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The Death of Strike Partnerships

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Raino85

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With a lot of teams around the world now chosing to either play 1 up front (us) or 3 upfront (Barca/RS). Made me think. Is the strike partnership dead? Now a lot of people would say it has just altered to a focal number 9 and a player a little deeper e.g Kane & Erikson at spurs (15 years ago would they be classed as a strike partnership) similary the Lukaku & Barkley partnership the year we finished 5th ( Barkley seemed to play a lot closer to rom that year then he did at any point last year. If Beardsley & Linekar were playing today would it be linekar upfront on his own and with Beardsley behind him.Similar with Cole & Yorke, Shearer & Sheringham, Rush & Dalglish.
So anyway what I am trying to say is should Kane & Erikson, Barkley & Lukaku be classed as a strike partnership (would it help to call them that so the main striker dosent feel isolated? And the attacking midfielder stays closer to the striker. Would it give them a sence of teamwork?
Also who are your favourite strike partnerships of the past?
 

I don't know about that, I think it is a case of as soon as any striker has a decent season they're snapped up.

Look at Suarez and Sturridge.
 

Greaves and Gilzean
Chivers and Gilzean
Sheringham and Klinsmann
Crooks and Archibald.

No, Kane and Eriksen are not a strike partnership.

Spurs may have been one of the first teams to go 4-5-1 (1986-1987) with Clive Allen up front on his tod. Seemed to work - he scored 49 goals that season. Mind you with a midfield of Hoddle Ardiles Waddle P.Allen & Galvin it would be harder not to score.
 
You need to have the perfect personell. If you can get 2 together who can play and cover ground for each other and a midfield that can work with that then ther eis no reason one wouldn't work. But the way the game has gone these days finding these types of players all at the same time for the right amount of money is very hard to do.
 
Dithering Dougie said:
Yeah Ive said this myself. He thrives on bullying defenders, winning headers and crosses into the box.

They'll have to change their style again if they want to get the best out of him because he's not one for high energy pressing to worry defenders into mistakes, it just not his game like it's not Lukaku's.
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This is why I'd always go for two up front. One of each of the kind you describe. There isn't a striker on the planet capable of both.
 

Whistlin' Dixie said:
This is why I'd always go for two up front. One of each of the kind you describe. There isn't a striker on the planet capable of both.
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They had the closest thing in Suarez to being the best one man defence wrecking ball, it suited Suarez to be the main man and he took the pressure off their other players. Without him they've not got the players to successfully carry that system on but Brodgers persisted with it last year. Now if he's getting Benteke he'll need a rethink but it doesn't look like they've got the players there to change tac and help Benteke flourish.
 

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