Clayton wrote:Do you think Moye's will continue playing his ridiculous 5 at the back , or is he using Evra/Zabs as WB's ? ( those 2 as WB's is a very poor joke ) . We need some fullbacks .
Should he play Ogbonna/Collins being one is returning from injury and the other from illness ?
Doe anyone think Kouyate has played his last game in midfield and should be used as a CB alongside Ogbonna ? .
I would like to see Declan Rice given a position in the middle of the park , cant do any worse then what we have , and he could be a revelation there as a deep lying playmaker , he has all the attributes to make it , with Lanzini and Mario just in front of him , we would have the creativity to find our front men . Then we would find out if we need a experienced next level DM someone like Carvalho or Danilo Pereira ! Playing Noble/Kouyate hasnt improved our game .
With a front 3 of Antonio / Hernandez and Arnie , we have a very good attacking force .
You know my stand on this one Clay.
To play 5 at the back we need Masuaku one side and probably Antonio on the other because pace down the flanks is key playing 5 at the back because they pin back their full backs allowing more space for us in the middle because their worker bees have to cover more area space.. Masua isn't back and i doubt we will see Antonio play wing back so for me it has to be 4 at the back with a stronger looking midfield.
We played Moses as a striker and Conte won the league switching him to right wing back and getting in behind teams with Costa and co joining up. It also prevents their full backs from going up. With Zabby as wing back he hasn't the pace to pose a serious threat to their left back and gets pegged in. Lanzini has to come deep to get into the game isolating Arnie and the front man. Kouyate hasn't the vision to set a move off in the middle so he has to go into defense. Slot Rice in with Noble and then have 3 creative players and Antonio up top because of his pace.
Lanzini will always play a tad deeper and make a 3rd DM at times leaving Mario, Arnie and Antonio to link up.
After watching the Swans game i am not confident whatever system we play to be honest.