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Calvert Lewin.
LydiateLee
Player Valuation: £8m
Liverpool have blistering pace amongst their forwards. Ours are like the Father Ted Over 75's all priests 5-a-side team.
neil999
Player Valuation: £80m
Hope he can do it mate, just thinking of other ways
kiss the crest
Player Valuation: £35m
You need to add And pace to the topic, the difference with Liverpool is they have pace in abundance
...they also play at a tempo and with flexibility up front. Like us, they don't really have conventional wingers, Mane in particular cuts inside and the speed merchant on the other side gets himself in goal scoring positions (I'm already wondering how Baines will cope).
You certainly can play without a target man. There's plenty of people who would rather we did I think, but I'm not sure we have the players to do it.
Most of our defenders aren't comfortable on the ball, so they end up playing quite a lot of long balls when under pressure. Without a target man that's going to mean the ball just comes straight back. Sigurdsson's strength is crossing the ball, and Klaassen's appears to be getting ahead of the striker into the box. Neither of which are massively useful without a striker playing with their back to goal. We also lack players who can pick passes from midfield, so if Sandro is going to play centrally I'm not sure who's going to be playing him in.
I think we'll be asking DCL to step up big time this year.
Most of our defenders aren't comfortable on the ball, so they end up playing quite a lot of long balls when under pressure. Without a target man that's going to mean the ball just comes straight back. Sigurdsson's strength is crossing the ball, and Klaassen's appears to be getting ahead of the striker into the box. Neither of which are massively useful without a striker playing with their back to goal. We also lack players who can pick passes from midfield, so if Sandro is going to play centrally I'm not sure who's going to be playing him in.
I think we'll be asking DCL to step up big time this year.
I'd be happy if we stopped playing 5 at the back with 3 defensive midfielders first. Baby steps.
You need lots of pace and fluidity. Koeman signed players to play a target man system. He was screwed over.
Bluechris31
Player Valuation: £750k
Absolutely right, our lack of pace was obvious in all of the preseason and league games so far, with the possible exception of the home leg against Split when we had Miralles and Lookman playing wide.
Abraders
Player Valuation: £60m
Literally, we've looked absolutely awful without two wingers on the pitch and a back 4.
And Koemans pride means Kev is out the squad etc, pathetic for me. Sort it out and play a real formation that suits us.
Spot on, let's hope he has a contingency plan or we're pretty much knackered.
ExpatinBangkok
Player Valuation: £6m
If you are looking at our teams strengths, we seem best suited for for parking the bus since we have two very good defensive mids in Gueye and Shnieds plus very good new cb and gk. Problem is we have no counter attack pace.
Against less good teams - like hadjuk split, bottom half prem teams, we should have the skills to pass the ball (slowly) up field right into the box for scoring opportunities.
Only realistic hope is that sandro steps up (i don't think DCL has the skill or experience to come through for us this season unfortunately - hope I'm wrong)
Against less good teams - like hadjuk split, bottom half prem teams, we should have the skills to pass the ball (slowly) up field right into the box for scoring opportunities.
Only realistic hope is that sandro steps up (i don't think DCL has the skill or experience to come through for us this season unfortunately - hope I'm wrong)
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