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Manchester United attacking conundrum needs managing
National World - LocalTV
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06/09/2023
A look at the front line at MUFC.
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00:00
And just on Manchester United's attack, obviously we've seen a few different combinations and a few players coming back in.
00:06
Hoyland made his debut and Martial has been coming back in as well.
00:10
What's the situation? How do you manage the attacking line-up at the moment?
00:16
Because there are a few players on paper you might think could start and then there's more and you're leaving them out.
00:23
What's the latest there you can tell us?
00:25
Yeah, so I mean there have been quite a few issues in the team I think in the first couple of weeks.
00:31
But attack has definitely been one. I was having a look at the XG stats.
00:34
Only Chelsea and Everton have underperformed in terms of XG in comparison to Manchester United.
00:39
I think that United have certainly looked best when Marcus Rashford has been out left.
00:43
When he played through the centre in the first couple of games, he didn't look great.
00:46
But then of course the issue is Alejandro Garnaccio is best out left.
00:50
And again, I was looking at the numbers actually from last season.
00:52
United's three best players in terms of goals and assists were Garnaccio, Rashford and Anthony Martial.
00:58
Anthony Martial was actually mainly in the first half of the season.
01:00
The second half of the season he offered very little and has so underwhelmed I suppose in the first couple of weeks of this season.
01:06
So United's two best players are Rashford and Garnaccio, two players who both want to play off the left.
01:11
Now that is an issue, that is a problem.
01:13
I'm doing a piece on it at the moment.
01:15
I mean Garnaccio has never really been tried out right. Rashford has, it's never really worked.
01:19
I mean you've got Hoyland that come in, could there be some form of fluid from three?
01:24
But again, I don't even know if that really suits because all three, Garnaccio and Rashford have been best coming off the left.
01:31
You've got different issues with Sancho and Anthony.
01:35
Obviously allegations made against Anthony, which he denies, but has been dropped by the Brazil squad.
01:40
United say they are looking to invest into the issue.
01:44
So at the moment, we don't really know what's going on there.
01:47
But he's not performed well off the right wing this season, there's no denying that, and his numbers aren't great.
01:54
Then you've got Jadon Sancho and just that whole issue with him coming out and criticising Ten Hag.
02:00
I have a funny feeling he won't be in the squad for the first game against Brighton after we come back after the international break.
02:06
So both Anthony and Sancho aren't performing.
02:09
So that's the issue then as well.
02:11
You're trying to get your two best players out left, that doesn't work.
02:14
Your players out right aren't performing and I know Hoyland's avidly to come into it, but you don't have anyone up front who's really impressed.
02:19
So there's a big issue there for United and one they need to address.
02:23
Plus they've got issues in midfield, plus they've got issues at the back.
02:26
And Ana, in my eyes, he's very comfortable himself with the ball at his feet.
02:30
I don't know if everyone else in the team has adapted to it.
02:32
So there's a lot of issues I think for Ten Hag to address when we come back after the international break.
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