Ole’s answer when asked about his philosophy:
"I’m not here to explain every single detail of how I want my team to play. We want central midfielder who can play. Today’s football is about he’s a good 6, 8, 10 back in the day you had proper midfielders, Roy Kean, Paul Scholes, Brian Robson. You see players out there who can attack and defend and that’s what we look for, midfieldes who are complete and we try to develop that in our midfield.
"It's a balance between with how many you commit forward and how you defend because one little mistake and there’s a counter attack towards you.
"Overarching philosophy… I don’t sit here and claim and talk... football is a simple game and it's about making good decisions and being in a team.
"Sometimes we look too much into the all intricacies and it’s passion, it's desire - who wants to win the ball? Which one of the striker has the desire to get on the end of crosses?
"You can talk about all sorts, it looks nice on paper. But when you go out on that pitch, it's who wants to win, that’s one of the big things. You want winners and I think I’m getting there with my team, team players."
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Ole’s Philosophy
posted on 18/9/21
That is why when Henderson and Romero have played regularly in goal in there careers they kept clean sheets for fun. De Gea concedes more than expected in most of his games under Ole I believe.
posted on 18/9/21
Liverpool another rival in last 12 league games have kept 6 clean sheets in last 12 league gamed. Based on expected goals they should have kept 7 clean sheets so near on par.
posted on 18/9/21
It is worrying run of lack of clean sheets though. Best team over near 1/3rd of the season in allowing less than 1 expected goal but near bottom of clean sheets in that run. It is harder to be better than clear 1st in that regard.
posted on 18/9/21
The complete midfielder sounds great until you realise football today doesn't produce such players like it used to, nor do we possess such midfielders.
This does however explain the insistence on playing a 2 man midfield and expecting them to boss that area like in the 90s, but instead seeing the opposition often controlling the game with a more modern approach.
posted on 18/9/21
comment by N2 (U22280)
posted 49 minutes ago
The complete midfielder sounds great until you realise football today doesn't produce such players like it used to, nor do we possess such midfielders.
This does however explain the insistence on playing a 2 man midfield and expecting them to boss that area like in the 90s, but instead seeing the opposition often controlling the game with a more modern approach.
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The 4231's as modern as you'll get, it's meant to let the team transition to a 433 or even a 424 in attack, while channelling everything through the compact middle in defense. You're barking up the wrong tree as usual N2, it's not that the tactics are outdated, it's that we often don't play the transitions properly and end up with the worst that system can produce at times.
posted on 18/9/21
comment by The Post Nearly Man. Ex Lion Tamer. (U1270)
posted 30 minutes ago
comment by N2 (U22280)
posted 49 minutes ago
The complete midfielder sounds great until you realise football today doesn't produce such players like it used to, nor do we possess such midfielders.
This does however explain the insistence on playing a 2 man midfield and expecting them to boss that area like in the 90s, but instead seeing the opposition often controlling the game with a more modern approach.
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The 4231's as modern as you'll get, it's meant to let the team transition to a 433 or even a 424 in attack, while channelling everything through the compact middle in defense. You're barking up the wrong tree as usual N2, it's not that the tactics are outdated, it's that we often don't play the transitions properly and end up with the worst that system can produce at times.
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In our case, it transitions to a 424. Our problem is the details of the system are executed poorly.
posted on 18/9/21
comment by N2 (U22280)
posted 47 minutes ago
comment by The Post Nearly Man. Ex Lion Tamer. (U1270)
posted 30 minutes ago
comment by N2 (U22280)
posted 49 minutes ago
The complete midfielder sounds great until you realise football today doesn't produce such players like it used to, nor do we possess such midfielders.
This does however explain the insistence on playing a 2 man midfield and expecting them to boss that area like in the 90s, but instead seeing the opposition often controlling the game with a more modern approach.
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The 4231's as modern as you'll get, it's meant to let the team transition to a 433 or even a 424 in attack, while channelling everything through the compact middle in defense. You're barking up the wrong tree as usual N2, it's not that the tactics are outdated, it's that we often don't play the transitions properly and end up with the worst that system can produce at times.
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In our case, it transitions to a 424. Our problem is the details of the system are executed poorly.
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So it's not that it's not a modern approach then?
posted on 18/9/21
comment by The Post Nearly Man. Ex Lion Tamer. (U1270)
So it's not that it's not a modern approach then?
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We obviously try to implement some modern thinking, but it's not done very well.
There's also still some outdated thinking—those quotes are similar to what you hear from older pundits; like how it's about character, desire, being first to the ball, as well as them bemoaning too much tactical analysis.
posted on 19/9/21
https://youtu.be/bL16k9thQO4
I am hoping Ronaldo being back will make us win the quadruple.
posted on 19/9/21
comment by StringerBell (U11749)
posted 21 hours, 4 minutes ago
Shouldn’t a question be asked, at what point do we say, ‘We’re Man Utd’
So, we’re down to 10 men. We still have better quality players. Let’s take it to them.
Did you see what a SAF UTD team down to 10 men against Arsenal?
We are playing Young Boys, not one of the established teams of Europe. Fight and Die Hard dammit.
Give them something to think about. But no, we allowed for them to constantly pressure us, couldn’t even keep the ball for a string of passes at a time.
But you want to blame DeGea?! Nah…..
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Good post