Moyes needs to refresh team to avert crisis
David Moyes won’t see it like that, of course. Like every manager, he’s in the results business and the bottom line there is that a win is a win is a win. But to almost everyone else in the football world — and not least the club’s own increasingly restless fan base — victory over the side currently stuck at the bottom of the Premier League will amount to little more than a temporary easing of the pressure at Old Trafford. A draw away from home in this evening’s first leg tie will have much the same modest effect but, should United lose, then we can fully expect the impact to be disproportionately far greater. In that bleak scenario, expect the “crisis” to be upgraded to “full-blown” and Moyes’ position to move from “serious” to somewhere in the region of “grave”.
Which is a bit of a rum do when you remember this is a side retaining a live interest in the Champions League and for whom a top four finish in the Premier League is hardly the stuff of wild fantasy.
