Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was able to celebrate a Manchester United victory in Princes Park because he had already done so on the night he convinced the Old Trafford hierarchy to appoint him technically permanently. a kind of other victory to that recorded in March 2019.
While Solskjaer’s team took advantage of its chance to reach PSG since the Champions League in 2018/19, it deserved to beat the French champion this time. in the 3rd forward, with Bruno Fernandes, Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford every opportunity to reject the latter’s winner.
Eyebrows were cleared when Manchester United news fell before kick-off, with Fred and Scott McTominay favored in center midfield against Paul Pogba and Donny van de Beek. In defense, Solskjaer opted for a three-backed stranger, with Alex Telles as fullback and Luke Shaw on the left side of a back three.
The game plan worked perfectly, the PSG’s formidable attack was largely repelled. It was the kind of tactical masterstroke that many claimed Solskjaer was unable to do. In fact, the Norwegian has been the target of his intentional lack of strategic sense and understanding of internal mechanisms. What happened in the French capital is a blow to this notion.
This isn’t the first time Solskjaer has outperformed an elite opposition coach. Last season, Manchester United defeated their rivals Manchester City no less than 3 times, with one of their most productive performances of the crusade in the 2–1 win at Etihad Stadium in December. when Solskjaer beat Pep Guardiola.
There have also been victories against Frank Lampard’s Chelsea, Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham Hotspur and Brendan’s Leicester City Rodgers. Si the biggest opportunities opposed to the groups (and the coaches) are the biggest control a coach can face, Solskjaer has done far more than many are willing to give him.
“We stick to our principles and play the way we need to,” Solskjaer said during the summer, providing a review of his tactical vision. “We’ve had two formations and it’s the same taste we need to play. When we think”. about the next game, it’s 90/10 [determined by] ourselves, but we have to respect any opposition. “
Sometimes it turns out that Solskjaer relies on the individual quality of its attackers to create opportunities. It is true that Manchester United have a number of players able to avoid a moment of game change from almost nothing, the Norwegian releasing an organization that had been repressed under Jose Mourinho.
But recommending that Solskjaer does not have a tactical basis does a very bad service to what it has completed in the more than two years. Manchester United are in a much higher position now than when they took office, and they are in a much higher position. now that at this time last year when progress is hard to see.
Solskjaer would probably not be a Guardiola or even a Klopp Jurgen in terms of the importance he attaches to the tactical education of his players, but when necessary, the Norwegian can protect himself against the best. He demonstrated it at Parc des Princes as he did several times as Manchester United manager.
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I’m a football team founded in the UK. More than a decade in the industry, I have written for newspapers, magazines and websites around the world, adding the New York Times, The Guardian, Eurosport, Bleacher Report, ESPN, the newspaper i. FourFourTwo, among others. I have covered football in England, Spain, Italy, Germany, Scotland and the United States, from Portland to Sarajevo. I have interviewed various football personalities, including Sir Alex Ferguson, Jurgen Klinsmann and Jack Wilshere.