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Old 14th May 2008, 01:36   #1 (permalink)
Grunge
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Strategy vs Lineup

There's been plenty of speculation about the lineup for Moscow although most debate seems to be about who will sit out but starting line-ups aside, how will Fergie send the team out?

To play like we typically do in the Premiership? Hell for leather early on, chasing anything and everything that moves, forcing mistakes, latching onto the errors and powering forward as soon as we get possesion and creating chance after chance until we score?
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What we've come to expect to see from him in the Champions League fixtures where we play a more cagey, tight defensive game; drawing the opposition in, so we can score on the counter and cause them to open up even more space in behind?

IMO the game at the Bridge was nothing like what Chulski will see in Moscow. Yes, we went there to win if possible, but we also went there like a poker player not wanting to show the full hand until the "river card" card is laid down and final bets are placed. We deserved a point but Fergie's rant about the penalty that shouldn't have been given was definitely part of his usual kid-ology.

Beware the master tactician Avram ... you'll be on your knees again in Russia, but this time in awe of the Red Devils. Champions of Europe! (again)
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