i should have posted this earlier but here goes (i;m going to be very brief and not explain much hehe)
the two reasons united are not doing so well this season are as follows
first off with both rooney and ronaldo out we have lost our "2 man break" while tevez is a rooneyesque player, he doesn't quite get onto the long balls quite as well as rooney, nor does he manage to hold it up as well. i don't know how many goals united scored last season with literally just compromised of banging the ball up to rooney and then a varient of ronaldo rooney and saha pass it around before ronaldo or rooney score within a matter of seconds. until we at least get ronaldo back, we miss this element of the game, but tevez HAS to hold the ball up better
*on a side note this is also why saha is so important to our attack because of his ability to hold up the ball.
secondly, for whatever reason, we're not getting the early goal. last year a good majority of our games had us scoring a goal within the first 30minutes of the match. when this happened, it forced the opposition to play to our style and thus allowed for counter attacking 2nd and 3rd goals etc. this season, we haven't had that first goal yet
*on another side note, if you watched the spurs game and saw the difference in play before united scored and after, you would have to believe that, had the goal been scored within the first 30 minutes, we would have had a much more open game and probably gone on to win 3-1
p.s. why the hell are we seeing so much of rio in the attacking third? he's starting to take shots in OPEN PLAY
