Just watched Goals On Sunday.....they showed their goal...both Rico and Callum were pointing at their overlapping player before the kick was taken.... So who was to blame? The players for not reacting and re-organising themselves? Or management for not allowing them to react?
And did exactly that with them
Turned them into dead balls.
That free kick at the end, from there, was never in a million years going to go in.
A dink into the far post with about 10 players all runing towards the United goal would have been better.
Anybody, including a defender could have got a touch and put it in.
Roll on the City home game.
I'm not going.
Modern day football seems to be very apologetic for the players. Point blame at the manager for every scenario rather than players taking responsibility.
Personally Howe didn’t get the set up right for me and had either looked to work on a 3-4-3 system to use regularly and so will take time to perfect
Or
He gave Sheffield United too much respect and he matched up with their unusual back three and over lapping centre backs.
But - once the players cross the line they are responsible. They’re paid big bucks, their not naive lower league journeymen playing above themselves now.
They should see that and react accordingly and not looking for their safety blanket of blaming the manager.
Having looked forward to the start of the season that was just an awful unimaginative performance. Nothing like having you optimism bubble burst right at the beginning. We started off the pace, United chance within the first minute , and never managed to get ourselves going. United were physical, professional and bang up for a fight. We were lazy, slow and dull. Ramsdale had a decent start to his premier League career, mepham scored his first goal, cook and Ake average, billing looked assured and had a fine shot well saved. ( A midfielder that likes a shot, finally), lerma was busy. Fraser and Smith were poor, Wilson could've nipped off for a lie down and I wouldn't have noticed he'd gone , king tried all the tricks when we just needed the basics and look dejected all afternoon.
United played their game plan well and thoroughly deserved their point, however, an earlier change by Eddie and we would have been saying we got away with that one. As for our free kicks, seriously how many of you got excited at the end , a free kick on the edge of the box should be a chance but not with our lot. We haven't got a free kick taker in the team. The only one who may have made a good effort of it was sat on the bench because Eddie wasn't brave enough to bring him on.
Still on to the next one and Villa ain't going to be a walk in the park.
Away fans will always be louder on camera.Not enough grounds have dedicated singing areas (which is good as it's a bit cringe) so the TV companies always put mics near the away fans as travelling support guaranteed to make more noise than home family area
Sorry but I don’t think this applies anymore and I personally find it a rather patronising way to describe us. In our first PL season fair enough, possibly our 2nd too. The reality is we now have an extremely talented squad for this level reflecting the millions which have, on the whole, been wisely spent.Nil mentioned in his match report that the team added up to lesser than its individual parts. I think we probably measured up equal to our individual parts yesterday.
Where as normally our ability to be so much more than ours induvidual parts is what serves us so well.
I kind of think it’s an easy narrative to make to see we are a small club who’s success is based on hard work and endeavour rather than their actual football skills. I dislike the “punching above their weight” remarks for similar reasons.Can you explain why you find it patronising?