scholes playing as a real attacking midfield and not a central one, with fletcher and anderson covering his back.

then we can use the 4-5-1 formation with rooney in front.

that would be interesting

GK
Back 4
Fletcher-Carrick-Ando
Park-Ronaldo-Rooney

We won 3-1 at their place. Nobody seem to complain about the formation then. What's different this time? It was just a bad performance for most players, Giggsy especially. On another night, he would have played better, and created chances compared to that night when he always gets into good position to do something with a pass, but always mess them up. That formation I would saw would be crap against the normal/smaller sides, but against the big sides, is almost a must if we don't want to be overrun in midfield. It's just the way it is. Even Arsenal flood their midfield with CMs.. Song, Denilson, Diaby + Eboue..

We all know that 4-4-2 is our best bet. No doubt. You have to have this in mind, LUCK plays part in every match. Take a good look at Owen's goal against Wigan the other day. It hit the inside of the post and went in. Nani's FK. Kirkland was nowhere around. It boils down to luck.

You can play as good as you can be, but without luck you can't score any. I am content with 4-5-1 formation against big teams. It should be interchangeable to 4-3-3 as our wingers to support our only CF/ST. It bring assurance to the midfield. These days, apart from Fletcher, I don't think others could step up to play that box-to-box midfielder role.

He is our hardman nowadays. It was supposed to be Hargo. But he found that nurses are too cute to resist. So, lets just wait then? Shall we?

You didn't like the 3-1 win? or the other games where we look very good against them in that particular formation? It was just a bad night with players off form.. Giggsy particularly who was our main creative force in that game. He messed up big time. Our only other option for his role that night was Anderson, who's not in great form himself. Last option is of course to go with 442 early if we're desperate. We might be more threatening, but we would leave ourselves open at the back and easy for them to dominate us in the middle with their extra men there.

As for more people scoring them, Nani is pretty good at cutting in inside. That's one of his trait although he's no Ronaldo of course. And Park as good as he is cutting inside, is crap in front of goal. Didn't score that many. Like I said, on another night, it could have turned out into a great night for us. Giggsy had a lot of chances to put our players through, or make great plays, but almost every single time, it didn't came off for him in the first half especially. We may have been lucky, but with the chances we had at the end, Arsenal were lucky as well it didn't turn into a bigger scoreline. It's a fine line between success and failure, and that night we got the better of the deal. That's just the way it is. Nobody is really happy of course not winning comfortably, but big games are usually tight affairs.

Being early on in the season also didn't help matters. And having to change tactics since the departure of Ronaldo and having a new RW in the side, meant that we won't be hitting it off consistently.

I'm still surprised people still have this idea that 442 will just work every single game. We struggled there with Keane and Scholes after 99, and they are the best combo's around that time. We know how much of a monster Keane was, yet we didn't really hit the heights of 99 till last few years where the 433/451 have served us really well in the big games, with 442 for the normal/smaller games although sometimes used in the big games as well. We don't have a Keano now. No team plays with a straight 442 anymore for all type of games. Either they play with extra men/man in the middle or switch between that and some other formation for normal games.

he doesn't have the vision, the speed, unpredictable and inconsistent
his tricks is mostly of those useless step overs
i didn't even remembet nani crossing even once that is ended with a goal...

his only assets is his powerful shot