You can call him a second striker all day mate, hes doing well going forward but i cant for the life me see how he is playing as a second striker nor do i see any great change or adjustment in his game or position on the feild. Hes only scored one goal since our strikers have been out, if im right hes scored the majority of his others with a full compliment of strikers on the feild. Im struggleing a bit here. His card count would also indicate hes more all action all over the midfeild then your arguement would suggest.
Hes taking poscession of the back four playing it simple, turning over play, making himself available to other midfeilders in the centre while we are in pocesson, keeping/retaining/holding up play in the final two quaters and laying it off, when the ball is out on the flanks he gets in the box, he retains our pocession form defence, the whole way through the pitch and into attack. Hes a Box to Box midfeilder quite simply because hes involved in everything from defense to attack.
A fish is a fish is a fish.
I can call him a second striker all day, because that's where he's playing. He's playing the role very well, fair play to him. He looks far better than than he did in the middle.
The last time Fellaini played as a box to box midfielder was against Aston Villa, which was six games ago. Since then he's played behind Cahill and has looked superb, the best we've seen him.
His early goals did come in central midfield, he's perfectly capable of scoring goals and will do whether he's playing centre back, centre mid or upfront. In terms of all round performances though that was not the case, he looked out of his depth at times and alot of people used him as a scapegoat and critisised him. He wasn't playing well but it was unfair on the lad.
He's hasn't been anywhere near the back four for around five to six games, Arteta and Neville are the players who are playing in that area of the pitch and doing that job, not Fellaini. Fellaini is recieving the ball in the final third most of the time and usually he has his back to goal. He's holding the ball up and linking things together.
When Jagielka or Lescott have the ball Fellaini is up alongside the opposition players centre backs, playing as our target man and looking for the knockdowns. He's not in the middle of the park winning headers, Neville and Arteta are.
He is a "box to box" midfielder (naturally), I haven't said he isn't to be honest. His future probably does lie in that position, alonside Arteta or another player but he's not playing that role at the moment, not a chance. What is he involved in defensively? Seriously, he's offered nothing defensively bar clearing a few opposition set pieces.
It's just like calling Wayne Rooney a box to box midfielder because occasionly he drops to the half way line and links things together. He's far from it.
