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That is a good reference point. City even do that under Pep sometimes away from home where they grind out a tight 0-1 or 1-2.100% I want Ange to have the season.
Just want to see more allowances made in terms of how we prepare, and set up, for some of these tricky away games.
I think what would really kick us on if we saw Ange just show a little more pragmitism on the road.
Not comprmising his attacking principles completely, just some intelligent adjustments.
I remember United under Ferguson, theyd blow teams away with breathtaking attacking football one week, and the next theyd grind out a 1 nil win away to Stoke.
Still the same outcome, 3 points.
But Ferguson was the master at recognising that different conditions often required a tweaking to the approach. He'd often bring a fresh Park ji-sung in, and cqpitalise from that energy at tough away grounds.
For me starting Sarr was obvious yesterday.
Under Ferguson, Utd would blow teams away at Old Trafford in a very attacking 4-4-2 and then away from home in the PL and especially in Europe they’d switch to a 4-5-1 and sit in and counter more when they needed to.
I love Ange but I’m not sure any manager has been truly successful by simply only having a Plan A and not even having a slightly tweaked version of plan A, never mind a plan B or C.
But tbh this is a bigger issue than Ange, it stems from the top, our squad is yet again not good enough in many areas and the culture at the club remains the same under ENIC and the same cycle will just keep repeating itself except now it’s not just a strong top4 teams we are dropping away from there is a good 8-10 teams who we could drop behind so our rinse and repeat strategy will no longer be good enough for even 5/6th on a bad season but we’ll often be out of Europe all together possibly even upper 2nd half of the table!