Quote Originally Posted by Zippity View Post
Longstaff's better than that, imo, but I agree about Murphy.
Thought Murphy was one of our best players last few games.

Not sure why Longstaff is starting, we were in a position to put muscle Man Utd out of midfield with Joelinton available and Casemiro out… and Longstaff just gives the ball away for too easily… but as you said earlier we don’t know how they trained and Joelinton has spent quite a bit of his time out back in Brazil so maybe Howe feels he isn’t fit to start.

That all said, we have Big Jo, Gordon, and Anderson available to come off the bench… which is an improvement on recent options.

Burn starting over Targett, so Tripper can move into midfield and we play effectively with 3 centrehalfs