1. Continually play Rodwell on the right wing when he is useless there. The only thing playing him on the right wing achieves is giving the other teams left back an easy game? Rodwell is a good holding midfielder not a winger.
2. Continue to play Arteta in the centre, and even worse, make him sit deep while Fellaini moves in to more advanced positions? Arteta is still a great player, the manager is employing him in the wrong role. Moyes complains about having no wingers yet decides to play one of the Premierships most talented wingers in a holding role, whilst playing Rodwell there instead. Has he lost the plot?
3. Continue to play Cahill when he stifles our attacking threat to other teams. He never supports Beckford - Saha enough when we attack, through pushing further up, so Beckford ends up playing as a lone striker, which isn't how he should be played. Beckford is a talented player imo and if he was played with another striker would score alot more goals.
I hope I'm wrong but I worry that even with the breakthrough of Barkley, that we're still going to struggle to score that many goals because of Moyes's insistance on playing a lone striker, when we have no one who is suited to it.
If Moyes doesn't believe we have enough strength on the wings why isn't he playing 2 up front? If you aren't expecting great service in to the middle, from out wide, surely it makes more sense to have the extra striker upfront to help the team score more.
We struggled to score many goals last season due to our tactics, rather than players imo. Our defence is solid, we just don't score enough.
Most of our games we dominate posession, we just don't score as we leave our lone striker too isolated.
I think Moyes knows the vast majority of the fans want him to play 2 upfront but he's becoming a victim of his own success and his ego and stubborness are stopping him from correcting mistakes.
Here's the team I would pick (when available) ...
Howard
Coleman Jags Distin Baines
Fellaini
Arteta Barkley Geuye
Saha Beckford
Coleman likes to attack but I don't think he's creative enough to be an out and out winger but I think he'd be a great asset as an attacking full back as he has better distribution than Hibbert and would help us get more quality crosses in to the box, overlapping Arteta.
Fellaini is one of the best holding midfielders in the Premiership and has great technique as well as strenth and height.
Barkley normally plays in the centre and has great vision, passing and technique and enjoys shooting, so I'd play him in the centre and give him a free role to attack the other teams from deep. Playing in the middle he would be able to link up with Arteta more as well.
Geuye is relatively unproven but we've got nothing to lose from giving him a run in the first team. It seems like he has pace and an eye for goal. If he fails to make an impact we can move Barkley back on the left wing and play Osman in the middle.
Saha is a classy player and is good on the ball. He's also unselfish and I believe in partnership with Beckford they'd be a handfull for any team.
