Quick Tactical Analysis thread:

The best thing I saw from Scott McTominay on Saturday was a sequence where he gave the ball away twice in a matter of about four seconds.

I'm not being sarcastic. There was something really positive to take from this. Allow me to explain #MUFC

This is the sequence in question. It starts with Rashford making a run into the half space and McTominay trying to pick him out.

It's a difficult pass due to the narrow window and it doesn't come off. That's fine. What's good is Scott saw it and tried to make it #MUFC

He gets the ball back with a man on his back. He has a very simple square pass to AWB that would available. It's the safe option that he almost always used to take.

This time he takes an extra touch, causing the EVE MF to back up opening up a more progressive pass to Mata #MFUC

He doesn't put enough mustard on it allowing Everton to intercept and look to break.

That's all fine because United have AWB, McTominay, Fred, Shaw, Lindelof, and Maguire all back and ready to deal with a break.

If there was a time to play a risky pass, it was now #MUFC

These are the things we used to not see from McTominay. He always took the safe option and it slowed United down significantly.

United's first goal started with McTominay making a very good line breaking pass from midfield

McTominay needs to improve his vision, risk taking, and passing ability. But he's not going to improve all three at once.

If he's now consistently seeing these passes and consistently attempting them, that's two of the three right there! #MUFC

As long as he keeps doing those things we can shift the focus onto improving the actual passing ability, which (should) come in due time #MUFC

Another great one was here. McTominay completely switching the field. Nothing comes of it but who cares. Scott typically either takes too long or passes to Fred (or a CB) who then get the ball to AWB. It's too slow. Need Scott to keep doing simple things like this #MUFC

We still need to see consistency from Scott. Had some good games this month and some bad ones. He's at his best when United don't have most of the ball, struggles when they do. Everton played with the ball Sat setting up favorable conditions for him. #MUFC