Carrick in Midfield? you lot having a laugh, they are going to come at us at a million miles an hour and in recent seasons weve been extremely weak against those kinds of teams.
Carrick is fantastic in games where we dominate play and posession, even Liverpool at their upmost shittest still tend to dominate games at Anfield, wed be lucky to come out with a draw let alone get a win, we have to be realistic, Klopp has them ticking at a rate of knots and we simply aren't there yet. Carrick has been slow and ponderous in play in these kinds of games and often makes unholy awkward defensive mistakes and Pogba wont be there to cover him, its not his game.
Herrera-Pogba midfield with Mata just in-front, It doesnt match their midfield well but it will have far more running and movement then Carrick in there. The key is defence.
Valencia-Bailly-Smalling-Blind has to be Shaw is a little out of sorts recently, and Blind offers a little more level headed approach.
Valencia has the industry and Bailly the brawn, Smalling with his legs though is a worry, I can imagine him giving away a pen.
As for up top it picks itself, I would have Rashford on the bench for this one, Martial out wide, Ibra at the top, Lingard on the right. Mata no.10, the movement would be brilliant, we need to test that ropey defence.
But we all know Fellaini will start.
