Five Lessons Man United Can Learn After Swansea Defeat

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English defenders, unlike their European counterparts, prefer to play in a flat back four rather than any sort of variation with more numbers. Swansea were able to take advantage of the uncertainty displayed by Smalling, Jones and young Tyler Blackett, because they were not accustomed to having to watch out for each other that way. Van Gaal has predicted it will take them three months to get used to this, and it looks like they’ll need it.