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Originally Posted by St. Pats
Different manager / new players / same garbage /going to be a long year again watching junk performances like that
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Don't know. Mourinho isn't as stubborn and set in his ways as cloghead.
The question is will he just bench Rooney? You cannot continue to try and build this team to compete at the highest level around a player that can no longer compete at the highest level.
Other thing too was that De Gea/Smalling clash. I'm going to give De Gea the benefit of the doubt and assume he called for the ball. If not, that is on him. If so, it's on Smalling.
What was worrying afterwards was his reaction. A shrug and walked away. If that had been Schmeichel or say Khan you can be guaranteed they'd have roared for the ball, then gone right through them, and then ripped the CB a new one afterwards for not getting out of the way. They ruled their area. De Gea imo, in that area is a tad too passive.
Not a coaching problem, something the players need to take control of and sort out among themselves.