Comments on: Hot News Ahead of Barca | Gattuso and the Usual Nonsense http://redrants.com/hot-news-ahead-of-barca-gattuso-and-the-usual-nonsense/ Manchester United Blog Wed, 23 May 2012 23:12:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: SHANNON http://redrants.com/hot-news-ahead-of-barca-gattuso-and-the-usual-nonsense/comment-page-2/#comment-14674 SHANNON Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:05:20 +0000 http://redrants.com/hot-news-ahead-of-barca-gattuso-and-the-usual-nonsense/#comment-14674 Beachryan i like it alot mate... but for this one i'd put scholes in.... i don't know i can just see him hitting a 30 yard diagnol ball and ronaldo latching onto it on the run and cutting barcas defence with us winning 1-0 eh Beachryan i like it alot mate… but for this one i’d put scholes in….

i don’t know i can just see him hitting a 30 yard diagnol ball and ronaldo latching onto it on the run and cutting barcas defence with us winning 1-0 eh

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]]> By: Beachryan http://redrants.com/hot-news-ahead-of-barca-gattuso-and-the-usual-nonsense/comment-page-2/#comment-14673 Beachryan Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:00:57 +0000 http://redrants.com/hot-news-ahead-of-barca-gattuso-and-the-usual-nonsense/#comment-14673 Someone above posted about Park, and I couldn't agree more. He's exactly the kind of player we want in a match against an attacking opponent - one who can out hustle almost anyone. His performance against Roma was a few first touches away from a standout performance of the season by a United player. Plus, if you play with him in a front 3 you essentially get another MF when we're on defense, as he always gets back to help out. He is the answer to the Messi problem - he will both force Messi to come back sometimes when United have the ball, and also be there at his heels everytime Barca are attacking. You just can't say that about Ronaldo, and Rooney is likely to take Messi's head off if he's given that responsiblity. For me, we play to the highest energy level possible, because that's just not what Spanish football is about, and they'll find it hard to adjust. If we give them time in midfield they will pick us apart, just as we would to teh same. My second biggest concern is that Brown is slow, and our clear weak point. If you watch teams lately, they basically force the ball to Wes, leave him open, as he never does anything useful with it. Therefore I'd try Hargo there, especially as Barca aren't a great force in the air, which is where Wes has the edge. This presupposes Fletcher is healthy, which it appears he is... --------VDS--------- -Hargo-Rio-Vidic-Evra- ---Fletcher--Carrick-- ------Anderson-------- -Park--------Ronaldo-- ------Rooney---------- Bench: TK, O'Shea, Neville, Tevez, Nani, Scholes, Pique With a view to bring on Tevez, Scholes/Nani and O'Shea at some point. Someone above posted about Park, and I couldn’t agree more. He’s exactly the kind of player we want in a match against an attacking opponent – one who can out hustle almost anyone. His performance against Roma was a few first touches away from a standout performance of the season by a United player. Plus, if you play with him in a front 3 you essentially get another MF when we’re on defense, as he always gets back to help out. He is the answer to the Messi problem – he will both force Messi to come back sometimes when United have the ball, and also be there at his heels everytime Barca are attacking. You just can’t say that about Ronaldo, and Rooney is likely to take Messi’s head off if he’s given that responsiblity.

For me, we play to the highest energy level possible, because that’s just not what Spanish football is about, and they’ll find it hard to adjust. If we give them time in midfield they will pick us apart, just as we would to teh same. My second biggest concern is that Brown is slow, and our clear weak point. If you watch teams lately, they basically force the ball to Wes, leave him open, as he never does anything useful with it. Therefore I’d try Hargo there, especially as Barca aren’t a great force in the air, which is where Wes has the edge. This presupposes Fletcher is healthy, which it appears he is…

——–VDS———
-Hargo-Rio-Vidic-Evra-
—Fletcher–Carrick–
——Anderson——–
-Park——–Ronaldo–
——Rooney———-

Bench: TK, O’Shea, Neville, Tevez, Nani, Scholes, Pique
With a view to bring on Tevez, Scholes/Nani and O’Shea at some point.

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