by elkanofan » Mon Sep 30, 2019 10:32 pm
The good:
- We didnt lose
- we did our best (We are a really, really average flawed side)
- Saka and Chambers
The Bad:
- Our midfield is a mess, the issue is none of the three have any attacking awareness and have no ability to play between the lines so we had to create everything down the wings. This effects us defensively because again we give the ball away constantly.
- Despite our poor midfield if Pepe was actually good we might have had a better chance of winning but he looks inferior to even Gervinho when he was here. Awful today, no excuses either. He's just limited, if he can't cut inside he sucks.
- Defence while better than previous week at times just f***ing mindless.
- Emery has a big job on his hands to sort this all out. He's doing a good job. Our team is absolute poverty on general. We have two outstanding players but we can't really play a 442 with them both and one usually being Auba is shafted to the wing with a 4-3-3.
We have no reliable wingers and i honestly dont even think Nelson is a winger, he's trying to hard to be CR7 or Messi which is why he's failing right now. I dont want to heap pressure on Saka in his first senior season. He's still got loads to learn as it is.
Maybe when Ceballos can play a full match and beefs up enough we can get our passing style back, until then or well until we get two flying wingbacks going this poverty level team will have to grind it out.
We are no better than United hence why a draw is a decent and acceptable result. They actually had the better players tonight and have a better squad even. We are the 5th best team in the league, only marginally better than Chelsea but even Chelsea have a more balanced squad. In terms of attacking mids we have serious problems and it all centers around that idiot who sitting at home not even good enough to make the bench but is on the biggest wage packet. We don't have the squad to even play consistent attacking football because we don't have any attacking mids good enough to build the team around.
The team is clearly behind the manager which is very important and while Xhaka is an idiot the players trust and believe in him i believe in this team but I'm realistic and it needs an attacking mid and some hard decisions made on creating a stable starting XI. Defensively we will improve once we have a stable team. The issues seem to be how poorly balanced the team is and confusion in regards to closing down and pressing. I have hope Ceballos can become the attacking talisman we need over 90 minutes.
Many fans really dont understand tactics. Anyone who says our lineup today was wrong is foolish. Emery got it spot on with what he had, stupiness from Xhaka cost us just before half time but we didnt cave in like in previous matches and just allow united any real momentum to score then go up the gears. They are crap and our shape really made them show how shit they are. They had to work to break us down and even once they did they didn't have enough quality at all to take advantage. We didn't really give them any easy gifts. McTominay's goal was a f***ing quality strike, why Xhaka ducked i really don't know. Idiot made himself smaller.
If we went at them like some naive fans have moaned about we would of easily caved in and conceded at least 3 goals we would of started Uniteds season, letting them get their form back on track. We arent good enough to beat them on the front foot away from home, we are not better than them. You all should have noticed while i was happy with Ceballos today, he came on and looked quality again, defensively he is just garbage, i like his attitude he makes and effort and closes down but he cannot defend for shit and thats why United had their best attacking spells when he came on. Ceballos did everything wrong, just let players run and had zero awareness what to do. Add the stamina and strength deficiencies and this is why be don't start!
Anyway. Onto Thursday!