"In the first minute you analyse the goal and you can see what happened. We made incredible defensive mistakes. Individual defensive mistakes and you pay for that. Then if you equalise after the 1-0 or if you score the 2-1 after the 2-0 you have a big chance because in terms of football the team was quite comfortable. " said the United Boss.
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| Jose Mourinho Frustrated by his team performance at his return to the Bridge - Picture Courtesy of Mail Online Sports |
First of all, Chelsea deserves all the credit after that wonderful performance, not to take anything away from their hard work and best performance so far this Season, though individually they were great, but it was also their Manager Antonio Conte's tactical Genius that's at work here, when Chelsea lost 2-1 at home against Liverpool, some of their Fans blamed the manager for benching the likes of Cesk Fabregas, then he started Fabregas against Arsenal away at the Emirate Stadium the result was even worse 3-0 lose to Arsenal.
Conte realise the situation and then changed his tactics from 4-5-1 to 3-4-3 system, the next game at Hull City's KCOM stadium, dropped Bransilav Ivanovic and Oscar brought in Marcos Alonso and Victor Moses both as wing-back and and allowed N'golo Kante to roam free all over the pitch and Nemanja Matic as his Deep lying playmaker and it worked, the next home match against the defending champions Leicester the same formation, tactics and selection with the exception of william who lost his Mother, Pedro brought in and it was even better performance 3-0 trashed to the Defending Champion, Fabregas still has a role to play and so are Oscar and William, But for now technically these are what we called the winning Team so why change them.
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| Antoni Conte celebrating Chelsea Victory at home - Picture Courtesy of Mail Online Sports |
Marcus Rashford who scored the winning goal at KCOM Stadium, scored an hat-trick for England's Under 21 at the International break and even scored the winning goal at Etihad Stadium last season at the Manchester Derby, but some how Rashford does not deserve to start that match and left at the bench with Mata and Herrera, Probably Man United's best Midfielders over the past Two season with the little opportunities they had over that period, and Mourinho decided to pack the bus instead of him to go for the best attackers at his disposal, he brought in Mkhitaryan who's never started a league match since his arrival at Old Tradfford and don't know the atmosphere and how passionate this match are, and Lingard who never play a competitive match since the Curtain raiser Community Shield against Leicester due injury.
It back fired and did not work United find them self 2-0 down at their own Home after just 36 minutes of play, an equalise from Ibrahimovic 6 Minutes later and it 2-1 at the break, after the break Mkhitaryan and lindgard were drop for Herrera and Rashford they came in and had very impressive second half changed the dynamism of the game, surprisingly forced the Manchester City Boss Pep Guadiola to change his formation to more defensively by playing five at the back just to maintain his lead thus it ended 2-1 first United defeat of the season.
Another 1-0 lose on first Europa League Cup Opener against feyenoord 4 days later, 3-1 defeat at watford 3 days later, the team that started the league as genuine title contenders now lost 3 in a row in just 8 days and has become a laughing stock by many opposition fans, United's own fans then expressing their frustration toward The Captain Wayne Rooney for his pour performance and toward the Manager Jose Mourinho for his insistent on playing Rooney who's form is declining by matches as it goes on.
The next match EFL cup third round against Northampton town at Sixfields Stadium, with new faces in the starting line-up (Romeo, Fosu-Mensah, Smalling, Carrick, Schneiderlin, Menphis and Young) all had their starting debut in a domestic competition the result 3-1 for United with Carrick, Herrera and Rashford (who came from the Bench) are all on the score shit.
At home against the Champions Leicester City, massive changes from the game at Watford, Blind in for Shaw, Herrera for Fellaini, Lingard for Martial and Mata for Rooney, 4-0 by the end of first 45 minutes so far Best performance of the Season, though the Champions manage to got 1 goal in the second half but United were too good for them, the match ended up 4-1 with 67.3-32.7 % possession, 7-3 on target, 16-10 shots, 912-494 touches and 712-336 passes all in favor of United.
United at Home against Zorya Luhansk 4 days later, with some changes from the match against Leicester United had what some people describe as "boring" 1-0 win at home with 72-28 % possession, 15-8 shots, 2-1 on targets and 9-7 Corners all in favor of the Home team, M. Fellaini was largely blame for his lack of pace and his slow build-up to the attack, he's passes are side ways and backward he had no vision whatsoever.
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| Paul Pogba still fail to impress after 89 Mil pounds United pay for him - Picture Courtesy of Mail Online Sports |
the next match at home against Stoke City, with the same team that won against Leicester and nearly similar statistics but the stokes are just unbeatable should the match start all over again.
After 15 days International break another 0-0 Draw at Anfield against Liverpool, Mourinho cheered himself up for stopping Liverpool from scoring a goal for the first time in the Premier League, but also forget this is their first clean shit of the season too. the ironic is that Louis Van Gaal won both the same fixtures respectively at Old Tradford and Anfield last season, with the likes of Mata, Lindgard, Martial, Rashford and Rooney, with Juan Mata playing an important role to those Victories, but however under the Special One, Juan Mata is not special enough to play this match.
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| Pogba only had one good game out seven that he played alongside Fellaini - Picture Courtesy of Mail Online Sports |
Three days later United had another stunning Victory over fenerbache at Old Tradford while Paul Pogba had another best game of his return back to Old Tradford, this Carrick and Mata play along side him, but some Mata was dropped by Mourinho again at his return to Stanford Bridge.
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| Smalling Battling it out with Costa at the Stanford Bridge - Picture Courtesy of Mail Online Sports |
As i indicated earlier Antonio Conte started the game yesterday with the best team from his last Match, But Jose Mourinho probably ignore his best team from his last match then brought in the team he drew against Liverpool,
So now the question is why did United spent all this Money on Attacking players but they tempt to gamble at so called Big matches, what's the purpose of paying 89 Million Pounds
for a single attacking Midfielder if you are not willing to play attacking Football when it Matters ?
