- May 11, 2011
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One of the biggest knee jerks in SC histroy lol.
We play a good style of football which is a balance between dominating possession and creating chances whilst restricting them to very few. If we did much more risky passes and moves we’d concede way more than we do.
Poch is a bloody good manager mate, he’s got us massively overachieving year over year.
Our real problem is we lack the attacking and midfield players to break teams down and we have no plan B up top to Kane,nothing to do with tactics at all.
Sissoko offers nothing, Dier passes safe as does Wanyama, Dembele is chronically carrying injuries, Winks is ok passing wise but also fairly safe, so while all good players we have little to no creativity in CM, put a modric etc in there and different story.
Then we have Eriksen,Son,Dele,Lamela, only Son can go past a man, Dele arrives to the box late but doesn’t take players on 1-v-1 nor does eriksen not does Lamela, they’re are pretty much all creative passers of the ball but none have much pace or trickery bar sonny to do something at pace or unpredictable, then up front we have Llorente to supplement Kane and Poch Just doesn’t play him or 2 up top very rarely, finally we had today Davies who offers 0 going forward and also has no pace so can’t stretch teams like rose does.
This is our issue.
Add a Modric type in CM and a Salah/Zaha to the attacking options and a better back up striker to Kane and we’d be 2nd.
Levy needs to sort it out not Poch.
This. Whilst Poch could have and should have made changes, his only realistic change was Llorente up top with Sissoko being taken off. We lack a creative midfielder and have needed a pacey wide player for years. Last night (and in other games against relegation fodder who have no intention of playing expansive football) showed that we have been worked out by visiting teams. Burnley, West Brom, Swansea and now West Ham. I don't believe this is the 'Wembley effect' as we have had the same issue at WHL. There is no plan B because there are no options for a plan B and it is something the club need to address in the next couple of transfer windows.