Aren't United talking about playing Brady as a left back though? I was surprised to see him with 10 on his back.
I was listening to kevin kilbane talking about this, because he knows Brady from playing beside him at hull. He made the point that Left back for man Utd is a pretty attacking position. Effectively when they have the ball, the left back moves up, the left winger moves inside into the gap between midfield and attack, while the full back effectively becomes the winger, by overlapping like a madman. He also made the point that teaching a winger how to be a full back, even if it doesn't really work in the long term, can give a young player a much better idea of what a winger is supposed to do. This is because they get to see it from the point of view of the full back, and it can radically improve a players understanding of the game, and help them step up a lot quicker.
I know Oman are shite, and it was a friendly, but it was great to see Irish players running around, and passing the ball to each other on the ground. I appreciate that three of our goals came from set pieces, but it was good to see such a radical improvement in terms of our ability to use the football. It just made me feel happy. I haven't really enjoyed watching an irish performance since the 3-2 game against uruguay. I know that by their presence on the pitch, it was almost explicit that these players are probably not going to be playing against Germany. Even again tonight he started andy keogh ahead of james mcClean.
Tonight's game left him with a tricky problem, in that it looks like all the players that he doesn't pick, all look better than all of the players that he does pick. It's not necessarily true, but I'm sick of watching us play. It's awful football, and it's so ineffective. The Idea that there is a whole team of players who can run around and pass the ball a bit is very encouraging, even if it is also immensely frustrating.
