Ekitike wasn't originally 'dropped' for Isak - he was rested in a LC tie against Soton, being saved for the upcoming Prem match against Palace away. The divvy got himself dropped for the Palace game by getting sent off in a meaningless LC tie. He would have started against Palace, for sure.
I said at the time i'd much rather we spent the money on 2 or 3 players as imo our squad is pretty thin which has been made worse by the Leoni injury .
Your settings must be that way. Do you have a dormant Twitter account? (I have three now that I don't use).
Not the same system. 4222 doesn't have wingers, it's two DM/CM players, two AMs with freedom to move / create and two attackers. The width would come from the FBs... Ekitike - Isak Wirtz - - - - Zobo Mac Alister - Gravenberch Kerkez - VVD - Konate - Bradley Alisson
Hmm. Good footballers don't need rigid formations, imo. You should be able to switch formations throughout the game, never mind from match to match, just like the great Dutch team of '74. That said, the last few games, the players look utterly dazed and confused (with apologies to Zep), so some Rafa-type management may be in order.
Look we have strengths. Attacking full backs who are no utilised. Genuine powerful attacking cms. Two real strkers. What we dont have is pacey wingers.l.any more. That narrow 4222 makes a lot of sense with the squad we now have
Match day. We should be licking our chops at the thought of their absolute shambles of a defence. We are just hoping to get by. Arsenal just put context on our 3-2 v atletico. We cant afford anything but a win tonight. Im going to predict an 8 at 6, a 10 at 2 and of course a Jones at 8. Absolute mess.
Move the ball quick to Jones so he can then fanny about with it and lose any advantage we got from it.
Jones. The poor man's wijnaldum Spin round 5 times then pass it 2 yards. If prizes were given for being hard to get the ball off they would be top tier. If Jones adopted a lampard attitude and just ran into the box to score it'd be soemthing. He can finish. But for me these guys are ****ing killers. They slow everything down. At least windy knew where to cover and defend. Jonesy is oblivious to that too.
Hes not great is he? He got a wee bit of pressure on him and was dropping 10 yards and panicking. You cant be at that. Being a full back is not all about being on the ball. The game is still simple. Make tackles, block crosses then make good runs forward. We seem to want the full back to be simultaneously a cm, an inside forward and also be in position to stop wingers attacking us. Its physically impossible. We have bought two attacking full backs but wont set the side up to push them on. We want to push the two cms on. Its like fat ange shaved his head and replaced slot over the summer. If I didn't know for a fact fat ange was at trent bridge for a month I would have said he was managing lfc for the past month. Close the gaps. Hold the lines. Compress the play. The likes of szobo just panic and drop deeper. You need bravery to be a defender and keep the line up. You need cms in their proper spots making play as well .
It's a new position to him, he's not going to be instantly perfect Reality is, it's a stop gap solution
