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August 25, 2012
By Richard Jolly
(Archive)
Manchester United 3-2 Fulham

It seemed the most enviable of problems: how do you fit Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney into the same side? By leaving the Englishman on the bench and then losing him to injury for a month, Sir Alex Ferguson need not provide an immediate answer. Yet the actual issue is more complicated: how do Van Persie, Rooney and Shinji Kagawa all slot in?

For the second successive game, United showed off their new shape, 4-2-1-3. In effect, it is an attacking ...

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