MOTD Manchester United vs Liverpool 0-3 Post Match Analysis

well Anna three games three wins how much does that one mean your first win here uh all of them mean a lot because the first one was my first game as a Liverpool manager the second one was my first home game and this is the first uh big win I think if you want to call it like this so all of them mean a lot to me what would be your assessment of of where it went wrong today compliment for Liverpool and for the players how they finish and score great goals it's quite simple I think we were in the game I think it was equal level head tohe till half an hour and then yeah we make two big mistakes you made a change at halftime casimiro came off was that anything to do with an injury or was that purely to change things up you know when you are two no down against Liverpool their quality is um they are very Dynamic especially in Midfield area so we brought someone on with legs that was Toby K and the change you made in the second half it didn't go down well with the crow here how would you explain that to United fans why you made the change you did I think it's a good question from you because um first start from s first start from kacho and yeah then you decide to bring players on uh uh who has can have an impact Dio he deserved it he can have an impact but then bring a player off who is not used to 90 minutes just a word about your your forward line leis Diaz gets two mosella makes two then scores one it seems as if you've inherited this group of players it's it's it's like the greatest riches any manager could inherit I would emphasize today more on the work rate without the ball from these three and from our three midfields that kept on running kept on running and kept on arriving in the jewels so that was for me very very good to see that Deco do this today I'm tempted to ask what's changed because on the face of it not a lot I think we look a bit more secure defensively I think we've been a lot more controlled to game today um you know obviously 3-0 and yeah it could have been more the clean Sheet's massive for us you know when you come away to your Rivals like man united then it's so important to keep a clean sheet and that's what the manager said before the game you know the first objective today is to keep the clean sheet and then we've got the quality on the pitch to score goals and I think we proved that well Eric obviously it's a a really disappointing day how and why do you think you were beaten today and and by such a convincing score line as well we make mistakes and they were very clinical um in finishing and they did very well did you actually feel like you'd made quite a good start to the game and then it seemed to become really open and it felt like Liverpool attackers were running at your Defenders time and again no I don't think so if I see all the chances we conceded I don't think that's what happened I think we make mistakes uh all the three goals are mistakes from from us individual errors and maybe about the last one you can debate where is our double six but with all the others I think um yeah Liverpool the brilliant how they took over the turnover and how they finished was so good but they didn't and I saw the XD that wasn't that high so your opinion of the game would be three goals from mistake sure but the the general play of the game was quite even is that your view of it no it's it's uh don't arue this it's clear and deserve in Liverpool and we have to be humble we have to take this and then improve our game it was no surprise that casemiro came off at halim was it almost a a kindness to him to to take him off after such a difficult first half or you just thinking no this is what the team needs the last one that is what the team needed you know when you are two no down against Liverpool they are so good in uh you have to take more risk it will be more open and so that is my assessment is logical when you are losing the game against Liverpool you have to take more risk and I have to give a compliment to the team and they they kept fighting they kept sticking together but the ground what you have to cover is is is bigger and then you bring a player as Toby Kia and he has big great legs he can cover for the ground how did casemiro take the news at halftime for a player of that status to be taken up at halim it's quite a big thing did he accept the decision okay it's um you know the game he knows the the game and and he will go on we will go on it's a great player and we will continue in the season to improve the team but also improve the players do you think he can come again I mean it's maybe not a nice question to ask but physically at 32 is there still more to give do you think he he improved of he showed so often that he's a great character and um yeah we all have seen but we all have seen great moments from him and be decisive for us in the Midfield and he will show it again I'm sure he will bounce back is the worry with today I don't know if you'd agree with this that it felt a lot like last season it was obviously a difficult League campaign last season but similar in terms of you conceded three goals and you conceded a lot of chances on your goal did it feel like last season I don't think you are right but you I just say I saw the XD how which we conceded we didn't see so many goals and no I don't have the feeling that we are in the same pattern because uh I didn't see it we I think it was some sometimes open we we took risk and I think I have seen some cool things but I don't want to talk about this after a defeat from 3il against Liverpool well done Liverpool uh all the compliments we have to be humble and we have to improve our team I know you just said you don't want to talk about it but they did feel like a bit of positive positivity going into today particularly what You' done in the transfer window couple of performances I know you lost at Brighton but does does this sort of take away that feeling of positivity is that the worry that it sort of sets the tone no not for me I know many games to play and I know where we will be in the end of the season and many games many leagues and we will go for trophies and uh that will that will stand I was interested to hear you say in the week that you feel like it's you know a beginning I think you said beginning of a of a life cycle still a team in transition it's obviously start of your third year now how long will this transition take ER you think but in the two years we took two prices and also in the end of the season we will see where we are and yeah but still we have to um fresh up the dressing room and we bring new players in today first start of Maas first start of Josh shik um we still some players not available first start also in this season for kacho yeah the opponent is probably a little bit further in U certain areas but we will catch up and we will come back so while we all focus on the result you see good things behind the result I don't want to talk about what today about good things U it's clear we lost througho we have to take this and now we have to um stand up head up and Pi thank you you're welcome cheers Eric thank you as Eric tenh alluded to were their own worst enemies yeah I mean it was it was a bit of a shocker he sort of dressed it up after the game saying half an hour we were good they were okay for half an hour but then two massive mistakes I think from casemiro and and and got dragged at half time and gave the ball away 13 times in the in the first half alone Casto and we'll have a look at him here Mark I mean we know what he's done in his career but it just looked he was he was Miles off at the r and he's in a good position for a number six of course and you see it comes back to him here now you know he's got options what does he do can he go to the can he go to to the right back take a touch to mazari D's really high up as a left back as well the last thing he can do is take this first time he can take a touch he's got more time he thinks now Manchester United are buying in trouble look at this numbers going for there three three Defenders and of course five attackers this is at home to one of you know the form teams of of the Premier League and of course they're queued up at the back post brilliant ball from Salah and Diaz comes in off the wing and it's a it's a fantastic header and I'm afraid it's Camaro again you know he's had such a bad day at the office again you talk about the Press you know arnest lot talks about his press Diaz presses from the front he Nicks the ball off Camero and and again it's it's it's pure for him he should get it away to maybe xerx in a away and I look at Martinez here as a center half he sees Diaz once he has another look at him again Mark twice now he should be man to man inside the Box you know space doesn't score goals but players do I think he's got a lock on to days and Frank the third goal is very similar I think some things are individual errors I think those two particularly but I think when you look at a structural problem with Manchester United kbby m is receiving his b he back to goal six players already beyond the ball so he's got to try and wle and he can't and all of a sudden within a second you're four against two and you're trying to recover and against the team where that's one of Liverpool strengths always has been how quickly they they execute those kind of counter attacks they just left it open and then this kind of summed up really the the game for them in terms of this is straight away on the kickoff and then you make that mistake now without getting too individual about it I think that's probably as much of a mental issue at that point where you've just conceded you know that you're conceding in the dangerous moments you have to play the safer parts to go back or take another option and that's summed up where Manchester United were in that period of the game and after that the game was done is it essentially that you use the word structural when when you talked about the third goal and where Manu was compared to everybody else because when you compare and contrast that to Liverpool's Midfield today you have seen structuring in every phase of play really yeah well I think Andy Robertson alluded to it then in terms of looking safer defensively more secure defensively and I think you want to control games and you want to be more secure a lot of that comes from the center of the pitch and how you set up now we saw K Manu looking like he didn't have any options whereas the balance in Liverpool's Midfield today was completely different and they've talked a lot about buying a a top class number six but the way they play today they don't necessarily need that because of their setup so you have mallister and grain bur but those sort of two next to each other as two sixes and soas took up this position higher on the left hand side you see in Aces a space there if he chooses to take that pass and now very quickly through playing very well through the lines they're going going six against four against Manchester United and they're in big trouble and we know when they have that quality we know Liverpool have been capable of this for for many years playing through teams at PACE but they seemed a bit more balanced to their Midfield today than what sometimes Liverpool may have had previously where there was a lot of rotations and a lot of different movements here you generally see they the two players behind the ball so is like behind the Midfield giv them an issue and when you have those two players and those connections and the distances are always good they rotate off each other they have a good understanding of each other but if they were to turn the ball over at any of these moments those two midfielders are always backing up play so it's it's smart players Dynamic players as the manager said there there was a lot of energy in their game but you see again here one can receive those two are close together so L makes a run just to open up the space and what you want to do with these things when you change the play is get your your Best Wingers One V one with Defenders so I thought the balance was fantastic we very happy the small tweaks very smart I think from the manager there he's come into a machine of a team with a lot of talent and a dynamic style and there's a small change that you think leads you into seeing what you see there and I think it was interesting today as well because a lot of people have been talking about the different style more passes more buildup we see that in the first two games here against ipswitch and brenford where they've had bigger control of a game but they've come up against what you might see as a potentially more difficult opponent old traford today and I think their decision was made to go okay we're going to have that structure but when we can play through when we can miss out that press from Manchester United play through them because you can play through Manchester United when they play like they did today and they found a really good way of doing it without losing balance to the team Ju Just on that MIDI field again and shabos playing a role very similar to to the one that you played but but from you as a midfielder and from you as a as a coach will that will that have taken virtually ever since slot got there to work on that and that and how much is it coaching how much is it individual well it's both I think you need good players and you need players of intelligence um and attributes and he talked about their energy to be able to make the movements and to continuously do so through a game of that level so I think it's both it obviously helps having good players with a good understanding and they've been well coached not let's not forget what the the previous manager done over a long period of time so those tweaks would have been done on a training ground and then you obviously need the players to take on information and also react to a game you know when you are saying we can be a little bit flexible within a certain structure you're understanding that if mcis and I'm sure it will happen where he will just want to you know he will see a moment to release himself then it's up to the other midfielders to balance off that M Manchester United's Midfield has been an issue for a long time it's been an issue ever since Eric tenh har arrived and wanted to sign Frankie dong didn't get Frankie dong M right they've tried again with their Midfield this summer do do the hierarchy need to take some blame here in that the man that they've chased all summer apparently in agarte arrives on Deadline day can't be registered and he's waving at the fans rather than playing in front of them I mean it's not all on tenh this is it no it's not on tenh but you look at the you look at the squad today look at the bench even you make changes the the bench is is is way for thin they've made a lot of investment this guy should be starting today it definitely should be and again you speak you know Dan ashford's G in there Jason wilock they are people above but have they come in too late should this been done who do you blame do you blame ten hag do you blame the powers of be above but at the same time the Jim Radcliff was there as well you know all them people the you know the hierarch the directors all when they're watching that today 3-0 was was it could have been a lot worse Andy Roberton said after the game you know 3-0 was was was was respectable score line for Man United because it could have been four five six they had so many chances but aartis should should be should have been registered you said they're chasing them all summer he should been should have been playing today the the other the other contrast as well between the two teams you know the clips you show of of Liverpool is every time they get the ball in the final third it was slick and the passes went to who they were intended to and you again you go back and contrast that to Manchester United in the final third yeah well I think when you have balance within your team we're just talking about Liverpool there then then I think it's much easier to sort of construct attacks with Manchester United a lot of their attacks and they have been for a while very quick and fast pace their moments that happen and they've got fast players and talented players at the stop end of the pitch but when you attack quickly it's sometimes hard to follow up play when you're not structured patterns of play don't matter so much in these moments they're off the cuff and xer as you see there is a supposedly number nine slightly a false nine who's not falling up place you'll struggle to score goals if it's like that and again when you see here they had a few moments you go okay that's just a bad decision from gach and know we're early season and he's a good young player young players will make those sort of mistakes but this with Anana here can we make handles can you support him if field to play that's the lack of connection through the team there even though he's getting a clap it's it's a it's a bad connection yeah it's frustrating spos because they have got the players like bro's probably one of their best players and today he was I know miles off again he's got options here gacho's right I think it's the easy option but I think Bruno Fernandez is easy enough to play that through the middle for xeri and he's through in a 1 V one situation again it's the wrong choice in the final third and it's I don't know rashford you know go through the teamwork to be honest but rashford isra as slow down I don't I don't know it's just you're probably right the word rushed everything seems to be rushed the top teams you see Liverpool great examples Frankl before everything seems to be C in the final third all them sort of Snippets we sh in man united it's always rushed it's always like you know the one you show where garnacho and xeri should be arriving into the box like I know ten Hau with well I think I don't know him that well but I think he should be doing patterns of play on a daily basis xeri should be arriving onto that and Sir gacha does a blind pass into that space he's miles off it is it a harsh and unfair question to ask if Liverpool look like they have more of a plan under slot after three games than United do under 10 hard going into his third year is that is that harsh and unfair I don't think it's harsh at all you know you know I think the questions will be asked big time over the next couple of weeks International break now he's got a two we break there'll be lots of questions I I know there's a lot of man united fans are really angry with that performance with the result and as you say it's not like he's just come through the door like slot's been there for three years I think slot has inherited a better team and better individual and a better player Liverpool are a better team than Manchester I don't think too many people would disagree with that so ten hog himself has said that yeah t he a a lot of money as well well he has and and in terms of Recruitment and big signers and big players there are some that have really not come off for them and as a manager and I've been in that seat you understand that he'll be going well if my you know I need players to be able to play if I want more control of a game I need to have if if I want to be a more of a pressing machine as a team I need energy in my team I need center backs that can cover there are so many parts too so he will have his reasons for that so I've got sympathy for that but the problem is when you look at that and it's it's a well spoken thing about Manchester United is that you don't quite know what they are what what sort of team with Liverpool and the top teams you generally know and that's that's that's a real um there's a lot to that you have to recruit well you have to be a line as a club of a manager of an idea can we help him and back him and that's what's been missing there's a bigger picture than just pointing a finger at the manager but I think when you do look at some of those tactical details there when they're repetitive you go well you got to find a solution because that is your job all right two more games on the way after August goal of the month the very first second um when when you're in the stand and and watching the game not watching I me we we watch a lot of games on TV you don't really see everything that goes on what I really struck me today was how divided Manchester United is as a team so at any given point there this this massive Gap in the middle of the the par where you got four players always stood up front and then you got the rest trying to defend at this level against teams like Liverpool that's not good enough that simply is not good enough I I won't accuse anybody of being lazy but maybe just not informed enough for what their jobs are on on on the team but that that was really disappointing knowing their role you mean exactly exactly so so on the flip side of that every time Liverpool lost the ball you see everyone trying to chase the ball and win it back and they win it back within 5 six seconds and that's not once in a while it's every single time when Manchester United lost the ball nothing happened Liverpool were allowed to play why is that then I think that I think it's down to Midfield players not playing the position properly the amount of the amount of time the middle of that pitch is vacated is ridiculous you saw every time they lost the ball well not every time but three times three goals all from Midfield areas kobby man who's deep loses the ball Kier look ni a young kid you got to give him a chance obviously but he's he's almost playing as a number 10 and there's three or four Liverpool players in front of him all of a sudden just rampaging on to to the back four so it's is that ill disciplin then in that role of course it is yeah in a big game like this you need to have discipline you have to have at least two people in the middle of the pitch to play the position properly don't even think about getting forward you think about staying there controlling the game don't let them go through us don't let them attack onto our defense because they are brilliant the three midfielders are brilliant the three Center the three fers that they've got are Sensational so you just you can't handle that you have to play with displ now I think our back four back five will be okay eventually but what's in front of it needs sorting out quickly I'll take it one step further up uh you know when you look at Salah Diaz um they work so hard I mean every single time they don't have the ball they come back and work so hard I didn't see that from our front free today I didn't at times Bruno realized no one's working hard to get the ball back so he was coming back he's he was playing more like a striker today with with ciri up there that was the idea that he should be up there he wasn't supposed to run all the way down and stand in front of the back four he always he always does that though P he's so ill disciplined in his game anyway he's he come to left back get the ball go to right back please just play your position I've said it so many times we're used to having white players working back doubling up with with the fullbacks you know making sure that that that those spaces are are covered it was far too easy for Liverpool today to to CU rashford's not running back gachu is not running back too much and when gacha was running back it was kind of like sort of half-hearted you know not really doing the right run uh I I I you know I'm a little bit not shocked but I'm surprised at how it was today sitting in the stand and watching having watched the previous games on TV where you don't see everything you can you you you can point point to little look at little things that you know when you don't see on TV and see you realize why things are happening because that what you just spotted there you know for instance rashford not tracking back or gacha not tracking back and then that space that that Liverpool was so good at today at exploiting appears and fair du to Liverpool they played really well today they they took advant full advantage of what was given to them um but we conceded three goals and three identical mistakes Midfield players trying to run the well the first one was a pass really really bad pass the next two was exactly the same Midfield players trying to run the ball up and then when they lost the ball everybody just stood still if that happened with Liverpool today everybody would react and straight away come back and and help the team and that is what I think that ten har really needs to improve uh his team on uh I think that comes down to discipline though because once you lose the ball everybody's out of position now we we all know look Midfield is a big part of the game you know you have to link with your forward you have to link with your defense and the the Midfield is just wrong it's just so vacant that they do do not play the position well enough so if the Midfield is not working everything else can't work you can't bring attackers into the game both attackers are so wide and that's why you know what disappoints me a little bit not so much casemiro giv him the ball away but his experience bring these for 5 minutes bring rashford in in next sometimes you've got three three three or four players against two Midfield players bring them in get get gacho in for five minutes bring bring um rashford in for five minutes just settle the game down try and work your way into the game and then all of a sudden you might get a bit of control then you can bring your forwards into play Marcus go and get back out get get back out wide we're in control everything's okay and it now we can bring the forward player into the game and on the other hand when you're in the wrong positions like we say the Deep Midfield player losing the ball all of a sudden you're on to back four because you're the Midfield Player gone up the pitch when you're not in control of the game and it just leaves a big space right through the middle here middle of you sorry then all of a sudden decent Defenders look bad Defenders because they're not being protected do do you so when I hear tenha talk about his his idea he talks about he's got a plan and there a structure that's discipline that you need to have do you see that in the team well I I I just sit in it plays completely without discipline more than anything do you see the plan do you at the minute no I don't see it I haven't seen it for a while and have you seen it at all in a couple of years charge I no and I don't understand it you know I don't so so when it comes to so with with three- n down you got a young lad sat there on the bench who uh who has scored a ton of goals for for the Youth teams with 3-0 down why not not put him on instead of he takes zerki off he takes the strier off why not give him 10 minutes what if he scored what would that do for the next two month for the team for him that would give him another option as a manager why not try it out I mean we in in in our time we so obviously I I was a senior player when when you went into the team we had five players young players at the same time in the team and and sometimes yes it didn't work but only sometimes but when it works slightly different group of players in offense you need to try it out you if you have him on the bench pet look at the difference in squads today love you think of their first te wow brilliant then you look at the bench yeah I know then then you look at the list or you turn to the right side you look at our bench you think what's he going to do what can he do now this is he's third he's he's into his third season and we've not got them options still the first 11 probably still isn't good enough they've got Highland who's probably missing he's probably the only one that is missing but you thinking about going to young kids as he says look young kids need chances of course they do but is today is today the right place to do it I don't know but the squad is is just far it's far too light with the money that's been spent and everything I mean and I listen and I take your points and and everything else but the book ends up having to stop with the manager it absolutely if you switch those two managers around and say right six months come and watch again Pete you fly over get in the same seat six months having having managed each te I I can pretty much guarantee that that Manchester United Team will be a different team I think I think it be a different team but I still think Liverpool would win Poss what if tenh was managing them yeah that is some can I just throw another one in um we saw man will AG introduced to the crowd he wanted to come over and meet Paul as well which um he's going to have to be some place to well my question was what difference is he going to make well I I think he he will play the position well he's still I think he's 23 and he's had a few clubs which slightly concerns you but he does play the position well I don't think he'll vacate vacate that area as much as a bit more discipline a bit more discipline he'll plug the gaps I hope that that's going to be his role I don't think he's going to be the greatest of Playmakers I don't think you're looking at Tony Cruz but he's going to have to s's he needs discipline in there he's obviously seen that already that casemiro okay not great leged I don't think Mayo as an athlete he's that great he relies on more his manipulation of the ball and his quality on the ball so a he's got to be everything he's he's going to have to be some player to make this team better it's a big job he's got in his hands I just can't see it just on your point there um he's cost over 42 million since Eric tenh hard arrived they're the second biggest Spenders behind Chelsea £540 million yeah Manchester United have spent since Eric tenh har took over I'm just fed up of of of players it's always the next player coming in oh the next player coming in and it how many times how many times are we going to stand here and say oh yeah another player are we going to throw another 50 million 100 million oh that'll that'll you know plug the Gap and now it'll be all right you know listen viewers that have watched this show for for quite a while know my thoughts on it I mean I cannot cannot believe that that Eric tanh har has been given another season I just I just don't get it um I I sort of get it for internal reasons you know the the the new people that have come in all of a sudden you know they get two bites of the Cherry ten hog was never their pick so if things go wrong they can change and now this is our team now whereas if they had made a change straight away then all of a sudden the gun is to their head it's right well now you know you got a sink or swim but I mean I still don't I'd love the The Lads to to tell me what what are Manchester are they a front foot pressing team are they a counterattacking are they a i if somebody asked I I still having watched them for two in a bit years under ten hog I still have no idea we need to let P go in a moment so answer that question before you go I still don't know if I'm honest I really really don't years and and and it's probably one of the most disappointing things is that we've had these opportunities now of obviously he comes in Eric he comes in with a really really good reputation he um he's allowed to spend a lot of money in uh I mean he's bringing Casmir and and and Anthony Y which changes the whole club the structure of the club changes because of that I think part of the reason that the sale happened was because they had to finance those two two players so from that moment on the club changed then you have somebody coming in running the club um and there's been opportunities to make those changes make those really really big statements saying that we are these are our standards and we will not tolerate any less than this when we lost 4-1 to Crystal Palace here that was for me that was a moment where they could have made that big change what about 4- nil away at Crystal Palace or whatever the score was yeah but this was like the uh the four the was it the fourth s Park yeah that was the toward the end of last season towards the yeah four more games including the FA Cup Final that was at s that was so so when that game was lost that was the opportunity where they could have said this we won't tolerate this that would have made everybody who who's in here today everybody who loves man united understand that now it's a different Manchester United the the the the standards the requirements of being here being part of this is different all the players would have known that and you could have put anyone in charge of the last couple of games but they would have given them time to to uh to get somebody else in and start all over again that was an opportunity they haven't taken that they've supported the manager they've given him money now we've played three games we've lost two I don't see the difference and this is what I I mean like I could nearly cry because of that because I you know I want this team to do really really well they've not only done that but they've also then gone and got rid of half the back room they've now got two assist new assistant managers all the all the medical team have all gone the so it's not only right they've they' B yes you can continue but they've now backed him even more and got all his own men around him so I I just think they fat themselves into a right hole now it's it's worrying I I just banging on for years and years and years it just doesn't seem to be getting any better and I think it the book stops at the top I'm afraid I've sat with so Alex today it's it's really sad I mean what he did for this football club uh and and what I mean the everything that we enjoyed three of us you were there as well by the the four of us everything that we enjoyed the great times everything and to sit with with him and and he's watching this that for me is really really sad it is that he that he's watching that because he did he did something really extraordinary with his football club and all of that is not there anymore okay Peter thank you very much indeed for your emotional words um the immediate future of course is Manchester United after the international break trying to bounce back after those two defeats in the opening three games now before we let you go B for for Mo Madrid the Liverpool Atlanta Manchester City inter Paris brog Juventus fin sport spart prag slovan Bratislava