Hull are hitting some form, which they will need if they are to get anything from they're last 4 games
The defensive mind furs aside, it was great to see us play football again yesterday. Jojno was under control, players made space, passing was good and possession sucked the heart out of Newcastle.
Just read Monk's comment about the formation being used as an element of surprise. http://www.southwales-eveningpost.c...tail/story.html?dwrMeth=addComment&afterReg=Y 'Then saw this comment - ' White_Rock | April 28 2015, 7:45AM It's a sad state of affairs when the attractive attacking style that's served us so well from 2005 to 2014 is used as a surprise by our own manager.' We are not alone.
Just had a look at the Newcastle board and their HEADLINE SWANSEA GAME, it's worth a grin to be fair !
"You don't want to become predictable but it was also a little bit to do with personnel," said Monk.? Not entirely down to Monk favouring this midfield diamond, and I think it was more than a little bit down to personal, and next season we will see more width to our game with our wing play back, to do anything else would be stupid on Monks part. There is no way he is going to go with this 4-4-2 diamond as a major feature, it has it's uses, but we are a far better team with 4-2-3-1, and we are still recognised as such by the strategist, and footy anaylists, so don't get too down beat Bob............. PS: by the way Bob, Monk uses 4-3-1-2 in games where he wants to support a weak striker, by using two up front.............
Bob! By the way I've said before that what Monk is doing is simply employing to a greater degree Laudrops approach, but we sacrifice far more possession and pressing in games as a down side, it's okay against teams that are not likely to hurt you with all that extra possession we give away, but get it wrong like Liecester, and it can be deadly, also in my view Monk is not good at switching when needed in the middle of games, if his 4-4-2 isn't working. Laudrop was the manager that started the more direct push, and under Laudrop we had less possession than Rodgers, Laudrop still played a 4-3-2-1 though, and while there are varying versions, I think it's best I give you a link which explains some of the tactics and how we have evolved from the Rodgers game, where possession was everything.............. Link:http://www.just-football.com/2012/12/tactical-analysis-laudrups-swansea-vs-brendan-rodgers-changes/
