I mean, its partly because we barely have a functioning defence at the moment. Thank god we didn't get rid of Maguire eh. Currently we have Martinez, Lindelof, Varane, Evans, Shaw and Malacia all injured.
The very brief time that we had most/all of our first choice defence back we looked easily the best we had all season. That being said, Ten Hag is done. Top 4 is gone and I wouldn't be surprised to see us have a pretty sad end to the season. Fingers crossed the changes behind the scenes are putting us on the right path for the future.
Of course injuries have played a part, but this is the case with most teams this season. There's also a question of whether this is down to training methods and that side of things? Possibly not, but I don't know.
What I do know is that despite the injury situation, there has to be some sort of tactical plan. The players should be drilled in doing the basics. The basics are very much non-existent at Man Utd under Ten Hag.
I am not absolving the players of blame either, they are not good - but this is not the team of a few years ago. This is a decent blend of young players in addition to ones ETH has chosen for the squad himself.
If you just look at how the team plays, they are just all over the place in every area, it is genuinely shocking. The midfield just disappears as there is no structure, the full backs don't know what to do. The centre backs are defending both high and deep and pressing at all the wrong moments. I actually do think most of them are making an effort for the manager, which further shows how poor his communication must be (or lack of).
Any manager with a brain would be drilling the team to be compact and organised, and using the likes of Garnacho to counter attack.
... and to top all of this, I actually think we've been quite fortunate in a lot of games this season, and our league position could be much worse. Oh, and I'd almost forgotten we were unceremoniously dumped out of our Champions League group, consisting of Galatasaray and Copenhagen, finishing bottom.
We're in the same old situation now where the club is in a black hole of despair, every game is joyless (the Liverpool cup game aside), the manager looks like he's waiting for the sack and the players are as annoying as ever.
The one positive is that I can't see a scenario where Sir's Jim Ratcliffe & Dave Brailsford, Omar Berrada and Dan Ashworth (via encrypted WhatsApp) are all sat watching this and being remotely happy about any of it. Big changes to come, hopefully for the better. If we didn't have INEOS running things and still had the Glazers, I'd be ready to give up.
