I am happy for Manchester United and and I am happier for their coach Erik Ten Hag. Within a short time, he is able to transform the club mentally and tacktically. The players which use to be laxy are now working their ass out there and they can charge football unlike before they stroll in in pitch. the winning spirit of Manchester United is restored in the players. That is a good work done by the coach, the club is able to face any other football club now.
The problem of Ronaldo is a different, Eric is not punishing Ronaldo for any reason, in fact in the beginning of the season he gave Reynaldo some chances but the team failed to win. It is obvious that Ronaldo is not fitting int the coach strategy. The coach is playing high-pressing football and Ronaldo is aged to play that kind of football that is why he has to come in second half to complete the game, when the team must have gotten a win. Same with Casemiro and Maguire.
I feel like defense was the reason why they lost, not Ronaldo, and overtime manager will use one player and not the other and keep changing the lineup to see if the results change or not, and even if the same result you could see difference.
First of all Maguire is a horrible player and should not be played, there isn't a situation where he is the best defender they have, he could be removed and they would have a great team, Varane and that other defender I forgot his name the short one, those two would be good enough, if you put them and then Ronaldo it should work. They have casemiro to play at midfield as well, so that team should be fine enough.