{"id":290716,"date":"2023-09-16T01:36:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T01:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=290716"},"modified":"2023-09-16T01:36:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T01:36:38","slug":"martin-keown-dribbling-past-casemiro-is-easy-but-blame-lies-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/martin-keown-dribbling-past-casemiro-is-easy-but-blame-lies-elsewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"MARTIN KEOWN:\u00a0Dribbling past Casemiro is easy but blame lies elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>MARTIN KEOWN:\u00a0Dribbling past Casemiro looks easy but blame lies elsewhere at Manchester United&#8230; the Red Devils do not look comfortable in their system<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>United are 11th in the Premier League table with two wins and two defeats so far<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Casemiro has been exposed in midfield with little cover on offer from others<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s podcast It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is 11 seasons since Manchester United were crowned champions. They\u2019ve been the Premier League\u2019s biggest spenders in that time, with an outlay of more than \u00a31billion \u2014 but they\u2019re currently 11th in the table.<\/p>\n<p>They are still securing strong results at Old Trafford, albeit their home wins over Wolves and Forest were unconvincing. Away from home, however, their alarmingly poor form has carried on with defeats at Tottenham and Arsenal. Standards have slipped.<\/p>\n<p>In every game they are set up in the same way with an open midfield, which Brighton could exploit on Saturday if Erik ten Hag has not used the international break to strike a better balance.<\/p>\n<p>Casemiro has been sitting deep with Christian Eriksen and Bruno Fernandes further forward, either side of him. United are the Premier League\u2019s worst culprits for letting opponents dribble past them and Casemiro tops the list.<\/p>\n<p>But it does not help that the 31-year-old Brazilian is often left on his own to deal with the flood of opposition players coming through the middle. In the defeat by Arsenal, when keeper Andre Onana had the ball, Casemiro was dropping between the centre backs. That takes United\u2019s most combative midfielder away from the centre and tasks Eriksen and Fernandes with winning the ball back when they lose possession.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/22\/75490421-0-image-a-1_1694811931602.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Casemiro has been poor for Manchester United this season but has been left exposed in midfield during games<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/22\/75490423-0-image-a-2_1694811934760.jpg\" height=\"436\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Fellow midfielders Bruno Fernandes (left) and Christian Eriksen (right) have not been able to provide cover<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>United have not looked comfortable in the system and, against Arsenal, they often resorted to long passes in the hope Marcus Rashford could make something of a one-v-one opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>When Casemiro dropped to create a back three, Ten Hag was ordering his full backs to get high and wide. Aaron Wan-Bissaka looked wary of carrying out that instruction because he was not getting cover from midfield, and there was nobody screening the passes into the counter-attacking Gabriel Martinelli.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Arteta\u2019s men exploited that vulnerability for their first goal. Wan-Bissaka was left in a two-v-one situation. Casemiro could not get across to deal with the danger. Fernandes was too far forward. Eriksen retreated into the back line when he should have sat on the edge of the box to stop Martin Odegaard. As soon as Odegaard scored, Fernandes and Eriksen were blaming each other.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/22\/75490435-0-image-a-3_1694811966907.jpg\" height=\"432\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sofyan Amrabat has arrived on loan from Fiorentina for the season but remains out injured<\/p>\n<p>Sofyan Amrabat has now arrived but the defensive midfielder hasn\u2019t kicked a ball this season. One assumes United have worked hard to get him fit.<\/p>\n<p>United need to take care of the ball because Brighton will press them high. Roberto De Zerbi\u2019s men have recorded more high turnovers than any other Premier League side this season. They even go after the keeper.<\/p>\n<p>Kaoru Mitoma is one of the best ball-carriers in the division and could run riot. Evan Ferguson is threatening to become the most dangerous striker in England after Erling Haaland.<\/p>\n<p>United must put up a more convincing performance, find a better balance and get a result. Lose this one and Ten Hag will be facing a full-blown crisis.<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12524551\/MARTIN-KEOWN-Casemiro-easy-blame-Manchester-United-system.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARTIN KEOWN:\u00a0Dribbling past Casemiro looks easy but blame lies elsewhere at Manchester United&#8230; the Red Devils do not look comfortable in their system United are 11th in the Premier League table with two wins and two defeats so far Casemiro has been exposed in midfield with little cover on offer from others Listen to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MARTIN KEOWN:\u00a0Dribbling past Casemiro is easy but blame lies elsewhere - Tell My Sport<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/martin-keown-dribbling-past-casemiro-is-easy-but-blame-lies-elsewhere\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MARTIN KEOWN:\u00a0Dribbling past Casemiro is easy but blame lies elsewhere - Tell My Sport\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MARTIN KEOWN:\u00a0Dribbling past Casemiro looks easy but blame lies elsewhere at Manchester United&#8230; 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