The Manchester United thread #131 -October Rush

[SabaDen92]

Originally Posted by KeeHuat

Jose played not to lose today

Our 1pt felt like 3pts after end of day results

Spurs finally won at home in Wembley

[loveikan]

Watford won at home against Gunners with an injury time goal at 92min fr ex man utd player, Tom Cleverly.

With Ancelotti's availability who had won CL titles and several league championships in Italy, Spain, France Germany and England , will Gunner's mgmt be under pressure to sack AW?

[loveikan]

Originally Posted by SabaDen92

Our 1pt felt like 3pts after end of day results

Spurs finally won at home in Wembley

Yeah bro, finally a epl win at home.

[ThomasLim]

Originally Posted by sfk7

Kevin De Bruyne really the key man. Playing really well

Ya, if he could be one of our midfielders... that will be good.

[LauLanChu]

Again frustrating game and strategy not very right. Letting Liverpool coming at us with only Lukaku upfront unsupported most of time. Why is the aged Young playing wing, why not Mata? Being too caution and giving Liverpool too much respect. Can someone remind Mou Liverpool is no RM or Barca?

[lenghan]

Originally Posted by LauLanChu

Again frustrating game and strategy not very right. Letting Liverpool coming at us with only Lukaku upfront unsupported most of time. Why is the aged Young playing wing, why not Mata? Being too caution and giving Liverpool too much respect. Can someone remind Mou Liverpool is no RM or Barca?

On the contrary it is Klopp who is cautious of JM's strategy.
Klopp played it extremely safe with 3 midfielders and dared not remove anyone until final whistle. If he had kept PC or MS instead, we could have been in trouble as both our midfielders are pumped out.
And based on last few games performance nothing wrong with playing Young

[loveikan]

Hahahaahhaa...i also did not see anything wrong with playing Young. He earned it.

[jwhtan]

Originally Posted by lenghan

On the contrary it is Klopp who is cautious of JM's strategy.
Klopp played it extremely safe with 3 midfielders and dared not remove anyone until final whistle. If he had kept PC or MS instead, we could have been in trouble as both our midfielders are pumped out.
And based on last few games performance nothing wrong with playing Young

Personally, I dun like Mourinho's " pragmatic strategy "

The way I see it, Mourinho sees Liverpool's game plan as one that is overzealous attacking.
So he sets up Utd's play to defend in numbers, relying on breaks and counter attacks and probably set pieces.
What Mourinho didn't count on was Liverpool is also wary of being caught on the break and getting sucker punched.
So they put 3 central midfielders to counter this threat or possibility of being caught offguard and
didn't change this for the whole game despite not making too much leeway in their attacking forays

The result is Liverpool having plenty of possession, with not as much attacking threats as they would have against other teams .....
United defending in numbers without many chances to counter
End result ..... dour game

[LauLanChu]

Originally Posted by lenghan

On the contrary it is Klopp who is cautious of JM's strategy.
Klopp played it extremely safe with 3 midfielders and dared not remove anyone until final whistle. If he had kept PC or MS instead, we could have been in trouble as both our midfielders are pumped out.
And based on last few games performance nothing wrong with playing Young

Someone mentioned that Klopp did not fell into Mou's trap of over attacking when our players are tired. He subed out Coutinha, Salah and Firmino with the same set of attacking players while maintaining the defence and MF (I was stretching my head with the sub and now I know why). Certainly Mou was not please with their conservative strategy as it spoilt his game plan of full attacking when he deployed Lindgard and Rashford at the later stage. Upon seeing this he gave up and settle for a point by using his last sub Lindolf.

As for Young playing wing back is still okay, playing attacking winger is too slow for his age. I think he is deployed as such due to Mou defensive approach, playing Mata is too risky in his view, but I think that will yield a different results.

In fact think about it the ultra cautious LVG did a better job in this, having beaten Liverpool in every of his league encounters. Perhaps Mou should learn a few tricks from his past mentor.

[lenghan]

Originally Posted by LauLanChu

Someone mentioned that Klopp did not fell into Mou's trap of over attacking when our players are tired. He subed out Coutinha, Salah and Firmino with the same set of attacking players while maintaining the defence and MF (I was stretching my head with the sub and now I know why). Certainly Mou was not please with their conservative strategy as it spoilt his game plan of full attacking when he deployed Lindgard and Rashford at the later stage. Upon seeing this he gave up and settle for a point by using his last sub Lindolf.

That now you understand Klopp's mindset also reiterate that he too was playing it safe (aka.....defensive??) So Klopp was also being pragmatic too.
That his offensive players cannot score even with the number of attempts either showed our strong defensive stand or his weak offensive players.
So...a draw was always going to be the end result