No, I wasn't disputing the term pressing or defending from the front but by saying both Fernandes and Ronaldo aren't very good at pressing/defending from the front isn't comparing them. I'm not very good at football, just like Wan-Bissaka but he's not nearly as bad as me. Whether Fernandes works harder than Ronaldo doesn't mean he's very good at defending from the front. You cannot play a 4-2-3-1 with 4 out and out attackers unless at least 2, if not 3 of them being real workers and Utd are doing it with none.
As for how a 3-4-3 would work, there's plenty of flexibility in how the front 3 could look. You could play Fernandes in that 3 but slightly withdrawn behind a front 2. You could play it similarly to how Chelsea have played it under Tuchel with 2 players fairly central behind 1 striker or with a front 3 using 2 of your wide players. You could even drop Fernandes even deeper and play more of a 3-5-2. As I said in my last post, long term you'd need to upgrade on your central midfielders but you need to do that anyway. The only tricky position is the right wing back but I'm sure Dalot could play there until that's addressed and I've always been of the thought that Utd need somebody better than AWB at RB - a more attack minded player coming in could play both the RB or RWB roles.
