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Originally Posted by Bleachno8
I see both sides of the argument on this one, and wether he should start in Moscow only SAF can truly be the judge of that. However I think all this talk of him being one for the future and not being a finished article is only true to the degree that he will of course improve with time. I still believe he has shone this season. He was an attacking player at Porto and was damn good at going forward to.
I think he is a little in the shade at the moment, there is so much emphasis on Ronaldo, Rooney & Tevez as our spearhead that the centre midfeilders sit deeper than they probably have in the past. He finds himself playing more of a holding role and his fitness and adapting to the English game is something he will need to work on.
However I believe Anderson has been an important player this season much of what he has done has been done without any fuss. His range of passing has been second to only Carrick. However he has the pace to track back and tackle unlike Scholes who has always made rash challenges.
Scholes is a legend but for me to slow and to pedestrian to hope he will hit ones like he did against Barca for every vital game. Best paring has to be either any combination of Carrick, Anderson & OH. There all quicker, can track back & tackle. If we had used any of those combinations against Chelski at the bridge we would have one.
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You make good points and I agree with everything except that in bold. Scholes is our best passer by some margin, he is perhaps the best passer in the world IMO and this is shared by many.
Scholes is slightly less athletic these days, but he has never have been described as athletic, not even in his pom.
IMO our best combination is Scholes and Carrick, we usually play the best football with these 2 and provide our front line with great service in good area's. Your point that it's not the most athletic partnership, mainly due to Scholes, is just and reasonable. However, these have provided us with our best football in the main and we can only speculate as to wether SAF will try to match up to Chelsea in the physical department by adding Hargreaves, Fletcher or Anderson, I think Hargreaves is most likely.
I wholeheartedly disagree that we would of won at the Bride with the combinations you suggested, it was always going to be a difficult game, plus we did play Anderson, Fletcher, Carrick, and we still got over run. IMO we could have done with Scholes in that game to bring some calm and authority to the midfield. Shame he needed to be rested for the Barca game.