{"id":405697,"date":"2021-10-17T14:42:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T13:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=405697"},"modified":"2021-10-17T16:23:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T15:23:16","slug":"epl-they-dont-have-identity-richards-shearer-slam-man-utd-after-defeat-to-leicester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=405697","title":{"rendered":"EPL: They don\u2019t have identity &#8211; Richards, Shearer slam Man Utd after defeat to Leicester"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Premier League stars, Micah Richards and Alan Shearer have slammed Manchester United following their 4-2 defeat to Leicester City on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Leicester defeated Man United at the King Power Stadium, thanks to four goals from Youri Tielemans, Caglar Soyuncu, Jamie Vardy and Patson Daka.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford did score for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer\u2019s side against Leicester.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t really have an identity,\u201d Richards told Match of the Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Man United of the past, you know they had wingers, getting strikers into the box, midfielders running into the box also.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut now, it looks like they are trying to keep everybody happy [in terms of] players. Individually, you have seen what they have got \u2013 [Cristiano] Ronaldo, [Paul] Pogba, [Bruno] Fernandes, these players should be shining.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Jadon] Sancho has come in, Rashford has come in and scored a goal [against Leicester], [Anthony] Martial scored a goal a couple of weeks ago. It\u2019s an array of talent, but they don\u2019t know what they are doing with the talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, Ole has to make some harsh decisions. Whether he leaves some of his big guns out, puts one on the bench or just goes back to basics and finds the plan for how to get this team playing together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On his part, Shearer added, \u201cThat was Man United\u2019s problem last season, they didn\u2019t invest in that position. \u2018It\u2019s the same again [this season].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no-one in there to really press and take control from the front. You can\u2019t do that in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will always score, Man United, because of the brilliance they have going forward. But you cannot press if you haven\u2019t got that aggression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t know what to do, then you\u2019ve got to sit back and be compact as a team. The team that I saw [on Saturday] didn\u2019t know whether to go or whether to sit. When they did go, it was half-hearted and not as a team.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Premier League stars, Micah Richards and Alan Shearer have slammed Manchester United following their 4-2 defeat to Leicester City on Saturday. Leicester defeated Man United at the King Power Stadium, thanks to four goals from Youri Tielemans, Caglar Soyuncu, Jamie Vardy and Patson Daka. Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford did score for Ole Gunnar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":405698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,6709,1406],"class_list":["post-405697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-leicester-united","tag-manchester-united"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/405698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}