either one of (sth) or (a person)
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After a change in management, the team improved a little bit, but the team was not good enough to get the job done at the end of the season.
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After making a big splash in the market, the team has returned to chaos as a result of a variety of problems that have piled up. A decade after Ferguson's retirement, from this season
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The opening season mess is visible, and they're getting stuck in the middle of the cycle for the fourth time.
Dutch manager ten Hag joined the team last season and has transformed the team in one year, from tactical structure to team culture, compared to his predecessor Solskjaer. EFL Cup Champions +
England Premier Soccer League
The top four finishers on the report card make
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The second season of being able to move forward into a new era with our heads held high.
But the development of this season is obvious to everyone: a bunch of problems were solved last season, and new ones swarmed in this season.
European crown
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After being beaten by Galatasaray and FC København, they are at the bottom of the table with four points after five rounds of fixtures.
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The efforts of the organization have almost come to naught.
Excluding the ongoing management changeover (the source of the ongoing decade-long problem), fans have roughly pinpointed the following reasons for this season's early-season slump: the degradation and mistakes of some of the players, what appeared to be the wrong purchase of
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Strategies, and
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ten Hag's approach to governing.
Yes, these are all causes, but what triggered these problems one by one was the early season injury problems that made ten Hag's ideal kicking game, which worked so well last season, break down layer by layer right from the foot of the man. And the deployment that was able to deepen over the summer faded in power as certain core players were injured or absent, affecting the whole body. And as
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of ten Hag, failed to come up with an effective backup plan, and the diamond midfield formation that was experimented with at the beginning of the season is rarely seen these days.
1/3 of the way through the season, with the domino effect of player injuries gradually revealing the
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They don't yet have the depth that a mature team should have: a plan A to dominate the game and a plan B to stabilize the performance when the plan doesn't work. They've had a few narrow wins against lesser teams, but some of them have been decided by controversial calls or the brilliance of certain players at even strength, rather than by tactical brilliance.
Let's start at left guard.
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There hasn't been a left guard available in a while.
Luke Shaw and Tyrell Malacia were missing together at the beginning of the season, but fortunately at that time
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The window was still open, so I was able to look into the
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Sergio Reguilón was borrowed in case of emergency, but he was also injured.
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Got to play with a full clear left guard.
and look at
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Zinchenko and Partey,
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Alexander-Arnold,
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In the past, the Cancelo was how to support the center from the position of the wing backs to form a double-pivot duo with the defensive midfielders. Unfortunately, this system never appeared in ten Hag's playbook, and none of the wingbacks and defensive midfielders in the squad are equipped to double-pivot in both positions.
Newly arrived defensive midfielder Sofyan Ambarat had to play left back as a last resort. ten Hag tried the possibility of playing Ambarat as a wingback in the second backfield, but it didn't work out so well. It wasn't just Ambarat's organization and vision that was a problem, it was also the fact that his uncertainty in positional movement and lack of understanding with the midfield often left space for the opposition to raid; Ambarat performed poorly in his cameo.
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The proud lefty breakout fell apart before Shaw's comeback.
It's not just the left side, there are enough injuries in the middle as well
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Suffering.
Raphaël Varane's injury to the
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Losing its most consistent defender, Lisandro Martinez's injury to the
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The system of last season has lost its most important members. With both missing at the same time, and the natural instability attached to new goalkeeper Andre Onana, the
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The defense was in a state of panic. It took a 3-0 win over Everton in the 13th round to get the goal difference out of negative territory and back to just under zero.
Last season's strongest player, Varane, is not as good as he used to be, and in ten Hag's words, the combination of Maguire and Evans is something that Varane can't replace at the moment. With the recent return of the left backs, the coaching staff has moved Lindelöf back to left center back, making good use of his more balanced left and right foot characteristics to try to make up for the smoothness of the backfield passing game, but it's just barely enough.
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The backfield debacle has successively affected the quality of the offense. Last season was a breakout year for Marcus Rashford, but this season's incomplete lineup has brought Rashford back to mediocrity. It also means that Rashford doesn't have what it takes to lead the team out of the doldrums.
