right of now man utd are down . they have lost 3 games in a row and everybody is gunning for their throats . people like to kick anybody who is down. they cannot point out as to what is wrong and what needs to be improved . i will get straight to the point . man utd are a counter attacking team and the teams have studied that . just look at the game against arsenal . man utd could score against arsenal when they countered quickly and found the space . what was man utd doing in the game against arsenal . they had pushed back arsenal and arsenal were happy to sit back and invite man utd to come and open up their defenses . man utd were having problems playing through them . they were struggling to play through . what they wanted was that arsenal should come out and close them down so that they can close them down and use that space for their advantage. it doesnt works that way . you should be able to play when teams are sitting back as well as trying to close you down .
man utd like to close team down and they like to do a quick counter as soon as they recover the possession . man utd like to close from the front but they dont have leg for this .they are playing fernanades and eriksen in the middle of the park . they are not that mobile and that is where this tactics fail. in trying to close team down they have to play higher defensive line. just look at the game between munich and utd . how many times sane and gnabry came deep or between the lines picked up the ball and suddenly man utd were back tracking . third had been that players had been bad in one on one situations or that they just made stupid decisions . in the game against arsenal most of arsenal's attack were from the left with martnelli against wan bissaka . wan bissaka was giving too much time and space for martnelli . he should had just dealt martnelli the way antonio valencia dealt with sterling. he would just sterling come closer and just use his strength to dilodge him off the ball . another was the way dalot messed up against gnabry. he should had done better . man utd need to be better in one on one situations and the positioning should be better .
the next thing i am going to write will not go down very well with utd fans but rashford needs to have a reality check . yes he is good but he thing he can do everything by himself . if needs to be more effective then he needs to pass the ball . at this time air has gone in his head and ten heg needs to cool rashford down . he needs rashford to use his team mates .
in all this dust there is a silver lining for man utd. look at the third goal against munich . if they could just do the same what they did against munich in that goal then they can get back to winning ways and can still turn the season around .
