Watford Away – Saturday 3pm
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November 15, 2021 at 10:08 am #2019495
This could be a tricky fixture, it’s arguable that Watford might be improving under Ranieri, at this point every game is a must win because the pressure on Ole will ramp up if he doesn’t.
I’m guessing a drab 1-1.November 15, 2021 at 10:16 am #20195082-0 United
November 15, 2021 at 10:19 am #2019510It’s not on Sky or BT. Saves us the misery lol, unless you stream it.
November 15, 2021 at 1:43 pm #2019591I suspect we’ll revert to 4 at the back. Fitness permitting:
DdG
Dalot, Lindelof, Maguire, Shaw
vdB, McT
Sancho, Bruno, Rashford
RonaldoNovember 15, 2021 at 4:57 pm #2019650That will be interesting to see Homerjay, if we do revert to 4 at the back for this one or not. I would love to see Sancho and VDB both in the line up but I just can’t see it happening. I guess we will find out soon enough.
3-1 Utd
November 15, 2021 at 7:18 pm #20196791-1
really want to see Sancho and VDB more, agreed Alfie.
can’t wait for a new manager. I’d take anyone who plays attacking football.
November 16, 2021 at 3:46 pm #20200181-3 to us.
November 16, 2021 at 5:14 pm #2020063I’d like to see a 4-1-2-3 formation
DDG
Dalot Bailly Maguire Telles
McTomminay
Fernandes VDB
Sancho Ronaldo Greenwood/RashfordMctomminay basically being told not to come past the centre circle unless it’s for a set piece along with the CB’s in effect making him a Makelele type player who just shields the CB’s allowing the wing backs to bomb forward and get crosses into Ronaldo and giving the Wide Forwards licence to cut inside and force the defence to compress and get in each others way.
November 16, 2021 at 6:27 pm #2020081Killiboye mctominay is a box to box player and never a DM stop trying to put square pegs in round holes.
1) he never ever receives the ball from back 4
2) he can’t pass through the lines
3) he never tracks runners
It makes laugh when people big up mctominay and slate fred when both as poor as each other must be British bias.
November 16, 2021 at 7:10 pm #2020097agreed ika!
November 16, 2021 at 7:45 pm #2020103I know he’s not a DM and I’m not bigging him up but he’s the best we have as Matic isn’t mobile enough and Fred, well, Fred is Fred. He’ll have to do until we get a proper DM.
November 16, 2021 at 8:45 pm #2020119McT is no Pirlo but does play some great balls thru the lines when playing right CB in a back 3 for Scotland.
And he does track runnersI’m interested to see what you think is our best XI given our unbalanced squad @Ika
November 16, 2021 at 10:28 pm #2020142I’d leave Scott and Fred out if I was him. Rashford, Bruno and Sancho behind Ronny.
Donny and Hannibal holding.
My granny in central defence with Phil JonesNovember 17, 2021 at 8:29 am #2020187Hannibal holding? He can play in a double pivot in U23’s games but needs a holding mid alongside him
Garner, Levitt or Galbraith maybe. Anything else and it’s just more square pegs in round holesNovember 17, 2021 at 8:36 am #2020189I know we’ve a tradition of giving youth a chance but at the moment we need results, I don’t know if it would be fair to throw Mejbri, Garner, Levitt or Galbraith into the mix right now. The pressure on the team and manager to get a result this weekend is colossal. When things settle, I’d be all for dropping McT, but not right now.
November 17, 2021 at 8:15 pm #2020558Nobody ever said life was fair killy. If Mejbri’s going to make it, now’s the time. He’s not a holding midfielder though. Gets up and down and play makes. He’s a talent but I’m not sure what kind of midfielder you’d call him.
November 17, 2021 at 8:28 pm #2020560I’ll be honest, I know the academy lads but would be far from an expert on them. It seems to me though, that even at that level we don’t have a holding DM. It’s a large hole in the club, not just the first team squad, I could be very wrong though.
November 18, 2021 at 2:25 am #2020598I wasn’t suggesting one of Garner, Levitt or Galbraith actually get a game ahead of our current CM options. Just that they would be more suitable for the position than Mejbri
His position? Simple. He’s an attacking midfielder. He can play anywhere across the line behind the front man and is the man who makes things happen. Because of this he is fouled almost as much as Jack Grealish.
He reminds me of Pogba but difference is he is young enough to become a natural central midfielder… just not in the next couple years
November 18, 2021 at 8:26 am #2020618I’m starting to hate hearing “he can play anywhere across the front line” like it’s some sort of amazing positive attribute. Martial, Greenwood, Sancho and Rashford have all suffered massive dips in form because they’ve just been stuck into different positions without any kind of plan. Everyone in the world could see that Rashford and Martial were actually just total shite on the right wing, yet we got to see it waaaaay too many times. Pogba has played left anf right wing for us in the past year – would any other manager do that?
Losing the point a little bit now, but, i actually think this notion that someone can play anywhere across the front line is a huge hinderance. They don’t develop as quickly, they don’t gain the tactical & positional sense from having 1 position to learn and i can’t remember the last time it actually made a player better.
Apart from when Wayne Rooney was deployed in the holding midfield role of course!!! 😉November 18, 2021 at 9:06 am #2020633Yeah, I don’t know if this is the case in many clubs but many players have been cursed with this affliction at Man Utd in recent memory, O’Shea, Rashford, Greenwood, Fred, McTomminay. Rather that training guys up to be the best at their natural position or buy specialists, we shoehorn them into another position figuring they’ll learn on the job if they’re good enough. It’s just a cheap way of getting a ‘new’ player.
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