Bang on, his 2 chances yesterday, the first was created by himself lressing and intercepting a pass, and the second was a big punt down field.Wouldn’t matter who it was, the 1 feeds off scraps either way.
I agree with that!Well that's just it, it's not the fact that we played 1 up front, it's the fact that the 1 was Biamou.
Bang on, his 2 chances yesterday, the first was created by himself lressing and intercepting a pass, and the second was a big punt down field.
You've only got to look at the expected goal stats, and we're 4th from bottom, because we don't create enough really good chances.
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I would agree with all that, but again, the one up top isn’t the problem. Hypothetically if you had a more attack minded left wing back, Hamer in his preferred position alongside say Kelly/Sheaf/James and then another player in the O’Hare mould behind one striker, it is fine. Last year it was largely fine with McCallum and Allen or Shipley. If he was going to build a squad to play only one way, which it appears, he should have looked to recruit better replacements here. The entire set up is wrong and unbelievably negative. The two “attacking players” are terrible in front of goal, so even the odd chances they get, they squander
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MR has spoken before about it being more appropriate on some occasions to play 1 or 2 up front. In my view with the personnel we’ve got we can only really go for the latter. Tuesday and yesterday showed why.
The two up front thing is the biggest myth on this site. We beat this exact team 1-4 last season with one up top. Having two strikers on the pitch means nothing if you can’t get the ball to them or midfielders up to support them. I bet Man City fans are constantly livid with being top of the league and largely playing 0 strikers! Imagine.
There are currently huge issues with how we are playing, the fact we didn’t have two strikers today isn’t one of them, the choice of the one striker, well that’s for another thread.
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I still can’t get my head around why Robins went for 1 up front against bottom of the table Wycombe.
I can only think he was hoping for a reaction from the debacle against Luton. To be honest had we took the chances created in the last two games we would be sat on four points from those two games possibly. This is what happens when persisting with a shite strikerMore that he went for the identical team to the garbage on Tuesday
I can only think he was hoping for a reaction from the debacle against Luton. To be honest had we took the chances created in the last two games we would be sat on four points from those two games possibly. This is what happens when persisting with a shite striker
We played one up with one DM, one box to box and two AMs. We also played further up the pitch getting our wing backs involved regularly in the final third.
Now we don’t have two AMs who are up to scratch so we’ve got to compensate by putting another striker on, especially as our wing backs hold back after twenty minutes.
If we had another O’Hare or a Championship quality Shipley/Allen then we’d be fine with one up, but we don’t.
That argument doesn’t make sense when it’s against a team bottom of the league who we beat with the exact same players last season. I’m not saying we shouldn’t ever go two up top, but everyone who’s saying “can’t believe we didn’t go two up top against Wycombe”. It’s just the lazy go to. Put more players up front = more goals. When instead tactically playing one up top (albeit it was with a player who can score) worked perfectly against that set up last season
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That argument doesn’t make sense when it’s against a team bottom of the league who we beat with the exact same players last season. I’m not saying we shouldn’t ever go two up top, but everyone who’s saying “can’t believe we didn’t go two up top against Wycombe”. It’s just the lazy go to. Put more players up front = more goals. When instead tactically playing one up top (albeit it was with a player who can score) worked perfectly against that set up last season
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Again, we played a forward three last season not a forward two. When we played them earlier in the season and won we played Shipley and O’Hare behind Walker. Then brought on Biamou and Baka and left O’Hare on. Last season we played Shipley and Westbrooke behind Godden.
The diamond with one up has one less attack minded player than the box and the box we played yesterday tried to fit Hamer, a defensive minded player, into the Shipley role.
I’m really not sure why this is hard. You’re arguing that we should’ve done the same as last year and I’m explaining why we’re not. I think the phrase “two up front” has triggered you TBH.
This is literally my pointYesterday I’d have started Shipley and just gone for the L1 selection if our aim was to replicate tactics.
This is literally my point
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