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Got MOTM against Liverpool playing as a CDM
I think for sure that playing teams who are hard to break down at the lane, we should drop dier and play dembele dm and have more attacking players.
Got MOTM against Liverpool playing as a CDM
Feeling given anyone who picks Trippier or Davies a D'oh rating.
Touché.Or people who have dembele in one of the three advanced roles and alli deeper as it hasn't been that way for a while now![]()
Got MOTM against Liverpool playing as a CDM
I'd still rather him play alongside a cdm though, he's better being allowed to go forward.
Touché.
Think that's a much less clear cut thing than the explicitly explained by the coach approach of rotating the full backs.
Still think Alli and Dembele are both more effective swapped around.
I honestly don't think it would matter much against Norwich City, we are good enough to beat them regardless of whether Dembele plays deep or further up the pitch.
All these games were he goes missing are when he plays as the 10. I don't think he has enough to play there. He seems much more affective playing from deeper. The goal and crossbar effort against Palace both came when he was playing deeper.I think dembele could do a fantastic job deeper or in the 10 role but for me in the short term anyway alli should play further forward as he offers more goals, moments of brilliance and pace running past the striker and he can go missing for periods in games which could be costly playing in the cm 2
All these games were he goes missing are when he plays as the 10. I don't think he has enough to play there. He seems much more affective playing from deeper. The goal and crossbar effort against Palace both came when he was playing deeper.
Or people who have dembele in one of the three advanced roles and alli deeper as it hasn't been that way for a while now![]()
Problem with that is you are limiting dembele with that team and bearing in mind how important he's been to our side this season, the combination of that and not having a proper cdm in the team I don't think will be too clever.
alli deeper with dembele further forward is better against bus parkers as it gives us five attacking options rather than four.
A few of the players who played at Colchester are definitely back up players only. I'm not so sure we can compete on three fronts having to rotate those players in.
I'm talking Bentaleb (erratic) Carroll (need 93 good minutes not 48) Trippier (needs defensive coaching), Vorm of course, Davies and even Lamela is inconsistent.