| The 'No.10' 10:15 - Dec 3 with 363 views | BlueOura |
We don't have one player in the squad that looks like the right fit in this position do we?
Akpom looks terrible there, like just so bad it is hard to believe. Nunez is not a 10 for me either and looks better in a deeper position, and Szmodics is a good foil for whoever plays 9 in certain games, but doesn't link up play at all well enough when receiving the ball back to goal in games where the opposition sit deep.
Add to this the obvious imbalance in other parts of the squad ( no cover for Leif, signing both Clarke and Philogene, no cover for Azor etc.) and I am really left scratching my head at the recruitment.
The 10 position is so pivitol to how we want to play it is just mind blowing how we have left ourselves in this position. It feels a bit harsh to dig Akpom out, as I am sure he is trying but did they not watch him play before we signind him? Truly baffling. |  | | |  |
| The 'No.10' on 10:24 - Dec 3 with 337 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
Another poster mentioned Egeli this morning.
He wants to play there, KM said he will end up there.
Lets give it a go.
Obviously we could try Cam Humphreys, but that wont happen. |  |
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| The 'No.10' on 10:37 - Dec 3 with 298 views | grow_our_own |
Clarke for central 10. Assist when played in that position last night. Joint top goal-scorer. Usually him or Philogene are on the bench. Insanity not to have two of the most gifted attackers in the Championship on the pitch. Big gap in quality from them to the central 10s that have tried so far this season. Until KM can solve the Clarke vs Philogene conundrum, he's open to attacks that he isn't getting the best from this squad.
If Egeli plays central, then we've got no-one to play right 10. And yes, I'm talking about McAteer. Clarke was tried right 10 at the start of the season and it didn't work. At least one wide attacker needs to have physicality, like Burns did. Egeli is closest fit for that RW profile. [Post edited 3 Dec 10:39]
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| The 'No.10' on 10:40 - Dec 3 with 281 views | DavoIPB |
Drop the ten. Play two strikers next to each other, five across midfield and three in defence. Have Davis as left sided midfielder and forgo him in defence | | | |
| The 'No.10' on 10:41 - Dec 3 with 279 views | Jon_456 |
I’ve lost count how many times I’ve said this but Egeli is 100% a number 10.
Our current attacking issue is that whoever is playing in the 10, they’re not finding the pockets of space to allow our defence and midfield to move the ball forward. It’s one of the main reasons we keep turning back once we get toward the final third. And on the odd occasion they do find space, their first touch lets them down.
It baffles me how we haven’t utilised him there yet. | | | |
| The 'No.10' on 10:46 - Dec 3 with 240 views | BrockleyBlue78 |
| The 'No.10' on 10:40 - Dec 3 by DavoIPB |
Drop the ten. Play two strikers next to each other, five across midfield and three in defence. Have Davis as left sided midfielder and forgo him in defence |
Amen. |  | | |
| The 'No.10' on 10:58 - Dec 3 with 194 views | BlueOura |
| The 'No.10' on 10:40 - Dec 3 by DavoIPB |
Drop the ten. Play two strikers next to each other, five across midfield and three in defence. Have Davis as left sided midfielder and forgo him in defence |
Good shout. I feel like this could work, if not every game then at least in certain games.
Greaves, as we know is quite mobile and has looked comfortable playing left back at times. I think he would be ideal on the left of a back three supporting Leif.
I was listening to some analysis of the Man City v Leeds game at the weekend. They spoke of how Farke changed the formation to a 3-5-2 at half time and caused City no end of problems in the second half and were unlucky not to come away with a point.
This is one of the things that frustrates me the most about KM, the complete refusal to play any other way regarding the formation or change things up significantly in game. Sure, we brought subs on at half time yesterday but it was still in the same formation. Blackburn had 3 centre backs and they were getting an easy ride against our one striker. | | | |
| The 'No.10' on 11:23 - Dec 3 with 144 views | Len_Brennan |
I've been saying it for ages, it just doesn't work for the players we are using, but McKenna is wedded to it & constantly sticking square pins into round holes.
Despite having 1 decent outing there, and only decent in comparison to the mismatch of Szmodics & Akpom there, Nunez clearly isn't suited to the role either.
For me, Cajuste is the best suited option of the players currently getting game time - his clever shimmies & quick feet allow him to ghost past players, turn them & make clever layoffs - but it's been really unfair on Cameron Humphreys not to get a run out in that role, given his previous experience playing there, albeit at a lower level.
McKenna clearly lost control last night as he just started shifting players all o er the place, WHILE NEVER CONSIDERING A CHANGE TO A SYSTEM THAT WASN'T WORKING! (sorry for shouting).
He played 3 different centre forwards (Azon, Akpom & Hirst), but didn't have 2 on as strikers at the same time
He played Jack Clarke in all 3 attacking (#10) roles behind the CF, moving him from left to right when Philogene came on & then into the middle for Eegli.
He started Akpom as the centre #10, then brought on Nunez there, before moving Clarke in, deploying the other 2 upfront & into midfield respectively.
Neither of the starting midfield pair finished the game, with Nunez going to the deeper Matusiwa role & Cajuste playing further forward, which I think speaks to my call for him being more suited to the troublesome centre #10 role.
As others have suggested, the fixation with the system staying constant & us just having to freshen it up with 'finishers' replacing 'starters' in every match is as boring as it is predictable at this point; the fact that we don't have the right players for it, despite spending a fortune, makes it utterly ludicrous that we are still doing it & if anything getting worse. | |
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| The 'No.10' on 11:33 - Dec 3 with 124 views | Nutkins_Return |
It's not the players in my opinion. We don't play in a way that makes 10 effective. A lot of our play goes down the left and we have Left forwards always looking to cut inside.
10s thrive off arriving late in area and scoring. We don't play this way now. Egeli is the one that. An potentially bring them into play a bit more if we use him more.
Szmodics, Akpom etc didn't go from 30+ goals from a 10 in a season to bad players overnight. You can put Chaplin or whomever you want in that 10 and in this set up you aren't getting tons of goals from them.
Are system needs tweaking to get the best out of them in my view. | |
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