- Aug 28, 2010
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I think, at home, we can go against the myth 442 is dead and play with two strikers. There are a few reasons why I think this:
In most away games it wont work, it would be suicide. But at home, in games which we should be dominating, where we should be bombarding the opposition defence with waves of attack and creating multiple goalscoring opportunities, I think 2 strikers is the way to go. Any defensive pairing in the league will prefer to be marking one of Adebayor or Soldado rather than both.
Lets make WHL a fortress scoring plenty of goals along the way.
- We don’t offer enough goal threat the way we are playing. Our central striker is isolated and not offering our midfielders or defenders a good enough option to play the ball forward. Adebayor is easily nullified and Soldado doesn’t seem capable of playing the lone striker role in this league.
- We don’t have enough goal threat from elsewhere in the team. Chadli, Kane and Dier are our top scorers this season. Speaks volumes really. We’d all have assumed Adebayor, Soldado, Lamela, Eriksen would be leading the way this season but it just isn’t t happening. Something has to change.
- We don’t need to load our midfield with 5 and play the lone striker, not at home. WHL is one of the smallest playing surfaces in the league as far as I know. There is limited space all over the pitch. If we play 4 across the middle the area each individual is responsible for covering is probably much the same as the area each individual midfielder is responsible for covering on bigger pitches such as the Emirates or Old Trafford for example. It’s a small pitch, the ball can be transitioned quickly from defence to attack, much quicker than we are currently doing it, but we need the added presence of a second striker up there. A second option.
In most away games it wont work, it would be suicide. But at home, in games which we should be dominating, where we should be bombarding the opposition defence with waves of attack and creating multiple goalscoring opportunities, I think 2 strikers is the way to go. Any defensive pairing in the league will prefer to be marking one of Adebayor or Soldado rather than both.
Lets make WHL a fortress scoring plenty of goals along the way.