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[Man Utd] Casemiro has picked up an injury on international duty and will be unavailable to play on Saturday vs Sheffield United (www.manutd.com)

submitted 11 months ago by D1794@alien.top to c/main@soccer.forum

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[–] TheGoldenPineapples@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

United's midfield may actually be able to progress the ball now.

[–] tarakian-grunt@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

which United?

[–] drjaychou@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Is it Casemiro holding Utd back now?

[–] CT_x@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Has he actually been that bad or is this being overblown?

[–] FBall4NormalPeople@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Overblown. He's not been good, but his existing deficiencies have been extra detrimental whilst the team lacks guys like Licha, Shaw, Antony etc... who take of the ball and still are progressive. He's also been a bit exposed in some games, plus your DM is always gonna take stick when you're conceding lots of goals.

I do think he's always been a bit lumbering, it's just that people are fixating on it because United are conceding lots of goals. He's pretty much the same defensively as last season, United are just a harder team to play DM for this season than last (so far).

[–] Scoolfish@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

His legs look absolutely cooked which makes any positioning errors more obvious because he can't run well enough. It's been made worse by how United have been playing, with an imbalanced midfield and a high press so there is no one to cover for him.

It's clear that Case needs a double pivot partner but I'm not sure what the option is out there that both covers defensively as well fixing some of their ball progression issues.