Glenn Hoddle repeated tonight what Scholes recently said and what a few of us are concerned about.
Bastian and Morgan offer nothing going forwards from midfield. The front 4 are isolated and rely on the central defence stepping forwards and like we saw tonight, bloody Mike Smalling became our midfield playmaker!
As soon as he is fit the 2 man CM has to be Herrera and one of the Sch's. Ideally Morgan. Having at least one of our CMs able to be creative would help us so much. Most games we play we come up against sides who will cede possession. So take that opportunity to lose one of the holding midfielders and add a creative one.
Yes, I know Herrera was injured tonight but you get the feeling that even if he was fit you'd see the Sch's in CM.
Our central midfield
posted on 25/11/15
I call BT Sport Bitter Sport for a reason as they never analyse a game fairly. They usually highlight 1 or 2 chances for opposition like we got lucky or de gea saved us and if we miss 10 or 15 chances and draw 0-0 like against PSV and Newcastle United they praise the opposition defence and say we lack creativity yet the highlights are bucketload of near misses from 6yds out for us.
posted on 25/11/15
You are such a reetard it's beyond belief Hafi.
posted on 25/11/15
BS and MS is not a good enough combination if the wider front players are ineffective or not good enough even.
LVG doesn't identify the right quality of player that is needed imo. I said we should have been competing for both Sterling and De Bruyne and I maintain that and/or Reus. I don't believe MS was a player we needed having gone for BS. We do need a midfield player that can drive forward and cause problems by going past players and beyond players.
posted on 25/11/15
Mata's Left Foot - Louis van Gaal's Red and White Army! (U11781)
Look at yourself and the comment you posted.
posted on 26/11/15
Mata
Hafi's right, where are the stats?!
posted on 26/11/15
United got worse as the game wore on tonight and that is a concern and a worry.
However, we did create a few good chances tonight and should really still have won.
BS and MS in the middle isn't a problem for me if they are willing to get forward and influence the game offensively when it is required.
I thought it quite stranger of Robbie Savage criticising Smalling for coming forward as I like to see a centre half do that if nothing is on. Much better than hoofing forward. What I would have changed there though was the CB coming forward as Blind is much better on the ball and Smalling has more pace behind to cover.
The Fellaini sub was a strange one as well as while I have nothing against him I thought that we lost a little control when BS came off and looked a lot more ragged after that.
It'll be difficult in Germany but we do have the quality and it will be interesting to see how LVG approaches a game that he simply must win.
I have given LVG praise for steadying the ship and making us harder to beat but now I feel that he needs to trust the players a little more, give them a little more freedom and not play quite so rigidly. We have the confidence of not conceding much and what a surprise Wolfsburg may have if we came flying out of the blocks against them.
Lastly, I'm not really sure why we didn't go for it in the end as a defeat would not have changed the situation that much compared to the draw.
posted on 26/11/15
That's the first time I have seen hafi insult someone.
Mata must really wind him up
posted on 26/11/15
Hafi talking to people and not just at/near them
posted on 26/11/15
comment by tcw (U6489)
posted 3 hours, 19 minutes ago
Hafi talking to people and not just at/near them
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careful what you wish for, I heard that Hafi talking to people was a condition of the apocalypse.
posted on 26/11/15
I've been saying it for ages that playing two defensive minded midfielders when we have such a weak attack is stupid.
I'd like to see either a 4-4-2 or a 4-3-3
- - - - - - - - - Back 5 - - -
Lingaard - Hererra - Schneiderlin - Young
- - - - - - - - -Mata - Martial
Or
- - - - - - - - - - -Back 5
----------------- -Carrick*
- - - - - - Hererra - - - - Fellaini*
Mata ----------------------------------Young*
---------------------Martial
* Carrick or Schweinsteiger
* Fellaini or Rooney
* Young or Lingaard or Depay