15 Feb 2021 11:46:22
Our CB's are costing us. That's it.
Both Lindelof and Maguire can't defend 1 vs 1.
To cover their problems we play two defensive midfielders. At times, even our full backs don't venture enough forward in order to protect our Center Halfs.

The decision making from our club is so poor. De Gea gets dropped for Spain frequently for his mistakes, but our club is reluctant to drop him and play Dean Henderson.

1.) 15 Feb 2021
15 Feb 2021 12:55:09
TRD

Who is making those decisions? Oh and you missed Martials situation.

2.) 15 Feb 2021
15 Feb 2021 13:13:29
Ole has his favs. No matter how they play they will not be dropped

Martial lindeloff and maguire should all be dropped but they wont


He was put an 80 million fridge in the stands.

But the players who can replace them are liabilites. We are not blessed with quality replacements.

3.) 15 Feb 2021
15 Feb 2021 15:29:16
Gotta love coming here after points have been dropped. We can literally go from turning things completely around and second, to utter gloom after a 1-1. Not a great result at all, and actually they were lucky with a point. But come on. No wonder Ole's hair is grey.

Utd haven't had a great CB since Vidic. Neither do I think Maguire is a great player. He's slow and error-prone, but was a decent (overpriced) signing. But surely he's the best of a bad bunch? He's a threat at the other end (as well as ours. ), and is vocal. The thought of having any combination of Lindelof, Bailley, Jones (who Ole has said will feature at some point! ) or any of the kids everyone is raving about is, frankly, petrifying.

I agree that Martial seems to have come to the end of the road, and if there is still interest in Sancho (who can play on both flanks) he would be a useful signing, still leaving scope for Greenwood / Diallo to feature.

The midfield options are a conundrum. All can be very good, and poor old Fred, who is taking a lot of stick again, was one of our better players only recently. McTominay has proved very useful and I imagine he'll start more, but there's no need to be playing the pair. Matic's legs have gone but he's still a useful player in my opinion. As for Donny, I loved watching the Ajax side, and thought we'd got a bargain when everyone else was scrapping over Zayech and de Jong. Not quite happened yet but I hope he sticks around as I suspect the midfield will be changing over summer. And Pogba? There was a moment in his goal in December when he, Cavani and Fernandes combined, and I thought those three on their day would easily have been Fergie players (technically Pogba was, duh) . He's clearly a great player but it's too little and too far between.

Then there's the GK situation. I think Romero is still at Utd (? ) after all the rumours, and I think he's their best GK - and he's not even on the bench. Easily good enough to start for the majority of PL teams. I have seen much of Henderson but haven't had the feeling either that he's a long-term solution.

4.) 15 Feb 2021
15 Feb 2021 20:20:12
spenno, to be honest, we were lucky with a point.
It pains me to say that WestBrom had better clear cut chances.