I was at the West Ham game on Wednesday and even now I am thinking what a stupid game that was, it also confirms my theory that winning 2-1 mid game is the most dangerous scoreline, when your opponent believes that the other side's defence is fallible then unless you grab control of the game you're vulnerable, on Sunday we tool control just before half time, on Wednesday, well let's not dwell on that one!
The idea we can't win without Kane is nonsense, the idea we're not as good without him is not quite so far fetched, we will miss his work rate and threat going forward, there's no getting around that. The key for me is getting Llorente to work with the attacking players around him, there was a moment against Madrid where he slipped in Kane rather wonderfully, I am kind of hoping that he can be the defensive attacker, by that I mean hold the ball up in attacking areas where the likes of Son, Alli and Eriksen can take advantage of attacking positions. Against Madrid I saw it, against West Ham, not so much!
I do think with the defensive line up with Jan, Toby and Sanchez we should be able to contain Manchester United. I think it's safe to assume that Mourinho will play efficiently against us and try to get us to make 1 mistake and that's possibly why I would choose Trippier over Aurier at right back, or at least play him as an out and out winger rather than put him in position for him to make a silly tackle, because this is likely to be a game of very fine margins.
If we win it's a huge boost to our confidence that we can survive without one of the best strikers in the world, if we draw, that's still a respectable result. My gut says this is going to be 1-1 but if we score first I can well imagine us parking the bus against them.
