acnumber9
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They didn't surrender midfield, they just didn't feel the need to do anything with Carrick and Scholes pointlessly rolling the ball between themselves for ages. Instead they waited until we approached their area and then killed us since neither Carrick nor Scholes ran back.
If you're producing more both defensively and offensively than the other midfield does, and if you have a bigger impact on the game than the other midfield, you're not surrendering the midfield, you're winning the midfield battle. Which is what teams have been doing to us whenever Scholes/Giggs have started this season.
Yes they did. Had they actually played in midfield areas instead of forming an 8 man defence they would've lost the game.