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One day we'll play football where the striker can just score goals and impact the final third without having to worry about whether or not he can fight two CBs at once 70 yards from goal. I swear it'll happen one day.
It's literally because Dyche has no tactics that don't involve smashing it at the strikers head 20+ times and Simms is 6'3 while Maupay is 5'9. Nothing more to complicate it. Literally just picked the taller lad.
Actually, I would, given the present options and DCL's endless cycle of injuries. Shankland puts himself about, can hold the ball up, and knows where the goal is - he's the sort of player we should have got on a cheap/low-risk deal had we been at all organised in January, and it wouldn't have hurt to give him a go.
Have any of our managers of late beyond Carlo? It's also because we also desperately lack creativity
To be fair there’s not many teams where all you have to do is score goals. Whether it’s hold up play, link up play, off the ball movement to pull people out of position or terrifying pace that affects the oppositions tactics, pretty much every team in the world needs their striker to do more than just wait around the box waiting for a chance.
All of that with the exception of hold up play is done mostly in the final third though. "Score goals and impact the final third."
Don’t agree with you here…. Burnley could play football……
Obviously. We don’t create chances, this is hardly an earth shattering revelation is it? Not for the first time today I feel the need to remind you that we play in the real world, not an ideal one. It would be great if we didn’t need a striker to put a shift in and unsettle defences, but the reality is we do at the moment, and so players will be judged on their ability to do that.
In the real world we should be trying to improve in these areas but have found it acceptable to hire managers who will not do this.
I'm never buying the idea that defensive, conservative play is necessary or sensible. It will never be true.
I honestly think you’re just misunderstanding it. My point earlier was that if simms had electric pace, or had the ability to dribble past people, or could find pockets of space where he could link the play or anything like that then we wouldn’t need him to hold the ball up, we could play in a way that utilised what he’s got. The problem is he can’t do any of those things either. We’re not obsessed with having people who can hold the ball up, it’s just the ‘easiest’ thing to ask someone to do when everyone’s crap. Again, in an ideal world everyone wouldn’t be crap and we could ping the ball round creating all sorts of chances for a fluid front 3, but we are blatantly not capable of doing that and so are trying to play in a way that gets the most out of the extremely meagre options we have. Pretty much everyone else understands this.
I don't think you can see any of those attributes from a center forward with how we're playing it. Lewandowski and Haaland would also be left with just hold up play. You can't find pockets of space in and around the box when the ball isn't in and around the box. And with the exception of Messi I've never seen a center forward who can be the one getting the ball to those areas and also finding the spaces.
Why would Carlo be excluded?