The scary part is, I don't see what the potential upside of Antony is. His best trick is a really slow and inaccurate imitation of Robben and you can't play him on the left because half the squad already plays there XD

In my opinion, Amad has the potential to have a better overall season being our starting RW than Antony, he might not just have the same opportunity as Antony cos he’s not Ten Hags record signing. I know he’s injured atm so we’d have to wait and see if he gets the minutes his stats last season shows he deserves

Initially, I gave Ten Hag the benefit of the doubt with regards to Antony’s signing. It’s a year later, and I am struggling to understand why we paid so much for him or why we bought him in the first place.

ETH had underestimate how difficult it is to play against the defense in the PL last season by spending most of the transfer budget to get Antony. sure Antony's arrival help the team to get into the system that the coach wants to play faster but the lack of quality of the player is clear for all to see.

I love Antony and was very excited when we signed him as I trust Ten Hag and Antony looked exciting but I do agree with all you said and he is currently very frustrating

Sancho was decent as a false 9 in pre season dunno y Ten Hag has overlooked him so far playing Rashford instead

Why no mention of Pellistri ? On the few occasions he has been given minutes he has performed well . Ten Hag continues with Antony because he pushed through his recruitment.

ETH decisions are quite worrying so far and some of his former season stars are just out of form so far. hope ETH gives the youngsters more chance to play so that his stars understand they must deserve their place in the MU team

When ETH first came to United, everybody talked about how much United were going to possess the ball more often. United's training sessions were primarily possession. ETH brought in the players to play that way including Antony, Eriksen, Martinez and even Malacia. Now he's abandoned that playing style and now these players can't do what they were brought in to do anymore.

Now that it is confirmed that Greenwood is leaving United. My patients has run slim with Anthony. He better get good offensively or get on the same boat as Maguire and MacTom and bug off.

I need a video like this for Rashford, his decision making is no better than Antony's imo, whether he's playing on the left or up front

Antony is a special talent. Cannot dribble, Cannot run, Cannot pass One of the best conmans in EPL.

I fully agree with your analysis here. I’m getting more & more frustrated watching Antony play in the last 2 games. The guy is just so predictable when it comes to dribbling and decision making. I could somewhat look over this last season since it was his first season at OT. However, this is the 2nd season so if he won’t improve, I would like Ten Hag to give the opportunity to Pellistri. But lets be honest, we all know that this will never happen lol

This was also a problem at Ajax. Antony was great in link up play with Mazraoui, like Alves and Messi. That was his big strength.

"Mom I want Robben" the MU "We have Robben at home"

Interesting analysis on Antony particularly with the.videos, pictures and arrows to illustrate your points. However, I was waiting keenly to see the same detailed analysis for AWB and Varane both of whom you said were part of the problem in the Tottenham game.

Enjoyed your analysis, good insights. I’m really worried as a united fan as I don’t think he’s good enough , he gives the ball away too much and isn’t creative enough. What do you think to Sancho on the right ? I think when Sancho is good he is really good, like we saw at Dortmund. What do you think , can you analyse?

As a United fan I dont want this sort of things to be true, I always hope our players do well..but I have always said, players like him and Sancho who have to beat the same player 2-3 times to make something happen...when they beat defenders they don't completely leave them for dead like Rashford and Ganacho do, the defender always has a chance to get back. Those sort of players more often than not will struggle in the Premier league

Mount off the right progressing the ball through combination play with AWB could be a solution if we sign Amrabat in the midfield role. I think even if we play McTominay in that role and shift Mount out there, we'd benefit more and have the added benefit of height and physicality in midfield to counter press and defend in transition more effectively than we are currently. McTominay's ability to carry from deep as well can be useful depending on the situation. Not sure why we haven't done this yet.

The initial three matches I observed with Anthony made me believe he might become another disappointment for Manchester United. Consequently, whenever I witness Manchester United placing their faith in this player, whom Scholes referred to as a "one-trick pony," it gives me the impression that the club's standards have dropped, and they're unlikely to achieve significant success.

The team will be balanced with hojlund as a number 9 and rashford gets back to the LW in this case even Onana will have variety of choices to pass either play from the back or use the wingers and straight to number 9……We are still hopefull for improvement

Why didn't we sign Adama Traore for free since we're going to play transition football this season? He's a good dribbler, good in transition and can put in decent crosses for Hojlund

so this is what i actually mean when i said we didnt seem sharp at all. thank you for adress this!

Rashford ran as a decoy but Anthony doesn't just understand the game yet because that pass should have to Garnacho, But he optioned to pass to Rashford instead who's running into a tight angle, Eric ten hag has some decisions to make otherwise he will go down the same route the other managers before him went, I hope he doesn't but if things continues the way they're then am afraid it might come to that.

You're so right about Anthony but the next thing is what is the manager doing about it we as fans can see the problem but the manager won't tell him what to do i personally don't rate ten hag

Reasons to all your questions: Anthony plays with one leg

I think Antony is going to cost us severely this season. Amad should be given the nod ahead of him immediately he's back from injury.

I’ve been saying this 😭he is overhyped …Damn I’m really gonna miss GREENWOOD 😭

100% agree Antony needs to be tested on the LW but problem his he’s never gonna take Rashfords position. Such a left footed RW doesn’t work imo, will never get a quick cross in when he’s got to switch position to his left

I totally agree with this ideas. Thank you. Even I don't what he thinks when holding a ball. Poor thinking and decision making. How many excuses? Compare him with Olise of Crystal palace.

If Greenwood is gonna come back, RW is a must for next Summer. If Olise has another great season, we get him.

For every Vincius, there are 10 favela boys like Antony and Richarlison!

Man I watched this video and read the comments I’m an Ajax supporter I was sad to see him go but as United is my favorite premier league club it was a win-win in the end. I thought Ajax supporters were spoiled as we have the biggest budget in the eredivisie but reading the comments I realize how spoiled Man United supporters are and it makes sense as you could afford to always buy the best players but Antony at Ajax was always the most motivated most energetic most driven player on the team. I realize PL is different from the Dutch league but I always appreciated Antony for his fighting spirit. Yes he makes some bad decisions sometimes but have you ever seen a player that never Made a mistake? I saw Antony play at the Johan Cruyff Arena even his debutmatch for Ajax So Im not a KZfaq keyboard warrior. What I’m saying is Antony can make match deciding actions when it counts just wait and watch.

Hey, Atlantis Football. Can you make videos analysing former players of Man United? Like Carrick, RVP and etc

Great analysis… please go on and analyse the bad decisions of rashford when on the left and bruno(anywhere on the pitch)…. I am going against the grain here but I think rashford on the right and Bruno really cost us many points and both have an x-factor but otherwise mostly they just don’t create enough… rashford can’t pass and Bruno keeps losing the ball

I want a video on why scotty could be a solution in our midfield even if it’s temporary

No utd player in his possession should be so obsessed with scoring goals, linking up and assisting should be his priority.

Spot on bro

spot on

The scary part is he played under Ten Hag for so many years and Ten Hag still got it wrong. Now, almost all the players we sign are based on Ten Hag's suggestions with zero input from our scouts!

Agree strongly

The last 2 games of the season sancho played on the rw and looked far better than antony. Sancho may not be as agreesive but has much better composure and decision making in the final 3rd. And after a positive pre season he should be starting

amad as soon as he is fit put him on rw and bench antony bring him on when we trying to hold on to a lead he works hard ill give him that

Being an analyst of football, you should know how quick the game moves, especially in the premier league. I admit Antony needs to improve in all areas don't get me wrong, but you can't just single him out. Our entire midfield has been atrocious, thus far including arguably our best player in Bruno. Things will click eventually, these players are still adapting to the 3-1-6 system and I can understand Antony's indecisiveness because players keep doubling up on him.

Amad should get a chance once he's fit and ready to play, time on the bench will do wonders for Antony who is at the moment not firing at all cylinders while being one dimensional. He doesn't have a right foot, he doesn't take on and always cuts in from the flanks being too predictable.

Antony is a personification of whats wrong with our club. Antony strongest qualities, like a good few of our first team players is... off the ball metrics. Love him or loathe him... Antony is a grafter. He reminds me so much of Antonio Valencia in that respect. Both are/were amazing grafters. Both are/were extremely one-footed. Both are temperamental and both frustrated the living daylight out of me in the final third too. Like I said in another comment. Its a bit of a hot take 🔥 but if we were to play a back 3. His off the ball qualities lend well to being a decent wing back imo.

You can see it........I can see it...........many others can see it, why can ETH??? it's so frustrating 😫

What is Antony doing on the left, it won't be bad but I think for now, mount should occupy that right hand side, Dalot should come back to the team then maybe we can use Antony on the right for now, we can get casemiro back and we should start thinking of using a 433 midfield with Luke shaw at left and bruno at right while we bring in malacia for defensive covering, at least malacia is a better ball player than awb, also we should experiment with sancho as an 8 and bruno is a deep lying playmaker with bottom level teams

This man is killing us slowly.

I agree with MOST of what you're saying in this video, but I feel like it's a little unfair to focus on Antony. I like Garnacho, a lot, however some of the mistakes and decisionmaking on his part has been atrocious. I'd argue that Antony is doing much more for the attack than Garnacho in the first two games this season.

Anthony is getting the preferential treatment Maguire was getting from Ole.

Do united have the players to make a 442 diamond system work

HOW ABOUT DOING A VIDEO TITLED"HOW RASHFORD'S BAD DECISIONS AND LOSS OF FORM WILL GET ETH THE SACK!" Antony is very young and is learning while Rashford is an experienced veteran in his 7th season at United on astronomical wages! When will he score 20 goals consistently for 2 seasons at least? Prejudice and bias against foreign players is annoyng by some media outlets !

I dont know how with this video you didnt analyse Diallo and Pellestri and what if anything they would bring in that position. As i do believe ETH will just persist with Antony as he knew these problems with Antony existed

I'm just in tears that Amad is injured right now. Osman Dembele went to Saudi Arabia on free transfer and we are here struggling with no striker. He's only 27

Someone please show this video to Erik Ten Hag. Very accurate.

Bro I’ve been saying this. Put Antony ton the left and make him play it early unless he gets a 1v1. He’s slowing the attack down.

What an irony, we went a full circle from getting onto cloud nine when he got signed to having a constant bad taste in our mouths from his play within one year. The most terrible thing is that while a bad technique could be fixed with hard work in the training, low football IQ does not come like that. It saddens me that he fell victim to his habits on the pitch that just do not do the trick and is unlikely to break this vicious cycle.

Anthony doesn't want to play on left wing....doesn't want to cross from right wing

whens the video about rashford's bad decisions?

And also Garnacho's poor decision making process. Currently he is better suited coming on as a sub. When he start there is no production at all

I understand the frustration but where was this kind of criticism to Sancho? I mean I have yet to see this star signing deliver 2 years later even after getting a special training regimen and all the patience in the world but didn't see any videos targeting him. Antony had more of an impact in a single season than Sancho in two, You can actually tell when he's on the pitch and the desire and attitude he brings and also his defensive engagement and solidarity with his teammates. I think people are being unfair with Antony as he has already proven with his first season that he could become a key player for the club, but seeing how bad most of the team looked the past two games, I think the manager has to take responsibility. I completely disagree with moving him to the left, that will completely amputate him as a player, he's not a crosser, he's got that brazilian flair like Vinicius, Neymar, Ronaldinho, etc. They all literally HAVE to play in these positions it's in their nature. If you watch him in Ajax you can see apart from cutting inside he also loved going down the touchline near the edge of the corner and taking on his opponents, it seems to me he's being instructed otherwise so this has to be a tactical issue because he's totally capable of doing so.

Next game we need top drop Anthony put Bruno wide and Scott in the pivot role

Anthony and garnacho are the epitome of wingers indecisivenss

In as much as Antony has being highlighted here, it's a scape goat kind of thing. In the past we had good passes coming from our captain Bruno to the strikers and we scored but not any more, gernacho was also good but these two games we've not had the best of him. Rashford had done good chances against Tottenham do did Bruno but failed to convert. Let's wait for rasmus to come in and we will see

What about Bruno's bad decisions and him always giving the ball away?

Did Antony have any pace when at Ajax. Cos he has nonpace at man u.

Not only Anthony , Marcus , Bruno was the same ,Bruno gets away with because he has that one ball that gets converted , Marcus was very wasteful the season before , ETH will protect Anthony because he is one off his own and his willingness to get back

the best part about this the coach will keep playing him no matter what

I’ve never hating a signing more than Antony

What happened to garnacho he was a perfect Winger taking on full backs and putting in a cross but now he caught Antony cut inside virus

As a man u fan, I look at the Manager. It is the manager’s decision. Don’t blame the players. Players don’t decide whether to play and/or play what decision

Imagine if we had Greenwood there!

I totally agree with this analysis. I have also found antony to be a liability for united. I think he is just not that good, and he is very predictable with the left foot curler of his. We really need to up our game when it comes to recruitment because our signings are not doing anything for us.

Wh6 did we buy Antony?

We know his shortcomings , deeper issue is who scouted , recruited and bought him at such a premium and why. Answers to these questions would help us set things right for the long term rather than focusing on symptoms of the problem like Antony etc !

The amount of times AWB makes a good underlapping/overlapping run that could spark something jus 4 Antony 2 cut inside n we have 0 momentum is abysmal. I've lost patience wit him already, nothing like his Ajax days n we cannot wait forever, what he needs is bench time but this so called "ruthless" manager of ours won't even consider it unless Antony gets the first 60-70 minutes

I've been saying this since last year. Antony will never be a great or world class player for Utd or anyone. He not only lacks the skill to beat EPL defenders, but also lacks basic skills to be great anywhere. And most importantly, he's a bad character and has a horrible attitude. Erik made a HUGE mistake forcing our front office to buy this guy. He's worth 20-30 mil at the absolute most! Erik is proving to be a very strange coach at this point now. I was ALL for him coming in and completely changing this team and making smart decisions, changing the way we play and lineup. But some of the choices he made last year and now this year are very worrying. The first one being, that he made Utd pay an absolutely INSANE transfer fee for Antony. He's never going to be anywhere near worth what they paid for him and is just another example of Utd wasting money. And it's extremely weird that Erik (who is seemingly very intelligent) would stick his neck out for this guy and ask for a record transfer fee for a player that has no record of scoring lots of goals, providing lots of assists or being an amazing player. And especially seeing that he's coming form the Eredivisie, a league that is miles lower than most of the other big European leagues. He has 18 goals at Ajax in 57 appearances. Not horrific, but definitely nothing to get excited about. 6 goals in 48 appearances in Sao Paolo. And 4 goals in 27 appearances for Utd. Those are NOT good numbers at all. The second being that he continues to not tell Harry Maguire to not let the door hit him on the way out! It's been clear as day to anyone with a functioning brain, that Maguire is absolutely garbage for at least 2-3 years now. When Utd bought him, I was completely confused. He wasn't good enough for Utd back then, and he's only gotten much much worse each season since. So WHY is Erik playing this charade in public by saying Harry is a good defender, but then he never plays him and says he is going to have to compete if he wants to get into the side? Be a Man and make the easy call. Fire this guy and get in a player that can actually play, because Maguire can not defend. He's atrocious and his attitude is just as bad. Then I'm really worried about Erik and this new 3-1-6 "in possession" formation with two no 8's that is NOT WORKING AT ALL. It's scary that he would try this so early in the season, when the team is clearly still just trying to put together good performances week in and week out. Which they can't do! So why is he trying to implement this difficult to understand and difficult to play well formation?!?! And why did he pick the exact same team to go out against Tottenham when it was absolutely destroyed by Wolves the week before who are not at the level of Tottenham?!?! That is a very worrying red flag in my mind about Erik. Sure, he is intelligent and has great ideas about how to play football, but I'm really worried about his ignorance of knowing WHEN to switch it up. Play a formation the players know and can carry out well. Work on this other formation as they gain confidence and after the team starts winning and playing well. Slowly start integrating it. I'm not saying Erik is a bust at this point or anything like that. We've had 2 bad games and it's very early in the season. We shouldn't be freaking out and calling for him to get sacked and all that. But he has made some very worrying calls on player acquisitions and tactics/formations/squad choices and that needs to be remedied. Not forced down the teams throat, all the while we keep loosing. That is NOT how you change a team and implement a new strategy of how to play. And as far as Antony goes, If you watch him at Ajax, the ONLY thing he did well, was dance around some defenders with some fancy footwork and then make a generic pass to someone else. He provides virtually nothing to Utd's attack and is a horrible teammate. Constantly makes the wrong decision. Misses absolute SITTERS in front of the goal all the time. Is really not even that fast. He's quick, but is always easily caught by basically anyone chasing him. Can't make a good pass to save his life (the only pass I've ever seen him make that was fantastic was the preseason game against Lens where he held up, waited for Rashford's run and put it in there perfectly. That's it! Never seen anything like that from him). In addition, he lacks basic skills that every footballer should have! It's astonishing how he's come this far and is on such a big team with such HORRIFIC shooting and passing. He can barely shoot with his left foot and it's more like a pass. SOO weak. And not very accurate at all. Can't even use his right. And his passing with both feet is childlike at best. And to top it all off, he has a HORRIBLE attitude. He's constantly scowling on the pitch, has a petulant nasty attitude and is constantly getting into fights with other players. Gives up horrible child like fouls because he thinks he was wronged. He has had a full year, an off season and now 2 games this year to "get used" to the team and the EPL. And it's safe to say, he is not getting it. And it's because of all these issues I've listed. He just doesn't have the talent or ability. And his attitude is horrible. He will go down as another one of Man Utds HUGE MASSIVE flops, along with Pogba and Maguire. The absolute best he can ever be is maybe 10 goals, a few assists and that's it. And that's only IF he changes his attitude and starts carrying more about being a great teammate, playing better and giving his all and dropping the petulant/nasty attitude. Amad and Pellistri would be a HUGE upgrade to start over Antony and I'm fairly certain Erik made a HUGE mistake bringing this guy to our team. Erik needs to drop him right away and let Pellistri and then Amad have the bulk of the opportunities going forward. They have proven that they will work hard, have great attitudes and actually had much better spells of play then Antony.

Antony is used as a scape goat. We just need a striker in the team who can tap in or head in to score. When you have a deadly complete striker then you set. Man city having haaland solves it all.

At last someone is talking about antony's shitty decisions😭😭

you're no winger if you can't beat your fullback

In my view Manchester United management must do a through background check of each and every player before signing them. Because of their young age , their personal background check becomes a mandatory club hiring practice. We need this precautions because of certain past involvements of players which has an negative impact in the team. Its better to be safe as much as possible. Club medical department should be involved whenever necessary to assist in the hiring process beside their normal medical checkup practice. If not done now a psychological test of all players should be made from time to time to ensure their mental fitness as well.

How about rashford zero work rate and lack of creativity and he's selfish too

pellistri will provide different option

Rashford and Shaw have been at the club years and are bang average. I'm willing to give Antony time given the fact the two I named are far worse players and have way too much power.

Antony is 23. Mo Salah is 8 years older and struggled at Chelsea when he was Antony's age.

Too much hate😭, he'll improve

Tbh none of these players seem to be coached properly or they just don’t learn they keep making the same mistakes idk what United do in training but it’s not fixing players individual problems

Give pellistri a go starting on the rw

Can we talk about Garnacho’s bad decision, they near enough bring down the moral of the team.

I watched when ten hag pushed cristiano out of his childhood club because he doesnt fit anymore and i think its accurate because he dont press that much like his earlier epl days.But now watching the team i am thinking why the hell is he keeping martial and antony who doesnt even have half the impact ronaldo had when he played the last season.

for some reasons i feel like Teg hag will step down soon , he started sound like Ole on his last days at MU

Even when he played in the Netherlands, I was never impressed by Anthony. Evra said it perfectly, he is a 1 trick poney, and I am convinced that he will never be a top player. When I heard they paid 100 million for Anthony I could not believe it. Anthony SEEMED good because at Ajax he was flanked by good players like Mazraoui (currenty Bayern)

I swear every shot a Man U player takes goes over or around the net. Never in it lol

Comparing Saka of Arsenal to Antony, no wonder Arsenal is better in attacking from the right.

The whole team is playing ass man. I know he needs to Improve but it’s too early to call him a flop.

I promise y'all I watched this dude at Ajax. He wasn't this bad

In all of these positions I see Antony making these wrong decisions, I think Sancho, Pellistri & Diallo would’ve made better decisions. He needs to give someone else an extended run on that right flank like he has given Antony. Besides the fact he makes poor decisions, I think Eric has made him a lil too comfortable.

He doesn’t use space well

Antony's price tag means its hard for EtH to justify another outlay on a right winger but he is seriously 40mil overpaid and not quite up to PL standards. Granted he can improve but he looks woefully out of his depth now, too 1-dimensional and getting most things wrong. And there aren't any real competitors on the right flank, or options for EtH. Would really like to see Utd sign another right winger before the transfer window shuts but don't think that's gonna happen.