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Hutton Woodgate King BAE
Lennon Corluka Jenas Modric
Keane Bent/Pav
couldn't call between Bent or Pav so it would be who impressed more in training
Gomes
Hutton Woodgate King BAE
Lennon Corluka Jenas Modric
Keane Bent/Pav
couldn't call between Bent or Pav so it would be who impressed more in training
Gomes
Corluka Woodgate King BAE
Lennon Jenas Modric O'Hara
Keane Bent
Also, what has Corluka done wrong at right back to move him from there, and more importantly, what evidence is there to say that he could play in the middle of a 4-4-2??
He himself says it's his best position.
He himself says it's his best position.
Why are we messing up the midfield and then defence? Zokora, who is a very good player, for Palacios. No other changes needed. Our result was shit Saturday, our performance was excellent.
PLEASE. NOT. JENAS. AND. ZOKORA.
We've suffered at the hands of that combination for far too long and ultimately, it doesnt really work. Get Huddlestone in there instead of Zokora, get Jenas to hold and Hudd to push on and we shoud create a fair few chances. West Ham arent exactly a team of grafters and with a distinct lack of pace throughout their spine they will be vulnerable to movement and slick passing.
Also, what has Corluka done wrong at right back to move him from there, and more importantly, what evidence is there to say that he could play in the middle of a 4-4-2??
What, like in the Carling Cup Final against United?
I think that just like people have stereotype Jenas for never working hard and always being invisible, Zokora has also been stereotyped for simply being shit.
However I think it has been pretty clear this season that Zokora has finally adapted to the Premier League and was certainly one of the positives from the beginning of the season, especially when Jenas was out injured.
Zokora has taken a long time to adapt, but then again so had Palacios at Wigan. I wonder if people here would have said get rid of Palacios if it was us who had bought him straight from wherever he came from (a Honduran team?) and he didn't perform well immediately?
Jenas and Zokora does work, but it just requires different roles to what we have been used to in the past. Previously, Jenas was required to constantly bomb forward to help out in attack, but Zokora's inexperience in the PL and his inability to play an expansive passing game meant that Jenas couldn't do that job and so had to stick close to Zokora, and this left too many holes in our midfield and team.
However now, both Jenas and Zokora are simply tasked with breaking up play and bossing the midfield from deep, and laying it off to Modric and Lennon to do the damage. This places less pressure on Jenas and is something he is very good at (and he can even make the occasional run forward to). It can and does work, as we saw against United in the CC final, and I can you that we could do a lot worse than those two in the centre of our midfield