SQUARE PEGS, ROUND HOLES
As mentioned in the chatroom, I think LVG needs to revert to some level of basics and look at playing players in their best positions. Is Rooney a wide man? Come to think of it, is he even a creative midfielder? Rooney's best position is striker! Pair him with RVP and let them play together again. They were successful before.
Valencia has shone at right wing back, but is he the right player to play right back in a back four? Rafael is fit again and it might pay to look at a slightly more traditional 4-4-1-1 with wingers again? Play to United's strengths. This would mean Adnan Januzai could also operate wide and not in a roving position? He looked so useful last season. Or Ashley Young.
Rojo left back or centre back?
Herrera or Mata?
What do you think?
LVG FACTS!
Seriously! What was he thinking? The match against West Ham has gone. Leave it alone and don't slip to Rafa's level. Turning up to a press conference with a 4 sheet pamphlet is embarrassing! Look forward to the next game.
Big Sam must be laughing so much that his mind games got under LVG's skin:
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/...-ball-jibe
To use the press conference using diagrams in the pamphlet claiming to show United's passes went sideways or diagonally, rather than forward, is not the United way. And is it soo great that we are square passing again! And can't diagonal passes go forward?
As mentioned in the chatroom, I think LVG needs to revert to some level of basics and look at playing players in their best positions. Is Rooney a wide man? Come to think of it, is he even a creative midfielder? Rooney's best position is striker! Pair him with RVP and let them play together again. They were successful before.
Valencia has shone at right wing back, but is he the right player to play right back in a back four? Rafael is fit again and it might pay to look at a slightly more traditional 4-4-1-1 with wingers again? Play to United's strengths. This would mean Adnan Januzai could also operate wide and not in a roving position? He looked so useful last season. Or Ashley Young.
Rojo left back or centre back?
Herrera or Mata?
What do you think?
LVG FACTS!
Seriously! What was he thinking? The match against West Ham has gone. Leave it alone and don't slip to Rafa's level. Turning up to a press conference with a 4 sheet pamphlet is embarrassing! Look forward to the next game.
Big Sam must be laughing so much that his mind games got under LVG's skin:
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/...-ball-jibe
To use the press conference using diagrams in the pamphlet claiming to show United's passes went sideways or diagonally, rather than forward, is not the United way. And is it soo great that we are square passing again! And can't diagonal passes go forward?