| 3 at the back with wing backs Saturday? 12:21 - Feb 26 with 829 views | thehat |
The one (and only) thing we seem ok on now is centre backs so could this now be the time we get to see it on Saturday. I thought we switched to it for the last 15 minutes on Tuesday and it seemed to close some of the gaps.
My thoughts are 3,5,2 when attacking 5,3,2 when defending:
Walsh
Dunne
Cook
Edwards/JCS (either can play on the left of the 3)
Mbengue/Smyth (RWB)
Saito/RND/Esquerdinha (LWB)
Hayden/Varane/Morgan/Vale (3 from these 4 for midfield)
Kone/Kolie/Bennie (2 from these 3 for up top)
I think if we go 4,4,2 or 4,2,3,1 Sheff Utd will have a field day.
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| 3 at the back with wing backs Saturday? on 12:34 - Feb 26 with 760 views | Ranger_1969 |
Could certainly go with that formation, but LWB would be a potential issue - RND is ineligible and I wouldn't want Saito anywhere near a LWB role. So it would have to be Esq.
Also have to consider whether Varane is ready to start
Would it be a good idea to leave Walsh out - like they did after the Coventry thrashing earlier in the season?
For me;
Hamer
Dunne Edwards Cook/JCS
Mbengue Hayden Varane/Morgan Vale Esq
Kone Kolli | | | |
| 3 at the back with wing backs Saturday? on 12:38 - Feb 26 with 741 views | daveB |
I'd probably go with 3 at the back, would mean a bit more protection for Esquerdinha and Edwards is good enough on the ball to push into midfield when we have the ball. |  | | |
| 3 at the back with wing backs Saturday? on 13:05 - Feb 26 with 673 views | dannyblue |
| 3 at the back with wing backs Saturday? on 12:38 - Feb 26 by daveB |
I'd probably go with 3 at the back, would mean a bit more protection for Esquerdinha and Edwards is good enough on the ball to push into midfield when we have the ball. |
I was also thinking this, especially if JCS is fit (!). That gives us two ball-players who could both do that Sheff Utd overlapping centrebacks (tm) thing. And since all of our wingers are injured (Chair, Smyth, Dembele, Poku) or out of form (Saito) it's easier not to play with any. That gives us:
Kone Kolli
Vale Hayden Varane
Esq JCS Dunne Edwards Mbengue
Walsh
Bennie time shares with Kolli. Morgan comes on in the middle for legs if needed. Saito can come in if we need to change shape.
Hopefully JCS and Vale as lefties can help Esq out. Dunne's there to win headers. Mbengue can get up and down. |  | | |
| 3 at the back with wing backs Saturday? on 13:09 - Feb 26 with 663 views | BklynRanger |
That formation is fair enough, I'm just not sure I've seen signs of him going 3 at the back.
I think moving Edwards into midfield is the most solid option overall, with Cook or (hold your ribs) Clarke-Salter back in beside Dunne.
Edwards seemed to be getting a bit of practice in the other night, after the game was long gone of course. He was much further forward and getting lots of touches like Madsen would've been. Things are getting laughably threadbare but I think that could work as a sticking plaster for now. |  | | |
| 3 at the back with wing backs Saturday? on 13:15 - Feb 26 with 623 views | RBlock |
Might be over-simplistic, but if they don't stop playing like cnts then it doesn't matter what formation we play. Losing runners from set pieces, not stepping out to block shots, skewed clearances, poor shot-stopping - these are all basics of the game, not Southampton exploiting tactical gaps in our set up. |  | | |
| 3 at the back with wing backs Saturday? on 13:27 - Feb 26 with 603 views | Blue_Castello |
Suggested the same earlier on today on the Jimmy Dunne thread because it mentioned that RND is unavailable, considering Esquerdinha is vulnerable in his defensive duties we need to make ourselves solid at the back.
Esquerdinhas best moments have been attacking, his best position currently is probably wing back, the formation gives us a chance to play three in midfield which would be very useful now Madsens unavailable, it will be a tough game but I still think with some smart team selection we can cause them problems. [Post edited 26 Feb 13:57]
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| 3 at the back with wing backs Saturday? on 13:32 - Feb 26 with 564 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| 3 at the back with wing backs Saturday? on 12:34 - Feb 26 by Ranger_1969 |
Could certainly go with that formation, but LWB would be a potential issue - RND is ineligible and I wouldn't want Saito anywhere near a LWB role. So it would have to be Esq.
Also have to consider whether Varane is ready to start
Would it be a good idea to leave Walsh out - like they did after the Coventry thrashing earlier in the season?
For me;
Hamer
Dunne Edwards Cook/JCS
Mbengue Hayden Varane/Morgan Vale Esq
Kone Kolli |
Walsh had a mare (alongside the rest of them) and if we drop him then we might as well pay him up and let him go. I shudder to think what this would do to his confidence.
Don't get me wrong, I'm to be convinced, but if he's perpetually one game away from being dropped, then it won't work.
He needs some notion of belief in him, albeit if we've all got a question mark over him on here.
I remain of the view that there was a keeper in there (may still be) but this lad's development has been atrocious by QPR. If we drop him for Saturday, then this will really be on us! |  |
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| 3 at the back with wing backs Saturday? on 14:07 - Feb 26 with 475 views | TheChef |
We did go three at the back for the last twenty minutes at Southampton (for what it was worth). To be honest it was more like a back five.
Adamson Mbengue Dunne Edwards Esquerdinha
Saturday will be tough but it does feel a bit defeatist playing at home to set up like that. |  |
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| 3 at the back with wing backs Saturday? on 17:51 - Feb 26 with 275 views | golborne |
We have looked better with 3 at the back for many years now. warburton saved his job post Cardiff at Xmas by switching to a 3 for the Norwich away game, which we should have won in their promotion season. That Warburton team never looked back for almost a calendar year with the loans in Jan helping. Aug- early Dec we were sublime to watch.
BUT, yes all day long if you want to play football through the lines vs pumping it in the channels as we mostly do now | | | |
| 3 at the back with wing backs Saturday? on 19:06 - Feb 26 with 187 views | Hooparoo |
| 3 at the back with wing backs Saturday? on 13:15 - Feb 26 by RBlock |
Might be over-simplistic, but if they don't stop playing like cnts then it doesn't matter what formation we play. Losing runners from set pieces, not stepping out to block shots, skewed clearances, poor shot-stopping - these are all basics of the game, not Southampton exploiting tactical gaps in our set up. |
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