2:4 overturned by Leicester City, three rounds of the Premier League only accumulated 1 point, Manchester United's recent dilemma directly put the solso-boss on the cusp. Another topic that was also cited as a topic was that C Ronaldo seemed to have entered a state of dud.
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Cristiano Ronaldo vs Vardy
C Ronaldo tired?
Returning to Manchester United's first three games, scoring the crowd twice against Newcastle to exclaim "returning is still a teenager", scoring the only goal of the team against the Bernese youth, and equalizing against West Ham, destroying the city for the team for three consecutive games. However, in the next four appearances for Manchester United, Cristiano Ronaldo scored only one goal - admittedly in the Champions League to beat the "yellow submarine" Villarreal, but the other three games were not scored. What's more, in these three games, Manchester United also suffered a draw and two losses.
We can make a rough and simple contrast: Manchester United lost to Leicester in this league, the two teams of arrowmen Jamie Vardy and C Ronaldo both started the game, Vardy scored 1 goal on 3 shots, and Ronaldo scored 3 shots without scoring.
In the three weeks from September 25th (Saturday) to October 16th (Saturday), Vardy played four times, three starts to play the whole game, one substitute, a total of 278 minutes of play time; C Ronaldo, three weeks played six games, four starts, one mid-way substitution, one substitute, a total of 439 minutes of playing time.
Vardy celebrated the goal against Manchester United
After the 2018 World Cup, Vardy announced his retirement from England to focus on the club front. Cristiano Ronaldo played two games for Portugal before this round of the league, replacing him at half-time in a friendly match against Qatar and a hat-trick in the European Championship qualifiers against Luxembourg.
What's more, Vardy, born in 1987, is two years younger than C Ronaldo.
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Cristiano Ronaldo's Paradox
From the club's point of view, how to think of another thing, there is certainly no way to directly complain that "you play too much for the national team". From Ronaldo's personal point of view, it is understandable to continue to serve as the leader of Portugal and refresh various national team records and impact next year's World Cup... But there is always a contradiction in the middle.
Fee B and Cristiano Ronaldo previously represented Portugal in the World Preliminary Round in a 5-0 victory over Luxembourg
Cristiano Ronaldo needs to deal with this contradiction, and as a coach, Solskjaer also needs to deal with it. How to use C Luo, to what extent to use "not too much loss and not too conservative", to find the best balance? Worse still, having the top stars rotate means coaches making active adjustments, and it means not following the well-known guideline of "don't adjust things when it's going well." Well, you'd better have the ability (and luck) to keep winning in this situation, or else... Questioning will come like an avalanche. Just as the coach only gave C Ronaldo more than half an hour in the 1-1 draw with Everton, the "Sun" came with an article "C Ronaldo is extremely disappointed to be a substitute".
This is not only about the wisdom of football in platooning, but also tests the communication wisdom of the commander- Pochettino is now facing a similar problem in Paris: it is really not a simple job to spend time with an older, more confident and qualified star, to tell him "I need to make you a substitute" at the right time, and to make him acceptable.
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Sancho conundrum
In addition to the "Cristiano Cristiano Ronaldo", Manchester United, or Solskjaer, has another headache, which we can call the "Sancho problem".
Worth 100 million yuan and prestigious, Manchester United naturally had to use Sancho, and so the coach also had to use Sancho. Southgate had Sancho in England as the left winger in the 433 formation, and he also returned the boss with an assist twice in the game against Andorra, which seemed to be a ready-made answer given by a "So family". But also on the left, Manchester United's Sancho seems to be worse than England.
Sancho and Greenwood celebrate the goal together
So far since the start of the season, Sancho has not played any of United's league games, and the statistic is 0 goals and 0 assists. The only Manchester League game with 90 minutes full was the Carling Cup against West Ham... As a result, the game was lost.
Did Sancho not call with Ronaldo, or couldn't play with B Fee, or couldn't spark with Luke Shaw behind him? Coaches and players have spent a lot of time trial and error, and there won't be much time left for them to continue to explore.
If it turns out that chemistry is problematic, will Soshuai sacrifice C Ronaldo and B Fee as sacrifices in order to activate Sancho? In the end, "a hundred million reinforcements can not work" either becomes the guilt of the boss or becomes evidence of attacking Sancho's parallel goods, which is not a good thing for Manchester United.
In the middle of this week, Manchester United will take on Atalanta in the Champions League. Although the outside world generally believes that Soshuai is "as stable as Li Tie", some media believe that this contest with the real blue and black will be a battle that will determine the fate of the coach. Even after this level, there are Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, Atalanta and Manchester City... So Shuai ushered in an important juncture, C Luo to strive to continue the heroism, Sancho has to prove himself as soon as possible, they will all face their own problems.