In the early morning of January 4, 2022 Beijing time, Manchester United sat at the home of Old Trafford to meet the visiting Wolves, after 90 minutes of competition, the Red Devils finally lost to the opponent by a score of 0-1, suffered another blow on the road to the fourth, and also suffered the first defeat of German coach Ronnick since taking office. In this game, The 4222 formation discharged by Lonnick has been questioned by the outside world, not only that, Lonnick's impromptu substitution adjustment has also been criticized by many professionals, and the famous Manchester United mouthpiece media "Manchester Evening News" openly questioned why Lonnick replaced Greenwood in the post-match scoring link, rather than replacing the mediocre Cavani.
Imagine Beijing time on December 5, 2021, Longnick officially took over as the first official game after becoming the head coach of Manchester United, Manchester United at home to face Crystal Palace, although in the end Manchester United only won 1-0, but they dedicated a rare dominance performance, which made Manchester United fans have called "dawn", and even many fans directly called Ronnick as Lang Sheng. However, in the following games, the performance of manchester United players quickly returned to the previous mediocre state, and even against fishy teams such as Norwich and Newcastle United, they could not come up with convincing performances, and there was a visible gap with Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea and even Arsenal in the same league. Finally, after losing to Wolves, the outside world's doubts about Lonnick reached its peak, the godfather of modern German football only led Manchester United to play six games, and the image in the minds of fans plummeted, from Lang Saint to Lang Hi overnight, with the potential to repeat the mistakes of countless predecessors.
In fact, Lonnick was not favored by most people before he took over the role of Red Devils head coach. First of all, for physical reasons, Lonnick has been away from the head coaching position for many years, and it is worth a question mark whether his current football philosophy still applies. Secondly, although Lonnick is respected by Tuchel, Klopp and other famous coaches as the father of modern football in Germany, before coaching Manchester United, his coaching resume was basically completed in the middle and lower teams, including Schalke 04, Red Bull Leipzig, etc., so whether he can adapt to the giant environment is unknown. Finally, and most importantly, how to manage a big player like Cristiano Ronaldo is a difficult problem that Lonnick must face, and it turns out that he is not doing well now and lacks the courage to replace the underperforming Ronaldo.
In fact, the reason why Manchester United did not perform as expected, Lonnick's tactical formation is certainly a problem, but the main problem is that there is a problem with the attitude of the players on the field. Whether it was the last draw with Newcastle United or the helpless defeat to Wolves in this game, as Ronnick said, there were too many unforced mistakes on the field. Today's Red Devils players are basically difficult to complete a complete attack on the pitch, passing the ball to each other no more than three times, there is a danger of giving the ball to people, and the fans are very uncomfortable. As a professional player and a group of top stars with a lot of money, are Manchester United players really inferior to other teams? The answer, of course, is no.
In fact, since Wayne Rooney's departure, the young United have lost their old-school Red Devils spirit, as evidenced by their fragmented performances on the pitch. If we want to regain this spirit and help the team return to the top contenders, then Manchester United, instead of waiting until the summer to spend a lot of money to hire pochettino to coach, should directly invite Back to Rooney, who is now coaching in Championship side Derby County, and if he can return to the Dream Theatre as a DNA coach, it can almost be asserted that the achievement must be higher than the old man Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
After Derby County were sent to the bottom of the Championship, in the last few rounds of the Championship, Rooney, as manager, is leading the players to create a miracle. Since 11 December, Derby County have scored nine points in the league with Blackpool, West Brom and Stoke City, and in the most recent match against Reading, Derby County fell behind 0-2 in the first half, but after the start of the second half, Rooney's team scored two consecutive goals to achieve a perfect draw, harvesting a valuable point, which is a thrill. With an unbeaten run in these four rounds, Derby County are on fire and are now just three points away from second-to-last Barnsley and just a short distance from the top of Petersburg United and Reading, with the remaining half of the league in high hopes of staying in the Championship!
This spirit of never giving up now seems to exist only in Manchester United players such as C Ronaldo and B Fee, and other players obviously lack this spiritual attribute in the face of the game, which is also impossible for Lonnick, who is over sixty years old, to bring to the players. If Rooney can return to coaching, with his resume, almost no one in Manchester United will dare to make a second attempt, even C Ronaldo, the legendary Rooney of the same generation has the courage to put him on the bench, more importantly, Rooney still has the last spiritual brilliance of the older generation of Red Devils, he can bring back the lost victorious soul for the Red Devils!