Elxandre:

Ole prefers brunos style cos he is clueless himself!
He doesn't know how to coach his team to dominate teams, so Bruno's long balls which sometimes work is a big weapon to ease his cluelessness.
Imagine bruno grabbing the ball from busquets or fernadinho and punting it right away at sterling or Messi.

patrickmuf:
No coach in the world will play Pogba on the wing to fit in any midfielder at the moment.

As for Bruno, David Silva was an AM renowned with eye catching through balls but he knew when to attempt to release the striker and when to play safe by interchanging passes with Fernandinho and KDB...

The job of an AM is to link midfield and attack but it doesn't mean that anytime the balls gets to you, you must attempt to locate your striker even when the chances of the ball reaching him or them is slim...A simple interchange of passes can drag someone out of position and that's what the likes of Oasis and nitrog.en are saying.

afrodoc2:


Coming from you na agenda. Forget.

I want a Godfearing person to mention it not Messianic people like you.

nitrogen:


I am honestly tired of these guys. Even mid table clubs avoided him like plague

Bruno is just there abeg.

Expert17:


Era where goalkeepers with good ball work will start over normal gks.

Where attack minded fullbacks will start over the defensive minded ones.

Where teams start their attacking play right from the GKs first touch.

These Man Utd fans want their AM to drop deep and help McFred control the midfield

NO COACH WILL BENCH AN ATTACKING MIDFIELDER THAT DOES THE HARDEST/IMPORTANT WORK IN FOOTBALL EASILY (scoring goals)

afrodoc2:


The balance between Fred and McTominay was better than this. McTominay didn't get a pass because of his goals but because he chipped in with goals while contributing in midfield.

Yesterday his midfield play was obviously lackadaisical and when i checked the stats at half time he had 0,0,0 in most of the defensive stats. He contributed virtually nothing yesterday allowing Fred to be overrun IMO. It is normally a bit more balanced between them but it wasn't yesterday.

P.S Not like Fred had an excellent game cos he also struggled at times with and without the ball and his passing was worse than McTominay's in the first half, however in the 2nd half he put in a shift.

CapitalCee:


Dont mind them. They should admit their hate and save us these sanctimonious sermon.
Even a defensive Mourinho will never ask Lampard to drop and start controlling midfield where makalele, Essien and Ballack are playing,
you expect Ozil in Madrid to control midfield where Modric, Khedira and Alonso are playing or in Germany when Scheistwiger, Kroos and Khedira are there.

You expect muller to control midfield when Kimich, Goretzker are playing or Gundogan in National team.

Even in a defensive chelsea Havertz is not controlling midfield instead of Kova, Joginho or Kante.

Was Dele Alli controling midfield when Wayama and Erikssen were in Tottenham?

Was Kaka controlling Midfied when Seedorf, Pirlo and Gattuso are playing? Or In brazil when Emerson, Gilberto silva or Zeroberto are playing?

Youri Djorkeaff in France 98 and Euro 2000, was he controlling midfield in the presence of Zidane, Viera and Emmanuel petit?

SNEIDJER at both inter had Cambiasso, T.Motta and Zannetti sometimes, while in holland he had Van Bommel and Nigel di Jong. In 2014 world cup their was Wijnaldum and De jong.

I can go on and on and on. Anybody expecting Bruno to constantly drop back and orchestrate play when his team havw Fred, Pogba and Mctom is nothing but an agendist or simply a hater or in milder terms doent know what he is saying

Elxandre:

Ole prefers brunos style cos he is clueless himself!
He doesn't know how to coach his team to dominate teams, so Bruno's long balls which sometimes work is a big weapon to ease his cluelessness.
Imagine bruno grabbing the ball from busquets or fernadinho and punting it right away at sterling or Messi.

eph12:

Lol I could have sworn you went to check when nitrogen wanted to drag Fred for not doing anything while Tom was doing everything.

I still blame all the imbalance on Ole. No matter the personnel on the field, I struggle to see what the plan is that doesn't involve Bruno. The energy is just too low for a big team. We can't go anywhere with that

nitrogen:


All the players you’ve mentioned didnt/don’t take stup1d risks. Most of them do/did not stat pad for their team.

Stop doing this abeg. No player is above criticism!

Elxandre:

Ole prefers brunos style cos he is clueless himself!
He doesn't know how to coach his team to dominate teams, so Bruno's long balls which sometimes work is a big weapon to ease his cluelessness.
Imagine bruno grabbing the ball from busquets or fernadinho and punting it right away at sterling or Messi.

patrickmuf:
No coach in the world will play Pogba on the wing to fit in any midfielder at the moment.

As for Bruno, David Silva was an AM renowned with eye catching through balls but he knew when to attempt to release the striker and when to play safe by interchanging passes with Fernandinho and KDB...

The job of an AM is to link midfield and attack but it doesn't mean that anytime the balls gets to you, you must attempt to locate your striker even when the chances of the ball reaching him or them is slim...A simple interchange of passes can drag someone out of position and that's what the likes of Oasis and nitrog.en are saying.

patrickmuf:
Chelsea for some reason showed little attacking intent until they went a goal behind...After City scored, Chelsea began to push higher up the pitch. Werner sef no try, they was a through pass he got from Alonso in the 1st half that he should have scored especially as he has the pace but he went wide and opted for a low cross in search of Lukaku which was easily dealt with.

CapitalCee:


You are not criticising you are hating. He took risk yet all our goals pass through him and we have been banging in goals defence has been our problem. If you think these players dont take risk then you need to brush up your football knowledge

Elxandre:

Ole prefers brunos style cos he is clueless himself!

He doesn't know how to coach his team to dominate teams, so Bruno's long balls which sometimes work is a big weapon to ease his cluelessness.

Imagine bruno grabbing the ball from busquets or fernadinho and punting it right away at sterling or Messi.

CapitalCee:


Dont mind them. They should admit their hate and save us these sanctimonious sermon.
Even a defensive Mourinho will never ask Lampard to drop and start controlling midfield where makalele, Essien and Ballack are playing,
you expect Ozil in Madrid to control midfield where Modric, Khedira and Alonso are playing or in Germany when Scheistwiger, Kroos and Khedira are there.

You expect muller to control midfield when Kimich, Goretzker are playing or Gundogan in National team.

Even in a defensive chelsea Havertz is not controlling midfield instead of Kova, Joginho or Kante.

Was Dele Alli controling midfield when Wayama and Erikssen were in Tottenham?

Was Kaka controlling Midfied when Seedorf, Pirlo and Gattuso are playing? Or In brazil when Emerson, Gilberto silva or Zeroberto are playing?

Youri Djorkeaff in France 98 and Euro 2000, was he controlling midfield in the presence of Zidane, Viera and Emmanuel petit?

SNEIDJER at both inter had Cambiasso, T.Motta and Zannetti sometimes, while in holland he had Van Bommel and Nigel di Jong. In 2014 world cup their was Wijnaldum and De jong.

Have you ever seen Totti controlling midfield in Italy or Roma? When De Rossi and perrota or pirlo snd Gattuso for Italy

I can go on and on and on. Anybody expecting Bruno to constantly drop back and orchestrate play when his team havw Fred, Pogba and Mctom is nothing but an agendist or simply a hater or in milder terms doent know what he is saying

Expert17:


Our problem is not scoring goals, creating chances, passes in games, attacking moves, big chance creation.... OUR problems are central midfield control, keeping clean sheets, lack of communication at the back, no attacking contribution from our full backs

So point at anyone that affects Bruno?

nitrogen:


They take calculated risks brah. Bruno takes stup1d risks. Are you sure you watched it watch the players you mentioned? Even Adele Alli no dey take silly risks, he waits for opportunities.

nitrogen:


They take calculated risks. Bruno takes stup1d risks. Are you sure you watched it watch the players you mentioned? Even Adele Alli no dey take silly risks, he waits for opportunities.

nitrogen:


TBH, Fred was shyte in the first half. He was better after that.

CapitalCee:


Are you watching the game or are you folowing bandwagon? Who tild you that bruno finds strikers every time. Why is it that all our goals pass through him and whenever he doesnt play the team struggles. Why?

eph12:

It's the energy and seriousness for me. At a point there were 5 city players closing down a small area and even if the ball escape there, they'll sprint back to regroup and mark the next area. Our mumu players will spread themselves

Expert17:


If we appoint a new coach, Bruno won't start right


OLE's game play is just to counter attack his opponent at any given instance, that is why those long balls are vital. Long balls can take out 3-4 opposition players at once.




Maybe you need to watch Paul Scholes long balls from Midfield that started our goal scoring moves under Fergie.

Replace McFred with Carrick and Scholes, this Bruno's imaginary problem will disappear

melodyogonna:

That Werner, how he managed to finish the game is what I don't know. City were just too good for Chelsea, too good

patrickmuf:
We don't have a problem scoring goals as we have players who are clinical in attack but we definitely have a problem creating chances talk less of big chances, retaining possession and pressing as a team. I feel Bruno can do better in helping us retain possession but the majority of the blame is on Ole.

We have almost zero attacking contributions from our fullbacks.

Our pressing is about the worst from the title challengers...

With or without an expert DM, we should be able to dominate Aston Villa at Old Trafford...

I remember someone mentioned here that we shouldn't read to much meaning into our demolition of Leeds, I think it was TheLequte. To be honest, the fellow was right as we have not played well since the first game of the season.

I am just surprised that no Ole fan boy has come here to point to the results elsewhere in defense of Ole, at least they now know that it's not a good defense because if we were serious, we'd ha e sue this weekend to steal a March on our rivals.

CapitalCee:


Why does the team struggle in the absence of bruno? Why did the team lagushing in midtable suddenly started win immediately he joined. He is taking risks yet he has a hand in almost every goal.

nitrogen:


Ole as a clueless guy decided to build his team around Bruno. No doubt he is hardworking, and has eyes for passes, reason all our goals ‘pass through him’. What happened to team play?

nitrogen:


Scholes and Carrrick were not hurrying to play long balls to our strikers. When they saw opportunities, they took them.

Bruno’s style is, collect the ball, hoof it to our strikers and insha Allah. Are we Everton or Stoke City?

Expert17:


No wonder he was in

- BBC team of the season with just 5 months of EPL football

- EPL team of the season last season.

Face our Problem: Central Midfield - Pogba, Fred, McTom and Matic

nitrogen:


Ole as a clueless guy decided to build his team around Bruno. No doubt he is hardworking, and has eyes for passes, reason all our goals ‘pass through him’. What happened to team play?

Expert17:


If we appoint a new coach, Bruno won't start right


OLE's game play is just to counter attack his opponent at any given instance, that is why those long balls are vital. Long balls can take out 3-4 opposition players at once.




Maybe you need to watch Paul Scholes long balls from Midfield that started our goal scoring moves under Fergie.

Replace McFred with Carrick and Scholes, this Bruno's imaginary problem will disappear

nitrogen:


He for chop bench tire. Dem go sell am sef. That’s why the big clubs did not go for him.

eph12:

If afrodoc2 didn't say Fred played okay in the second half, you would have still been running with your agenda that Fred was the worst player on the pitch.