It was the Manchester United players' fault to concede one goal, and it was Lonnick's fault to concede four goals

Lonnick's speech at the pre-match press conference further revealed the chaos of Manchester United under the pitch, but on the pitch, the chaos is also continuing.

Before the match against Brighton, in the face of Maguire and others returning from injury, Lonnick did not make changes to the personnel formation level, following the choice and idea of the previous 3-0 match against Brentford.

The last game was a beautiful result, the process was smooth, and there was not much motivation to change, but it was by no means impeccable, and Manchester United naturally could not "play like this earlier".

In the first half, this was clearly demonstrated.

In the last game against Brentford, in addition to Mata dominating the offensive thinking and rhythm, creating an offensive advantage of two ribs through continuous lateral movement, the most basic big framework is actually because Brentford's backfield is tall and inconvenient to move, and C Ronaldo can easily withdraw to take the ball.

In this way, Erlanga can insert and protrude from the side, and complete the duties and work of the striker in such a two-man cooperation.

But in the face of Brighton, who is stronger than Brentford and the selection of materials is not as extreme as Brentford, Manchester United's set of ideas began to have problems.

A very clear change, which appeared at the beginning, is that Manchester United can also form a scene of four attacking hands all on the same side when holding the ball:

But Cristiano Ronaldo's retracement of the ball began to face such pressure:

And he himself made a significant mistake:

Cristiano Ronaldo can't hold the ball steadily, then Erlanga doesn't have the foundation to move forward from the wing, because as one of the full-backs, he still has a lot of defensive responsibilities, and the two wing roads are the key directions in Brighton's attack:

Brighton pulled up the intensity at home, but in the first 14 minutes they didn't create too much, too much offensive threat, and from common sense, after the opening 15 minutes, the home team's strength will drop a little, then Manchester United can get some room forward.

However, in the 15th minute, Brighton scored from distance:

The goal allowed Brighton to continue the intensity and the manchester United troubles to continue.

Although after conceding the ball, the forward-pressed Manchester United played some attacks, which were based on the stability of Cristiano Ronaldo when he withdrew to take the ball:

However, Ronnick has said in previous interviews that Ronaldo does not like to play center forward, and he is not good at it from a certain point of view, like this advance in the 21st minute:

Mata, Erlanga and Bruno were all pressed against the left half of the back, but Ronaldo, as a centre-forward, appeared in the right half of the front:

It's a position where he'll be comfortable catching the ball, but not one where teammates will be comfortable passing the ball.

So under the heavy pressure given by Brighton, Manchester United once again appeared in the front of the fulcrum situation, when the state is good, the opponent shrinks, this will become a scene of encirclement without attacking and being counterattacked by the opponent, and today Manchester United passes the ball under pressure and makes frequent mistakes in advance, so it becomes the appearance of Brighton's dominant scene.

Not only did this attack gradually re-emerge:

Even formed an attack that completed the traverse at the front of the penalty area:

Later in the game, Varane made a mistake in dealing with the instability of the ball when he stepped back, which was often seen during his time at Real Madrid, but Welbeck did not catch it:

Despite being behind and not playing well, United were still under control.

Considering that there are too many big men in the middle of the midfield, there are big problems when building up the attack, and the coverage when defending is difficult to satisfy, so it is understandable to replace Nemanja Matic with Fred.

But what is more needed is to replace Cavani and form a double striker with C Ronaldo, so as to work together to complete the role of a center forward, and when C Ronaldo pulls the side and withdraws to take the ball, the team still has a point in the front line that can suppress the opponent's defender line.

However, it is a question of who to replace.

In theory, the most suitable option is Mata.

It is not that Mata's performance is not good, but from both ends of the attack and defense, only by replacing Mata with Cavani to form the basic situation of 442 can the basic balance of attack and defense be guaranteed in the case of the formation of a forward suppression effect.

However, Lonnick chose to replace Edanga with Cavani. From an offensive point of view, with a double striker, it is indeed possible to abandon some of Elanga's role in the attack, but in this way, who should take on the responsibility of Eranga to protect Dalot in defense?

Mata? C Ronaldo? Or who?

In the 49th minute, Brighton scored his second goal:

Throughout the process, There were very serious problems with United's positioning. After the ball was thrown out of bounds this time, the double back, Bruno and Mata all appeared in this part:

So before Brighton's foot cross, Dalot is facing a difficult choice, he has to take care of the inverted triangle brighton players, but also cover the Brighton players at the back point:

Brighton hit the back post, Trossad calmly held the ball, observed, delivered the ball, and when it came to the inverted triangle position, Lindlev had to defend Welbeck behind him, and finally blocked the shot from the inverted triangle position:

This is the fatal problem brought about by Cavani's substitution error.

Normally, Erlanga should be at the forefront of the penalty area on this defense, covering the inverted triangle position, Dalot can take care of the back point, and the loss of the ball will not appear in this way.

However, after Cavani came on, the responsibility of protecting Dalot was vacated. On this advance, You can see Mata on Darot's side, still in front of him, and in front of him is C Ronaldo:

But can you count on Ronaldo to protect Dalot when defending? Or can you count on the same 30-something Mata?

As a result, Dalot's position in front of him became a key space for Brighton:

In the 57th minute, with this big foot of the Brighton goalkeeper:

Cristiano Ronaldo, Cavani, Mata, Fred and Bruno on the left have become ineffective defenders, and near the drop point, Dalot is instantly in a state of one defense:

As a result, United conceded a third goal:

In the 59th minute, United, despite consciously leaning to the right, then suffered from the problems that have been often seen this season in the face of lateral movement, with the right rib punctured and the fourth goal conceded:

I was very lucky not to concede a fifth goal:

At this point, the game is over.

In the 69th minute, Maguire came on to replace Mata and Manchester United switched to 352, which allowed United to find a balance between attack and defense. Although there are some shots on the offensive end, the score is here, and the will level has long been defeated.

In a way, Manchester United, which has a poor away record in itself, may not be able to win Brighton even if everything is done well, but losing to this result, the players and coaches have a big problem.

When the first goal was conceded, it was the player's problem, but it was clearly a mistake in Lonnick's adjustment that allowed United to concede the second, third and fourth goals. In other leagues, it may not be so tragic, but in the Premier League, even the slightest mistake can bury the whole game, not to mention such a clear offensive and defensive imbalance.

This is the lesson that the Premier League has taught Ronnick, but looking at the whole season, the result of this game does not seem to matter.

It's just another chaos on the chaos.