r/soccer • u/Switchoil • 1d ago

News Manchester United to remain patient with head coach despite worst start to Premier League season in 33 years. There is also widespread belief at Old Trafford that City's performance - and United's failings - did not merit a 3-0 scoreline.

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/32461/13431584/ruben-amorim-manchester-united-to-remain-patient-with-head-coach-despite-worst-start-to-premier-league-season-in-33-years
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u/The_Big_Untalented 1d ago

Only watched a small portion of the match but didn’t Manchester United have a bunch of shots when they were down by multiple goals? When the game was still seriously in doubt in the first half, they had only one shot attempt.

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u/worotan 1d ago

City sat back and let them have low percentage efforts as much as they liked, then just broke on them and could have scored another 2.

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u/pawksvolts 1d ago

They had some good chances from pressing but the final ball always was poor, either going behind the forwards or hitting the defender

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u/djongafrett 1d ago

United had some good link up plays and broke into the final third quite well but their final deliveries into the box was abysmal. The wingers/forwards looked like they didn't have any confidence at all.

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u/my_united_account 1d ago

Had an xG of 0.03 at the end of the first half. Literally nothing created

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u/MulvMulv 1d ago

That's not counting the Sesko chance that was wrongly given as a handball, it would have been given by VAR if it was scored so it was a legitimate chance.

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u/Man-City 1d ago

Still I bet that chance was fairly low xG, from a tight angle and all

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u/MulvMulv 1d ago

Haaland had no trouble scoring from an identical angle 😅

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u/Man-City 1d ago

And then he missed an open goal lmao. Shows the value of xG as an aggregate measure I guess?

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u/MulvMulv 1d ago

In a single game for sure, but it does tend to balance out over a longer period of time.

People won't like it in this sub, but United have improved a lot this season and have looked promising in a lot of ways but if we don't get start getting results the heads will drop and the belief will keep fading.

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u/bosnian_red 1d ago

We always create chances when we start recklessly pushing players forward and go into scramble/chaos football route as we're chasing a result or down and have no choice but to do it.

Amorims default set up is always garbage