- Oct 21, 2003
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Agreed. When we had Mod and VDV in the same team we were massively creative, add in a Bale and a Parker or Sandro type and you've got great balance.For me it's because as soon as teams sit deep we become incredibly one paced. Eriksen has to drop deeper and our play becomes obvious and predictable. I honestly believe a player in the middle who can switch the play quickly AND help out Eriksen threading balls through would improve our attacking play immensely. ATM when we are IP against a deep sitting defence we just go side to side and back again until Eriksen comes to get it. We have players in front that have great movement but none of our CM's have the tools to find them with through balls with any sort of regularity. We need another option to keep things moving with a bit of quick thinking or to spread the play wide at pace, not one of those floated easy to defend passes Dier keeps attempting.
We're without doubt better coached now and the players all work harder off the ball than Redknapp's team but we rely so much on Eriksen. He needs a Modric type of player in midfield to take the burden off him, we've got everything else we need to hurt teams...