PBP: EFLC - Manchester United FC vs West Ham United FC - Sep 22 , 2021 [R]

Father Ted · Sep 23, 2021

Martial is a shyte 9. He's better coming in from he left running at players rather than moping around with his back to goal. Should have had Martial on the left, Sancho on the right, Lingard in the middle, Greenwood at 9 and Mata nowhere.

I know we can say the players were poor and this is the hand dealt to Ole. But Ole is still the one to put the likes of Mata on the field and Martial at 9 when we have better options. That's on Ole.

Ruud v.Nistelrooy 10 · Sep 23, 2021

Icardi would beg to differ. i'm glad you have faith in him but so far he's wilted in the face of competition and can't even get his own consistency right. he's not even a reliable bench option at the moment. that Greenwood has surpassed him and even prodigal son Lingard comes off the bench ahead of him says a lot.

i don't agree we have the best attacking team in the world. maybe the roster on paper at best. in terms of maturity of play we are still some way off of it.

the good news is there is room for improvement.

MizzouMUFC · Sep 23, 2021

jeff070 said: ↑

Matic? Lindelof?
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Matic was Matic. Decent with the ball when given time. Took up decent positions when defending. But slow and useless when countered.

Lindelof wasnt good but he wasnt terrible.

Martial literally did nothing of note besides being to afraid to shoot in a clear scoring position and instead weakly attempting to square the ball which went right to their defender. I lost count of how many time he drifted to the left wing and just stood out there without making a run. He sees the writing on the wall and rather than fight for his spot back, its clear he's resigned and probably will push to leave in January.

doubletrouble · Sep 24, 2021

Father Ted said: ↑

Martial is a shyte 9. He's better coming in from he left running at players rather than moping around with his back to goal. Should have had Martial on the left, Sancho on the right, Lingard in the middle, Greenwood at 9 and Mata nowhere.

I know we can say the players were poor and this is the hand dealt to Ole. But Ole is still the one to put the likes of Mata on the field and Martial at 9 when we have better options. That's on Ole.
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Missed the game but I heard Martial was real bad. I said it before that Martial as a 9 is a complete waste of his talent. If Martial is gonna play upfront he needs a strike partner but there's no way we'll play a 4-4-2.