Manchester United were upset by Championship side Middlesbrough in the FA Cup, and they have left the championship competition early in the English League Cup and league; unless Manchester United can really achieve miracles on the way to the Champions League, their championship-free years will be unexpectedly extended to five years.
Players are top-notch, tactical nine-stream
Manchester United's manpower this season is actually not too inferior to the Top Three of the Premier League; the team currently has both old, middle and young players, and in the summer has also introduced several top-quality world-class stars, such as Ronaldo, Jerdon Sancho and Varane, all of whom are top-notch in their respective positions. However, after two managers, Manchester United's manpower has become stronger, but there has been no improvement in performance and tactics; on the contrary, many new stars with potential and players who still have great potential have been "weakened" and wasted for different reasons.
Solskjaer only knows personnel relations and does not understand tactics, which is well known in the football world, but Ronnick, who is known as the master of German tactics, has not been able to play his own style of football at Old Trafford. The essence of Lonnick's tactics lies in running and pressing without the ball, which is contrary to the style of Manchester United's "great emperors", and the players do not appreciate Lonnick's harsh role too much, so that Lonnick's tactical composition is limited to the tactical table.
More efficient rotation is needed
In fact, there are a lot of available soldiers in the Manchester United squad, but because the manager has not been able to achieve efficient rotation, the players in this class who are in good shape and ability are wasted. Proper rotation has always been the main reason why the team can compete for the championship on all fronts, and in some cup matches with a smaller number of stages, a squad of substitutes can be played, and they can both find their form and give some pressure to their identities during their playing time. For example, Manchester City and Chelsea are teams that show the rotation vividly, under Thomas Tuchel, as long as the players show a good attitude, even marginal people such as Barkley and Marang Sal can get playing time. Manchester City has never had such a thing as an absolute main force (except for De Bruyne), even if he is the king of the ball, he is not in good shape, he still has to sit on the cold bench, so that the team can have a healthy competition in the team.
But what about Manchester United? How many available soldiers have they wasted? Mata, who is recognized by the team as the best attitude, has he played this season? The team went to Xia Qiang to stay in Lingard, and how much game time did he give? Dean Henderson, even if he excelled in the cup, would not threaten David De Gea's position. The gap in the treatment of Manchester United's "first team" and "second team" is really too large, which also makes the players lack the will to compete, of course, it is difficult to improve and grow from it.
Manchester United's problems are of course more than that, at present, the Red Devils really only have one front left in the Champions League to compete, although the team is indeed "fired the legend", "hired the German coach", and drew Atletico Madrid in the round of 16, but the difficulty of Manchester United to reproduce Chelsea's great cause last season is really "you know, I know, everyone knows".