Tuesday 11 February 2014

Premier League: Arsenal Vs Manchester United – Where to hide now?

Both sides are hurting, Arsenal was comprehensively dumped by Manchester United fourth place Champions League spot rival – Liverpool (how times changed, fighting those mid-table fellows from Anfield – for fourth spot!!). As for United, the same old story (David Moyes’ era) continues – to a point where newcomers to the games would think that Manchester United is a mid-table team, period.Arsenal is on a different scale right know, yes massive thumping by Manchester City and Liverpool will always be a stark reminder how the Gunners is still not the Manchester United under Sir Alex Ferguson. Yet they have been sitting on top of the Premier League for a while and only a few catchable points behind Chelsea and City. And on top of that playing at home represent totally different mindsets compare to David Moyes’ men playing at Old Trafford.

With the season in almost disarray, David Moyes should try to make changes. If he cannot get the best out of this group of players (who won the Premier League in April by 11 points) then Moyes must as well try drastic changes – in his own words ‘throw the kitchen sink in’, by throwing ‘other equipments in as well’. Most notably for Moyes would be his tactics. A game this magnitude and at the same time a loss cause for Manchester United would be perfect for Moyes to tinker with the team – tactic wise. These days every star players (almost) wants to be a No 10. For Moyes he has Wayne Ronney, then Shinji Kagawa and now Juan Mata. Adding to that youngster like Adnan Januzaj wanted that role too in the future. Moyes can really do a ‘Chelsea’-like formation with players like Mata, Kagawa and Rooney providing massive array of creativity plays behind a striker.

A change of tactic could surprise opponents who have been expecting the same old Manchester United formation (but an ineffective one). There are no better times than now and the sooner David Moyes gets Manchester United firing the sooner he eases the pressures on him – no matter how the style of play.

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