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Moyes tells Irons to be brave to take Man Utd scalp

David Moyes insists the Hammers must be “brave” at Old Trafford if they are to beat Manchester United on Sunday.

The Irons have had a reasonable record against the big six in recent seasons and, this season, have gone very close to getting results against both Liverpool and Chelsea, while taking a point off Spurs.

The Irons face United on Sunday but have not won at Old Trafford in the league since 2007.

And he has claimed that the Hammers need to go for it if they are to have any chance of winning their first game at United in 15 years. Of course, the Irons did win there in the League Cup last season.

He told reporters: “Last year we did quite well against them. I know we lost both games to Man United in the last minute. But last year, we beat Chelsea, we beat Liverpool, we ran the top teams last year really well. We’ve been to Anfield, lost narrowly. Lost at Chelsea narrowly.

“We’ve got to see if we can change that little bit of, I don’t know if you want to call it unluckiness into lucky and see if we can get a result.

“What it comes down to is trying to make your own luck by being brave, positive, and over the last year or so, that’s the way we’ve been. We’ve had that mode of trying to challenge the big teams, give them a game, sometimes it’s not worked out but that’s the way I hope we go about taking them on.”

 

About Dave Langton

A journalist with 10 years' experience of working on National newspapers, now chief reporter covering the club that I've loved since I was a boy. Upton Park remains the greatest football stadium ever built.

One comment on “Moyes tells Irons to be brave to take Man Utd scalp

  1. Do you not think that bravery starts with team selection and tactics. How can a team demonstrate their bravery if we play 3 defensive midfielders and consequently only 3 offensive players. Let’s see does he show this today because when I heard he said that I just thought he will surely change his approach today. All fans want is a change in approach. You can still set up defensively well without being negative. Moyes makes the decisions so far this season and last his decisions in terms of team selection and tactics have not been brave. Letters hope he changes as European results will not save him. We are 3 points above relegation after spending 150m. There are no more excuses and if he is not brave today and we lose it has to be time to bring in or promote internally an attack minded manager. I will sum it up like this we have an attack minded squad being led by a defense minded mabager. It just wont work.

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