Ralf Rangnick: I was forced to change my style because Cristiano Ronaldo is not a pressing monster(press conference)

 

Ralf Rangnick: I was forced to change my style because Cristiano Ronaldo is not a pressing monster(press conference)

Manchester United interim manager Ralf Rangnick has given excuses that he has been forced to “change” his tactics and football style of playing because of Cristiano Ronaldo’s lack of pressing.

Rangnick told a press conference: am the one who is most disappointed about that and frustrated about that”.

He continued,

“At one stage we just had to find compromises — attacking a little bit deeper, how can we make sure that we get our offensive players into their positions? Cristiano scored a few goals but, again, Cristiano — and I’m not blaming him at all, he did great in those games – but he’s not a pressing monster. He’s not a player – even when he was a young player – he was not a young player who was crying, shouting ‘Hurray, the other team has got the ball, where can we win balls?”

“And the same with quite a few other players, so we had to make some compromises at one stage, maybe we made a few too many — that’s also possible — but, as I said, we never found the right balance between what do we need with the ball and without the ball.”