You are seeing it wrong, Benteke is a player type, a horse for a course, or a style of play. If we are going to play him we need early whipped in crosses and balls to feel in the box. That's where he will get you goals. Yesterday with WBA siting back after scoring the second, they were ripe for the plucking cos they decided 1 2 was more than they hoped for. The usual mentality stuff.
That was when we should have been shelling their 6 yard box with ammo for Benteke and anyone who may pick up some pieces from him. But we had no one just outside their area to puck up knockdowns, at one point we were having 5 players in their area, all square, waiting for crosses, meaning one clearing header negates 5 of our attacking players.
Coutinho's runs if used properly should be creating space for benteke, not benteke creating shooting space for cout, out of the two of them I know who Id rather be doing the shooting, so we need to use our flair players to create, not the other way around, ie provide. Otherwise why play Christain? He's the man you want taking on the keeper. I dont mean in every circumstance, but in general that is what COut should be doing, beating a man, committing another and creating space, but defenders now know he is gonna cut inside and try curl one into the far corner, predictable imo, too predictable. Cout is the kwey in games like this, but to make space, not run and shoot, he's too much more to offer and has shown this but in games like this one yesterday, he needs to look to create not look for all the glory
Lallana is almost a quality player, he's just missing "something", killer instinct maybe, maybe someone needs to kick a boot at him to get the best out of him
I agree. he's not gt the pace nor the physicality to play in a game where he needs to do something special. He's played best when playing against teams like city who actually attack not look for set pieces and don't defend en masse and actually give him loads of space.
Give any player the space and he will do something.
