- Aug 21, 2011
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The best football we played was 4-2-3-1 with Dier at CM dropping back into the defence and the wing backs bombing on. You then had 3 at the back, Dembele bossing the center assisted by the fullbacks and then Alli, Eriksen and Lamela/Son playing freely behind Kane. You'd also often see Kane dropping deep to create and Alli running past him unmarked.
The problem with that formation is it relied on Dembele being a beast and running a whole midfield on his own. Wanyama can defensively but not offensively, Dier is too passive. Winks the jury is still out on whether he can dominate a game rather than just string things together.
Dembele simply is not at that level of form anymore so I'm not sure we can really go back to it. I think it was glaringly obvious we need to buy a world class box to box CM this summer and it should really be the focus in January.
The problem with that formation is it relied on Dembele being a beast and running a whole midfield on his own. Wanyama can defensively but not offensively, Dier is too passive. Winks the jury is still out on whether he can dominate a game rather than just string things together.
Dembele simply is not at that level of form anymore so I'm not sure we can really go back to it. I think it was glaringly obvious we need to buy a world class box to box CM this summer and it should really be the focus in January.