Tracking full backs etc. becomes more complicated if you have them swapping positions all the time (because, inevitably, you end up with two of your forward three on the same side at some point), so I can't see Pardew going for it much.
Well obviously he's a better option for the left hand side than Jonás, but I'd rather we just bought a new player in to play on the left side. If you look at our starting XI, Jonás in the weak point and he plays on the left more often than not.
That's a good point. Isn't Silva more effective on the right though? When he can cut in? We've got HBA for that.
I'm a Marveaux fan, but there's also the issue that David Silva is a much better player than Sylvain.
I don't really think Marveaux is cut out to be a wide player in this league and he'll be loads more effective in the middle. I'd rather leave one of the five out per game for rotational purposes and freshness.
All we need to do second half is counter as fast as we can. Keep our shape well when defending and make sure we push out of defence as quickly as possible when we do counter. We will get knackered in the last 10 minutes though, we just need to hope Man U are still shit then.