UEFA Champions & Europa League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [19th - 21st October 2021]
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Ronaldo is basically a world class Benteke when he was at Aston Villa.
I mean that or Liverpool **** the bed anyway.
Could sit deep and pump some diagonal balls against us right now and you’ll win with good finishing on the day
There, I fixed that for you.
Ahh, that wasn't a sitter for a decent finisher and Fred is about as far as you can get from a good finisher.
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We've had more chances, just shoddy finishing.
Not for me. His first touch is not that of a top level player and he doesn't have the personality to play that position. He always looks surprised. Both him and AWB lack football intellect. Ironically I don't think this match is over so long as we don't concede any more corners . Our at piece sending is terrible .
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Ronaldo is not the problem. He can’t perform miracles, he needs the rest of the team to buck their ideas up.
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Bissaka for sure. He's always a mile away from the winger and has to lunge.
Athletically he has it. Mentally he has no clue
I'm not sure that's it - your wingers don't track anyone, there are massive gaps between attack and midfield, and Shaw is bombing on, so McFred are having to cover such a huge area of the pitch.McFred are all over the place, not even in the right positions.
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Steve Bruce has became available today
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Even Ole said the formation is 424. Lol.
McFred is like the Germans trying to defend Omaha beach. No chance.
If we spank Utd on Sunday that could well be it for Ole
Oh I know hes not the problem but he doesn't suit the sort of team we are and despite his impressive physique at his age, he can't/won't work for the team instead of himself.
Hes just a small issue in the massive dysfunction that is our current team. He would be OK in a well coached team but thats not what we are.
Ole is the biggest issue in the team and has been for 3 years. I don't know how people have watched United over the past 3 years and not seen it. It was apparent in his first season and has been ever since.
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Ironically Jose also got sacked after the Liverpool game.
Paul Scholes perfectly illustrating the entire issue with Oles time at United.
"Yeah we've been outplayed and utter dross but its the players fault because if we put away our chances we could be ahead".
That literally summarises us for the last 3 years. "Yeah we played crap but we won because our strikers etc put away their chances" and we go not worrying about the fact that we are outplayed, outworked and out-thought by 90% of the teams we face.
I mean, what can go wrong when you are utterly reliant on a few moments of quality per game vs actually playing well.
City won 5-1 yesterday and before they scored their first goal they could have had 2-3 goals simply because their build up play, movement, tactics and passing cut the opposition to pieces. They weren't sitting there at the end of the game talking about those missed chances that changed the game because they didn't matter. When you have 5-10 good chances a game, missing a few isn't a disaster. When you barely create anything of note you cling onto those missed chances as proof that its the players fault and "we should have won". No, you win by being better than the opposition. You won't win every game but you win a damn sight more than hoping for moments of magic all the time.
"Yeah we've been outplayed and utter dross but its the players fault because if we put away our chances we could be ahead".
That literally summarises us for the last 3 years. "Yeah we played crap but we won because our strikers etc put away their chances" and we go not worrying about the fact that we are outplayed, outworked and out-thought by 90% of the teams we face.
I mean, what can go wrong when you are utterly reliant on a few moments of quality per game vs actually playing well.
City won 5-1 yesterday and before they scored their first goal they could have had 2-3 goals simply because their build up play, movement, tactics and passing cut the opposition to pieces. They weren't sitting there at the end of the game talking about those missed chances that changed the game because they didn't matter. When you have 5-10 good chances a game, missing a few isn't a disaster. When you barely create anything of note you cling onto those missed chances as proof that its the players fault and "we should have won". No, you win by being better than the opposition. You won't win every game but you win a damn sight more than hoping for moments of magic all the time.
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Unironically, is Jose free for a new job?
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He won’t make the step down from Roma.
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What is rashfird doing? How can you be so bad?