1) Mount playing in his correct (deep-lying) "8" role - https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1570178431697944578/pu/vid/1280x720/pQ1z85Ux6FTUvC0D.mp4?tag=12
2) Collective patterned combination builld-up play in final third was encouraging, less rigid...more fluid & direct approach (electrifying).
Found openings with some lovely play - https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1570180137408204800/pu/vid/1280x720/21oHhjAtiLxQgpou.mp4?tag=12
https://youtu.be/32SU19OPoNM
Understood their roles.
3) Willingness to take risks in breaking the lines
4) More bodies arriving in the box (to attack crosses).
5) Sterling in optimal 1-on-1 position time and time again with Cucurella & Kovacic on the overlap (still much prefer him on the right, where he can inflict more damage and at his most dangerous linking with Reece).
Negative - Experienced (ill-suited) players.
Considering the limited time Potter has had to work with them, not a bad performance at all (quite the opposite actually, promising).
Will now have some time to work with the non-internationals and preparing for our next match in two weeks time.
I am hoping Zakaria would be one that doesn't go on International duty, but he's almost certainly going to be selected for Switzerland.
Immediate Signs Of Improvement...
posted on 15/9/22
Another plus is that the transfer window opens on January and you can throw another couple of hundred million at it.
posted on 15/9/22
comment by DejaVu Wolf (U22884)
posted 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
Another plus is that the transfer window opens on January and you can throw another couple of hundred million at it.
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Doesn't seem to be helping
posted on 15/9/22
comment by Bobby Dazzler (U1449)
posted 7 hours, 17 minutes ago
Another plus point, you haven’t sacked your manager yet
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Oh no we’ve had one more permanent manager than United since Fergie retired, we’re such sack machines compared to lovely patient United
posted on 15/9/22
It's gunna take awhile for us to be anything close to entertaining again. I turned that game off a half time, getting too old to waste my time on things that bore me.
Sarri, Lampard & Tuchel have all contributed to moulding a risk averse team. We're unproductive tiki-taka, set up to attack but think defensively - Van Gaal's MO. The only ways to solve this will be to either (a) give a manager time, (b) give a new manager a complete new squad, or (3) sign a few more Ziyech types who'll take risks by force, because it's become this squads default setting.
posted on 15/9/22
I really don't see the point in analysing at this stage. give him a sample size of ten games and then review.
posted on 15/9/22
Was nearly a carbon copy of all our other games we dropped points in this season.
posted on 15/9/22
comment by Randomer (U5245)
posted 4 hours, 26 minutes ago
comment by Bobby Dazzler (U1449)
posted 7 hours, 17 minutes ago
Another plus point, you haven’t sacked your manager yet
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Oh no we’ve had one more permanent manager than United since Fergie retired, we’re such sack machines compared to lovely patient United
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Haha
posted on 16/9/22
comment by Devil (U6522)
It's gunna take awhile for us to be anything close to entertaining again. I turned that game off a half time, getting too old to waste my time on things that bore me.
Sarri, Lampard & Tuchel have all contributed to moulding a risk averse team. We're unproductive tiki-taka, set up to attack but think defensively - Van Gaal's MO. The only ways to solve this will be to either (a) give a manager time, (b) give a new manager a complete new squad, or (3) sign a few more Ziyech types who'll take risks by force, because it's become this squads default setting.
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I view Potter' set-up as a less choatic, more balanced Bielsa style.
Fitting that he deployed 3331 type set-up first match, heaps of variation, fluidity and intensity in the way we attacked & defended...pure unadulterated fun (and aesthetically pleasing).
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1568267945356464129/pu/vid/1280x720/kos_tee_np3rOAgS.mp4?tag=12
That sequence of play right there. Hallmarks of Bielsa.
Convinced Potter extensively watched Bielsa' sides (especially Bilbao), took some inspiration and adopted bits going into management.
posted on 16/9/22
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1570468100490813442/pu/vid/1280x720/CFYeXgvXHBmGtKbD.mp4?tag=12
Advanced role just behind the striker which Havertz played, might just suit Gallagher to a tee.
posted on 16/9/22
Well good luck to him is all I can say on that
We're slow, narrow & shift the ball side to side rather than up & down - the antithesis of Bielsa. Gunna be awhile before we'll see anything remotely resembling the pace & confidence to push forwards like in that goal you linked.