Most teams will, I'm sure. To be fair, we have so much of the ball at home anyway, there's not that much else they can do at times.
That was what I found so frustrating about today. It was fairly obvious Reading would play like that, so I can't understand why we went with Barry and Garcia. We effectively played the first 60 minutes one attacking player down on how we normally play - I know Yaya was notionally further forward, but he spent most of his time getting the ball deep anyway. And for me we're just far, far better with him and one other in the centre (Barry usually, or Garcia) and then four attacking players ahead of them. The lack of options ahead of the ball is one of the main reasons why our build up is so slow - compare it with last week with Yaya getting it deep and having all four of Silva, Nasri, Aguero and Tevez making runs. And - again for me - playing Aguero on the left is a criminal waste of one of the top strikers in the world.
I know RM's hands are tied with injuries - and he obviously doesn't rate Sinclair at all - but I still can't really understand his thinking on this one today. As well as Reading defended, I'm confident that had we played an extra attacking player, and both Aguero and Tevez up front from the off, we would have been much more incisive and pulled them apart more than we did. The key for me in general is to go out and get at these teams that do park the bus right from the start, quick tempo, high pressing - don't give them 15 minutes to settle while we slowly push it around.