Man Utd's midfield misery | Match of the Day 2 | BBC Sport

Match of the Day 2's Frank Lampard and Shay Given discuss Man Utd's midfield problems in their 3-0 defeat at Old Trafford to Liverpool in the Premier League.
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Man Utd's midfield misery | Match of the Day 2 | BBC Sport

[milaonkulukusa]

That’s the most balanced analysis I have heard all weekend

[MrFooFighter]

Lamps was actually very balanced and fair in his analysis. Props... Shay not so much.

[notbusy]

I am not a Man Utd fan but after having watched the replays, I cannot see how the second goal is Casemiro's fault. He was the last one holding the ball but got knocked off and Liverpool took possession. There were 6 Man Utd players behind to stop the play of 3 Liverpool attackers and they didn't do their job. It seems to be a habit of the Man Utd fanbase to single out individuals and make them the scapegoats for losses. No one talks about the failure of the offence to score a single goal in a home match.

[dpal]

Lampard is by far the best ex player pundit

[jayforeverrollin]

Playing a 4-2-4 is tactically crazy. Kobbie and Casemiro are given the responsibility to cover an unrealistic amount of ground while also having to build up passes. Bruno needs to play like an actual midfielder and with that there's balance in attack, and in defense...

Thats the only thing that's wrong...🤷 Apart from individual mistakes and performances

[pauloconnor]

As an Irishman and UTD fan, kudos to Lampard for that balanced, unbiased and very fair analysis. Wudnt of Given him that at the start. 😉

[flyaway]

Ten Hag bought players he had before though: Antony, Lisandro, now De Ligt. Also he really wanted Mason Mount and the club got him in.
That's some good personal backing so we can't say it was all poor club signings.

[RandomVideosFirst]

The real test is Arsenal and City, Slot faced an tactically inept united side, the two errors from Casemiro were shocking though and the whole structure fell through its a*s , they chased Ugarte for the last 6 weeks to ultimately be a replacement for Casemiro but left it to the last day of the transfer window to complete the signing and couldn't register him in time to play against Liverpool (Mounts pressing would of helped but hes another problem with his injuries ). If united were serious they would have got him in first straight after the Copa America, Also heard quotes from ETH that Ugarte may need weeks or months to be integrated into the side (I have so many questions about that too ). Ineos wont sack ETH before xmas as the optics would make them look incompetent (having SJR come out and sad that they best possible manager for united, having opening interview other managers and extended his contract ) .

Also I have to add that Fred was a underrated partner to Casemiro in case first season he was there player that cleaned up after case and had the energy to press that allow case to make more risky progressive passes knowing that Fred is his insurance policy if it goes wrong . We saw last season why Fred was actually more important than most thought. The only hope now is that Ugarte who has similar energy levels and better defensive numbers and ability will fill in that area of midfield .

[welwynmanager]

Under Fergie, we played Giggs in the won the league with Ando and Cleverly. We won with the Gibson. United midfield has been bad since we lost Scholes and Keane...

The problem is the attack no helping. Rashford should never start a game, Gernacho is good but lightweight....This was obvious as Collier, Gernacho and Mainoo were bullied off the ball.

We should have kept Amrabat, Fred and Sabitzer who did all the work.

The starting 3 upfront should be Bruno, Diallo, Hjolund.

Problem is every team trying to play like Pep teams instead of working hard.

[SteventheThorn]

As a Man Utd fan I appreciate Frank pointing out that Liverpool are straight up a better team than Man Utd. Slot has inherited a top 3 PL team, top 10-15 European team probably, and he's doing a great job so far.

[ssnn]

Its 100% on ten hag, he set up the team for his midfield to fail. No matter who coming in even lampard himself.

[zorashki]

Lampard is a great pundit he knows whats up.. he could be not that good as a manager but as a pundit its 10/10

[CCChing-wlir]

Winning the midfield battle has always been key to winning a game, especially in big games. In the older days, it's not uncommon for managers to play an extra central midfielder just for that purpose. Today the game has evolved, you don't need an extra midfielder because players in other positions are more rounded to perform that role during different phases of play. But United's tactics seem to challenge that because instead of packing your midfield, we relied on 1 man while the rest push up. That's a bit suicidal isn't it. Now, we don't know if that's ten Hag's instruction or the players lack of tactical intelligence. But it happened too often, 3 times at least, all leading to goals conceded, that this tactic looks intentional on ten Hag's part.

[Howling-Mad-Murdock]

Now THAT was proper analysis. Compare and contrast the chimps tea party from Neville and Carra.

[JoeBob]

ETH has only been at United for 2 seasons, not 3.
And he didn't walk into a stable team like Slot did... When ETH arrived it was an absolute mess, Rangnick commented a few months before that the team needed "open heart surgery". But I'd argue the club needed it, not just the team. And this has only just been started over the last few months.
The problem is really that the team is inconsistent, not that they are bad.
For example United beat Liverpool a few months ago, but then just barely scraped a win against Coventry, but won and drew against City in the last 2 meetings
But the could lost 7-0 to City next week if they played them.
They need to figure out how to be consistent, and that takes time.

[zing]

Subscribed for the accurate and balanced content that this whole segment conveyed, but Lampard's last comment took the cake. What a breath of fresh air

[liamclarke]

Our we seriously saying Man Utds midfield wasn't an issue under Solskjaer? McFred? Or Mourinho with Pogba, Matic or Van Gaal with Schweinsteiger, Schneiderlin, Fellaini. This is a long term problem.

[Daniel_Goh]

United midfield setup can be
1. Diamond shape - Casimero/Ugarte/Mainoo at the base, Bruno/Eriksson at the tip (no 10). Left & right of them to be B2B energetic midfielders. Mount, Collyer can play those roles.
2. Midfield three (no 10) - Casimero, Ugarte, Mainoo, Collyer, Mount at duo anchor, Bruno/Erikssen centre. Will need a centre forward for this

[abcdefg]

Neville said united have a better midfield than Liverpool.. Wtf

[-VForValhalla-]

Honestly, the amount of disrespect, club legends like Antony, Casemiro, Maguire, Onana and TRashford gets from Gravechester United fans, is embarrassing to say the least.