Analysing the similarities between Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Sir Alex Ferguson's managerial style

#5 Counter attacking brand of football

United's next best trio?

Under Sir Alex, there was never a dull day at United. The games were enthralling, exciting with attractive football and the fans got their money’s worth when they left the stadium. There was a joke that you needed health insurance when you went to watch United play as their games were a rollercoaster ride leaving you awestruck and bewitched at the spectacle observed, asking for more at the end of every encounter. But since the legendary manager’s retirement, the team has served a mixture of slow, pedestrian, lacklustre style of football an antithesis of what United stands for.

Solskjaer has restored the brand of attacking football which has earned United praise and adoration around the globe. The Norwegian has used Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford, Jesse Lingard as his front three and has been rewarded with some devasting football arising from their fluidity, interchanging of positions, pace combined with Pogba’s power, drive, technique, and guile acting as the creative force behind these electric wizards.

The full-backs are given license to bomb forward on their attacking ventures while the midfielders are urged to make late runs into the box. The number of forward passes has increased, replacing their sideways and backward passes which previously hampered their attack. This is a style of football that the United faithful were crying out for and Solkjaer has answered their prays winning games along with style just like the old times.