No they don't, D Silva is a central creative player, neither Mahrez or B Silva are as far as im aware, both are wide forwards. Is Foden even part of the first team squad?
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No they don't, D Silva is a central creative player, neither Mahrez or B Silva are as far as im aware, both are wide forwards. Is Foden even part of the first team squad?
DeleHarry
Jose Dominguez
Yes Foden is, he was last season too. Massive talent.They all are left footed creative players able to play the killer pass to open up a defence. D Silva now plays centrally but can drift all over the place. All can play on the right and drift inwards. There isn't a massive difference in their abilities and positions they can take on the field
Kandi1977
Garth Crooks
Benteke did his best Özil impersonation the entire season, and was very successful at it! Almost completely invisible.
Because money is limitless to them.
Finney Is Back
Andy Thompson
Again, maybe I'm not remembering things as they were, but I don't think Siggurdson was a player that thrived on space in behind? Darren Bent was, absolutely, Jamie Vardy also, but I didn't see Siggy like that at all.
I think you're using a very broad definition of 'doing the same thing' in order to make your point tbh
The people he played those delightful throughballs to did though.
Finney Is Back
Andy Thompson
I don't think either of them do their best work as wide forwards.
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Andy Thompson
I think the idea is that we play two wide forwards (1 either side of Kane), not 1.... So 40 games each if 3 players for those 2 positions and 60 each if one goes down injured.
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Andy Thompson
Again, I don't remember Swansea playing like that at all. I thought that team Siggurdson was in liked to try to keep the ball and dominate possession and work things slowly up to the opposition's penalty area. Didn't they have that Spanish guy Michu up front who scored a lot of goals for that single season?.... I don't remember him being a pacy, in behind type player?
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
But if we go with 3 at the back, the central/#10 position disappears and they do have to play that role.
Even with 3 AMs, one of the two of them has to take responsibility for a flank
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Andy Thompson
Do you think we'll mainly be playing with 3 at the back? I see us playing 4 at the back in most games as we ended up doing last season. I guess the question is then whether we go with the 4-3-2-1 that Poch mainly played the season before or we play more of a 4-3-3 formation that I think Poch is looking to use more and more. I guess time will tell.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
I think it depends if Alder stays or who we replace him with. I'm sure there will be lots of alternating based on opponent and injuries.
My main point really is that I don't think we are always guaranteed to have 3 AMs in the team
nayimfromthehalfwayline
Andy Thompson
My personal feeling is a move to 4-3-3 really works for the squad, and our use f it in preseason might support that (but it is preseason, so pinch of salt)
We were moving to 3-5-2 at the beginning of last season, so I wouldnt be shocked to see us use it - but for me 4-3-3 works better.
They did play that way but had the benefit of not having buses parked against them all the time. You don't need to be the kind of team that plays on the break to take advantage of space.
Swansea had a lot more space to play in than we did - I've seen a lot of players fail that transition.
nayimfromthehalfwayline
Andy Thompson
Im not sure Sigurdsson failed as such, always seemed to me we never played him in his position much, what with Eriksen about as well. He was often more wide forward than central and pulling strings.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
For me it was always that he couldn't cope with so little time on the ball and condensed spaces. His lack of pace didn't help him with finding space either.
nayimfromthehalfwayline
Andy Thompson
Could have been. Im not saying he would have succeeded, but I never felt he had a fair shake either.
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Andy Thompson
I disagree that Spurs' players get little time on the ball than those at other clubs. I think our players probably get more time on the ball than those at smaller clubs as typically teams tend to sit off of us.