Sancho

He’s flopping hard.

I do think there’s a good player in there but I don’t think we will see it at United. His confidence is shot

comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 6 minutes ago
Look at their 4th goal yesterday, all came from a poor Sancho touch giving the ball away.

How often do Maguire and Dalot have the ball at the back with nobody showing down the right?

Yes there are a lot of players to blame, but Sancho and Rashford are a huge part of the problem.
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The problem is that these players do make the runs but we don’t spot them because our players need too many touches because their first touch is poor.
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. It isn’t just the defenders to blame.
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No but it’s easier to blame them and the midfield than the attackers.

First game Sancho did show for the ball a lot of times and we missed him out- poor vision and poor passing from our players. The quality of players we have are players that need 4 touches to release a ball.

In saying all this, Sancho and Rashford yesterday were abysmal. Sancho could not beat a man if his life depended on it, never gets to the byline to deliver a cross. Dalot who I think is also a poor player actually delivered 1/2 decent crosses.

SAF let Pogba go. City let Sancho go. In both cases you have to say that, perhaps, there were good reasons for doing so.

comment by Kamikaze Blue (U7450)
posted 4 minutes ago
SAF let Pogba go. City let Sancho go. In both cases you have to say that, perhaps, there were good reasons for doing so.
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And Chelsea let De Bruyne and Salah go.

I’m not sure that’s an accurate measure of whether a player can make it.

Issue is that even good players will have limited impact when they are playing in a system that's not functioning well and without quality around them. At Dortmund Sancho had Hakimi and Haaland around him - players with powerful gravity of their own, which bought him that extra space, put him more often in one-on-one positions. He isn't getting the ball in dangerous areas at United because we lack players who terrify and occupy the opposition defence and still don't have the drilled system to fabricate it through collective movement.

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 17 minutes ago
Issue is that even good players will have limited impact when they are playing in a system that's not functioning well and without quality around them. At Dortmund Sancho had Hakimi and Haaland around him - players with powerful gravity of their own, which bought him that extra space, put him more often in one-on-one positions. He isn't getting the ball in dangerous areas at United because we lack players who terrify and occupy the opposition defence and still don't have the drilled system to fabricate it through collective movement.
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Whilst I agree, a lot of these players are unable to do the fundamentals right now. Controlling a football, short passes going astray, missing sitters, following your runner, simply working harder than the opposition.

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 21 minutes ago
Issue is that even good players will have limited impact when they are playing in a system that's not functioning well and without quality around them. At Dortmund Sancho had Hakimi and Haaland around him - players with powerful gravity of their own, which bought him that extra space, put him more often in one-on-one positions. He isn't getting the ball in dangerous areas at United because we lack players who terrify and occupy the opposition defence and still don't have the drilled system to fabricate it through collective movement.
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Simple as this. Seems as if United (along with some of our fans) have never seen Sancho play at his best. Not sure what kind of player they were expecting. He was never a beat a man for pace kind of player. We've never put players with him to succeed, it's a mess.

Amazingly he's had a many managers at Utd as he has Prem goals.

A top attacking player usually starts well
Form dips after defenders and opposition figure him out
Then the best find a new way to overcome these challenges

Sancho as not got out of 1st gear bar a few moments in a handful of games