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I feel like their issue is that they have no actually cohesive tactic when it comes to playing out from the back.
Their defenders seem to have no clue about pressing triggers; committing the man not, the ball and general speed.
Their tactic seems to be to receive the ball from Onana, then knock it about at the back for a bit, get pressed, go back to Onana and keep doing that over and over again until they end up lumping it long and conceding possession.
Onana isn't the problem, at least in terms of playing out from the back. ten Hag has utterly failed to teach them an actual playing-out-from-the-back strategy worth learning.
In terms of actual goalkeeping, he's far too suspect, especially in one-on-ones.
After being vaunted as a coach that wants to play slick possession football, it was very red flaggy when Ten Hag gave that interview in pre season saying he wants Man united to be 'the best transition team' in the league/(world?). He seems confused himself about what he wants to do.
Liverpool is probably the best transition team in the world for context.
not without a 6. We can get there though