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I am actually pretty relax this season. I have no expectation. I consider this season to be a development season. We probably won't finish 4th or go far in UCL. But as long as we are actually playing proper football both defensively and offensively, and developing player, I am good. Take united game for example, if we have better striker we probably would have won that game but it was probably not good for long term because defensively we were atrocious. Against Liverpool, I want to see better pressing structure and maybe less constant high press.

Zouma problem is that he is a bit clumsy and on the ball he is just really poor. But we can remedy that with kova-kante midfield, two ball carrier in midfield mean we can minimize the amount of time that Zouma need to bring the ball forward.

It is funny that people now think United defense is really good. We created 4 good chances against them. I mean Abraham, mount, Barkley and Pedro are not exactly wc. I am not even sure it is better than Everton front line.

I don't understand what do you mean by mentality. Lampard instructions were high pressing. If you want to drop deep, you need your manager to scream at everyone or have a gameplan beforehand otherwise all hell will break loose. Btw there is a difference between playing in lower line to being forced to defend.

This is a very interesting match. Will lamp change our approach and play a lower defensivreline or keep higher line. Will lamp keep his building from the back strategy or just play long ball. I certainly don't see us playing Barkley on the left wing. We can get away with it facing awb who is not really a threat offensively. Pool on the other hand has two wb who can create goal.

Why? I actually like "recent" manager turn pundit. Jose basically pointed our problem. Defensive, organization, being compact and space between the line. He is right. That is our problem, our pressing intensity was very2 good, organization wise need work. I think either here or somewhere somebody pointed out that Lampard Derby problem was their space between the line was too big. I thought it was solely due to personel but it turn out not completely. This is crucial problem, you can forget about being a good team without being a good defensive team. For all the praise of attackin football that pep and klopp received, both are actually pretty defensive minded.

Basically we have 3 option in striker - Giroud who is pure target man and has no future with us beyond this season - Michy, best finisher and movement but offer nothing else - Abraham, our young striker who imo offer a bit of everything but still need a lot of work Honestly, I have no idea who to choose. But I probably will also go for tammy

In midfield it is not even close. Kante and kova is our starting double pivot

I don't think player lamp player selection was the problem. Maybe a more conservative press will be better

I think people should relax. People want us to develop youth and at the same time be good. Defense is a problem, I said it a while ago. Our transition defense was awful and it still is. It will get better one kante fully fit but our organization defensively need to be better. I have no problem with this high pressing but maybe a bit less against big team, even pool use a lower pressing block against United last season. Defensively, Zouma is a bit of a mess, but I think we all know it. Azpi also made two mistakes that led to two United goals. Offensively, I said it early, this your time Abraham because if you don't show that you can be Chelsea no 9, we will sign a striker next season.

I think this first game somewhat mimic our pre season. We can create chances and our pressing is better but we need better defensive organization otherwise we will suffer big time. Our pressing remind me of klopp early time. Offensively, we will create chances but we simply have no goal scorer.

VAR that was a foul

This commentator are weird. We created chances and chance yet they said United defended very well. They have been awful. But in football we all know it is better to be lucky than good

From this performance, we have outplayed United in OT. Forget the 3-0,those are just dumb individual mistake.

Lol not really, we are creating. We concede 3 goals from 3 individuals mistakes. One by zouma, two by azpi

Two mistake by Azpi, one mistake by zouma

This. It has been one way traffic.

Then either stick with Barkley or bring Puli. I won't drop mount.

100% Barkley, Mount pressing is just brilliant

Why? Pedro played very well. We just need to stay calm. We are creating chances

If Puli come, he will come for Barkley. Mount pressing has been fantastic. Our backline looks a bit suspect otherwise this is one way traffic. We just need to stay calm and if this is how United defen we will create chances

Pedro has never been about beating player one on one. That is not his game. His game is all about combination play and off the ball run

Are you kidding me. Everyone played well. Zouma was problematic. Tammy should be more decisive but his overall play is quite good.

They are playing awful. They created nothing at home. Nothing. They have a defensive rb playing one on one on the right. Rashford also did not want to defend. We pretty have much all the space that we want

United shape make 0 sense, you have defensive rb supported by nobody on the right. Just stay calm, don't make mistake and we can win this game