Manchester United (Red Devils) | Special Thread

Manchester United (Red Devils) | Special Thread

Juzi alisema na jana Carragher amerudia kusema kwamba United ana squad kubwa kuliko Liverpool

Kujibu swali lako, Naona Gomes pekee ndio tegemeo aliyepata majeruhi

Gomez,Lovlen,Alexander Anold,Henderson na Wijnaldum wote wameumia
 
Huyu Hendo si ndio anapangwa mechi moja moja, na hata akipangwa mnamlaumu

Ni kwa sababu ya majeruhi ndo maana amekuwa akikosa namba but huwa anaanza mara nyingi coz ndo Captain wao

Anold Gomez Dijk Robertson

Milner Henderson Wijnaldum

Salah Filmino Mane

hii ndo first eleven yao wote wakiwa fit
 
Ni kwa sababu ya majeruhi ndo maana amekuwa akikosa namba but huwa anaanza mara nyingi coz ndo Captain wao

Anold Gomez Dijk Robertson

Milner Henderson Wijnaldum

Salah Filmino Mane

hii ndo first eleven yao wote wakiwa fit
Okay mkuu kwa sehemu upo sahihi lakini hauoni kama injury hiyo huwezi fananisha na Kane kwa Spurs, Fernandinho kwa City au ingekuwa VVD kwa Liverpool au Pogba kwa United?

Naona timu nyingi zimekuwa zikitumia injury kama excuse lakini uhalisia unakuta haupo hivyo

Hao wachezaji wengine uliowataja wana mbadala mkuu na tofauti yao ya kiwango na mibadala iliyopo si kubwa kiivyo

Ninachoshangaa Liverpool yupo kwenye kombe moja tu na mwezi huu anaanza kujihusisha na la pili (UCL) hivyo hana mashindano mengi, lakini analalamikia majeruhi sana


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Okay mkuu kwa sehemu upo sahihi lakini hauoni kama injury hiyo huwezi fananisha na Kane kwa Spurs, Fernandinho kwa City au ingekuwa VVD kwa Liverpool au Pogba kwa United?

Naona timu nyingi zimekuwa zikitumia injury kama excuse lakini uhalisia unakuta haupo hivyo

Hao wachezaji wengine uliowataja wana mbadala mkuu na tofauti yao ya kiwango na mibadala iliyopo si kubwa kiivyo

Ninachoshangaa Liverpool yupo kwenye kombe moja tu na mwezi huu anaanza kujihusisha na la pili (UCL) hivyo hana mashindano mengi, lakini analalamikia majeruhi sana



Yes upo sawa kabisa Mkuu ni kweli wana majeruhi lakini hicho sio kisingizio kabsa coz majeruhi ni part ya mchezo hata sisi mbna

huwa tuna majeruhi kibao lakn hatulalamiki, ndo maana timu kubwa huwa zina deep squad ili hata ikitokea injury crisis isiwe ishu,

kwanza Klopp mwenyewe ndo alizingua kumtoa Clyne kwa mkopo wakati anakikosi kidgo, hvyo hawana cha kusingizia ni kwamba tu sahv hawapo kwenye form kama walivyokuwa mwanzo!
 
Yes upo sawa kabisa Mkuu ni kweli wana majeruhi lakini hicho sio kisingizio kabsa coz majeruhi ni part ya mchezo hata sisi mbna

huwa tuna majeruhi kibao lakn hatulalamiki, ndo maana timu kubwa huwa zina deep squad ili hata ikitokea injury crisis isiwe ishu,

kwanza Klopp mwenyewe ndo alizingua kumtoa Clyne kwa mkopo wakati anakikosi kidgo, hvyo hawana cha kusingizia ni kwamba tu sahv hawapo kwenye form kama walivyokuwa mwanzo!
Huyo Clyne mwenyewe walikuwa wanamsema ni mzigo leo hayupo wanaanza kulialia. hawa jamaa ukiwafuatilia wamechanganyikiwa hawajui nini wafanye wamebaki kulaumiana

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Exclusive interview
By Adam Bate
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In an exclusive interview with Sky Sports, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer gives an insight into how he has turned things around at Manchester United by embracing the club's history.
The former United striker also opens up about:
  • Why his management stint at Cardiff didn't work
  • What the Manchester United identity means to him
  • Why Manchester United signings need an 'X-Factor'
  • And why he knows his starting XI for each game in February...


HISTORY LESSONS
Marcus Rashford recently made a humorous reference to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer talking the players through his famous moment in the 1999 Champions League final, but it was another of his goals that the Manchester United manager was revisiting with his team last month. Before the FA Cup win over Arsenal, Solskjaer showed the players a video of him scoring against the Gunners.

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“It was a counter-attack from 1997,” Solskjaer tells Sky Sports. He also showed them footage of Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Park Ji-Sung destroying Arsenal in the 2009 Champions League semi-final. That was a decade ago now but Solskjaer wanted Anthony Martial, Jesse Lingard and the rest to feel they could learn from it nevertheless.
“Even though we have different players, Marcus and Anthony are not very different to Cristiano and Wayne,” he explains. “Jesse with his pace and Ji-Sung, there are so many similarities, and we should never forget those games because they are part of our history.”
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Solskjaer believes Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial and Jesse Lingard can play a similar role to Park Ji-Sung, Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo
The history lessons are never too far away when Solskjaer is talking about Manchester United. He recalls that he was partnering Andy Cole in that game against Arsenal because Eric Cantona wasn’t playing. When the conversation turns to set pieces, he is soon reminiscing about a proud tradition, namechecking David Beckham and Robin van Persie.
Sir Alex Ferguson’s involvement since Solskjaer returned has been overplayed – he’s not picking the team. But the current boss has barely taken his seat for the interview before making his first reference to the great man. "Now I understand why the gaffer used to be in so early," he says. "How did I manage to sleep so long when I was a player?"
He is clearly loving it though. "It’s all that I hoped for and expected really. And a little bit more." No doubt United supporters feel the same way about Solskjaer. The staff certainly do. He has lifted this place. Even the receptionist talks of his 'lovely big smile' and everyone agrees that it's as if he's never been away. Solskjaer just seems to get the club.
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Solskjaer has seen a significant upturn in form since taking over from Jose Mourinho.

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CARDIFF LESSONS
All of which makes it strange to think how his appointment as interim manager was received just seven weeks ago. While Solskjaer's status as a United legend was never in doubt, the wider public looked instead to his brief time at Cardiff in 2014. He lost 12 of his 18 Premier League games in charge as the Bluebirds were relegated under his watch.
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Solskjaer won just nine of 30 games in charge of Cardiff in 2014.
It's Solskjaer who brings up his time there but it's also the one time that the conversation does not flow freely as he takes care to be precise over his wording. "It wasn’t the right decision, to be fair," he says. "But you live and you learn." Significantly, one of the reasons why the experience was so alien to him was because of what he was used to at Old Trafford.
"This is a completely different club and situation to come into," he adds. "I know the culture and identity of the club and the playing style. Manchester United, of course, suits me a lot more than a club that struggles towards the bottom of the table. I wasn’t ready for that fight. I didn’t say I wasn’t ready for the Premier League. That's different.
"My belief is to trust players and to trust them to play the right way. To try to dominate teams, to try to win games the right way. To play the way that we do now with Manchester United. I should have flipped that mentality into a different one at a team that struggles against relegation if you know what I mean."
THE UNITED 'IDENTITY'
From the moment that he walked through the door, this has been a more natural fit. For one thing, he never really went away. “Since 2007 I have watched the majority of games and, of course, I had my opinion on what’s been going right and what’s been going wrong. That's what you do as a United supporter. So I think I was more prepared for this one."
He adds: "It is easier here because I know what the DNA and identity of Manchester United is and what a Manchester United player is."
But what exactly is that identity?
"It’s a winning identity,” he explains. “It’s a confident identity. We want to take risks. We want to go for the second, the third and the fourth goal because that’s just how we do things at Manchester United. If you can’t handle that then you are at the wrong club.”
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HELPING HANDS
When Solskjaer arrived just before Christmas, the consensus was that many of this squad were at the wrong club. The defence was struggling, passes were going astray in midfield, and the attack appeared devoid of tempo. United’s negative goal difference matched the negativity engulfing the team. It seemed that everything needed to change.
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Ten games later and Solskjaer has nine wins. He is yet to taste defeat. So how has he done it? There was no pre-season in which he could impart his ideas. Even the transfer window has come and gone without a single addition. The key to it has been empowering the players and the staff to go out and show why they were at the club in the first place.
He retained Michael Carrick and Kieran McKenna as well as goalkeeping coach Emilio Alvarez. The two staff that came with him, Mike Phelan and Mark Dempsey, are both former United players and coaches. Having learned from his experience at Cardiff, he had no intention of an overhaul, preferring to trust in others, and he has been rewarded.

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“That was one of the mistakes I made at Cardiff," he admits. "I wanted to go into my way straight away. So, Mick, me and Demps have come in and we didn’t want to change too much too early because with change there is always a danger that you do too much."
At times, Solskjaer is happy to watch training from a distance and let his support staff get on with it. "Kieran and Michael are great," he adds. "They were here from before, so they and Emilio were important for us because they knew what they had been doing.
“I know that we all have different strengths and qualities. With Kieran and Michael, they need to be able to give their best and they are fantastic coaches, I have to say. The analysis staff too. Everything is in place for the club to be successful so that’s been brilliant for me.
"I know I can trust them."
SPECIAL PLAYERS
It is not that Solskjaer doesn’t enjoy coaching himself. "Whether it is back home with my daughter’s team or it's this, I just love working with footballers who want to improve," he says. "I love speaking to them and giving them my help and my thoughts. That's what coaching is about. It’s about improving players. It’s not about anything but that really."
The forward players, in particular, have been effusive in their praise for his one-on-one analysis. But he understands the importance of delegation at a club like United.
“I love the one-on-ones but it’s not just me. It's Kieran, it's Michael, it's Mark, it's Mick, it's Emilio. We are a big staff. Of course, I make the decisions but I give them the confidence and the responsibility. We have different players who we speak to. There is not a lot that I can tell David de Gea about goalkeeping that he does not know."
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The players appreciate that. Solskjaer wants players who can solve problems for themselves. That's the United he remembers and his faith in this young team is being justified too.
"You have to find a way to win a game," he explains. "That’s not up to me or Mick or Kieran or Michael to tell them beforehand. Every game is different. We might score the first goal and it's a different game. They might score the first goal and it's a different game. So they have got to make decisions out there based on their experiences and qualities.
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"Me and Mick came in and of course we wanted to bring a confidence into the players that we trust them because we do. They are here because they are special. Manchester United never sign players if they don't have any uniqueness or X factor about them. We should never forget what badge they are wearing because they are special.
"So we speak to them and encourage them individually but giving players confidence by speaking to them is one thing. They need to feel this is working. They have done it by themselves. They scored the goals against Cardiff and enjoyed it. That gave them a big boost, of course.”

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THE RETURN OF COUNTER-ATTACKS
That 5-1 win against Solskjaer’s former club in his first game in charge was symbolic – the first time that United had scored five in the Premier League since Ferguson's final match. But even as the wins were racking up there was a temptation to downplay the Norwegian’s flawless start. It was only Huddersfield. Only Bournemouth. Only Newcastle.
That all changed with the wins away to Tottenham and Arsenal. After dominating weaker teams, Solskjaer’s United showed that they could punish their rivals on the break too. "United have their counter-attack back," said Solskjaer’s former team-mate Gary Neville during the 1-0 win at Wembley. It was a key ingredient that had been lost.

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Prior to Solskjaer’s appointment, no team in the Premier League had fewer counter-attacks resulting in a shot than United. They were level with Cardiff and Huddersfield. Since his appointment, no team in the Premier League has had as many of those counter-attacks. It's a complete transformation in style and it’s happened by design.
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There was the work they did in Dubai, where the plan to beat Tottenham was formulated. It was the same link-up between Paul Pogba and Rashford that saw off Leicester on Sunday. "Goals are scored by counter-attacks, set plays and breaking teams down when they drop deep, so you need to have all those three aspects," Solskjaer explains.

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"The way we play with pace and power, we should never forget our history of counter-attacking, even though we are one of the teams that want to dominate games. If teams drop deep we need to have a way of playing against those teams but also when we defend we defend to win the ball to counter-attack quickly.
"To win games you need to pass it forward and run forward."
PLANNING FOR SUCCESS
United are showing those traits game after game now, outsprinting their opponents five times in a row under Solskjaer having failed to do that in the first 14 matches of the season.
Not that every game has been the same. After the high-profile wins on the counter-attack, Burnley presented a different problem last time out at Old Trafford. “You have to change it a little bit and that’s what we did. We found a way of playing our way in.”
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Manchester United outsprinted their opponents five times in a row under Solskjaer. They did that just twice this season under Mourinho.
He adds: "You have got to have different ways of winning games and with our squad you can pick players who suit this team and that team."
Here too, it is Ferguson who is the reference point. The former United manager turned squad rotation into a science, identifying which players would be crucial for a forthcoming fixture long in advance and adjusting his selections accordingly in the meantime. Solskjaer experienced that himself and, as with so much else, it is informing his approach.
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“I knew the gaffer was like that. I have always been like this myself back home in Molde. It was different at Cardiff because you had to take one game at a time and try to claw a point here or there. But now you do plan ahead and I think I have got my team quite ready for the full month. Depending on form as well, I think I have more or less picked my team.”
Learning from the past to ensure a bright future for Manchester United. That is the Solskjaer way, it’s the United way, and it’s working again. "We have put ourselves in a great position and in a great vein of form," he concludes. "We are confident, we trust ourselves, and we are ready for these games now." And Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is clearly ready for this job
 
Herrera made the most combined tackles and interceptions of any player on the pitch at the King Power Stadium and that's become his trademark. The 29-year-old is averaging more interceptions per 90 minutes this season than any other midfielder in the Premier League.
 
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