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Post by gascoach on Sept 9, 2020 19:47:30 GMT
Gas coach what's your preferred style/formation and your 11 to play it ? I’d have 2 answers... One would be to try and go along the lines of BG’s philosophy, with 3 at the back, and trying to play but tweak it and go with 2 central strikers. Gives us bit more up the pitch to turn defence into attack quickly. Little Kilgour/Ehmer Harries Hare. Grant Westbrooke Nicholson Hargreaves/JML Ayunga. JML/Daly - would still need to see Little there. But I like more full back players to play in the position. - Think Nicholson is hard working enough and have enough about him to play wing back. My preferred if this hasn’t worked in 3/4 weeks (5/6 games) Back to basics. Little. Kilgour Ehmer Leahy Grant. Westbrooke Nicholson. Hargreaves. JML Ayunga - Leahy over Tutonda as with a winger for the attacking aspects I think Leahy is better defensively from what minimal bits I’ve seen - Would prefer a more creative number 10, maybe Daly in there or JML with Daly/Tutonda out wide. Could play upson and push Westbrooke into the 10 but think he lives to drop in and receive the ball not play in the pocket. - Little over Hare isn’t based on too much other that experience. So this is open to be swapped.
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Post by lpgas1 on Sept 9, 2020 19:52:06 GMT
Just watched the 9 minutes extended highlights on ifollow & apart from the inability to deal with high balls into our area which lead to Walsalls goals, some of our football looked decent. The passing & movement of players looked a lot better than the dross we watched under Coughlan, let’s hope with addition of a couple of signings results will pick up. I enjoyed the dross, especially the drossy win at Ipswich.
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Post by WeAreTheGas on Sept 10, 2020 8:45:30 GMT
Agree with much of the OP.
I’m wondering whether one of the main issues with this 3-4-2-1 is how hard & complex a role it must be to play as one of the ‘2’ behind the main striker?
Both in & out of possession those positions seem to be the key to making this formation work - but I’m just not sure average L1 players are up to it...
When we have the ball they either have to come central & be #10s or go wide as more traditional wingers; as well as having to decide whether to come short and try to help collect the ball off the defence (otherwise we only have the two CMs as a passing option for the defenders) or stay high & look to run in behind.
Then when we don’t have the ball they have to press first of all (in BG’s style) and then if they’re played around sprint like hell to try and get alongside Westbrooke-Grant to form a flat midfield 4 - which often isn’t possible if the opposition counter quickly.
That role just seems far more nuanced & complex to me than the equivalents in other systems - e.g the wingers in a 4-4-2 or wide forwards in a 4-3-3 - which are often very defined & straightforward roles (particularly at our level).
I get the thinking behind it & on paper it looks great and like a formation that could catch our opponents out, but I wonder if the reality is that we’re just asking far too much of the attackers we have to pull this off.
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Post by mftc on Sept 10, 2020 12:53:12 GMT
Anyone know why attacking players like Warwick, Phillips or Tomlinson were not on the bench? With Baldwin in midfield surely we could have had more towards rather than another defender like Pablo Martinez ( no offence to him).
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