Ric dees wrote:However change always throws a curve ball even to the best of us and its easy why Man U fans are jittery/nervous as how the season will be. I know for sure Man U will not win the league and this is not judging by their recent performances but purely through the man that sits in their dug out.
I will paraphrase what Jose said after the recent draw against Man U " At 70 min i see we cant win the game and i dont want to loose, so i bring in a defensive midfielder" this was in answering the question why he dint play Mata. However thats what a title winning manager gives you, the teremity to read the game and analyse as it unfolds. However fast forward March/April and we are what ferguson coined as "squeeky bum time" then what kind of decisons will Moyes make, how will he play champions league quarterfinals away knowing he has a chelsea at home coming Sunday. We all know he has never been in this situation and this is where titles are lost and won. The players are the same but what goes into preparation is what is different, otherwise Chelsea would have continued winning the EPL after Mourinho left but we found out it never really is easy to replicate a winning formula.
@RicDees, thanks for giving me a good laugh. For a start, I think you should first focus on your team, even with Mourinho back, their two last EPL games have been far from convincing. As for the highlighted part,
. Check these quotes:
Quote:Sure Chelsea will batter and bully a few teams with some sparkling football and bags of goals on several occasions as the season goes on, and those games will make the stats look good. But it’s hard to believe Mourinho couldn’t use his experience and knowledge to field a team to really go for it at United. Was he scared of something? Or didn’t he trust his players? Against Chelsea, Moyes went for it, playing both Rooney and van Persie. It didn’t quite happen for United but they were the side more likely to get the win.
Quote:All in all, it was a disappointing evening for which Chelsea were mostly to blame. The false nine can be an exhilarating tactic — after all, Barcelona and Arsenal’s Invincibles are among those who have played it. Last night, however, it served merely to stifle.
Someone else also mentioned that Chelsea were clueless going forward in that game. You do remember the many long balls by Ramires upfront to no one in particular. So as much as we have a new manager and people have already written us off, last season the old geezer got the same number of points as Moyes from similar fixtures against Swansea, Chelsea and Liverpool.
Ati temerity!
Luck is when Preparation meets Opportunity. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca