Statman Dave's video: How Man Utd Close the Gap on Man City

Welcome back guys! Today we’ll be taking a look at how Man Utd close the gap on Pep Guardiola’s Man City. ► SUBSCRIBE to STATMAN DAVE: http://bit.ly/StatmanDaveYoutube Over the past 18 months, Manchester United have taken huge strides forward. They’ve added a truly world class creator in Bruno Fernandes, Luke Shaw has massively improved his attacking output and Marcus Rashford has become a consistent and key part of United’s attack, with the forward being directly involved in 40 goals since the start of last season. Despite that, Manchester City and their millions are still ahead of Solskjaer’s men so today we’re going to take a look at how United can close the gap! ► CHECK US OUT ON TWITCH: http://bit.ly/SMDTwitch First let’s take a look at Man Utd becoming more unpredictable in their build up play. At the moment Solskjaer’s Manchester United build in a 3-3-1-3. I think this build up shape is fine but I’d like to see a slight tweak to see more of a 3-5-2 build up with more interchange within the structure itself. The tweaked structure alone would offer an extra option for the outside centre backs when playing out from the back and the shorter, diagonal passes are more difficult to stop. But it’d also offer more flexibility for players to interchange positions. With the current skill set of United’s players, we could see complete interchange between the likes of Bruno, Rashford and Shaw. Obviously, Fernandes could operate from anywhere on the pitch but even Rashford is incredibly versatile and has experience playing all across the line would even make him suited to a central midfield position. ► JOIN PATREON: https://bit.ly/StatmanPatreon Luke Shaw is the interesting one. He’s made huge improvements this season to the point where he’s currently the most complete left back in the Premier League and could even operate in a similar, inverted wing back role like Joao Cancelo has done for Manchester City. What is an Inverted Wing Back? João Cancelo’s Man City Role Under Pep Guardiola Explained 🎥 https://youtu.be/LFw-GH2Uibs Now onto how some new signings could fit into this. Man United could start utilising this new structure with the current setup but to make it really flourish a progressive defensive midfielder should be signed. Ideal candidates include Eduardo Camavinga, Wilfred Ndidi and Declan Rice. All 3 of these have performed destructive, shielding roles out of possession but intelligent and progressive roles in it and whilst they’d be expensive, they could slot in immediately and hold down the role for a number of years. Can Man Utd win the Premier League next season? Drop your thoughts in the comments below! Socials: 🐦Twitter: https://twitter.com/StatmanDave 📸Instagram: http://bit.ly/StatmanInsta 🖥See more at https://statmandave.com ________________________________________________________________________ ♫ Music By ♫ Tropics by tubebackr https://soundcloud.com/tubebackr Creative Commons — Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported — CC BY-ND 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/al-tropics Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/ZEQKWb5A1qw