a team that averages 30% possession, they won't have the same general ratio of long ball to short passing play.
So Burnley might have the ball for 30 mins a game and 80% of their play is long ball, while Utd might have it for 60 mins and only 40% of their play is long ball. Either way, who cares. They do suck but we've heard it from LVG's mouth, twitchy arse stuff when not playing 5 at the back... why? Inconsistent line up because most of their CB's are sicknotes, one half decent right back constantly injured, one joke at right back, a literal joke making money as a footballer which we can all laugh at.
If/when they pick up a CB and RB they'll likely switch to 4-4-2/4-3-3 consistently and we'll see how they do. They are playing an inefficient and unoptimised system because he inherited a completely awful defence. He could have replaced the entire defence in summer but then he wouldn't have gotten Blind, Di Maria or Herrera.
I'm quite interested to see what LVG does, will he bring in defenders the team needs, will the football improve if they consistently play a formation that suits the squad and I'm certain the team would improve if they could name a more consistent starting line up because every team I've ever seen play is better with a more consistent line up.
Also worth pointing out that Carrick isn't creative AT ALL, a decade ago before his Utd move he played further forward, he hasn't done that at Utd for a long time, sure he picks out the odd good defence splitting pass but he's not creative and Rooney isn't either. His attempts at being creative are pretty laughable. Leaving Mata and Di Maria, one is lazy and one has been completely over rated.
Di Maria excelled in a team in which there were always at least one but often 2-3 powerful runners, where the team would double/triple man mark Ronaldo leaving Di Maria far far more time and space than he'd get when he was the main driving force in the team. Even then people seem to have blown his 5 brilliant games last year out of all proportion. He's good, he's not that good, 60mil was laughable, 30mil would be getting in the region of sensible but it's hard to quantify how good he'd be in a team without Ronaldo.
So Burnley might have the ball for 30 mins a game and 80% of their play is long ball, while Utd might have it for 60 mins and only 40% of their play is long ball. Either way, who cares. They do suck but we've heard it from LVG's mouth, twitchy arse stuff when not playing 5 at the back... why? Inconsistent line up because most of their CB's are sicknotes, one half decent right back constantly injured, one joke at right back, a literal joke making money as a footballer which we can all laugh at.
If/when they pick up a CB and RB they'll likely switch to 4-4-2/4-3-3 consistently and we'll see how they do. They are playing an inefficient and unoptimised system because he inherited a completely awful defence. He could have replaced the entire defence in summer but then he wouldn't have gotten Blind, Di Maria or Herrera.
I'm quite interested to see what LVG does, will he bring in defenders the team needs, will the football improve if they consistently play a formation that suits the squad and I'm certain the team would improve if they could name a more consistent starting line up because every team I've ever seen play is better with a more consistent line up.
Also worth pointing out that Carrick isn't creative AT ALL, a decade ago before his Utd move he played further forward, he hasn't done that at Utd for a long time, sure he picks out the odd good defence splitting pass but he's not creative and Rooney isn't either. His attempts at being creative are pretty laughable. Leaving Mata and Di Maria, one is lazy and one has been completely over rated.
Di Maria excelled in a team in which there were always at least one but often 2-3 powerful runners, where the team would double/triple man mark Ronaldo leaving Di Maria far far more time and space than he'd get when he was the main driving force in the team. Even then people seem to have blown his 5 brilliant games last year out of all proportion. He's good, he's not that good, 60mil was laughable, 30mil would be getting in the region of sensible but it's hard to quantify how good he'd be in a team without Ronaldo.
