In the second round of the Premier League, Manchester United drew 1:1 away to Southampton, conceded two points, and the scene was a bit uncomfortable.
First of all, the draw allowed United to equal Arsenal's 27-game away unbeaten run in the Top England league from April 2003 to September 2004; Pogba assisted Greenwood to score a goal to make Boba the first player to assist five times in the first two games in the Premier League era, and 19 goals to raise Aoki to 4th on the Premier League under-20 goals list, ahead of him was Rooney with 30 goals.
Having said that, focus on analyzing the reasons why you can't get all 3 points from two aspects, which is worth summarizing.
▼ Tactics
When it comes to tactics, most fans blame the head coach for the first time, then, here first of all, I want to say a little, although the topic of Ole's class immediately appeared on Twitter hot search, although Weibo immediately scolded, but their own fans, real fans, should not be impatient, this is the second round, and the transfer window has not yet ended, find problems, calm analysis, good things.
Back in this game, United's biggest problem is that they can't play the ball, and the crux of this problem is in the back of Matic + Fred and forward Martial.
According to Ole, Wheat was injured, the first round performed well but replaced in advance, saying that he had an injury there was no need to doubt it, with the old horse on top, as the saying goes, the veteran Li Jichu, this is also very reasonable, Martial started, it is said that the training performance is very good, then use him to set up a fulcrum in the front court to play 4222, it is not a way to break the high position. Therefore, the head coach's platoon deployment is not a big problem, and it cannot be counted as a whole work.
However, the opposite happened, Martial, who only touched the ball 13 times in the whole game, was in a terrible state, and was not active in the retreat defense, Nemanja Matic was only left with consciousness, the speed and intensity of the game were not on the same channel, Fred could run, but he was completely incompetent, and the Chelsea youth children who played chicken blood insulted him to doubt life. What's worse is that he runs too far ahead, this problem can be big, first, Matic can't keep up with him, can't complement him, second, push big B brother too far ahead, Boba pulls to the left, he needs big B brother to connect with him to complete the back run or indices, and as a result, the Portuguese have been in front of the French for a long time, making his line of playing the ball very limited.
These problems, before the first half did not concede the ball has been shown, after the loss of the ball is more obvious, unfortunately Ole does not dare to take the initiative to correct in time, of course, do not rule out that he still wants to give the No. 9 opportunity, in fact, at that time, in the case of not changing the formation and not changing the back, the best response is to speed up, Sancho, James, Lin Huang can be any one, just replace Martial, Boba gave way to the left, the position moved back to be responsible for the ball, and pressed Fred back to the old horse.
After the stalemate in the second half, the substitution was not satisfactory, did not give the shell a chance, and Lin Huang was too late, as a result, even the situation of oppression and siege could not be earned.
So, in this game, if you must keep an eye on the head coach, it is the lack of decisiveness and courage in the on-site scheduling, for the problem, he saw, but changed slowly, which is far from making the fans cry out for class.
▼ Preparation
United's first goal conceded was controversial, and Ole said after the game that it was a 100% foul and if it was a dead bite, it would be a real loss.
To say a few things as Manchester United fans also know, first of all, the Saints players have a lot of small actions, out of the feet, shovels, a dirty word, secondly, referee Bowson is difficult to say, speak well of whistles, speak badly, dare not do key penalties, again, Saints are good at high and chaotic rhythm, finally, Manchester United's last 10 Premier League visits to Southampton, 6 times behind.
The above four points, the Red Devil bit has suffered losses. Don't the players know? Not mentally prepared at all? Not prepared at all? Big B brother that ball, neither card position, nor running, walking like thinking about life, and then all blame the other side dirty, blame the referee blind, Maguire that ball is the same, if it is not De Gea father love like a mountain, the first two paragraphs of this article can save half of the writing.
The two times I was robbed was in my own half.
In addition, there is a point that most of the Manchester United players seem to be out of shape, the rate can not keep up, in addition to mental preparation, will there be physical problems? Because the team played a closed friendly with Burnley in midweek. Logically, such a tournament is nothing more than two purposes, running in and worrying that the players will rest too long to find the rhythm of the game, from the perspective of the game against the Saints, it is not possible to achieve the effect, at least Sancho is still outside the system.
Finally, the team is improving, the head coach is improving, Boba is happy, Aoki has a strong sense of rhythm, the threat of set-pieces is greater, Manchester United is getting closer and closer on the road to the championship, everyone waits a little longer.
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