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Originally Posted by Cupid Stunt
We played against Roma at home in a 4-3-3, then it was Hargreaves job to support the attack, and he was superb that game. Can't think of many other times we have done it and played really well.
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That game was a bit weird. Roma hardly bothered closing us down in midfield and it was actually both Anderson and Hargreaves who pushed up on the wings while our actual wingers came narrow to support Tevez up front. Hargeaves didn't do that from the centre of a congested midfield, and although he can cross, he doesn't have the passing ability to make the spare man in the final third.
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Usually when we play a 4-3-3 it's either Anderson, Hargreaves, Scholes or Fletcher that gets forward, never Carrick, he just sits and picks the ball off the defenders. I agree Anderson is the best in this system (4-3-3) at joining in the attack by some distance. We dont play it that often though, SAF likes his 4-2-3-1, and in that system Carrick and Scholes usually get picked if fit with Tevez ahead of them.
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Scholes doesn't have the legs for that anymore. He's been poor whenever he's been asked to play that way in recent seasons (other than the second half against Milan last year at OT after Gattuso had gone off). Carrick has got forward on occasion this season and he's looked okay. We'll have to wait and see on Wednesday, but I reckon Scholes'll be the one sitting.