United new era for the defence (under LvG strategy)

[troy andreas]

Originally Posted by fredrian.seven

O... jadi CB lain yang ada tuh Thorpe dan Keane. Jadi, ada 2 kemungkinan kenapa Blackett (dan Keane) main vs Swansea dan Sunderland kemaren.

1. Karena LVG sangat percaya dengan pemain muda. Jadi klopun ada CB senior dia akan tetep ambil resiko,atau
2. Karena cuma Blackett dan Keane yang ada. CB senior yang lain pada cedera. Jadi mau nggak mau LVG memainkan mereka.

Tapi ya beberapa pemain muda muncul dari cederanya pemain utama seperti Casillas dan Buffon. Jadi mereka dimainkan karena manajer nggak punya stok lain tapi karena itu mereka punya kesempatan unjuk gigi dan akhirnya terus jadi pemain utama.

Ya moga khususnya Blackett dapet berkah dari krisis CB senior ini.

Entahlah, susah menebak kebijakan LvG dengan akurat. Segila- gilanya saya fans dengan youngster tapi gak sampai berpikir LvG akan total dengan pemain muda layaknya match COC tadi malam. Soal defence heran aja lihat Vermijl main bukan Thorpe, alhasil Vermijl & James penyebab 2 gol dari total 4 gol MK Dons.

[rondwisan]

10/09/2014 - ManUtd.com, Adam Marshall
Blackett welcomes Rojo competition


Tyler Blackett has welcomed Marcos Rojo's arrival at Manchester United as he appreciates the healthy competition for a place in the defence.

The local lad has enjoyed his first involvement with England Under-21s this week, helping to set up the third goal for Harry Kane in the 3-0 victory over Moldova on Tuesday night. It's a measure of his progress after starting all three of the Reds' Barclays Premier League games this term and earning a place on our shortlist for the Player of the Month award for August.

In an exclusive interview with ManUtd.com, the 20-year-old was asked how Rojo had been in training since signing from Sporting Lisbon, with the defender now cleared to play at the weekend against QPR.

"He looks good," declared Blackett. "Obviously, he is someone who plays in my position as well so he is somebody I can look up to and learn off, but hopefully challenge for a place in the team too. He’ll get stuck in when the time is right and get a foot in there but he’s got a good left foot on him so he’ll be good for the team and add that balance that we need."

Blackett hopes to continue impressing Louis van Gaal and cement a place in the first-team squad, although he is keeping his feet firmly on the ground.

"Hopefully, to get more games," he replied, when asked to outline his ambitions for the season. "I know I’m not going to play in every match but I’d like to think I will get more games and opportunities to do well and be around the first team. I’d like to be able to say next summer the team has performed well and I have played maybe 10-15 games. I want to establish myself at this level and prove to myself that I can play here."

[theater of dream]

Poor defence...
mau pke 3 CB ato 4 bek sejajar LVG sejauh ini belum bisa meramu komposisi bertahanan yang baik, sektor tengah yang diharap bisa melapisi pertahanan nyaris ngga berfungsi, seperti td malam seolah Blind dibiarkan sendiri bertahan dan menyerang sementara Herera dan Di Maria nyaris ngga membantu buat bertahan..

[zudomiriku]

Louis van Gaal's policy of overloading Man United's team with attacking talent exposed as Leicester's Jamie Vardy profits from defensive shambles

* Jamie Vardy had a hand in all five goals as Leicester City came from 3-1 down to beat Manchester United 5-3
* He exposed a lacklustre United back line who looked out of their depth
* Jonny Evans was forced off through injury in the first half
* £16m signing Marcos Rojo struggled to contain Leicester's forward line
* Tyler Blackett lacked authority and was sent off for fouling Vardy
* Rafael da Silva also conceded a controversial penalty for fouling Vardy
* The result exposed the imbalance in Louis van Gaal's team
* United could have done with another world class defender or two but Van Gaal decided to sign mostly stylish attacking players

Jamie Vardy's team won 5-3 on this day four years ago as well, but the circumstances could hardly be more contrasting.

He was playing for FC Halifax Town at the time in the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League, the seventh tier of English football, and that night 658 hardy souls saw the Shaymen beat Vardy's former club, Stocksbridge Park Steels.

Their Bracken Moor ground, with its weather-worn stands and grass bank behind one goal, is a million miles away from where Vardy is now, putting Manchester United to the sword in one of the most remarkable results in the Premier League era.


Tyler Blackett conceded a penalty and received a red card for this foul on Vardy

Forget Angel di Maria and Radamel Falcao, this was the Vardy show as he ran United's atrocious defence ragged, exposing the fundamental flaw in Louis Van Gaal's thrill-a-minute football masterplan.

Vardy was irrepressible, playing a role in all five of Leicester's goals. He crossed for Leonardo Ulloa to head home the first and was fouled by Rafael Da Silva to win a penalty for the second.

He inadvertently blocked a shot to tee up Esteban Cambiasso for their third, then broke clear to calmly roll home the fourth.

Finally, all for good measure, he bamboozled Tyler Blackett to win a penalty for the fifth, the foul prompting referee Mark Clattenburg to send off the youngster. It was the final indignity on an afternoon in which United simply imploded.

So it was Vardy, a man who was playing non-league football as recently as May 2012, who ruthlessly exposed United's glaring defensive failings. Proof, as if it were needed, that you should always expect the glorious unexpected in football.


Vardy is bundled over by Rafael Da Silva, leading to a penalty and Leicester's second goal


Jonny Evans limped off injured, adding to Man United's crisis at the back

United's attacking football was magnificent - Di Maria was mesmerising, Falcao dangerous, Van Persie clinical - but they spent the second half at sixes and sevens in defence.

In the end, those numbers could well have been Leicester's goal tally, perhaps even more.

United weren't helped by Clattenburg's incorrect decision not to penalise Vardy for barging Rafael over in the lead-up to the first penalty, nor earlier on when Jonny Evans, arguably the one member of the back line who looks competent, succumbed to injury on the half-hour.

He was replaced by Chris Smalling, himself returning from an injury lay-off. But most of Leicester's other profitable moments going forward were the result of a defensive horror show.

Van Gaal spent £16m on Marcos Rojo and will be alarmed at how susceptible he looked. Vardy tied the Argentine in knots, notably when he skinned him to cross for Ulloa to get Leicester back in the game at 1-2.

It also his poor pass in the 79th minute that enabled Ritchie De Laet, a United reject, to mug Juan Mata and play Vardy through for the fourth goal.


Chris Smalling struggles to get a grip of Vardy during the second-half

Rojo is meant to be more comfortable at left-back than in the middle but that wasn't apparent here. He looked totally stunned by the pace of Premier League football, an accident waiting to happen.

Blackett is just 20 and has much to learn and with United's defensive injury problems continuing, he'll have to educate himself quickly.

First though, he'll have to serve a suspension. He made one excellent last-ditch tackle to thwart Vardy when clean through but was reckless in bringing down the striker to concede a penalty and earn himself a red card.

Blackett is still meek, he hasn't yet developed the command and authority needed to operate at centre-half and would have benefitted greatly from a few games alongside Nemanja Vidic or Rio Ferdinand.

United were hasty in letting them go. The years of experience they could bring to the back line is painfully missing.

Evans, who sat on the bench in a protective leg brace and left the King Power Stadium on crutches, is the closest United now have. It looks like he'll be absent for quite a few weeks.

They play West Ham next weekend but have tougher assignments against Everton, Chelsea and Manchester City on the horizon.

The title contenders would have watched Vardy's performance with glee. If a newly-promoted team can rip United open at will, then they'll have a field day.

Rafael, equally, looks a liability. He was out of position when Ulloa headed in and allowed himself to be pushed over by Vardy when trying to usher the ball out.

His resultant foul on the Leicester man inside the box was beyond stupidity with Blackett covering.

Daley Blind and Ander Herrera were exclusively concerned with pushing forward, they felt it wasn't their business to track back and provide cover.

As a result, the space Leicester were able to exploit on the counter-attack was astonishing. This would never have happened under Sir Alex Ferguson and probably not even under David Moyes.

This result has ruthlessly highlighted the flaw in Van Gaal's summer transfer policy.

Overloading the team with some of the world's best attacking talent is all well and good but defensively, United are still short of two world class defenders. They are imbalanced and how it showed.

Luke Shaw has yet to figure and Rojo yet to impress. It certainly would have been handy to have a Mats Hummels or Thomas Vermaelen figure ready to step in but United went for style over substance.

Captain Wayne Rooney spent much of the second half screaming at his defence. The fury and frustration in his eyes and voice clear for everyone to see.

It could become a familiar sight this season at this rate.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2764307/Louis-van-Gaal-s-policy-overloading-Man-United-s-team-attacking-talent-exposed-Leicester-s-Jamie-Vardy-profits-defensive-shambles.html

[rondwisan]

Ini bbrp mantan pemain Londo pada komentar nih, apa gara2 pelatihnya Meneer LvG ya ...
Abis Ruud Gullit yg comment klo LvG mbangun rumah dari atapnya dulu (seharusnya pondasi dulu)
*tau khan maksutnya

Nih si Hasselbaink juga menyorot lini belakang United yg gak ada jendralnya
*seperti yg pernah gw post nih, mau pake formasi apapun (3 - 5 - 2 atau 4 - 4 - 2), United butuh jendral (senior or pemain berpengalaman) defense sectionnya yg bisa membaca game serta ngatur / memberi aba2 rekan2nya yg laen

[fredrian.seven]

Butuh yg senior ya? Ada tuh... yg maen di Aston Villa dan jadi anak buah LVG di piala dunia. Klo cari yang senior mudah, hanya yg benar2 berkualitas yg agak2 sulit.

[Aba_MaczUnited]

Originally Posted by fredrian.seven

Butuh yg senior ya? Ada tuh... yg maen di Aston Villa dan jadi anak buah LVG di piala dunia. Klo cari yang senior mudah, hanya yg benar2 berkualitas yg agak2 sulit.

yg badannya kekar mirip body guard itu yah Oom

[fredrian.seven]

Originally Posted by Aba_MaczUnited

yg badannya kekar mirip body guard itu yah Oom

Iya. Namanya kan juga Melaar. Ron Melaar.

[rondwisan]

Kirain yg maen di QPR ...


Jadi sempet kepikiran, faktor "leader" di lini belakang ini kah yg bikin Opa Fergie mempercayakan ban Captain pada Gary Neville, Rio Ferdinand (vice ya), Vidic ama Evra

[zudomiriku]

Michael Carrick could step in at centre-half as Manchester United's defensive crisis deepens

* Manchester United were humiliated at Leicester City on Sunday
* Louis van Gaal is considering playing Michael Carrick in the heart of defence
* Carrick is still waiting to make his first appearance of the season
* The 33-year-old has started training again at Carrington

Manchester United’s defensive disasters have prompted Louis van Gaal to consider using Michael Carrick as an emergency centre back.

Central midfielder Carrick is still waiting to make his first appearance for the new United manager as he recovers slowly from an ankle injury he suffered in the summer.

But the 33-year-old is now doing some training at Carrington and has already had a conversation with Van Gaal about possibly playing in the centre of defence. The Dutch coach is trying to steady the ship at the start of what is proving to be a traumatic Barclays Premier League season.


Tyler Blackett (left) and Smalling were among those to struggle in the embarrassment at Leicester on Sunday


Carrick has filled in at the heart of defence before

United conceded a staggering five goals as they lost at Leicester on Sunday, having previously conceded four at MK Dons in the Capital One Cup and lost at home to Swansea on the opening day of the campaign.

Van Gaal has lost Phil Jones and Jonny Evans to injury while young central defender Tyler Blackett was sent off on Sunday at Leicester.

Evans, who has a history of ankle trouble and needed surgery two years ago, is still on crutches after limping off in the first half at the King Power Stadium. The Northern Ireland defender had a scan on Monday and the initial assessment among United’s medical staff is that he will be sidelined for four weeks.

Carrick has played in the centre of the defence before during the Sir Alex Ferguson era and has the experience and intelligence to operate in that role. The fact that the former England midfielder is being considered so early in the campaign would, however, appear to provide further evidence that United erred in the summer by not buying a top-class central defender.

Carrick has told friends this week that he would rather play in the central-midfield position he enjoys but he recognises that there is increased competition in that area and is ready to fill in further back without complaint.

Meanwhile, Phil Neville, who was on the coaching staff at Old Trafford last season, says United may need to spend another £100million on players before they can compete for the Premier League title.

‘I know United have spent £150m,’ Neville, 37, told BBC Radio 5 Live. ‘I think there’s another two transfer windows of similar amounts of money needed — maybe £100m in all — before they can even think about winning the title.

‘There are still key positions in the team that need filling. I think the centre-back position is obviously the key area. Holding midfield or central midfield needs addressing,

‘They needed world-class players and there were no world-class centre backs out there. In the next two transfer windows, United might still be looking for that world-class defender.

‘I am certain Chris Smalling will come good and I have full faith in Phil Jones as well. They’ve bought a lot of foreign players, you don’t get rid of your English spine.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2767247/Michael-Carrick-step-centre-half-Manchester-United-s-defensive-crisis-deepens.html