Two up front

[Groucho]

Remember the good old days of two up front? The old 4-4-2? Does anyone think we'd have success with it?

The reason I bring this up is because we play with Baines and Coleman, who are essentially old fashioned "wing backs", who overlap with whichever relevant winger is in front of them. We should benefit from crosses in to the box a là Kanchelskis/Limpar/Ferguson for a recent example.

This style in my eyes lends itself well to having two strikers as there's an extra body to knock crosses in. Kone can hold the ball up, Lukaku is more than decent and together, coupled with mucho crosses, we'd be a real headache for sides.

Eg;

Robles

Baines
Jags
Stones
Coleman

Pienaar
Besic
McCarthy
Mirallas

Kone
Lukaku

Don't get hung up on my player selection, it's just an example of how I think this one up front lark may be holding us back now. I'm probably wrong.

 

[sageyefc]

Nah, our CMs get overloaded far to easily

 

[N.S.N.O.]

Good luck getting Pienaar on the pitch..

 

[Groucho]

Good luck getting Pienaar on the pitch..

That's why I said don't take too much consideration into the player selection.

I'm referring to the two up front idea rather than a best XI.

 

[Moomin]

Remember the good old days of two up front? The old 4-4-2? Does anyone think we'd have success with it?

The reason I bring this up is because we play with Baines and Coleman, who are essentially old fashioned "wing backs", who overlap with whichever relevant winger is in front of them. We should benefit from crosses in to the box a là Kanchelskis/Limpar/Ferguson for a recent example.

This style in my eyes lends itself well to having two strikers as there's an extra body to knock crosses in. Kone can hold the ball up, Lukaku is more than decent and together, coupled with mucho crosses, we'd be a real headache for sides.

Eg;

Robles

Baines
Jags
Stones
Coleman

Pienaar
Besic
McCarthy
Mirallas

Kone
Lukaku

Don't get hung up on my player selection, it's just an example of how I think this one up front lark may be holding us back now. I'm probably wrong.

Pienaar is injured.

 

[Groucho]

Pienaar is injured.

We'll play Jimmy Martin the kit man then. Anyone.

This is why I said don't get hung up on player selection.

This is why we can't have nice things.

 

[Abraders]

1 up front has held us back for years! Kone may as well leave if he's never going to get played

 

[dublinbluenose]

Pienaar is injured apparently

 

[Moomin]

We'll play Jimmy Martin the kit man then. Anyone.

This is why I said don't get hung up on player selection.

This is why we can't have nice things.

I know, I saw that and the reply to the poster N.S.N.O as well.

I could not help it. I'm a naughty person by nature.

 

[AdaBrummieblue]

Not sure it would work @Groucho Our midfield is a bit gash with 3 atm so dropping to 2 would mean far too much work. Barry would be swamped. Our "wing backs" are just not getting past our wingers right now either. When was the last time Seamus or Leighton drove at the line and whipped in good crosses on a regular basis? They tend to cut inside much more. I guess it could be changed but I don't think either one is playing well enough. Also I really am not too sure about Rom's heading ability. Mainly because we don't cross too him but I think he's one of those big lads who's destined to keep his feet on the ground. One last thing. It's very old fashioned isn't it? We'd probably get creamed. But then I'm probably wrong too mate.

 

[AdaBrummieblue]

Oh and Pienaar is injured! Ffs...

 

[kithnou]

In an ideal world to have Lukaku and Eto'o ( yes I'm not getting hung up on the names )together up front would be awesome just like the good old days. Love to watch an attacking style if we had a good enough team to play it.

 

[Andy McGurk]

I'm not sure if its been mentioned yet but pienaar is injured

 

[N.S.N.O.]

That's why I said don't take too much consideration into the player selection.

I'm referring to the two up front idea rather than a best XI.

I don't rate Kone, thinks its always gonna be a struggle keeping him fit too....so right now I wouldn't be playing with 2 strikers...also don't think Barry, Barkley or besic can play in centre midfield if its 4-4-2...

My only problem with the current formation is we don't have enough wide midfielders....mirallas is our only one....mcgeady is crap, astu has done nothing, pienaar looks like he's finished....

As a result of this Martinez is playing Naismith Barkley & eto'o in these positions and we lose our way because they're not wide players ( and all want to drift in behind lukaku), and aren't linking up with our full backs like pienaar & Baines were...

 

[ThebanksoftheBramleyMoore]

I don't think that's the solution to our problems, we are scoring enough goals. Taking one man out of the midfield and sticking them upfront would only add to the defensive problems