United travel to France to play against a team which has won the French league in six successive seasons. For sure, the pressure is on United to progress into the quarter-finals but the team will face a difficult task, and tonight’s game will be crucial.
While United will be very high on confidence since the thrashing of Arsenal, Lyon go into the game with a loss in the previous game. However I think that will be of no importance today. I hope that United try to play some attacking football tonight. Previous games in the Champions League have shown that when playing on result United is a much easier team to face. Of course it is also very important to score away from home.
I think that Ferguson will play Giggs and Scholes today – even though they may not be in such good form as other players in those positions – simply because of their routine. I would like to see United play a 4-5-1 formation tonight with Carrick and Hargreaves slightly behind Scholes or Rooney. It will be very important to dominate the midfield and to avoid giving Juninho too much time and space. United should apply the same pressure which the team so succesfully did against Arsenal.
Playing Carrick and Hargreaves I think would allow Ronaldo a more free role and against a team that probably has planned how to handle Ronaldo in detail. I think it’s important not to make him an easy target to mark by playing him on his normal position to the right. I’m aware that Fletcher, Nani, and Anderson were marvellous against Arsenal and all could play today. Fletcher normally does a great job in top games against key players in the opponents’ team which he showed against Arsenal when he (together with Anderson) gave Fabregas no space. I could even consider playing Ji-Sung Park to the right and Ronaldo to the left placing Giggs on the bench. Park has been really good since his comeback and his energy will make the United midfield an even stronger force to face.
My prediction: 1-1
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