Tim Howard
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We're going to play two holding midfielders.
Again, protect.
If one of you wants to go, if we have good possession, go.
You don't both vacate the midfield, right?
So he started simplifying this.
And when I was in, when I was at Manchester United, we would sit in pre, and by the way, we had the best players in the world at the time, right?
Because that's what Sir Alex Ferguson did.
He said, we'd sit in a pregame meeting.
He'd show a video.
He'd turn it off and he'd say, run forward, pass forward, play forward.
That's it.
That was his team talk.
That was it.
And everybody understood.
And so I think that's what Michael Carrick did.
And I think he probably said, by the way, when you get into the forward area, express yourself.
We're going to play off.
We're going to play on the break.
When you break, don't come back.
Express yourself.