'I thought MAN UNITED PLAYED OK!' Was Erik ten Hag's team not that bad against Brighton? | ESPN FC

Robo we loved it so much we brought it back more quick hits a late late late Joe Pedro goal helps Brighton get past Manchester United 2-1 Robo I may be the minority I thought United played okay and played a hefty price for individual mistakes against a good footballing side away am I wrong and deluded no because related to Eric ten hon perhaps no no because they uh at times had more of the play they dominated the play they created some good chances and I presume as you're talking about individual mistakes some mischances that they had okay so Maguire on the first one yeah the collective brain fart on the second time Pedro makes himself but these aren't systemic things these are individual mistakes that are so extreme and then the xer they disallow go I don't know I I don't even know if it's accidental or if it would have been that easy for him to get out of the way he slid he was sliding in so and he'd already slid before the because he'd gone for the first one so I I think it's I think he's unlu that's that one Dio had a good chance which he should have scored much earlier so you put these things together yeah I mean there was disorg there was disorganization for the the second goal where they defend the first ball and as so often happens then they don't get the but that's not a system thing is what I'm driving no that's not the system thing but but also it's something that you that coaches don't work enough on you defend that you you set yourself up to defend a set play or a ball into the box you clear that and then what do you do as the ball goes out and it's going to come back into your box and that's where where they got their shape all wrong they were overloaded to one side and it left J Pedro free on the far post so there was mistakes that were had but I didn't think they played that badly as you quite rightly said and look and then this is with Mount unfit with rashford I don't know who that is that's not I don't think that is Marcus rashford I think it's somebody impersonating him on the wing no hland I mean yeah I think they're they're an okay team at the moment Mada manages to insult the city of wolver Hampton before scoring a hatrick against wolves as Chelsea break out in the second half and win 62 gab your thoughts on that you might say he added injury to insult see see see what I did there no this poor guy he wrote something disparaging about the city of wolver ampton on Instagram he thought I guess he was messaging somebody privately private group instead he put it publicly so he got booed and then in the second half he scores a hattrick it's 2-2 at halftime Chelsea wins 62 um more broadly on Chelsea than M it is a amazing what happens when you go back to a system that makes sense for the type of football you want to say right two up and down Wingers running up and down in mad and mudrick mudri was fine was terrible as he often is in the first half and you bring in Netto does the same thing up and down boom that works but Cole Palmer attacking Midfield where he belongs uh put Enzo back with the two Lavia out and all of a sudden this is a more rational team and they win and they win convincingly and I just want to see Nico Jackson stuff being stupid winding up the opposition no honestly he's going to pay a big price they don't have other unless you want to see more Mark you which I don't think many people do um he needs to avoid suspensions and just be smart he's playing better yeah absolutely Robo jadden Sancho is unwanted at United Raheem Sterling unwanted at Chelsea amortization is magical and can generate funds out of nothing uh would a swap actually make sense if you could make the numbers work not really no I don't think that ryes Sterling uh he would do too much at Manchester United I don't think he's the sort of player they'd be looking for Sancho likewise I think he he needs to go abroad again Sterling at United would cont contribute more than Sancho does since San another plays would Sancho can contribute more at Chelsea well I'm like you should have thought about this before you signed Pedro Neto and J Felix maybe right yeah absolutely U so it might have been a good thing at the start of the season with a a fresh outlook for Sancho going to to Chelsea but I think the only way that Sancho get gets his career back on track is by going abroad at the moment because it's going nowhere you know what's silly if you slap 60 million valuations on both of them and you swap them uh you generate PSR money out of out of thin air at least for a season okay Barcelona are still without six senior players plus Danny ELO who was can't register just yet and they've lost gundan to Manchester City so were you impressed that they won 2-1 at the weekend go against Athletic Club all just to give you some context here here in addition to all the guys who are out from gavi to dong to Aro um fmin who's 21 years old as one Top Flight season under bench y he was a second most experienced player on the barcel games or or or just experience no whatever whatever you want to call if you exclude the the the goalkeepers right um the most experienced was Eric Garcia who of course is Eric Garcia therefore not very good um they had three 17year olds starting um I thought they played really well in the second half I think it's encouraging they're buying into what hanzi flick wants them to do I think levandowski looks sharp now I don't know how long it's going to last with levandowski but I do Wonder can you imagine if they hadn't played silly buggers with the levers and spending all that money and said maybe put a bit more faith in the kids early I saw against Valencia I went to Valencia last week and I thought they played very well particularly again in the second half where they they play more Forward Thinking football they're sharper with their you're Mar Bernard guy now yeah he he did okay yeah he's I think he's still got a bit of work to do but he's a he's a decent player I I I I think I think they're in a good place I don't know how big the squad is I know how it's going to last who knows if Almo is going to even stay fit and you go through this trouble to register him and then with his injury record and give a bit of credit to Rafia you know everyone saying he's going to go on his way he's going to be going here every time I've seen him play over the last year or so he's been effective for Barcelona he has Manchester City go go down at home against it but then score three inside of 50 minutes and route to a 4-1 win as earling Holland bags a hatrik they also hit the woodwork a couple times same oo yes in terms of uh but what I was pleased with about Harland I've been very critical of Harland over the last few weeks and and months where I don't think he gets involved in the play I'd see him just being a but goal poacher at the weekend he looked like the old Harlem where he was making runs he was done the goal where he runs makes the run through the two Center halfes heads it past the goalkeeper puts it in the back of that that's what I want to see more from harand so same old same old but good performance yeah I thought the uh the fourth goal was also was also good for them um it's it's crazy in August I think he got like 27 goals and 18 games in his career for but I want to see him enjoy his football get more involved and do the things that we know he can do and then he be he would be you know the world class Striker that's I think he is man you've got the bran and Bernardo Silva there do you want this big lumpy Norwegian coming back and getting in your grill I didn't say get him coming back making those runs down the side making more runs getting getting hold of the ball when it's played up to him by the goalkeeper anyway forget that the Vincent company era began at B with a nervy 32 win away to Wolfsburg a bit messy wasn't it yeah so the the first half I thought they looked they looked really good uh Sasha boy or boy or whichever way you choose to pronounce his name this week uh you know he looks like Danny Alves down the right it's fantastic they take the lead and boy gives up a stupid stupid penalty in the second half all of a sudden they're pinned back um and they actually it looks like the wheels are totally coming off and they got to need Thomas mher to come off the bench he created uh the the second goal without touching the ball just by wreaking havoc just by being there forcing the own goal uh then of course they got the the late winner for sergeon hry there is work to do good news is I think um I think they're on the right way but Harry Kane fit Harry Kane was involved in all three goals he doesn't look super Sharp their finishing should have been better in the first half but I mean give him time um totenham robed to a 4-n win at home to Everton as Eve basuma scores a great goal Robo do you like the more with son at Center forward or Salan of course was unavailable to lead the line but presumably we'll be back uh I like son up front because really because I'm not I'm never been a salanki fan unfortunately uh you don't like big skillful Strikers who scor goals skillful strikker that scores but he hasn't done enough of it over the years and he had one good season last year he's got a ton of goals in the championship too what are you talking about yeah no I don't think he's going to be a major success for Spurs uh and son is a proven quality Striker who can make runs in behind and score goals he's a good finisher I was looking at this they have so many Wingers and so many attacking options because obviously there's brandan Johnson there's otar who started it really Weller still there k yeah I I'm just wondering if he's leaving himself that plan B of of Sunny through the middle just in Cas the the great salani experiment doesn't uh doesn't quite work out which it might well not do now Milan slip up badly as they lose away to Palmer 21 gab Pao fona says their defensive attitude is hard to explain yeah so fona already Under Fire after the draw opening week um what does he mean by defensive so what he's talking about is if you watch the highlights of this game they gave up two goals on the counter that are pretty much identical right yeah mean are attacking they're trying to be positive lot a three versus one at one point and a two versus one and then there's a Counterattack and they struggle to get back I thought Theo Hernandez was was at fault for for both of them as was J MOA but there's a switch of play and it's almost like carbon copy goal the guy coming in through the left hand side to to score Dennis M demand there you go um I I I think this is problematic but I think it's because and you know this better than I do you have to be able if you're attacking you lose the ball you have to be able to stop the counter straight away tactical foul or counter pressing you can't just blame it all on the Defenders and I think this is what he means by defensive attitude but dude don't say it's hard to understand you got to fix it absolutely [Music]