Tactical Enquiry

Richards will go forward and the player on the right ie Johnson etc will hang back for either the ball to come back to them or to cover if need be.
Similar on the left with Cliche/Koralov and possibly Milner or Barry dropping a little deeper.

As lee says usually a midfielder will provide the cover. Although I'm not comfortable with this post as I think it could be Moysey getting some inside info for next Tuesday.

Are you playing as us in football manager or something...?

So both fullbacks go forward?

And don't worry, i'm just generally interested in tactics, and it inrigued me at the time.

Yes, sometimes but not always at the same time. With Silva and Nasri running the play the ball can switch fairly quickly from one side to the other,

if the full backs overlap the wide midfield players have to cover

I've even seen silva in the full back position covering.

Doubt Moyes will change his tactic from simply kicking our players off the park as usual

Given the level of refereeing seen recently we
Will probably get booked for being fouled.

Thanks.