MANCHESTER UNITEDS' SCOT MCTOMINAY FOMULAR SET TO GENERATE POSITIVE RESULT FOR ERIK TEN HAG ( Part 3)
This attribute from the Scottish visitor has efficiently created goalscoring opportunities for Erik Ten Hags’ Manchester United team at a substantially high level throughout this season.
The downside to this strategy however has unfortunately been a situation that has been more constantly displayed for the Manchester United men's team throughout this season with Manchester United's’ Scottish midfielder highlighted to be a player whose enthusiasm to get more involved in the attacking end for Manchester United leaves the player running forward to join the attack.
This ultimately creates a hole in the Manchester United central midfield area and as a result of Scott McTominays`lack of discipline to operate from a deep central midfield position which is a role primarily expected from any quality midfielder-besides the center attacking midfield role- is a situation in which opponents have more often than none capitalized on hurt Manchester United men's team throughout this 2023/24 season.
“He has the skills to arrive there at the right moment, he has the snout. And then he has a perfect finish. Talking about dynamics, sometimes he is deep (in the final third) and sometimes he is lower (closer to the center circle). But our game plan is often that we want him to be high. So, the team has to make it happen that he can come high and that he can come into positions where (he) is around a striker and then he can make a run,”
(Erik Ten H ag- Carl Anka, Dec 11, 2023.)
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Difficult to imagine that anyone would argue that the idea of seeing Scott Mctominay motoring up the pitch for Manchester United is a scenario highly supported by the Manchester United coaching staff with the current Manchester United men's team evidently understood to be in huge support of the Scottish midfielder using his power and energy In an attacking sense to get more involved Inside or just outside the opponents penalty box for the Manchester United men's team.
Erik Ten Hag has ultimately been confirmed to be a manager who has emphatically given the thumbs up, or Erik Ten Hag is understood to be a manager who has given the green light to the prospect of Scott Mctominay evidently abandoning the midfield position to get more involved into the Manchester United attack. What is understood to be the projected plan for the next few years for Scott Mctominay at Manchester United is the concept of the Scottish midfielder playing the role of the open- extra-attacking option which progressive players such as Bruno Fernandes look for as that open 4th attacking outlet intent to be used by Manchester United to break through the oppositions defensive line.
But the value that Scott Mctominay brings into the pitch for Manchester United has not essentially come in the level of energy that the Scottish midfielder provides for Manchester United In terms of arriving in the opponents' penalty box has that 4th or 5th unmarked attacking option which opponents sometimes lose sight of and ultimately leads to the Manchester United men's team swarming the opponents' defense and creating goal scoring opportunity for the Scottish midfielder or for any other Manchester United attacker, there is also the issue highlighted in accommodating the presence of Scot Mctominay on the pitch for Manchester United which unravels in the form of the Scottish midfielder being unable to place himself in a position to receive the ball and ultimately trigger the ball progression in an attacking sense for the Manchester United men's team.
Ultimately, Scott Mctominay has been highlighted by Internal personnel at Manchester United as well as by football analysts across Europe as a player who simply does not like to emerge Into the deeper part of the central midfield area to receive the ball which places the burden on more attack-minded central attacking midfielders such as Bruno Fernandes, Christian Eriksen and Mason Mount to carry the mantle of being the creative outlets Manchester United as well as also playing the role of basically the linebackers at Manchester United responsible for progressing the ball up the pitch from the central midfield area.
The evidence of why the presence of Scott Mctominay within the Manchester United central midfield area is more detrimental than progressive for the Manchester United men's team remains ever glaringly obvious as the lack of ball progression hindering the level of success attained by the Manchester United men's team continues to be an ever-present issue which has unapologetically hindered the level of elite success generated by the Manchester United men's team since the departure of one Paul Pogba.
