Casemiro looked like he was playing Drop-In Pro Clubs while drunk

That first goal is definitely on the players. Just look at 12:51, Ten Hag looks panicked and urging them to get back.

I watched live and the lack of athletism we have is honestly appalling no power no pace no fight.

People say he isn't pragmatic which is the biggest lie I could ever digest. Remember the 4-0 trashing of Brentford, he realised that the technical and physical acumen of this squad is very low and he absolutely had to throw his possession ideas to the bin and adapt to the players. So, since that 2-1 win over Liverpool, his entire tactics last season were there to suit the players available. I absolutely agree that he has had tactical flaws this season but doesn't this show that our players aren't capable of playing in an expansive system were you actually need to be technically and physically strong!? Sometimes I feel ETH is doing the right thing by exposing these players. Bring in anyone you like, these players will fail everyone. While other clubs have built a team to play a system, our club is just an accumulation of different types of average players of different styles and age groups. Recipe for failure if you want to implement a system

Everyone ask this to yourself : Can Pep make this same squad with these same injuries play even the simplest form of his patient positional and possession based football? If Klopp had this exact same team, would he be satisfied asking this team to gegenpress? Let's say the hottest manager now, Xabi Alonso, if we get him. He has been absolutely genius in rotating his squad, will he have the same success doing that in our squad? These are simple Qs. If you think about the answers honestly, you ll realise what's the real issue.

Its the player that need to go first

Nearly all our tactical so called issue from ten hag you’ve pointed out, I’ve seen other teams do it but it’s not an issue, why? The PLAYERS

Eriksen, Casemiro, Mount and Evans weren’t fit. Can’t win with this team.

The argument that he had all his players, two of those players are free transfer because he couldn’t get who he wanted and one is a CDM playing as a CB. This is a counter attacking team and yes it looks bad but it’s been bad before him. Everyone that comes to United seems to look bad no matter how good they were before.

The mistake was selling pastor Fred to get 007(mount)

Besides all the well put points I also think it's apparent that the players lack routines in their inter play. (BTW: To be fair Eriksen actually got pushed into the ballet stature on the frozen frame.) Glazers out!

Is there any point doing tactis at this point?

Bro I was there, fans were class - team were awful.. couldn't believe what I was witnessing

Can't understand why Amrabat was not picked ahead of Eriksen personally.

With FFP this will take years to fix. Somehow ETH has kept up. Should be applauded.

All i remember is finally getting my stream to work n seeing the 4th goal n then turning off the stream

Young Manioo Garnacho either look exhausted or needed leaders , Casemiro Evans Eriksen look like there towing a caravan , AWB Anthony aren't good enough

it was annoying to be honest, i made the call of 4 an hour before the game but did expect us to get 1 lol. nothing ten hagg could have done apart from putting 11 behind the ball and he would have got slaughtered for that.

Losing 4 regular center halfs badly affected MU or any team for that matter ! Wouldnt happen if only one was on the field tbt

Seems that last week Ten Hag said with all the injuries he doesn't want to change how he wants the team to play - which I think is soething we want isn't it - the team dont' change how they play because someone is missing etc. What do you think of this approach rather than adapting to who is available?

I am so fed up with this 325 build up..i does not get united anywhere... build up is poor, and defending with it is also poor... much rather go back to 4231 proper build up with full back and winger actually on either side and build up from there..

This is very thorough and a lot of insight into how United is playing. I would say though, the wingers run a lot but that's not where the injuries are. The injuries are with our defenders for the most part. Martinez was more of a contact injury so.he may not be injury prone, but the rest of the defense seems to be injury prone

If you are stuck with central defenders who move at the speed of late, why on earth would you have your attacking three doing an unsupported high press?

Before ETH arrived we were told he was a master tactician and meticulous planner. Where is that now?

Good analysis, I feel like ETH player narrow because of how slow our back line is. We're most vulnerable during transitions and when we're switching shape (Brentford were literally hoofing balls into empty space and daring our defenders to win a foot race) and Palace are a good transition team. There was an Ericksen switch in the first half to Wan Bissaka (maybe why ETH played him deep instead of Mainoo who doesnt have that switch in his locker) but thats AWB not Shaw over there so it went nowhere. It obviously didnt work but i see what ETH was trying to do.

@Aj pls what do you use to watch match after it's been played Pls kindly assist

Great , if exasperated , analysis ; thankyou. As a Palace fan i was relieved to see Amrabat not starting - arguably the very best in his role in Qatar and would have surely negated ,to some degree, our superior midfield athleticism ??

Great video AJ, I now better understand tactic ideas of CP, didn’t know about shadow press before it, my thanks👏🏻🙌🏼.This was the first time when I saw the line-up’s and understand that is no chance MU win, even without individual mistakes it would be a miracle if MU win with this squad, his fitness, his understanding in the squad how who playing and individual abilities of the players. Still for “EtH stays”, think that individual mistakes made that game, understand that the coach take responsibility for the squad and for the players, but think it’s unfair to blame him for the players make poor decisions that out of structure what coach gives, unfortunately the choice is not big.

11:00 Why feel sorry for Ten Hag? He made the choice to play Eriksen in that position. He had Amrabat on the bench, Mount if he wanted a different profile, or CDM for the U-21 side Maxi Oyedele. Why Eriksen was in that team, and why the f*** in that position, I will never understand.

Sack ETH

Hi why does the manager keep putting out the wrong formation I know we have had alot of ibad injuries but we have not a good squad of players and is Marcus Radford still injured if not why isn't he not playing

Can't legislate for Casemiro & Evans back from injury in defence. With no proper left back and Eriksen in midfield. This creates technical problems for the defence technically in and out of possession and physical attributes of the defence too. I called a Palace win too. The defence creates the base for everything tactically and confidence for the rest of the team. For me this result is based on how severe our injury situation is, the quality of players in certain positions hurt us.

Do you believe that I have travelled from Cyprus to see that game and my 6 old boy was crying at 3-0 not because of the result bit because we were so poor!

Go off King

To have 6 of 7 CBs out with injury (and the 7th not really fit at all - Evans) is unacceptable. Not sure if I'd be too hard on the players (played out of position) when the tactics don't help them one bit. Players in their natural positions gotta step up and help them out (Hellooooo AWB and Dalot)! It is impossible to gain confidence if the team play is about individual brilliance, and the patterns of play are demanding a special kind of players that all are injured and unavailable... ETH should've assessed the team by now (hell, we got a huge coaching team to help him.. WTF are they doing?! Lazy as hell if you ask me!), know how we can play to these backup players strength (or coached them to know their roles and responsibilities) - superior team play as our players actually aren't that skilled. Instead players do not trust one another and they don't take defensive responsibility when teammates leave positions. You cannot let any player get away.. even Dalot must know he gotta step down if Casemiro is joining the press. Or another player if Casemiro is pressing opposition toward right side... The players are dumbed down to be high on stamina, instead of quick thinking, explosive acceleration and immediate aggressive press applied from several players at the same time. From Ole's Moments FC where the defensive block was quite solid with a deep double pivot, the single pivot is very vulnerable as that CDM is working way too much as a no.8 in the sense of joining attack. Instead of screening and help doubling and reinforcing our defensive line from right to left. Working vertical vs lateral. Really thought we did that well in ETHs first year, but now it is way too empty. This organization, guidelines and rules of play in the system, it gotta be crystal clear. Either ETH has drilled players in these systems or he hasn't. I've never felt he is doing preparations to defend vs opposition strengths - United play the same way vs every team we face. Which is basically not having any defensive plan at all, or a flawed one that every team in PL can expose with ease. If you got 3 CBs (Varane, Martinez and potentially Shaw if either first two are ill/injured) and then just one RB that can play high line well (Dalot, AWB usually screwing our offside line)... simply put, it is complete nonsense to play a high line. We're able to do so for less than half a season. ETH system is based on this. You are making a mockery out of fans with such stubbornness... process?? Players learning a lot by being humiliated by far inferior clubs huh. I believe some wise managers said you also learn a lot by winning and breeding a winning culture. Our players are losers with a loser mentality. They down tools and get into 2nd half with zero intensity.

🤣 Legendary analysis man. 🤣🤣

Sick to death of the inverted fullback. I see no value in it anymore.

I’m still ETH in, however, I simply cannot defend what seems to be just an innate stubbornness to adapt the teams tactics… I understand the situation is so far from ideal for him that you gotta have some sort of sympathy. Most of us have heard the interview n his reasonings for not changing tactics, n like sure ok but surely he can the consequences now of not adapting ur tactics. Like now an improvised team is supposed to pull off the main team’s gameplay, which is alr difficult enough in of itself? If I c his unwillingness to adapt his tactics again I’m gna have some srs srs doubts cuz I can’t imagine any competent manager being this stubborn about a change of plans

Im officially ten hag out, not that hes the entire issue, but i think INEOS and the club should start on blank papers

After watching the game not even Zidane can help this players

I watched this live as i always do in the middle of the night. It was a horrific game to watch as a life long UTD fan. I dont mind losing games but it felt like players didn't care and are not playing for the Badge and manager. Its embarrassing players like Antony in our team, we had bad players before but he has a bad attitude altogether for a UTD player. At the end seeing him discussing something with Mount, Onana covering his mouth complaining about something was pukish. I dont think ETH is a good manager to take us forward but more over I think there are horrible players who dont put effort each week and should be sold.

It's a perfect shit storm of injuries, bad players, poor coaching and naive tactical approach. Blame can't solely be pinned at anyone, it's just a combination of awful things. I do feel like Ten Hag has just been making the players run in training and seem to be doing 0 POP?

is way too risky keeping eth. Best for him is to move back to Ajax, not Bayern or whatever. All his decisions turned against him eventually.

Personally i dont mind if united don't qualify for Europe that could be a blessing, united could focus on the league.

Ten Hag is not pragmatic enough. We need a coach who can be quick to adapt.

Don’t feel sorry, we all know what we‘re getting into when we watch a game nowadays

One thing i do like to point out if you're Southampton, you don't play like Barcelona, Cut that shit of playing out from the back. Its risky with uncapable players. Just shoot the ball up and let hojlund chase.

AJ, can you do a video looking at Simone Inzaghi. Personally, he's the only manager i'd be interested in bringing to united. I think with a few key signings his ability to switch between 3-5-2 and 4-2-2 would suit our squad to a tee. especially with Luke Shaws fitness questionable at FB, and I think should be rotating between LCB in a back 3 and FB against certain opposition. Would be really interesting to get your thoughts because no one seems to looking at him for some reason.

This is definitely a player profile profile

Brother I watched this live 😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔

Well, no worries, only 4 of the strongest teams left. Perfect time to hit your worst form. WHY can’t this expensive team pass out from the back, after all this time working on it? Why can’t they develop a short & medium length passing-based game? And learn to press properly? Because it’s too much like City?!? Are they too embarrassed to learn from the best? It was as if they had been told before coming out just how terrible they were and are all out of a job soon, no matter what...Massively demotivated. Insipid Rashford, Casemiro, Shaw, Martinez, Bruno = the bedrock of last year’s efforts. But this year & this game - injuries and lack of form from the stars. And it looks like they have mentally accepted their fate (though Mount and Amrabat did seem to try to muster some energy)... And the fans too... That they were so spiritedly loud and consistent, despite observing that awful fare, reminded a bit of the crazed support after Denis Law's notorious backheel. (The moment that finally confirmed my commitment as a small boy). The drive is to discount the immediate evidence but gather oneself to look ahead for the fightback in the distance, that cant yet be seen. No Dennis Law, but a Haaland - and the rest of the best- to push the final nail in?

I hope casemiro won't be at the club next season.

I woke up at 3am to watch that crap 🤣🤭

7:22 isn’t this phase of play - rondos - tight passes and quick decision making a hallmark of the ETH system? Want that a massive part of the Ajax system?

Ten Hag is the reason why we lost. No ifs and buts. His insistence on playing his way with this team, decimated with injuries is the reason why we wont win. Him playing from the back with the players he had is the reason we lost. Also, him playing mainoo and erikson in front of the defense makes me question if he actually knows what his players are capable of doing. All he had to do was to play with just two forwards- Garnacho and Hojlund, and put an extra player in the midfield. If we dont have any, bring in someone from the youth team. This season we had the most goals conceded with the most shots taken against and we scored the least goals.

ten hag seems like a plan A only kinda guy .

This game highlighted how dependant we are on Bruno

You think EtH goes end of the season? I've always been EtH in but I just don't know anymore.

Palace was using Alonso's formation and tactics and it worked brilliantly. 1 glance at how they shape up based on their formation and you can see we are in trouble with Eriksen and Mainoo in the double pivot. ETH is tactically clueless. No doubt we are struggling in defense, but that doesn't excuse our frontline where we had only 7 shots on goal, 2 on target with none from Hojlund. we had 4 players who were wanted and signed by ETH for big money ion thew starting line up, 5 if you include Casemiro though he wasn't ETH's choice...3 of them were subbed out for our youngsters and a loanee (another wanted by ETH and could have been bought by him if we had the funds). So basically more than half the starting lineup were his players with Garnacho, Mainoo, Dalot and AWB signed before he came.

Predicted a 3-0 lost, under 10H this team just dont know how to play the ball on the ground n quick pass n move. Its so predictable any balls into midfield it will be a blind hoof upfield. Amrabat or U21 CB would do better than Evans who clearly is not fit

All of these are not things that just happen once in a while. They are recurrent patterns we see in every match. It's very poor coaching by Ten Hag and his coaches. I absolutely do not understand how anyone says the players aren't doing what the manager wants and he can't find a way to combat that. He's a coach fgs.

Why do you keep saying shadow pressing like it some genius tactic it simple blocking/cutting of the passing lane. Good analysis but that just annoyed me.

I saw it live. Made me want to give up living. Palace has been playing well so all credit to them. But lordy lord... Yeah. I had to watch it live as we got progressively worse

I’ve been saying this for months our system is what creates so many injuries in a lot of cases, so really it’s not even an excuse for why we are so bad, especially since we are supposed to be training more than 11 players

There is no structure in our midfield. Onana and Rice wouldn't cover the spaces we're leaving. Tactical problem with this manager

I think Ten Hag will be sacked based on his delusion and stubbornness. What he said in that Neville interview is shocking.

Our results are finally starting to match our performances. We look so terribly caoched and it doesnt look like there is a single thing we're good at, not in defense, build up or attack. The injuries excuse only goes so far. The players dont dictate the style and tactics of play, the coaches do, and all season long they've looked bereft of ideas even when injuries improved.

ETH is super bad and always having an excuse about his bad decisions…He has 7 players in the game which he brought in but all poor decisions making players. ETH has no tactical ability.. my question is what is the gameplay or tactics which he is passing to them???