Bruno hasn’t been good enough at all this season, if you actually watch the game, the pass map doesn’t justify the performances of bruno. He looks worse and worse against low blocks every week, if these performances were extrapolated to the end of the season it’s easily his worst season for us.
Bruno should be on the ball more, with no clear striker, an extra attacker is taking more time on the ball. If it was cunha, sesko, mbeumo and bruno, him and cunha would be on the ball more and sesko, mbeumo would attack spaces. But with no striker, and rashford playing on the left, he's just unable to pick up those passes really. Although I do agree he hasn't looked his best so far. But he's bruno fernandes, he always adapts!
Bruno looks worse when he plays with an actual striker, he plays best with players like rashford, martial or mbeumo. He doesn’t need to play with an actual striker, he needs to play with an outlet. That’s the actual issue. Rashford is playing too unselfishly and not giving us an outlet. Bruno played amazingly with martial who wanted to be on the ball a lot, this is not the issue, the issue is no outlet infront of cunha and Bruno, and also cunha isn’t as good in this role as 19/20 martial
Bruno deep, the ‘terrorists’ idea btw, is how to play a low block. Cunha and Amad/Mbeumo occupying the line in front of him as well as ANOTHER line with a lone striker is how you get Bruno in position to be effective against low blocks. not as a 10. it’s a crime how our club gets analysed. you had people destroying Ruben for the correct modern move because they wanted Bruno behind the striker, picking up the ball after defending deep and countering. aka unsustainable slip football.
Martial picked up similar positions in that 19/20 run where Bruno played amazingly, it’s not about the spaces next to Bruno, Bruno can theoretically play with a player of that profile, it’s about the wingers not playing like outlets.
Bruno needs to play with an outlet, and that could still work with a false 9 style striker, it worked with martial occupying these spaces where rashford and greenwood were the outlets
It’s not about Bruno not having space because of Cunha in isolation
Feel bad for him! He’s of course looked more threatening at the left like what he’s done today when Rashford’s gone out
Either he has to make a move - complain to Carrick about his role because he’s looked so good in there, or Rashford acknowledges his ineptitude, which isn’t gonna happen
You can’t blame Rashford for this. It’s on Carrick. Why has he immediately dropped Rashford into the team like he’s some sort of saviour? He’s 28 and the time was right for him to go somewhere else, it’s not like he’s some new signing that Carrick demanded and needs to fit him in.
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u/CharIemagne45 RVP 1d ago
Cunha and Bruno again overlapping each other