The No10 dilemma

[spike472]

Dembele ,Kane, CE, Chadders, Lamela, Pauli and even Soldado have started at No10 in Poch's favoured formation this season. They all have had varied degrees of success with only really Eriksen shinning in the role. Therefore I'd love to see Lamela given a run of games to make position his own. He has yet to find his feet at the lane but in my opinion this is due to being played mainly on the right. There he always cuts into a already conjested area and limits the teams effectiveness. Chadders has already demonstrated he can play on the right and Eriksen, before he came to us, has played most of his career on the left. All three players can interchange as Poch wants movement all the time. I hope this is tried out soon as it would be dynamite if it came off.

 

[bomberH]

The one person that certainly shouldn't be there is David Cameron.

 

[@Bobby__Lucky]

The one person that certainly shouldn't be there is David Cameron.

Just came to make the same gag....well played !

 

[mill]

Dembele ,Kane, CE, Chadders, Lamela, Pauli and even Soldado have started at No10 in Poch's favoured formation this season. They all have had varied degrees of success with only really Eriksen shinning in the role. Therefore I'd love to see Lamela given a run of games to make position his own. He has yet to find his feet at the lane but in my opinion this is due to being played mainly on the right. There he always cuts into a already conjested area and limits the teams effectiveness. Chadders has already demonstrated he can play on the right and Eriksen, before he came to us, has played most of his career on the left. All three players can interchange as Poch wants movement all the time. I hope this is tried out soon as it would be dynamite if it came off.

Poch seems to play Eriksen on the right and leave Chadli out left when such situations arise, seemingly similar to what he did at soton with ward - prowse on the right and Rodriguez left. People bemoan his constant use of inverted wingers but it's not actually true

 

[Lufti]

Lamela played in the middle during the start of the season and it was when Eriksen was moved into the middle that results improved.

 

[Blake Griffin]

Lamela played in the middle during the start of the season and it was when Eriksen was moved into the middle that results improved.

that's not true. eriksen played #10 during our worst spell of the season when we picked up one point from 15 against west brom, city, stoke, newcastle and sunderland.

 

[faze_coys]

that's not true. eriksen played #10 during our worst spell of the season when we picked up one point from 15 against west brom, city, stoke, newcastle and sunderland.

eriksen performances are quite peripheral when he starts at #10 tbh he just has a nack of popping up with a late goal which normally glosses over his lack of influence on the game.

Picks up better positions when he is stuck out on the left or drops into a 8 role

 

[E17yid]

I'm starting to wonder whether Eriksen and Lamela can play in the same side, we can look unbalanced when they do.

Eriksen should play 10 IMO. All about the interchanging anyway, innit.

 

[Blake Griffin]

eriksen performances are quite peripheral when he starts at #10 tbh he just has a nack of popping up with a late goal which normally glosses over his lack of influence on the game.

Picks up better positions when he is stuck out on the left or drops into a 8 role

everyone thinks he's a #10 because that's the position from which most of his goals come from but what they're not getting is that he gets those goals when he arrives into those positions. when he's a #10 he's all too often moving out of those positions to try and receive the ball. we have a balance issue with our attacking players as i think eriksen, chadli and lamela are all better in the left-left central areas, i'm not convinced by any of our players on the opposite side, the only one i think who offers that balance is lennon but he's seemingly on his way out.

 

[theShiznit]

I think the CM's are the most important part of our team, as the players that can hurt opposition are invariably getting the ball with two banks of four already barring their way, we need to get our key men on the ball as quickly as possible. Then we'll see the clever interchanges between the likes of Eriksen, Chadli and Lamela and creating goal scoring chances would become a lot easier.

We heard about how Poch at Southampton drilled them on quick transitions and vertical passing, how much of this have we seen?
That is THE reason the likes of Mason and Bentaleb were introduced as our other CM's are not equipped to play that kind of football.

 

[Larryjanta]

If we had a striker who could score 15-20 prem goals a season I would play Kane as a 10 with Eriksen of the left. We don't have that striker so it has to be Kane striker and Eriksen as a 10

 

[prawnsandwich]

Do we want to build our team around Lamela?
If not I am very happy with Eriksen and Townsend with Ade and Kane up front.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

We should ditch the "10", play 433 with Eriksen left of Kane and Lamela right, with Chadli as back up for all three positions.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

everyone thinks he's a #10 because that's the position from which most of his goals come from but what they're not getting is that he gets those goals when he arrives into those positions. when he's a #10 he's all too often moving out of those positions to try and receive the ball. we have a balance issue with our attacking players as i think eriksen, chadli and lamela are all better in the left-left central areas, i'm not convinced by any of our players on the opposite side, the only one i think who offers that balance is lennon but he's seemingly on his way out.

Lamela is definitely better on the right.

 

[mil1lion]

I actually think Walker (and Yedlin in time) is the key to Lamela being effective on the right. With a proper overlapping full back it will stretch the play a bit more. Barca have played this way for years with their fullbacks offering the width. If you're going to play inverted wingers which is clearly Pochettino's preference then you need the fullbacks to press on, a proper defensive midfielder to sweep up any counter attacks and centre backs to push up.

I would keep Eriksen as the number 10 and Kane as the centre forward where they're both performing well. Lamela or Chadli can cover if needed but I think they're perfectly fine on the wings as long as the fullbacks get forward and if we learn to move the ball quicker.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

We should ditch the "10", play 433 with Eriksen left of Kane and Lamela right, with Chadli as back up for all three positions.

BC, you make my heart sing
you make our squad groovy
wild thing.

 

[Blake Griffin]

Lamela is definitely better on the right.

maybe in italy.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

I don't think we've got a no. 10 problem. I think we've got a CM problem. Our most preferred CM, who I agree are the best in the squad, have just come out of their junior status in the squad. They perform largely on the level of squad players, not like 1st choice alternatives for a mighty club. Behind them, there are only worse alternatives, with different flaws making them less attractive options. The ball doesn't move quick enough and far enough to even reach whoever is acting like no. 10. In our most preferred starting line up, the CM is our weakest link this season.

 

[Lufti]

that's not true. eriksen played #10 during our worst spell of the season when we picked up one point from 15 against west brom, city, stoke, newcastle and sunderland.

Okay but we still play better with Eriksen and Chadli interchanging their positions as oppose to when Lamela plays in the middle

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

Okay but we still play better with Eriksen and Chadli interchanging their positions as oppose to when Lamela plays in the middle

We need Lamela on the pitch, I think. Yes, maybe not stationary in a central position, but he is needed and missed.