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Other teams will try what West Ham did. Some will succeed. Most won’t because a} they’re perfectly set up to play in that predominantly negative way as they also showed last season & against Chelsea and b) we’ll often score first, at which point the whole plan unravels. Moyes did a job on us...

Pretty easy to be effective and pick a pass when your attackers outnumber the defence. Less so when there are 8 or 9 opponents in the way all the time. That does tend to lead to some ‘fannying around’ looking for a gap. Admittedly there were a couple of occasions where it felt like we should...