Listening to Bruce's interview, he had high praise for Sessegnon and Bendtner, saying "the more they play together the better they'll get." Strongly suggest that you won't be seeing Sessegnon on the left in a 4-4-2 for a while yet, Bruce has clearly decided he is best used in the hole behind the striker.
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He would be better off playing Ji up alongside Bendter and whacking Sessegnon on the wing where he is at his best!
It can be a case of not seeing the wood for the trees for Bruce and he may want to try this out a while to see how it goes (but he has to stop soon.) I will confess to not knowing a great deal about your players but if you did have a classical number 10 then 4-4-1-1 would work. 4-4-2 seems very cliche and "British" but it is the best way forward. Spray the ball wide, get the wingers bombing down the wing, whip in the cross, big tall Bendtner heads the ball in. That is what my basic tactic would be.
You mentioned the word tactics in a thread about a manager, who started against a team from a lower division with no strikers.
Apologies MR. You did tell me about this earlier!We've played 9 or so games with this crap 4 4 1 1 formation it hasn't worked yet and it won't work anytime soon either we just don't have the personnel for it yet and, if we keep going at this rate we never will. Bruce is stubborn he knows this isn't working but will persist to try and prove his point, it's the same with the LB/LW situation we all want one so he again will try to prove his point that we don't need any left sided players.
Met Bruce once a couple of years ago when Wigan manager and asked him about tactics his reply was "I'm not keen on the fruity ones but the mint ones are nice"
