Taktik Manchester United Era Mourinho

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Manchester United Boss Jose Mourinho's Key Decisions Ahead of 2016-17 Season
By Paul Ansorge - bleacherreport.com Aug 10, 2016

Paul Pogba's arrival has sent expectations around Manchester United skyrocketing, so how can manager Jose Mourinho ensure that his team are as successful as possible in the 2016/17 Premier League season?

Football management is all about decisions. There are choices to make at every level, from the biggest macro-calls about the direction of the club to the minute, out-of-sight micro-decisions about travel, coaching, diet and tactics. Successful managers are made by getting more of these right than wrong.

He does not have to get everything right, but let's take a look at some of the most pressing decisions facing Mourinho—the ones that will likely define his, and United's, season.

Tactics

The big tactical question is a simple matter of formation.

Does he play a 4-2-3-1 with a central midfield spine made up of what he would describe as a No. 6, a No. 8 and a No. 10, or does he play a 4-3-3 with a No. 6 and two No. 8s?

For the purposes of this discussion, No. 6 represents the holding midfielder and No. 8 represents the more box-to-box, attack-minded version. This is a little confusing at United in terms of actual shirt numbers—the No. 6 is a No. 8 and the No. 8 is a No. 10.

Of course, no one seems to quite know what the No. 10 is, but we will come on to that.

There should really be no debate here. There are not too many downsides to choosing 4-3-3. Mourinho has ample attackers to pick from in all the necessary positions in either formation, but the balance of United's available midfielders screams 4-3-3.

He could play Michael Carrick or Morgan Schneiderlin—or even occasionally Pogba—at No. 6 and Pogba, Ander Herrera or Schneiderlin as the two No. 8s.

What is much more likely to happen, though, is that he will play two of the above in a 4-2-3-1 to accommodate Wayne Rooney into the side at No. 10.

Assuming that is the case, he needs to decide the primary partner for Pogba. Obviously there can be some variation for specific opposition, or to adapt to the vagaries of form and fitness, but some kind of first-choice partnership will need to be built.

This is especially true given Pogba's capacity to be effective in the final third, meaning he needs to build an understanding with a partner who will give him the freedom to properly express himself. Add to that Rooney and Zlatan Ibrahimovic's shared tendency to drop deep, and it becomes abundantly clear why some stability of personnel is needed.

Footballers need to be able to predict their team-mates' movements, and with movement as unpredictable as that which is on offer in the current squad, regular playing time together will be crucial.

Will Mourinho opt for the experience of Carrick, the energy of Schneiderlin or the attacking prowess of Herrera? There are pros and cons to each choice, and none seems obvious, hence the advantages of 4-3-3.

This is one of the manager's most important choices.

Personnel

So, the Rooney question, then. This most divisive topic must surely be reaching its endgame.

In the simplest possible terms, in Rooney's last three league seasons he has scored 17, 12 and eight goals. Some of that decline can be explained by a shift in position, but not all of it. After all, last year was supposed to be the campaign in which he led the line and fired in 20 goals.

Instead, it became abundantly clear he could not do that as he laboured and struggled, all bobbling first touches and Hollywood balls out to the right wing. He hit a purple patch in January, did OK in midfield against teams who left him alone and that was about it.

It may be a little reductive, but it is not too wide of the mark to say that playing Rooney at No. 10 compromises most of United's most talented players.

It compromises Pogba by giving him more defensive responsibilities in a midfield two. It compromises Ibrahimovic because the two men will so often be naturally drawn to similar areas of the pitch.

It compromises Henrikh Mkhitaryan, whose natural inclination when playing wide on the right will be to drift inside to those same spaces. It compromises Juan Mata by taking up the one spot on the pitch in which he could excel.

Anthony Martial is less likely to receive the kind of artful through balls from Rooney that he would from Mkhitaryan or Mata. The former Everton man has never been that kind of No. 10. In his younger days he brought so much to the table that it did not matter.

But now, the pace has gone, the personal magic is only intermittent and his overall contribution does not make up for what his inclusion does to the rest of the team.

Perhaps the club captain will prove his doubters wrong. Perhaps his chaotic and ineffective performance in the Community Shield was a factor of pre-season fitness levels, but the evidence is becoming overwhelming.

This is Mourinho's single biggest decision.

There are other personnel decisions, too. Pre-season has more than hinted that Antonio Valencia will be the starting right-back, but there are others who will compete for that role.

Pre-season also looked like bad news for Memphis Depay's place in the pecking order. When Marcus Rashford came on for Martial at Wembley on Sunday, it was hard not to wince for the not-even-on-the-bench Dutchman.

Ibrahimovic's arrival means one fewer central place for Rashford or Martial to slot into, and seeing the England international look his usual assured and effective self coming in off the left wing cannot have been easy for the former PSV Eindhoven man.

The Dutchman can ill afford another season on the sidelines in terms of his development, and Mourinho has to decide whether to do something pro-active about that or not.

Elsewhere in the squad, he has clearly already decided that Bastian Schweinsteiger is not in his plans, but players like Mata and Daley Blind present intriguing choices.

Then there are younger, or at least less experienced players he will have to shepherd through the season. His treatment of them will be under the microscope of rigorous public attention. Rashford and Timothy Fosu-Mensah are the most obvious, but the older but not-much-more experienced Jesse Lingard is another.

He showed again at Wembley that he has something special to offer on occasion, and it is easy to imagine Mourinho valuing his work rate. But his inclusion meant no room in the side for Mkhitaryan in the Community Shield, and it would be a massive shame if that continued into the season proper.

It is clear there are a lot of challenges facing the new manager in the personnel department.

How much trouble does he want to cause?

The Mourinho siege-mentality machine has been creaking into action. Before the Pogba signing, he complained of other managers discussing the deal.

Per Sky Sports' Dev Trehan, he said: "I only speak about us. I heard already two of my colleagues from other clubs speaking about us. I do not like that. It is not ethical."

Once Pogba had arrived, he told MUTV (h/t TalkSport):

"I know the discussion, I understand that, sometimes in football, things happen and the club breaks the record, but this is only possible at clubs like Man United.

When I heard some of the comments and heard some of the managers criticising that, I don't think they ever have this problem because, to have this problem, you need to be at one of the top clubs in the world. So at Man United it can happen."

Within reason this can be entertaining and effective, but Mourinho will have to decide how much energy he wants to spend on personal feuds with his "colleagues" in a league now packed with managerial heavyweights. There is a thin line between building a siege mentality and getting drawn into unnecessary distractions.

Management is not about getting every decision right. It is about getting enough right that the ones you get wrong do not matter so much.

If Mourinho makes the right calls on these big decisions, everything is set up for United to enjoy a really successful season.

Jose Mourinho must solve Rooney and Pogba’s tactical conflict for Manchester United to thrive

By Greg Johnson - squawka.com Posted on August 9, 2016

When Ed Woodward claimed that “Manchester United can do things in the transfer market other clubs can only dream of” back in July 2016 eyes rolled.

Few took his sales pitch seriously. It all sounded like just another empty boast from the Glazer family’s favourite mouth piece – a comment to keep up appearances in the press rather than a true statement of intent.

Yet following the arrivals of Eric Bailly, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Paul Pogba at Old Trafford, it cannot be argued that for once the club has delivered on all their PR hype and promises. United’s infamous failures to get deals done for Thiago Alcantara and Cesc Fabregas in recent years are already melting away into the distance.

Although Jose Mourinho has taken delivery of four major upgrades to fix the problem areas of the squad he inherited from Louis van Gaal in May, now he faces the task of putting all the pieces together. Finding the right balance could be harder than it first appears.

Getting the most out of Paul Pogba

When a club breaks the world transfer fee record for a footballer, there is an expectation that the player will play more than a bit-part role in their plans on the pitch.

At Juventus, Paul Pogba was at his best on the left of a three-man midfield, riffing off the overlapping runs of former United full-back Patrice Evra and roaming about the final third with the freedom afforded by his role alongside other midfielders capable of covering for his advances into the final third.

No other player won back possession in the opposition’s half over the last three seasons in Serie A more often than the Frenchman. Last season, he was joint-top for assists as he collected his fourth Scudetti with Juventus. He has also scored more goals from outside of the box in the Italian top flight than any other player since his move from Manchester to Turin in 2012.

United have everything required to offer him the platform he needs to thrive – Luke Shaw is an even more explosive, adventurous full-back than Evra, out on the left-wing Anthony Martial will be another willing participant and while their midfield roster may still be light on other quality individuals, there is now strength in numbers.

Mourinho himself claimed that the Frenchman was coming to the perfect club for him to further develop and express himself compared to Real Madrid and Barcelona, where the star power of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi would be a burden rather than a benefit.

A 4-3-3 formation would not only allow Pogba to play in his favourite role on the left of midfield but would also let his fellow new arrivals to slot into their best positions too.

With his hold-up play, strength and ability to find shots from all distances and angles, Ibrahimovic is an exceptional lone forward, Mkhitaryan scored 11 goals and created 15 assists roaming free from the right-wing for Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga last season, and space for a player such as Michael Carrick to play the holding role would benefit Bailly’s introduction to life in the Premier League too.

However, there is one big reason why such an obvious solution might not work for Mourinho’s Manchester United.

What to make of Wayne Rooney

Sir Alex Ferguson wanted to sell him. David Moyes handed him a new contract. Louis van Gaal made him club captain. Now Rooney is the holder of the armband, a player on one of the biggest deals at Old Trafford and a footballer without a position.

Mourinho has a problem. Does he bench Rooney – his captain and an influential figure in the dressing room – play the 4-3-3 system that suits Pogba best or go with a formation that still has a special place for the 30-year-old, who is now a far more rudimentary footballer getting by from snatching goals out of poor performances.
Defending from the front

In order to deal with his captain’s present day deficiencies, Mourinho may return to the 4-2-3-1 configuration he won the title with at Chelsea in 2015 with Pogba in the Fabregas role, Martial and Mkhitaryan down the flanks in place of Eden Hazard and Willian, respectively, and Rooney in the Oscar role.

While Nemanja Matic is a player with his own drawbacks, United lack a player capable of partnering their new record-breaking signing in midfield in the same fashion that the Serbian covered for Fabregas. Carrick is too old and immobile to take the strain. For all his aggressive and combative qualities, Ander Herrera is yet to be fully converted into a ball-winning midfielder, Morgan Schneiderlin has much to prove and Marouane Fellaini has his uses but no defensive positional sense to speak of.

Therefore, just like at Chelsea, much will be expected of the player in the hole to make up the difference to cover for the defensive weaknesses elsewhere in the team.

Oscar was as much of a spoiler as anything else for Mourinho and Rooney will have to play a similar role to justify his selection, especially if he continues to struggle to maintain his sharpness and a first touch in the final third.

Yet make no mistake. Rooney and Pogba are two players who need different, incompatible systems in order to be at their best for their club. Until Mourinho can resolve this key tactical conflict – either by dropping the former or reinventing the latter – it will be the defining focus of his first season at Old Trafford.

José Mourinho may struggle to get best from Paul Pogba in a 4-2-3-1 formation
Michael Cox - theguardian.com Tuesday 9 August 2016 12.30 BST

Manchester United’s world-record signing has at times been less effective in a 4-2-3-1, as was evident at Euro 2016, but will Mourinho abandon his favoured formation in favour of 4-3-3?

It is generally unwise to judge a footballer on the basis of a major international tournament, but Paul Pogba’s underwhelming Euro 2016 raised questions about his tactical flexibility rather than his level of talent. When Didier Deschamps changed formation midway through the competition, Pogba struggled to adapt.

Deschamps had intended to play a 4-3-3 system, a formation that suits Pogba’s talents perfectly. Pogba’s best performances with Juventus came in that system, particularly in the midfield that featured Andrea Pirlo dictating play, giving Arturo Vidal and Pogba licence to bomb forward.

It was an unusual midfield trio, with the playmaker in the deepest role, and the other two players given more ball-winning responsibility. But it suited Pogba perfectly: he could showcase his energy and tenacity when attempting to regain possession, plus his drive, trickery and long-range shooting ability when going forward. Broadly speaking, he is an all-rounder, a box-to-box midfielder who is outstanding technically and physically.

Deschamps, however, switched to a 4-2-3-1 system midway through the tournament to accommodate Antoine Griezmann in his favoured central position, forcing Pogba into a deeper role alongside Blaise Matuidi. That compromised his style considerably: neither he nor Matuidi is a natural defensive midfielder, with both defined more by their attacking power than their positional discipline. In that role Pogba looked highly uncomfortable, his limitations in possession exposed. He was unable to play penetrative passes from deep positions; with Juventus he had never had this responsibility.

Those performances may concern José Mourinho, who had appeared set to use a 4-2-3-1 formation with Manchester United this season. Mourinho traditionally likes playing more disciplined midfielders in the two deep roles, although in his second spell at Chelsea he initially used Cesc Fàbregas there with great success before shifting the Spaniard higher up the pitch, particularly in big games. Pogba is comparable to Fàbregas, or perhaps even Steven Gerrard: his major weakness is his positional ability.

It is easy to imagine Mourinho allowing Pogba to play a deep midfield role at home to Hull City, difficult to foresee the same format away at Manchester City. Pogba could theoretically play as a No10, although that would be a relatively unfamiliar position for him. Henrikh Mkhitaryan, the intelligent attacking midfielder recruited from Borussia Dortmund, would be more suited to that role, but appears set to start on the right flank, drifting infield.

The obvious solution would be a switch to a 4-3-3. That would suit Pogba perfectly, and Mkhitaryan offers a wonderful variety of midfield skills and is versatile enough to play that position effectively. It would also suit Manchester United’s first-choice holding midfielder Michael Carrick, now 35, who could play a slightly deeper role.

Ander Herrera is another midfielder clearly suited to the shuttling role in 4-3-3, and the same is probably true of Marouane Fellaini and Morgan Schneiderlin.

In attack, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has spent the last few years in a 4-3-3 for Paris Saint-Germain, and Anthony Martial and Memphis Depay are wide forwards rather than wide midfielders, likely to appreciate playing 15 yards higher up the pitch. The disappointed parties would probably be Wayne Rooney, who still seems to favour a No10 role and has been informed he will not play deep in midfield under Mourinho, and Juan Mata, whose future was perilous anyway, having been sold by Mourinho at Chelsea.

Mourinho has generally favoured a 4-2-3-1 formation in his past two jobs, at Real Madrid and Chelsea. His Plan B, however, has been the 4-3-3, and that system makes most sense to get the world’s most expensive footballer playing in his optimum position.

Dari ketiga tulisan oleh ketiga orang itu punya inti yang sama yaitu taktik apa yang akan dipakai.

Mourinho mau pakai apa? 4213 atau 433. Taktik 4231 menurut mereka nggak sesuai dengan Pogba. Itu terlihat jelas di Euro 2016. Taktik 433 bisa mengeluarkan potensi terbaik Pogba dan itu terlihat jelas selama di Juventus. Di sisi lain 4231 akan memberikan garansi posisi #10 kepada Rooney. Mourinho pernah mengatakan Rooney tidak akan bermain sebagai gelandang (mungkin spesifknya CM) di era dia. Klo melihat apa yang ditunjukkan selama pre-season maka posisi Rooney adalah #10 alias di belakang striker.

Klo mo lebih kasar sih permasalahan ada di Rooney. Pilih Rooney atau Pogba? Pilih Rooney maka taktinya 4231 dan klo pilih Pogba maka taktiknya 433. Dua pilihan itu sama2 "mengorbankan" pemain lain. Klo 4231 maka Pogba dinilai tidak akan optimal dan klo 433 maka entah Rooney main dimana ntar.

Bagimana pendapat man-teman?

[tumpal_oneunited]

Kalo saya sih lebih cocok dengan formasi 4-3-3.
Mou harus berani mencadangkan Rooney, mau nggak mau, demi memaksimalkan potensi Pogba.
Kapten utama setau saya kan belum diumumin ama Mou yak (belum keluar langsung dari mulut Mou siapa yg dia akan jadikan 1st captain).
Seharusnya sih Mou udah ngereview permainan Pogba ketika di juve dan terakhir ketika bersama Timnas Prancis. Dan Mou harusnya udah tau jawabannya.
Dengan gemuknya lini tengah United, bakal ada yg jadi korban (sering jadi cadangan), kecuali memang Mou bisa bijak dalam hal ini.

Atau apakah Mou memiliki kemungkinan menggunakan formasi 4-1-4-1?? Dimana Rooney dan Pogba dimainkan secara bersama di lini tengah diapit dua pemain sayap bisa oleh Martial/Depay/Rashford di kiri dan Mikhi/Mata/Rashford di kanan serta Zlatan di depan sendirian.
Menarik sih untuk ditunggu, udah ga sabar nonton partai perdananya United nih hari minggu besok di kandangnya bournemouth.

[tumpal_oneunited]

Ada tulisan bagus juga nih mengenai taktik Mou dengan kedatangan Pogba.

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Kamis 11 Aug 2016, 15:00 WIB

Memainkan Paul Pogba dengan Baik dan Benar
Rossi Finza Noor - detikSport

Manchester - Mari kita sepakati saja: Terlepas dari pro dan kontranya, transfer Paul Pogba ke Manchester United adalah transfer pemain paling menarik musim panas ini.

Tentu saja, segala pergunjingan dan perdebatan berujung pada satu hal, yakni harganya. Nilai 89 juta poundsterling yang dikeluarkan 'Setan Merah' membuatnya menjadi pemain dengan nilai transfer termahal di dunia. Dengan mendapatkan Pogba, seorang pemain berbakat plus berharga mahal, United baru saja membeli sebuah Ferrari.

Terlihat menyenangkan, memang --apalagi buat pendukung United. Walaupun, kalau mau ditilik lebih jauh, sebenarnya United lebih dulu membuat kesalahan dengan membiarkan Pogba pindah ke Juventus empat tahun silam. Kala itu, Pogba memutuskan untuk tidak memperpanjang kontraknya lantaran ingin mendapatkan kesempatan bermain secara reguler. United pun hanya mendapatkan kompensasi sebesar 800.000 pounds dari Bianconeri.

Bagi yang kontra, ini tentu saja terlihat konyol. United melepas pemain yang pernah bermain untuk akademi mereka dengan harga nyaris cuma-cuma, tetapi membelinya dengan amat mahal hingga memecahkan rekor transfer dunia. Tapi, anggap saja begini: United melepas Ferrari mereka untuk dipoles menjadi lebih "wah" lagi.

Pogba sendiri mengutarakan analogi yang amat menarik. Dalam wawancaranya dengan MUTV, gelandang asal Prancis itu menyebut dirinya seolah-olah baru pulang dari liburan panjang dan kini sudah kembali ke rumahnya. United bukanlah klub yang asing buat Pogba. Ia kenal mantan rekan-rekannya di tim U-21 dulu dan juga staf-staf di AON Training Complex. Tak heran, ketika ia datang untuk melakukan tes medis pada awal pekan ini, para staf menyambutnya dengan semringah, selayaknya menyambut anggota keluarga yang kembali setelah lama bepergian jauh.

Sebagai sebuah "Ferrari", Pogba jelas saja tidak bisa digunakan secara asal-asalan. Jika sistem permainan yang digunakan United tidak pas, kemampuan terbaiknya justru tidak akan keluar sama sekali. Contohnya sudah ada, yakni ketika Pogba memperkuat tim nasional Prancis di Piala Eropa 2016.

Pada perhelatan empat tahunan tersebut, masyarakat Prancis memperdebatkan sebuah bahasan taktikal yang menarik: Apakah Prancis harus tetap bermain dengan 4-3-3 atau mengubah bentuk menjadi 4-2-3-1? Kedua formasi tersebut bisa memberikan dampak berbeda terhadap dua orang pemain di dalam tim, yakni Pogba dan Antoine Griezmann.

Ketika bermain dengan 4-3-3, lini tengah Prancis diisi oleh Pogba, Blaise Matuidi, dan N'Golo Kante. Sementara, lini depan diisi oleh Dimitri Payet, Olivier Giroud, dan Griezmann.

Dengan formasi demikian, Kante diplot sebagai jangkar sehingga membuat Pogba ataupun Matuidi bebas dan leluasa untuk naik membantu serangan. Di Juventus dulu, Pogba juga pernah bermain di posisi dan peran serupa. Dengan adanya Andrea Pirlo, ia dan Arturo Vidal diberikan izin untuk bebas bermain ofensif.

Pogba adalah gelandang dengan kemampuan komplet. Ia bisa dimainkan sebagai box-to-box midfielder ataupun sebagai "nomor 10". Tapi, peran dan posisinya di formasi 4-3-3 Prancis dan Juventus itulah yang dianggap sebagai peran dan posisi terbaiknya.

Ini menjadi dilema ketika pelatih Prancis, Didier Deschamps, dihadapkan pada dua pilihan, yakni mengeluarkan kemampuan terbaik Griezmann atau Pogba. Deschamps akhirnya menjatuhkan pilihan pada yang pertama. Untuk memaksimalkan Griezmann, Deschamps menggesernya ke tengah --di belakang striker-- dan bermain dengan 4-2-3-1. Kante dicadangkan, sementara Pogba dan Matuidi dimainkan sebagai double pivot.

Baik Pogba maupun Matuidi akhirnya tidak mampu tampil maksimal. Sebab, menjadi jangkar bukanlah peran terbaik mereka. Ini yang kemudian membuat Pogba "tidak kelihatan" sama sekali menjelang akhir perhelatan Piala Eropa 2016. Imbasnya, label "overrated" dan "overpriced" pun menempel pada dirinya.

Pekerjaan rumah sekarang ada pada Jose Mourinho. Manajer United itu selalu menggunakan formasi 4-2-3-1 sejak pramusim. Namun, dengan kedatangan Pogba, ada kemungkinan Mourinho mengubah formasi timnya.

Ada indikasi kuat bahwa Mourinho bakal menjajal 4-3-3. Beberapa waktu lalu, sebelum Pogba resmi bergabung, pria asal Portugal itu mengatakan bahwa skuatnya tidak punya pemain yang bisa bertahan sebagai "nomor 6" dan menyerang sebagai "nomor 10". Lebih lanjut lagi, Mourinho juga mengatakan bahwa dirinya butuh pemain seperti Frank Lampard ataupun Paul Scholes yang bisa datang dengan cepat dari lini kedua untuk menyelesaikan serangan.

Pogba, dengan segala atribut yang dimilikinya --punya dribel bagus, operan akurat, dan gemar melepaskan tendangan dari luar kotak penalti--, cocok dengan profil tersebut.

Terlebih, kini Mourinho punya semua bahan bakunya. Ia bisa menyerahkan posisi gelandang jangkar kepada Michael Carrick ataupun Morgan Schneiderlin. Sementara, Pogba, bersama Ander Herrera, bisa diberikan keleluasaan untuk membantu serangan.

"Kami punya Carrick. Seorang gelandang yang stabil. Satu orang yang bisa bermain di depan para bek. Yang kami butuhkan adalah gelandang kedua," ujar Mourinho kepada BT Sports.

Pertanyaannya sekarang, jika akhirnya Pogba dimainkan di posisi dan peran tersebut, Mourinho harus berpikir untuk mencari posisi anyar bagi Wayne Rooney. Dalam pramusim hingga Community Shield, Rooney selalu dipasang sebagai "nomor 10" di belakang striker tunggal.

Ini adalah PR lain yang harus dijawab Mourinho.

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*penulis adalah wartawan detikSport. Beredar di dunia maya dengan akun @Rossifinza.

(roz/din)

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Semoga Mou menggunakan formasi 4-3-3 untuk mengeluarkan yang terbaik yang Pogba miliki.

[fredrian.seven]

Yup... Apakah Mou akan "mengorbankan" Pogba dengan nyuruh dia adaptasi dengan posisi yang meski tidak asing tapi sebelumnya tidak optimal buat dia. Atau "mengorbankan" Rooney dengan mengakomodir Pogba kedalam posisi terbaik dia. Patut ditunggu...

[stamansa]

Lebih suka 4-3-3 sih. Gak peduli mau ngorbanin siapa.
Tapi kayaknya kalo aliran bolanya cepat, bisa jadi lebih menarik daripada 4-2-3-1

[wira_ozora]

Lebih suka 4-3-3,,terbukti formasi 4-2-3-1 bikin Pogba ga klhtan di timnas Perancis. Lebih baik cadangkan Rooney demi maksimalkan potensi Pogba.

[fredrian.seven]

Originally Posted by fredrian.seven

Yup... Apakah Mou akan "mengorbankan" Pogba dengan nyuruh dia adaptasi dengan posisi yang meski tidak asing tapi sebelumnya tidak optimal buat dia. Atau "mengorbankan" Rooney dengan mengakomodir Pogba kedalam posisi terbaik dia. Patut ditunggu...

Atau mungkin Mou bisa mengakomodir keduanya tanpa mengorbankan salah satunya. Siapa yang tau... Hanya saja klo aku disuruh milih salah satu ya aku milih pemain yang masih muda dengan potensi besar. Bukan pemain yang sudah masuk fase menurun.

[Sigied Giggsy]

4-3-3 posisi yg oke tanpa mengorbankan Rooney sekaligus mengembalikan posisi Pogba sama seperti di Juve ( walau kadang main di pola 3-5-2 ).

[J. A. Adji]

Melihat permainan MU di 3 pertandingan resmi, ane hanya bisa bilang Mou mengadopsi taktik milik Ferguson dengan beberapa moderenisasi. Tidak bereskperimen dengan taktik yang baru dan konsisten dengan apa yang dilakukannya selama 10-14 tahun terakhir.

dengan 4-2-3-1, 3 pemain di belakang striker dibebaskan untuk selalu bertukar tempat, bahkan tak jarang target man pun bertukar tempat.
Sejauh ini yang bermain efektif saat menjalankan fungsi 3 pemain di belakang striker menurut opini ane adalah Lingard (walau hanya turun beberapa menit), Miki (walau hanya turun beberapa menit) dan Mata (mesti gak di semua pertandingan).
Untuk Martial, ane suka ama beberapa percobaan tembakannya ke gawang southampton. Kalau salah satu dari tembakan2 itu ada yang berbuah gol, mungkin penilaiannya akan lain, tapi karena belum berbuah gol, jadi hasilnya permainan Martial bisa dikatakan belum kembali seperti musim lalu. Bbrp kali saat posisi serangan balik, Martial juga sering kehilangan bola.

Kekuatan MU yang sesungguhnya musim ini adalah pada variasi pemain yang ada di lini tengah yang bs menempati beberapa posisi double, spt Miki yang bisa jadi sayap kanan atau no 10, atau juga Roo yang bisa jadi no 10 atau jadi target man di depan. Masih ada juga pogba yang bisa main sebagai gelandang box 2 box bisa jg jadi no 10 (yang kata banyak pengamat merupakan posisi terbaiknya). Lalu MU masih punya Martial yang bisa main melebar atau bermain di ujung tombak. Gak boleh dilupakan juga Herrera yang bisa menemani Felli di tengah kalau Pogba didorong ke posisi no 10.
Kedalaman lini tengah MU memungkinkan untuk rotasi pemain (guna menjaga kesegaran tim dan juga untuk membuat taktik tak mudah dibaca oleh tim lawan)

Menarik menunggu perkataan Mou bahwa pada bulan September nanti 23 pemain yang ada (kecuali dua kiper cadangan) akan mendapat kesempatan bermain yang sama (rotasi). Saat ini MU masih punya Memphis (yang kalau kata Mourinho hanya kurang percaya diri karena musim lalu belum bisa menunjukan kemampuan terbaiknya). Selain itu MU juga masih menyimpan Rashford yang entah akan tetap di posisinya musim lalu atau akan mendapat tugas baru dari Mou.

Hanya saja buat saja yang menjadi titik lemah MU adalah lini belakang, khususnya di sektor fullback, mengingat MU mungkin blm memiliki sosok yang sepadan untuk melapis Vale dan shaw. Ane sih masih menunggu fosu-mensah, apakah dia bisa menjadi pelapis untuk Vale dan Shaw sekaligus? Karena terus terang ane agak ragu dengan Darmian. Dia mungkin seorang fullback yang bagus, tapi apakah dia bisa melakukan akselerasi dan umpan silang yang sematang milik Vale di sektor kanan.

Dan ane juga masih menunggu skema serangan balik andalan Mou yang selama 10-14 tahun terakhir ini selalu jadi senjata ampuh Mou saat menghadapi tim2 besar. Sekali lagi (tanpa bermaksud membandingkan) tapi menurut pendapat ane serangan balik Mou pun mengadopsi apa yang dilakukan oleh Sir Alex tentu dengan sedikit moderenisasi. Saat melawan Bournemouth, jelas serangan balik MU masih kocar-kacir. Tapi ada peningkatan saat lawan southampton, walau Martial dan mata masih beberapa kali kagok saat melakukannya.

Formasi terbaik MU menurut ane:
4-2-3-1

De Gea
Vale - Bailly - Smailling - Shaw
Felli - Herrera
Lingard - Pogba - Martial
Ibra.

(Tentu saja formasi ini sedikit bermimpi karena posisi no 10 sepertinya masih akan menjadi milik Rooney).

[Andi Istiabudi]

Sejauh ini menurut saya taktik Mourinho cukup baik dan terbukti dengan hasil positif yang diraih dalam 2 pertandingan terakhir. Sayang United musim ini tidak berlaga di liga Champions jadi kita tidak bisa melihat seberapa efektifnya taktik dan strategi Mourinho apabila bertemu dengan tim-tim besar Eropa