Solskjaer's terrible tactics, jeers for Bale, Liverpool do enough

Maybe what is most telling is that, strictly speaking, it's not a bad result. Manchester United are below Sheffield United w88 mobile in the table, so drawing 3-3 at Bramall Lane -- as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's crew did on Sunday -- is no big deal. And, hey, they would have won if the ball hadn't stood up perfectly for Oliver McBurnie's injury-time finish.

That's the most rose-tinted reading you can have. Here's another one: Solskjaer lined up in a 3-4-3 formation that made sense only to him. It left Fred and Andreas Pereira on their own in the middle of the park against three opponents. (And we're talking Fred and Pereira here, not Roy Keane and Paul Scholes).



It also meant that centre-back Harry Maguire became United's de facto deep-lying playmaker. (Yes, he's good on the ball for a 6-foot-4 defender, but football doesn't grade on a curve.) It left Aaron Wan-Bissaka bearing the attacking burden down the right. Then there's Phil Jones, who was responsible for Sheffield United's first goal and was hooked at half-time https://www.w88thais.com/latest-entrance-w88-mobile-android-ios/ .

Solskjaer has a zillion mitigating circumstances, from injuries (Paul Pogba, to name one) to the club's supposed lack of interest in running a rational transfer campaign in the summer to the inflated expectations after he took over the cluster mess a year ago.


Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Man United are ninth in the Premier League, with 17 points from 13 games. Getty
But he also makes his own messes, and this misguided tactical approach was a prime example. After the game he noted that "sometimes football is beyond tactics," which does at least speak to the fact that his players battled to the end. It should be a given, but sometimes was not under his predecessors; indeed, Solskjaer referenced a thrashing last season at Everton as being a contrast to what unfolded on Sunday.


And then there's Brandon Williams, the 19-year-old left-back. I have no idea if he has the skill set to be a long-term United player, or even a Premier League player, but what I do know is that the kid has guts. In just his second league start, with 20 minutes to go and his team on the ropes, he had the courage to shoot from distance with his weaker foot, risking an earful from veteran teammates. Williams' shot halved the deficit and cued up United's comeback. Talk about taking responsibility w88 line .

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Eden Hazard told L'Equipe that he weighed around 175 pounds this summer, which isn't great if you're 5-foot-9. Maybe that's why it took him some time to get off the blocks at the Bernabeu at the start of this season. Whatever the case, he's fit and sharp now. Hazard showed it on Saturday in the 3-1 top-of-the-table clash against Real Sociedad, along with his countryman (and former Chelsea teammate) Thibaut Courtois. The latter made a couple huge saves, the former drove La Real bananas at the back.