- Jul 7, 2007
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It's strange, despite the range of positives this season I feel we really need a lot of work done to the team. Bale has certainly almost single handedly carried us along throughout the season too, well, at least in the 2nd half of the season. We have the striker situation where IMO, not only do we not have enough, but it's possibly fair to suggest that the ones we even do have are not good enough.
Then we have the central midfield situation which hasn't been spoken about as much as other problems but I feel this has been a big big problem and I think it's contributed to seeing some of the worst consistently bad performances at home I've witnessed for years. We bypass the middle of the pitch so much sometimes and as a result we've seen a lot more long balls from defence to attack and our football obviously suffers from it. Not having any ball players due to the loss of VDV and Modric has just made our style of play so patchy. Away from home we can get away with it but at home it always plays into the hands of the opposition.
Then there's the LW and RW issue. Dempsey, Holtby and Sigurdsson are far from the answer to these positions, they've been playing on the left mostly and despite sometimes putting in good shifts it almost feels like we're wasting a position by using them there. Lennon on the other side is one of the best wingers in the league when he's on form IMO but this form doesn't come consistently enough at all and I'm wondering if the time to rely on him to deliver for us in a season from that position is up. Both sides need to be looked at.
I know there are probably more issues but these are the ones that are incredibly important for us to move forward as a club. I hope some of our successes don't cover up the work that I personally think needs to be done.
Then we have the central midfield situation which hasn't been spoken about as much as other problems but I feel this has been a big big problem and I think it's contributed to seeing some of the worst consistently bad performances at home I've witnessed for years. We bypass the middle of the pitch so much sometimes and as a result we've seen a lot more long balls from defence to attack and our football obviously suffers from it. Not having any ball players due to the loss of VDV and Modric has just made our style of play so patchy. Away from home we can get away with it but at home it always plays into the hands of the opposition.
Then there's the LW and RW issue. Dempsey, Holtby and Sigurdsson are far from the answer to these positions, they've been playing on the left mostly and despite sometimes putting in good shifts it almost feels like we're wasting a position by using them there. Lennon on the other side is one of the best wingers in the league when he's on form IMO but this form doesn't come consistently enough at all and I'm wondering if the time to rely on him to deliver for us in a season from that position is up. Both sides need to be looked at.
I know there are probably more issues but these are the ones that are incredibly important for us to move forward as a club. I hope some of our successes don't cover up the work that I personally think needs to be done.