settembrini
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What did people think of our formation and tactics against Liverpool?
Given we have been using 4-2-3-1 every game this season I was very surprised to see the change today, especially as we went to quite an esoteric formation and not a 4-3-3 or 4-4-2.
The average position of our starting XI was something like this:
Rashford Pereira James
Young Fred McTominay Wan-Bissaka
Rojo Maguire Lindelof
De Gea
Pereira seems to be becoming a favourite of Solskjaer and he was given a key role today. When Liverpool had the ball he was leading our press and when we had it he was the link man in attack with Rashford and James trying to exploit space between Liverpool's attacking full backs and their CBs. I don't think he is good enough to play this role long term but it certainly suits him a lot more than right wing.
It will be interesting to see if we persist with it going forwards or if it was a one off that they had planned to surprise Liverpool with.
Given we have been using 4-2-3-1 every game this season I was very surprised to see the change today, especially as we went to quite an esoteric formation and not a 4-3-3 or 4-4-2.
The average position of our starting XI was something like this:
Rashford Pereira James
Young Fred McTominay Wan-Bissaka
Rojo Maguire Lindelof
De Gea
Pereira seems to be becoming a favourite of Solskjaer and he was given a key role today. When Liverpool had the ball he was leading our press and when we had it he was the link man in attack with Rashford and James trying to exploit space between Liverpool's attacking full backs and their CBs. I don't think he is good enough to play this role long term but it certainly suits him a lot more than right wing.
It will be interesting to see if we persist with it going forwards or if it was a one off that they had planned to surprise Liverpool with.