Pretty Boy Lee wrote:I've been saying for ages we were going great at start of the season without the need for nigels protection and actually conceded more once he got in the side. He's won me over a lot since them but I still don't think he's needed every game and actually holds us back in some.
carl_feedthegoat wrote:Btajim.
Hi Garry,I just wanted to shake your hand and ask you a question.I go to COMS as mucha as possible but sometimes I cannot leave the house as Sophie.....sorry..Sophie is my Cat...... needs a carer when Im away and sometimes I cannot find one.
My question is ; Is it possible to bring Sophie to matches at COMS in her kitten box and can she come in for free?
FA cup winners 2006 wrote:We dont need a holding midfielder,
we need our midfield 2/3 to work as 1 unit and put pressure on quicker, put pressure on the ball and on free players. you see teams doing it to us the whole time and it can be very effective. the only players that seem to do it for us is tevez and bellemy while barry and de jong back off, or only 1 of them pushes on while the other drops back 20 yards.
the days of a player been giving a single role in a game are gone, barry, ireland and de jong should all be classed as box to box midfielders - attack when we have the ball and get the ball back as quick as you can when we dont. Stevie is excellent at putting pressure on when we dont have it but when barry and de jong dont pick up the spare players around then stevie looks out of position.
so i think our best midfield is playing 3 (Ireland - De Jong - Barry) but together and as 1 unit.
Vhero wrote:FA cup winners 2006 wrote:We dont need a holding midfielder,
we need our midfield 2/3 to work as 1 unit and put pressure on quicker, put pressure on the ball and on free players. you see teams doing it to us the whole time and it can be very effective. the only players that seem to do it for us is tevez and bellemy while barry and de jong back off, or only 1 of them pushes on while the other drops back 20 yards.
the days of a player been giving a single role in a game are gone, barry, ireland and de jong should all be classed as box to box midfielders - attack when we have the ball and get the ball back as quick as you can when we dont. Stevie is excellent at putting pressure on when we dont have it but when barry and de jong dont pick up the spare players around then stevie looks out of position.
so i think our best midfield is playing 3 (Ireland - De Jong - Barry) but together and as 1 unit.
See I think you may be right here Hughes really liked the holding midfielder and thought that was the answer to our defensive problems last season and Mancini just went with it. Maybe Mancini should really shake things up and try something else?
FA cup winners 2006 wrote:Vhero wrote:FA cup winners 2006 wrote:We dont need a holding midfielder,
we need our midfield 2/3 to work as 1 unit and put pressure on quicker, put pressure on the ball and on free players. you see teams doing it to us the whole time and it can be very effective. the only players that seem to do it for us is tevez and bellemy while barry and de jong back off, or only 1 of them pushes on while the other drops back 20 yards.
the days of a player been giving a single role in a game are gone, barry, ireland and de jong should all be classed as box to box midfielders - attack when we have the ball and get the ball back as quick as you can when we dont. Stevie is excellent at putting pressure on when we dont have it but when barry and de jong dont pick up the spare players around then stevie looks out of position.
so i think our best midfield is playing 3 (Ireland - De Jong - Barry) but together and as 1 unit.
See I think you may be right here Hughes really liked the holding midfielder and thought that was the answer to our defensive problems last season and Mancini just went with it. Maybe Mancini should really shake things up and try something else?
we have played with 1 and 2 holding midfielders but it still made no difference. if you give opponents time and space to turn and face our goal then it does'nt matter how many we have back there, professional footballers are good enough to find space if giving enough time on the ball. we need to give them no time and make them pass it back or hurry their pass while also cutting off options to other players, this is something Barcelona do to great effect and they dont have any midfielder that just sits in front of the back 4
Ted Hughes wrote:I thought Barry looked excellent at the beginning of the season. Whether that's because DeJong wasn't there or whether it's because he was just playing better I don't know.
Imo though, unless the rest of the team formation requires a defensive midfielder & a playmaker, I don't want to see either role in the team. I want 2 midfielders who run, pass, tackle, cross & shoot, who are decent in the air & have a winning attitude.
If we want to add a DeJong or an Ireland to that for certain games then fair enough but I want us to be aiming for a core of 2 great players not 3-4 ok ones. Great midfielders don't just defend or attack they do both.
Ireland, if he can't be an alrounder, would then be treated as an attacking player & would therefore be expected to create/score at the same level as the others do or not play.
MaineRoadMemories wrote:Dunno why but I have a gut feeling that Ireland, Vieira, Johnson and SWP would complement each other very well. Probably not enough protection against the top 6 teams but I'd use this against teams lower down the table, and play De jong, Barry, Ireland, SWP and Johnson in a 5 man midfield against the teams that dominate possession.
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