Yeh that 50/50 he bottled was annoying. I also thought he spent the first 25 minutes giving the ball away again. Then he had a decent 20 mins including the assist.
If true this should hopefully allow Bannan, or perhaps even Zog to play at the head of the diamond, which will be interesting and potentially very rewarding.
If we're going to persist in hoofing the ball towards Benteke and Bent then we may as well go the whole Stoke and put our 4 best cloggers in the middle. Not that we have as many as 4.
Quote from: Steve Rose on September 24, 2012, 09:31:09 AMIf we're going to persist in hoofing the ball towards Benteke and Bent then we may as well go the whole Stoke and put our 4 best cloggers in the middle. Not that we have as many as 4.See Mcleish knew what he was doing with Alan Hutton afterall
When Hutton and Heskey are your best cloggers you know you're in trouble.
Biggest problem we have with this diamond formation is not the creative players who want to break and link with the forwards as we have good options there, its the fact we don't play a natural holding midfield player. We look lightweight and leave the centre backs exposed. I don't particularly rate him but I'd play Herd at the base to add some bite and presence in front of the back four.Of course Stan would have been ideal there in the shape Lambert wants to play.
I think KEA is perfectly capable of playing at the base of a midfield diamond.