09 Dec 2020 13:51:18
I want utd to win and I want england to win, I hate it when utd play a back 5 and I hate it when england do as well .
I dislike a back five even more when mctom and matic in front of it . That's a gk, five defenders plus mctom and matic, eight of the team in for defensive abilities not attacking abilities . I get we only needed a draw but it just meant Leipzig had zero fear of us in the first half .

We try various formations because we basically ignored the obvious, in the summer and never bought a first team ready right sided attacker.
Tonight the brave manager beat the super cautious manager.


1.) 09 Dec 2020
09 Dec 2020 15:14:25
I’d hardly say that switching formations ahead of our biggest matches of the season and not making it clear to the players where they were supposed to be playing was cautious. To me it was more a case of a competent manager beating a clueless one. Each to their own though, I guess.


2.) 09 Dec 2020
09 Dec 2020 16:04:43
Really? The think the manager needed to tell Wan Bissaka what a right wing back was supposed to do? Everyone seems to like bashing the manager - at what point do the players take responsibility? My wife doesn't know much about football but when I asked where a right wing back should be on the pitch she got it right and had a chance of preventing the first two goals. The guy stealing 4.7 million pounds a year from the club not so much.

{Ed001's Note - then why isn't your wife out there? That's right because it is much easier for some no mark to criticise than it is for a professional to actually do it.}


3.) 09 Dec 2020
09 Dec 2020 17:32:58
1st goal wasn't his fault team had shifted too far left striker he was covering with Lindelof should have been between him and Maguire but most importantly matic should have stopped the cross we had Shaw matic Maguire and telles around the ball and he got a free cross.2nd goal was Shaw he got out of position then didn't get back so telles had to cover and telles man was the one who scored. we played 3 left backs last night but your complaining about the right side? Rather than those covering that side and a manager who subbed a lb off and left one on who hasn't played for 4/ 5 weeks?!


4.) 09 Dec 2020
09 Dec 2020 23:37:56
The team as a whole were woefully poor defending. As others have pointed out we lack leadership on the pitch especially in defence.