When Manchester United appointed the high priest of pressing there was an expectation that by now we would be seeing the fruits of Ralf Rangnick's labour.
There was an acceptance that the turnaround would not be immediate. Rangnick was arriving midway through a congested season and taking over a group of players used to operating on the back foot, but there was still a feeling that he would get there eventually, that there was enough time to see some obvious changes.
In his introductory press conference, the 63-year-old made no secret of his methodology. He said he was "not that far apart from Jurgen [Klopp] in terms of our ideas about a style of football".
