Fuck it just bring Redmond and Tadic on and go back to basics if it doesn’t work and if that doesn’t work then pretend we weren’t ready and ask to start again. After that I’m allout of ideas.
I watched Utd against Everton and if you ignore the last 5 minutes when Everton imploded and threw in the towel, Utd were not that great. A lot of fuss was made about Pogba being injured and that their midfield was not effective without him, and if that is true then great, because he is still injured I believe.
MoPe demonstrated against Palace that he will respect the strengths of the opposition, by the tactics to double up on Benteke, who almost ALWAYS scores against Saints. This week we will be up against another mush who always scores against us, Lukaku. So let’s see if MoPe can come up with another way of stifling the dangerman.
If he can then there is every reason to think we can get another result in a very low scoring encounter.
1-1
…with Redmond not scoring or getting an assist, or even passing the ball forwards.
Lukaku’s overrated. Bet Everton don’t even notice that he’s gone.
More seriously if we don’t switch off we have a good chance of keeping them at bay. We need to be quick on the break which is something I trust Pelligrino has been working on with the team.