I like many am failing to see any positives from United or the tactical turtle thus far, well positives for them anyway. For the rest of football I see endless positives.
Their back 5 yesterday cost significantly more than ours, yet in my opinion they still need 4 defenders minimum.
The tactical turtle seems void of any ideas. As some have said, they try to play out from the back, split the centre halves, Blind drops in, they play it round a bit, panic and lump it.
So far any success they've had this season is purely down to Di Maria, some moments of brilliance, some of luck and he does deliver one hell of a set piece.
Then when plan a fails. Lump it to the disastrous Fellaini seems to be their plan.
£150 spent on top of essentially a top 4 squad and they've earned 1.4 points per game. That including very lucky late goals at WBA and to Chelsea. They should be on 12 points out of 30 with a pretty easy start.
Yet, I read today about a 'moral' victory and such, did I watch a different game? We had 4 good chances before Smalling' brain fart, Navas is a very lucky boy, because that miss from Aguero's pass after 10/15 minutes was alarming.
We obviously had the matter or 3 penalties turned down, and Rojo somehow avoiding punishment for that idiotic challenge.
Credit where credit is due, Rooney's run late on was very dangerous, and a lumped in lump to a lump should have seen Fellaini do better, but he's gash, so he didn't.
What would worry me if I were a rag, if LVG is such a genius, why is it lumping the ball up to Fellaini is a realistic option? And why on earth was Rooney deployed as a holding midfielder, he maybe fading, but if one thing is painfully obvious about our weaknesses, we can't deal with runners from deep. Rooney did this once, we struggled, granted his initial turn was lucky. Yet the tactical turtle had old 'Wazza' basically man mark Ya Ya, who inturn had his best game of the season.
Controlling everything we did, whilst his threat lead United to offer basically nothing from central midfielder.
We didn't play over well, we badly missed Silva yet could and should have won by 3 or 4. Yet we weren't particularly happy with our win, and they seem positively delighted with their loss. This shows how far things have come.