using 20/20 hindsight, what team and tactics woud you have employed against west brom?

team. and tactics. also.... have some excuses ready.

will you pack the box and lob crosses in like moyes, then say you were unlucky? will you pass around the defence and midfield all game, securing a 0-0 draw without creating a chance, because that's your philosophy? or will you not really think about it at all and then blame a lad who missed a chance with three defenders climbing on him? the choice is yours.

I'd have bullied the ref for more injury time.

Or something.

£#%&! off

Originally Posted by Buck

£#%&! off

I would probably have used the 1998/99 team, and told them to go out there and play football tbf

3 at the back, 7 wingers and a fly goalie.

I used to blame thatcher for everything, but I've started blaming fellaini and lingard occasionally

soft on refs, soft on the causes of refs.

Originally Posted by Buck

£#%&! off

Originally Posted by Crumps

3 at the back, 7 wingers and a fly goalie.

Originally Posted by no fun

I used to blame thatcher for everything, but I've started blaming fellaini and lingard occasionally

and I'm sure you'll still be blaming them when they're dead.

fellaini may actually be dead. it's hard to tell.

Originally Posted by jem

team. and tactics. also.... have some excuses ready.

will you pack the box and lob crosses in like moyes, then say you were unlucky? will you pass around the defence and midfield all game, securing a 0-0 draw without creating a chance, because that's your philosophy? or will you not really think about it at all and then blame a lad who missed a chance with three defenders climbing on him? the choice is yours.

sack Jose, give you the job

3 at the back including carrick. Valencia and Blind as wing backs

3 across the middle young , Timmy, martial

Miki at 10

Rashford

Hope that's 12 might give us a chance..

Originally Posted by wiganste

sack Jose, give you the job

you da man, ste. do you have the glazers' ear? you'd like to have the glazers ear wouldn't you? in your trophy cabinet.

this would be the best solution for everyone except me. I am too emotionally fragile to have people on here criticising my team selections.

A classic blitzkrieg pincer movement. With strong air support obviously.

Van Der Sar

Neville Vidic Ferdinand Evra

Ronaldo Carrick Scholes Giggs

Rooney Tevez.


Reckon that would do the trick.

get over it you fanny we have another game tomorrow night

Originally Posted by £#%&! KFC

get over it you fanny we have another game tomorrow night

Originally Posted by Buck

£#%&! off

Put 10 men in the box and leave Rashers up near but not quite as far as, the halfway line. Stare them out and see who blinks first.

Originally Posted by jem

team. and tactics. also.... have some excuses ready.

I don't think we need hindsight - the problem was the same it's been all season. Mourinho likes to keep the team compact to control the game and give us defensive stability. The result of that is slower build up play and less space all over the pitch. It shuts down the game as any sort of open, attacking, end to end affair - there's almost always ten men behind the ball for each side. The chances we do create are either through a sea of defenders, at point blank range with the keeper or from the ball coming like a pinball in the box (i.e. they are more like half chances). If our team had a Ronaldo, Hazard or Neymar type player to unlock the opposition defence with a moment of magic the system might work in securing results even if not as a spectacle. But lacking that player leads to the poor form we've seen this season (6 wins in 15 home games).

What we need is to play the Fergie way. Taking a risk in leaving more players ahead of the ball and using the full width of the pitch; stretching the game, spreading the play and opening up space. It's not so defensively sound but creates more room for our attacking players to exploit. That's where fast players like Rashford, Martial, Mkhitaryan and Lingard who like to run at and in behind the defence can play to their strength. That's where time and space is created in the area to provide a better quality chance.

When we do that United will get back to the exciting 4-0, 3-2, 4-3, 5-5, 8-2 type scorelines we frequently saw under Fergie. Yes we will also get the odd 6-1 defeat from playing more open but it's worth the trade off. Until then, we can sit back and enjoy the draws.