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Man Utd v Arsenal tactics
- Updated: November 18, 2016
When Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger are ReUnited at Old Trafford on Saturday, the Manchester United and Arsenal managers will both have decisions to make up front.
With Zlatan Ibrahimovic suspended and doubts over whether Alexis Sanchez is fully fit, there could be changes for both teams.
As former United defender and Sky Sports tactics expert Danny Higginbotham explains, the impact of those changes could be hugely significant to how the game pans out.
For the home side at Old Trafford, it’s not just the loss of Ibrahimovic but how replacing him with Marcus Rashford changes the job of the midfielders as well.
With Michael Carrick providing protection, Wayne Rooney, Paul Pogba, Marouane Fellaini and Juan Mata were able to offer support to the Swede in the 3-1 win at Swansea last time out.
“What that meant was that these four could get closer to Ibrahimovic,” Higginbotham tells Sky Sports.
“Against Swansea, the amount of times that Ibrahimovic came that little bit deeper meant we saw Rooney getting beyond him, Pogba getting beyond him, even Fellaini getting beyond him and …
