I agree - he should have been playing differently and we would almost definitely be in a better position....
I don't really know how to evaluate/explain this, it seems to me we
are playing differently.
Previously it felt as though we did have a plan, it was flawed but you could see what we were trying to do. With all the injuries, and apparent lesser players coming in, you could expect to see the flaws magnified and the rewards reduced, that would be perfectly understandable.
But now, it feels like we've gone from a flawed plan, to no plan at all.
We're not seeing the same style just executed less well. I watch us and have no idea what we're even doing, worse, I don't think the players do either. We're not gung-ho attacking and shipping goals as a result, we look inept at the back but entirely impotent up top.
We used to have tons of the ball but struggle to break through packed defences, now we can barely string two passes together, nobody seems to run into space to create an option for whoever has the ball, it seems everyone is just sprinting forward with no real plan.
For me it seems like stuff that should be being rectified on the training ground. The Man Utd game should give a strong indication of whether the current coaching team can turn anything around, some players back, 1 week to prepare. If it's still an absolute clusterfuck on Sunday then it doesn't look promising for Ange and his crew.