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Originally Posted by Chris H
Now if we could just beat fecking City...
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They're just too massive for us.
Still, what remains is that we've been in another league for the top games compared to the last couple of years.
If I'm to come out with an opinion, it's two-fold.
1) Carlos Queiroz. A long time now I've hated the way I'm convinced he's advocated 4-5-1/4-3-3 particularly for these games. In my opinion, it hasn't worked, and it hasn't looked good either. Now it works! We scrape wins (1-0 at Anfield) or we dominate brilliantly (3-0 vs L'pool, 4-0 vs A'nal at OT). This might have something to do with ...
2) Carlos Queiroz. After a period of getting in just the wrong players for SAF type of football (Veron, DD, Kleberson, Miller, Smith), we are now consistently getting in just the right players for Queiroz type of football (Ronnie, Roon, Carrick, Nani, Anderson ...). Expensive young players with ball controll, passing ability and a footballing brain. Not unlike Veron ... It seems to me we are now choosing players to fit into a style of play that we are going more whole heartedly for, and which is more Barcelona than Tommy Docherty. Of course, Carlos is too inexperienced a team builder and man manager to pull this of without ...
3) Alex Ferguson. He has always been brilliant to take inn good people and use their ideas. Now he's found someone to fulfill his ambition of being solid also in Europe, and he makes it work once again. Sign of a genius.