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We were schooled by a superior team and a superior tactician - to suggest otherwise is just ignorance.
Yet you've defined Sherwood over one game. Was Wenger tactically schooled by Lambert earlier in the season?What's more tiresome is people up there own arses with there own supposed tactical acumen. Can't you just lose a game of football anymore, from reasons that aren't tactical, just as when you win it's not always because you tactically outclassed the other manager. 4-2-3-1 the cure for everything, the magical formula to beat any team in the world home or away. Pack the midfield but have not much out ball, come and let them play in our half without fear of knowing you're not going to get any meaningful possession in the final third. I suspect you decided how/why we lost before the game and maybe even before the other games since Sherwood took over and were just waiting for us to get beat in one of them. Actually we just struggled to deal with Walcotts pace and movement with a depleted defence and in actual fact how many chances did they make? how much possession did they have? I'm not even going to compare it to the game with AVB because that speaks for itself. Forget formation at the end of the day we look more fluid with the ball now.This argument of using two games and extrapolate over AVB's reign is tiresome.
The very best have all had complete horror shows;
Mourinho vs Barcelona
Fergie vs Man City
Wenger vs United
Do we use those matches as the yard stick to judge their managerial careers?!