I’ll have to disagree with this I’m afraid - we were getting done in our CDM for the last 10 minutes of the half and I think Puerta going off for Simons did make a bit of sense. I suspect Giles was brought in to make up for the loss in creativity the midfield will have suffered as a result. Sadly the game did pass Simons by a bit but I could understand the reasoning.
Against TWS, instead of lining up with one striker that really doesn’t have the attributes to play the lone striker role, a striker on one wing, a central midfielder on the other wing, full backs that look like they’d make much better wing backs. Surely it would make sense to go with a 5-3-2 where everyone can play their natural role? 2 managers this season have used this same 4-5-1 system with slightly different approaches and it’s hardly worked for either, and particularly now we have no wingers performing at any kind of level to be playing championship football it’s just lunacy to carry on trying to use something we don’t have, handicapping our best striker in the process.
Or a diamond, or 4-2-2-2. Longman’s out for a few weeks and Kamara is like playing with 10 men against 12.
Then we'll agree to disagree Drew... I do appreciate that fatigue had a lot to do with it, I said as much earlier in this thread... however, Puerta was driving them back and I can only hope that he came in and said boss im knackered, because I cant see that hooking him did us any favours. As for Drameh being hooked, for me he was having one of his better games. Strange decisions for me.
That would do although I think Giles and Drameh would both be far better in a back 5. To me it just perfectly suits the players we have available.
I thought other than having ball belted at him which he used acrobatics to try and control, he was okay on the right hand side and was surprised to see him subbed.
The only reasons we have a chance this season are because we have a good goalkeeper and a couple of decent centre backs who can defend the box which now means we can stay in games and try knicking them late on. We’ve also seemingly got a couple of tidy midfielders in Puerta & Alzate who are half decent. We won’t score many but we do seem organised and won’t let many in. We obviously need to improve both wings, striker and a left back but that’ll be difficult to do all in a month so I think it’ll be a lot like today for the rest of the season, particularly against the stronger sides.
