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Almost prefer playing City away these days. (Until this season) They have a habit of just turning up and running rings around us for the first 30 minutes. Just knocks any confidence out of the players
Fred has to come in for me. Either shift Bruno to the right wing or drop Eriksen |
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Mental - Bruno just drops deeper, we play an actual proper 4-3-3 & not a weird 4-2-3-1 that isolates Bruno as the 10. Eriksen is able to pass with such quality that he breaks their press & we get to attack them, Fred passes with such shambolic inconsistency he shouldn't be a Utd player, let alone starting a derby. |
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Maybe Bruno as a false 9? Martial is the weak link* and could lose his place but obviously rashers is playing really well off the left. *he’s definitely scoring now I said that |
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My preferred choice would be to move Bruno out wide to still allow Eriksen to like you say find those passes. Let's get one thing clear, doesn't matter how good our form is, the most mental thing would be to try and go punch for punch with them. Compromise is needed |
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Fred’s not exactly a heavyweight is he? As Baron says, he’s just so inconsistent on the ball. Sends the wrong message imo.
We shouldn’t be going punch for punch with them, but we shouldn’t sit back and invite them on to us either. Hitting them on the break is going to be crucial, but we shouldn’t be panicked in possession either as we’ve so often seen against city. Should just put our best team out and see what happens. |
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I wouldn’t start him but I’d defo have him come on to protect, hopefully a positive position, rather than him trying to secure us that position from the off. He’s massively improved recently but still has a tendency to be absolutely dog shit too. |
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Provided ETH isn’t playing mind games with weghourst and martial is there a serious chance they aren’t available?
Rashford central and garnacho on the left I suppose. As someone said earlier , we are still a work in progress team very much in transition. We won’t be able to go toe to toe with them. Soak up pressure and counter with a quick front three of Garnacho Rashford and Antony . Wingers will have to put in a shift and track back too. If the crowd get behind them and we start strong we should be ok. Just control the narrative and general tempo of the game. We can’t make it easy for them leaving gaps exposed |
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If City turn up and they're on it - they'll probably win they're still far better than us even if we are improving. We need to knock them out of their stride, show we're up for a fight, get the crowd going. The performance at the Etihad was a total abomination, we never laid a glove on them all afternoon and basically just presented them with the whole of the pitch to do whatever they want, especially de bruyne and foden who never had a red shirt near them all day. Hustle them out of their stride and don't allow them to get on the ball and start £#%&!ing knocking 20 passes together whilst we sit there like lemons. You've seen how this lot continually melt when they go to Anfield, it's because Liverpool came out the gates at them and bullied them out of it. We have the players up front to hurt them no question but we need to defend better as a team. |
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Fred’s had good 20 min cameos against shit teams . He wasn’t too bad against Charlton but he wasn’t fantastic either.
I’d slot him in if he meant going with two strikers up top for the counter. Sort of going for a diamond formation . In a midfield three they’ll run rings around him. ETH rarely deviates from formation and best XI though. Expect the usual XI to start. |
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But we have to approach it right….and our arses can’t fall out. We got total stage fright at the Etihad. We can say we’ve come a long way (and we have) but went into that game in good form too. As you say, we need to make it a bit of scrap. Get the place roaring with a few rough challenges. Get that giddy @#%&! on the touchline moaning at the fourth official. Unsettle them. Hit Rashford early. All the things we did well early On against Liverpool at home. I’d just hate to see us sit back, try to play sort of cat and mouse game and just let them dictate. City are bullies and can be bullied. If they play to their best, they win, but there’s a lot we can do to make sure they don’t. I can take us losing if we take it to them. I really can. It doesn’t change the trajectory we’re on….but my word, a win would be absolutely £#%&!ing massive for us. |
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