Bruno Fernandes' red card against Wolves highlights the growing challenges faced by manager Erik ten Hag in deploying the midfielder effectively in his system.
Bruno Fernandes ' red card at Wolves gives Amorim an impossibly sad call to make. Whatever he imagined the scale of the difficulty might be when he skipped through the doors of Old Trafford in November, he probably did not legislate for the centrality of Fernandes to the predicament he faced.
The red card atFernandes has been the one constant in United’s unwitting decline, always present, never injured, hands up for extra duties, expending every ounce of energy to keep hopes alive of a better tomorrow. That sense of having to be everyone as well as himself has gradually broken him. A frustrated lunge prompted by a heavy first touch just two minutes into the second half brought his involvement to an end against Wolves. It was his third early exit of the season. Though one of those was subsequently rescinded it does not alter the trajectory of a United career diminishing before our eyes. United improved when Fernandes departed, which tells you something of his negative impact on the shape of the team. At this stage of his career, Fernandes is all wrong for Amorim’s United, having neither the legs to get about the final third nor the discipline or instinct to operate centrally in a midfield two. He falls somewhere in between, but in Amorim’s world, there is no in between. That the first of his yellow cards came for a foul on Matheus Cunha was somehow symbolic, pointing to the all-action player he used to be and the type United need now, a world class dynamo in the final third. Amorim is committed to three at the back, two wing backs, a midfield two and a trident up top. The model is compromised by injuries to Luke Shaw and the fallibility of Tyrell Malacia on the left. This has forced Diogo Dalot to switch from the right, which kills United’s forward momentum on that side. The poor optimisation of the left hand side has consequences for a United attack already unsuited to the deployment of Fernande
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