Good teams like United yesterday bring their midfield up together to form a rigid line midway across the opposition half. This gives them the ability to dictate play around their opponents penalty area and also makes it difficult for teams like City to break out. When we attack the midfield is much looser (as if the players are always expecting to drop back into defence) so we can't keep opponents under any prolonged pressure.
You'll never be Top 20 Armchair Manager on here with that pragmatic cautious approach. The correct answer was in fact: : "I prefer to see us lose 4-8 and see my favourite player Ibra show us his full range of breathtaking skills as we give him free rein to do his stuff."
Exactly this , the Snodgrass sub kinda threw the substitution plan into a mess and putting a CB on for a CF was a mistake , but overall was very pleased with the performance and felt un-bruce-like which was nice overall , the only thing holding things back are numbers now , not ideas , lets hope 4 or 5 come through the door to give MP a squad to choose from not just an 11+2
Brilliant mr chazz, now that's what I call Comment..Debate... Create..., no name calling as I didn't agree with you, just a simple your comment vs mine ... Excellent... I still don't agree with you but let's beg to differ...
We're better on the break really. When it's a slower build up there could still be the feeling of the players not knowing how to proceed at times.
I think so. We have a slightly different approach under Phelan. Still based on a solid defence but a bit more direct. If he gets the job his first dilemma will be Livermore and whether he becomes a permanent centre back. If he is happy in that role then we will have, Maguire Bruce and Dawson (when fit) with little prospect of playing regularly in the first team.
It's a bit of a double edge sword stumbling on Livermore at centre-half. No offence to the others we have, as they are all very capable, but Livermore looks like he could be a top top player at the back. For me, it depends if we bring in more midfielders. If not, then Livermore will be needed back in there. If not, then never mind sentiment, it would be Davies and Livermore at centre-half for me.
I think it is good enough reason, he is getting the best out of the players he has . It may only be 4 games , but most people make their minds up on things in a much shorter timescale , also any other manager is quite likely to be stuck with the same bloody players so what's the point ? Give him till Xmas at least .
I think appointing anyone until Christmas is a terrible idea, we need some stability, the minimum term should be at least this full season.
