Scott McTominay receives a pass and turns backwards. Bruno (bottom right corner) is frustrated. Why?
There is a lot more United could extract from this sequence. Wan-Bissaka has a lot of space to use here but isn't too adventurous.
Neither is Scott, who fixes his eyes on the ball and stays "flat" to the ball and doesn't offer much progressive action.
Neither is Scott, who fixes his eyes on the ball and stays "flat" to the ball and doesn't offer much progressive action.
In an ideological situation, my right-winger comes short here to bounce it to a central midfielder who can receive the ball facing play - after having moved up and thus taken an entire line out of play.
Interesting that in my mentions the replies are dominated by either A) the pass being bad, or B) Scott refusing to be "positive". I thought outside of the pass action, and more as to "where" they should have been.