Official - Holtby

[Yiddo]

Eriksen left sided drifting to the wing???? No thanks.

Pretty sure Eriksen had some of his best games starting on the left.

 

[braineclipse]

This should be our midfield / forwards

Sandro Holtby

Lamela Sig Eriksen

Ade​

I am convinced that is and will be our strongest team.

Part of the problem with a line-up like that is that there's a real shortage of pace in that front 6. Ade is fairly pacey, the rest are all somewhere between outright slow and quick-ish at best.

 

[Kingdawson]

Pretty sure Eriksen had some of his best games starting on the left.

He did indeed...in fact he had all his best games playing on the left.

Sig shouldn't start though...and Holtby might not be able to play that role.

 

[NWND]

Part of the problem with a line-up like that is that there's a real shortage of pace in that front 6. Ade is fairly pacey, the rest are all somewhere between outright slow and quick-ish at best.

Yes, which is why Lennon/Townsend were used by AVB/Sherwood depending on who was managing.

You need pace at the top end of the Premiership.

It's why I fully support our pursuit of Loic Remy, he's got the pace of Lennon/Townsend but with end product.

 

[metalgear]

i think we suffer from not passing the ball at pace, then with not enough pacey players. unless you are bale with a consistent end product, pace may not amount to much for the team.

 

[Hully]

Yes, which is why Lennon/Townsend were used by AVB/Sherwood depending on who was managing.

Except AVB played Townsend while Lennon was injured and Sherwood Lennon while Townsend was injured. Not sure either ever made a straight choice between the two.

It's ok having pacey players, but you have to know how to use them. AVB's system of pressing high up the pitch completely nullified the pace of our players, while giving the opposition loads of room in behind us to exploit with their own.

 

[Spur of the moment]

Except AVB played Townsend while Lennon was injured and Sherwood Lennon while Townsend was injured. Not sure either ever made a straight choice between the two.

It's ok having pacey players, but you have to know how to use them. AVB's system of pressing high up the pitch completely nullified the pace of our players, while giving the opposition loads of room in behind us to exploit with their own.

Spot on.

 

[NaijaSpurs]

Pretty sure Eriksen had some of his best games starting on the left.

And I am pretty sure in the same games he gave us neither width nor protection to our left back. I think if he played centrally he would be more involved in the game more often. I would like our left flank to have a little more pace

 

[NWND]

Except AVB played Townsend while Lennon was injured and Sherwood Lennon while Townsend was injured. Not sure either ever made a straight choice between the two.

It's ok having pacey players, but you have to know how to use them. AVB's system of pressing high up the pitch completely nullified the pace of our players, while giving the opposition loads of room in behind us to exploit with their own.

Yep, totally agree.

 

[Roy1983]

Pretty sure Eriksen had some of his best games starting on the left.

Don't think he did and its not his strongest position therefore just.....no.

 

[milo]

Don't think he did and its not his strongest position therefore just.....no.

Which games would you say were his best for us last season?

 

[africanspurs]

Don't think he did and its not his strongest position therefore just.....no.

just have a look at the his best games and see the position he started out in.

Its easy to miss but the fact is that his most productive games have frequently been when he started out left and drifts about.

makes him infinately harder to tracker and gives him space and puts him at the spear head of our attacking impetus

what you are proposing is to make him a marked man

 

[JerusalemMan]

And I am pretty sure in the same games he gave us neither width nor protection to our left back. I think if he played centrally he would be more involved in the game more often. I would like our left flank to have a little more pace

Getting a better left-back would help.

 

[braineclipse]

Don't think he did and its not his strongest position therefore just.....no.

Bit early in his career to be making definite statements about what his best position is don't you think?

 

[Roy1983]

Bit early in his career to be making definite statements about what his best position is don't you think?

No. #10 role please.

 

[NaijaSpurs]

Getting a better left-back would help.

Even a better left back needs support. Just look at England against Italy with Rooney on the left flank, he gave Baines no support so Italy saw that flank as the weak link so England got overran down that side

 

[NaijaSpurs]

No. #10 role please.

And I second that

 

[Kingdawson]

And I am pretty sure in the same games he gave us neither width nor protection to our left back. I think if he played centrally he would be more involved in the game more often. I would like our left flank to have a little more pace

I think you're making stuff up.

 

[Bullet]

Even a better left back needs support. Just look at England against Italy with Rooney on the left flank, he gave Baines no support so Italy saw that flank as the weak link so England got overran down that side

Before the game on the bbc coverage they showed the Italian team with players on the right and none on the left. They would have played that strange lopsided way whether Rooney or GHod was playing left side. But I take your point.

 

[Spur of the moment]

And I am pretty sure in the same games he gave us neither width nor protection to our left back. I think if he played centrally he would be more involved in the game more often. I would like our left flank to have a little more pace

He may not have succeeded in affording protection but my recollection is he always did his best to help out.

However I agree with you about Eriksen taking a more central role. What he lacks in physicality he more than compensates in skill and invention.