| The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield 20:35 - Feb 23 with 943 views | OakR |
This may be a figment of my imagination, but I think these 3 playing together in midfield were instrumental in our turnaround. They complimented each other and found their natural positions, as well as providing much needed enegry, and in the case of Morgan some very direct forward passing.
We seem to be moving away from them now as a 3m with Chair playing more centrally, and I certainly accept Chair is better centrally, but I wonder if we are losing something moving away from this.
it's as issue with Chair playing better centrally now and Saito doing well on the left, I just wonder if for some games those 3 should start and then move people around subs as the game goes on.
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| The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield on 20:40 - Feb 23 with 916 views | Northernr |
Particularly away from home I agree. We got back into this season by stodging up that midield and adding Morgan's legs. Whenever we think we're the bee's knees and move away from it, with two in midfield and 3 'tens', we get picked apart through midfield.
You don't win games losing midfield. If it means one or two of Chair, Saito, Smyth, Yang have to sit on the bench that's tough. That's the squad we've put together. |  | | |
| The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield on 20:48 - Feb 23 with 860 views | Andybrat |
It’s obvious as well, finding Morgan co-incided with Chair being injured. Agree with Clive play safe and then power up the bench. Thing is u cant drop Saito ( well I don’t think u can) so this is where Marti and Xavi really earn their corn. Imagine ( will never happen) if the whole squad was ft!! Strength in depth, which we now have, causes its own problems. | | | |
| The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield on 20:56 - Feb 23 with 785 views | Northernr |
| The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield on 20:48 - Feb 23 by Andybrat |
It’s obvious as well, finding Morgan co-incided with Chair being injured. Agree with Clive play safe and then power up the bench. Thing is u cant drop Saito ( well I don’t think u can) so this is where Marti and Xavi really earn their corn. Imagine ( will never happen) if the whole squad was ft!! Strength in depth, which we now have, causes its own problems. |
You can drop Saito. He played yesterday, we lost, to a mediocre side. If it's for the good of the team, nobody is un-dropable. He's the form player right now so I'd pick him, but I'd pick the system that works for us over any individual. | | | |
| The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield on 21:10 - Feb 23 with 688 views | gazza1 |
I agree, win midfield and you should normally get 3 points. MC has to make some tough decisions which will hurt players. I also think that Colback should be a starter. Unsure why Morgan has dropped down the 'pecking order'. Be very interesting what MC does with the Team against Sheff Utd.
In saying that if you defend like we did at Pompey its going to be tough to win matches. | | | |
| The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield on 21:13 - Feb 23 with 654 views | StreathamRanger |
Horses for courses. We knew exactly what Portsmouth were going to do to us and rather than put another strong running, tackling CM in the team we stuck with the three little guys behind Frey. It's a bit of a blind spot for Marti. He really wants to win the 'right way' but that's no good if you're just going to get bullied. Games against the Millwalls and Portsmouths of this league, especially away from home should be approached with caution and the best possible side to go toe the toe with them physically. With a run of difficult games coming up, we could do a lot worse than revert to the 3 running and tackling CMs that helped to get us out of the mess we created for ourselves in the first place. | | | |
| The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield on 21:20 - Feb 23 with 588 views | dmm |
As much as I get what's being suggested in this thread, given that no one played well yesterday, I don't think a Morgan, Varane and Field CM would have changed yesterday. After all, two of them played anyway. |  | | |
| The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield on 21:21 - Feb 23 with 573 views | Northernr |
| The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield on 21:20 - Feb 23 by dmm |
As much as I get what's being suggested in this thread, given that no one played well yesterday, I don't think a Morgan, Varane and Field CM would have changed yesterday. After all, two of them played anyway. |
We only lost by a goal, so it wouldn't have needed a big change. | | | |
| The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield on 21:22 - Feb 23 with 566 views | StreathamRanger |
| The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield on 21:20 - Feb 23 by dmm |
As much as I get what's being suggested in this thread, given that no one played well yesterday, I don't think a Morgan, Varane and Field CM would have changed yesterday. After all, two of them played anyway. |
One extra player to run around and smash into people could make a reasonable difference against a team like Portsmouth. We don't necessarily need it every game but we have to accept that sometimes it's necessary. | | | |
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| The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield on 21:36 - Feb 23 with 446 views | colinallcars |
I suppose “horses for courses” would be the phrase used in this instance.
I haven't really got a clue, but perhaps a few Colback characters would've helped.
By the same token, could you say a few tricky clever players should've run rings around 'em ? |  | | |
| The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield on 22:34 - Feb 23 with 300 views | OakR |
| The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield on 20:56 - Feb 23 by Northernr |
You can drop Saito. He played yesterday, we lost, to a mediocre side. If it's for the good of the team, nobody is un-dropable. He's the form player right now so I'd pick him, but I'd pick the system that works for us over any individual. |
This - sticking with the right system even if at times it means not playing some or all of the match without some of the best individual players.
We have Dembele coming back now as well - some tough choices coming up potentially, though it also maybe means we can rotate our falir players lots so they should all be fresh and less likely to be injured. | |
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| The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield on 23:07 - Feb 23 with 215 views | SK_hoops |
| The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield on 22:34 - Feb 23 by OakR |
This - sticking with the right system even if at times it means not playing some or all of the match without some of the best individual players.
We have Dembele coming back now as well - some tough choices coming up potentially, though it also maybe means we can rotate our falir players lots so they should all be fresh and less likely to be injured. |
Necause he only ever comes on after 70 minutes. He needs whole matches yo put his mark on a game. | | | |
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