I’m nor sure about this one, too much reffing consequences and not actions. Rashy is protecting the ball, doesn’t have any sight of the man moving into where he makes contact.
Ultimately that’s a nasty piece of contact, but the degree of contact shouldn’t really be so much of a decider.
Diogo Dalot has learnt he can just run in a straight line and it’ll work it seems, thank god.
I don’t wanna say useless, it’s useful for understanding performance in these (Max) 9 games, but it’s 9 games. Wouldn’t be making too many conclusions.
How many times do you see Kyle Walker get beaten in a genuine 1v1 situation like that? Mitoma’s dribbling is a meme but his conclusion from that paper was about exactly this, unsettling the opponent with subtle movements to make the act of going past them the simple bit.
Probably too late but Jadon Sancho at his best beats people in similar ways but his whole United career has seemingly failed to commit to it as a strategy like Mitoma does.
Overblown. He’s not been good, but his existing deficiencies have been extra detrimental whilst the team lacks guys like Licha, Shaw, Antony etc… who take of the ball and still are progressive. He’s also been a bit exposed in some games, plus your DM is always gonna take stick when you’re conceding lots of goals.
I do think he’s always been a bit lumbering, it’s just that people are fixating on it because United are conceding lots of goals. He’s pretty much the same defensively as last season, United are just a harder team to play DM for this season than last (so far).
If you’re a defender at you let Rashford into that area instead of shepherding him down the line it’s your own fault. I’m not saying he isn’t dangerous from the byline but this is like his favourite chance. Just gets to fucking smash it.
What are United supposed to do? Their luck with decisions this season has been genuinely unbelievable.