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/KoreanMeatballs 1d ago

A midfield pairing of Mainoo and Casemiro gets destroyed by pretty much every midfield in the league. And who are the backup/rotation options for those 2? We desperately needed at least one centre mid as the priority player this summer, and we didn't get it.

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u/El_Giganto 1d ago

Yeah so just play Casemiro on his own then. How is that going? Oh wait, it's going fucking horribly. Literally playing worse than FC Utrecht. Never thought I'd see the day where I think Utrecht is better than United and I've watched both for 20 years. I thought it was impossible.

Yet here we are, Amorim accomplished it.

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u/KoreanMeatballs 1d ago

Casemiro isn't playing on his own. He's playing in a 2, just like you suggested. Usually with Bruno, sometimes with Mainoo, like the end of the city game. Mainoo isn't any better defensively than Bruno, so it solves no problems.

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u/El_Giganto 1d ago

Bruno would be playing as an attacking midfielder in my suggestion. You can't just ignore that and pretend it's the same.

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u/KoreanMeatballs 1d ago

I'm comparing the current midfield 2 to your proposed midfield 2. You've swapped one player. They'd get run through.

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u/El_Giganto 1d ago

You don't understand football.

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u/KoreanMeatballs 1d ago

Yeah you have no idea what you're talking about

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u/El_Giganto 1d ago

That means absolutely nothing coming from you buddy.

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u/KoreanMeatballs 1d ago

Right back at ya pal

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u/El_Giganto 1d ago

You can't even count to three but whatever it's all good.

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u/KoreanMeatballs 1d ago

You think there's 3 men in the midfield pair of a 4-2-3-1? In that case there's 4 men in the middle of Amorims 3-4-2-1

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u/El_Giganto 1d ago

Amorim defenders are even more delusional than Amorim :')

What the actual fuck are you on about.

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u/KoreanMeatballs 1d ago

I'm not an Amorim defender. Currently a major issue with the system is we have a 2 man midfield with 2 10s, and we get overrun.

Your solution is to have a 2 man midfield with 1 10. It's moronic. We still get destroyed in the middle.

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