Keith continues to favour the formation that (supposedly) allows full-backs to get in advanced positions BUT what's the point when neither Golbourne or Stones can get a decent cross in? He keeps sticking with this sytem, but the players are not performing, so in my opinion he must chnage it and I think a simple 4-4-2 is the way, with midfield/strikers being:- Silva Dawson Crainie O'Brien Cwyka Davies Obviously when Davies is fit !!! We can debate all day and night what the back 4 should be, but lets just have the defenders doing what they should do ie. defend?
swap silva and cwyka, get a decent forward in and swap crainie with perkins (obviously, when everyone's fit)
Our build-up play is half decent, we just have nothing in the final third, either one pass too many or our players being unable to convert chances. I don't think defensively we are particularly bad, not many teams keep a clean sheet every week but they still manage to win the game, we seem to need a clean sheet to stand any chance of getting anything out of the game.
Agree to some extent. The midfield seem to look a bit lost with the current system. We waste loads of space down the right hand side too.
The biggest problem with this system IMO is that when we play without natural width and the full backs move up the field the centre halves are always under a lot of pressure if play breaks down which it inevitably does in the final third. I don't think we currently have the players fit to play it. JOB coming back is a massive bonus though.
I think the problem for me is the lack of support Cywka and Etuhu offer Goldbourne and Stones, we looked much more threatening yesterday when O'Brien and RNL came on imo
