Is the attack worse than last season?

[Abraders]

Yes. The attack is worse than last season, because for all his limitations, Calvert-Lewin is significantly better than Beto and Barry is very much a work in progress. We’ve got 2 strikers who can’t score and cost north of £50m out of a limited transfer budget.

We didn't score with DCL either and I loved him as a player when fit. We need to actually put Beto and Barry in positions to miss regularly for them to be considered flops. I still think if Leeds had bought beto he would have scored at least half the chances they've given DCL so far.

 

[blueblood]

We didn't score with DCL either and I loved him as a player when fit. We need to actually put Beto and Barry in positions to miss regularly for them to be considered flops. I still think if Leeds had bought beto he would have scored at least half the chances they've given DCL so far.

But DCL actually held the ball up and linked the play together. Playing as a 10 behind Beto is an utterly thankless task because you pass the ball to him and he inevitably mis-controls it or falls over.

 

[Abraders]

But DCL actually held the ball up and linked the play together. Playing as a 10 behind Beto is an utterly thankless task because you pass the ball to him and he inevitably mis-controls it or falls over.

I'd say in his prime yeah he did, but realistically the last year or two of a half fit DCL was mostly him doing stuff without actually putting himself about

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Alcaraz and McNeill wouldn’t create the attacks the players they would replacing, would do. We’d be under the coach constantly with them two in the team.

If Alcaraz would be replacing Dewsbury - Hall then he would be creating more attacks than him because he is better in that number 10 role.

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

perhaps our issues around faster breaks in transition are based in our backline being much deeper this season. It is a big space between defence and attack which also may tell us why players like N'diaye cannot last a game if they are expected to support OBrien and Beto and they are 60 yards apart.

 

[Swartzy]

We need to be faster and more direct. No more measured and pedestrian build up. It's the opposite from the way the league is going.

We've come to the party to late..

But you take a good striker and 2 FB's out of any team and you'd be seeing issues..

 

[Swartzy]

perhaps our issues around faster breaks in transition are based in our backline being much deeper this season. It is a big space between defence and attack which also may tell us why players like N'diaye cannot last a game if they are expected to support OBrien and Beto and they are 60 yards apart.

2 quality FB's and remove the pep effect on grealish, so we can see him as the lad coming through at Villa and the pace debate will disapear.

Grealish is fantastic player, but he needs to somehow loosen those reigns, move off the wing as much as use the wing, release the ball quicker whilst on a run.

He's heading to the byline, than cutting back to find a pass, in which he still holds it for a few secs before releasing it , In that transition we've given the opposition time to have 11 players back in front of goal, whilst we have about 2 players at most in the box.

When Alcaraz teams up with Illy its the total opposite, direct and pace..

Jack just needs the freedom to be the villa Jack not the pep Jack..