Alan Shearer was not impressed by Manchester United’s decision making during the 2-0 loss to West Ham. As a Premier League goalscorer in his day, he must be looking at some of the service (or lack of) that exists up front because it beggars belief from where I am standing.
The Reds were really poor at the London Stadium yesterday in attack. There was phases in the match that we made looked comfortable, despite not taking the lead, but we look out of ideas once we get into the final third.
Alejandro Garnacho is positive but you can’t expect consistency from such a young player. However, we need to start demanding more from Antony, and it doesn’t help that neither of them are creating any real chances for Rasmus Hojlund.
West Ham won the game 2-0 after two second half goals from Jarrod Bowen and Mohammed Kudus.
While covering the game for Match of the Day, Shearer ranged at one moment in particular when Scott McTominay charged up half the pitch to support Luke Shaw and Antony with an overlapping run but was ignored.
The attack surprisingly fizzled out seconds later.
“Watch the overlap from McTominay here. He runs about 50 yards,” Shearer said, as per West Ham Zone. “Antony waits for him to get around, I’d be going berserk.
“Instead, the ball goes inside, into the traffic. And the problem is gone. It is exactly what West Ham and other teams want Man United to do.”
Sadly, we see instances like this every week and it just feels like our attacking players are set in their ways. Either that or there is no chemistry whatsoever.
It was the same old story when Rasmus Hojlund was replaced by Marcus Rashford in the second half.
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Always ‘sour grapes’ when these so called ‘top teams’ the ‘prima Donna’s’ lose to a better team! It’s always that they played bad, off day! Wake up! The credit should be that the better team, West Ham, smashed Man Utd 2-0!!! Biased commentators get on everyone’s nerves, week in week out, the nonsense they come out with is unbelievable!!! I turn the sound down on the Tv constantly because of the biased crap we have to listen to!