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Seemed to me that Ferguson’s touch was a bit off (well, he’s been ill) and maybe he and Welbeck are just a bit similar for that approach today. Instead of a natural number 10, we had two number 9s and there was a gigantic hole between those and the two, normally man-marked central midfielders...

Because they didn’t engage. When they did, Verbruggen took 3 players out of the game nost times by leaving it so late. Wasn’t working up front because no-one was making the ball stick when they dropped back into that 40 yard hole. That was the different bit. Not what was happening at the back...