Right Enough is Enough after today's debacle I'm writing this in the hope that someone points Moyesie or his much maligned sidekick Roundy towards this thread!!
After another toothless display in the final third (yes Timmy even you for missing a gilt edged chance at 1nil) one thing that struck me was how unbalanced we looked. Yes we had a lot of the ball and yes at times played some nice football but how long can we hide behind the same excuses ? We have heard from the Wolves game (2nd of the campaign) that IF we had taken our chances , or we just need someone to put the ball in the net, we dominated that game but couldn't score !! This has happened on far too many occasions already this season for it to be a hard luck story.
Moyesie appears to be running out of ideas as how to correct the problem. On the face of things it looks pretty bad , we have won just 4 out of 20 matches which sounds horrendous. On the other hand we've only lost 6 out of 20, sounds ok. We've lost 8 out of 44 matches in the Premier League (might be 43) and only lost 5 AWAY games in 2010. That's the problem with stats , you can make them read however you want them too but one stat we can't manipulate is the goal stats, we simply don't score enough (stating the obvious I know but still).
Now we all have our theories, not attacking enough, no pace in the team, only play one striker, tactically naive etc but something has to change before we are nervously trying to accumulate 40 points before May. Yes things may change yes we may end up in the scrap for Europa League but at this moment in time it doesn't look like it will anytime soon. Yak is about to leave which makes our need for a striker even more desperate and Timmy away as well ??
Now this is where I thought I'd help Moyesie and Roundy out. They are obviously devoid of any fresh ideas and hate the prospect of having TWO strikers on the pitch because we can't play with only 4 midfielders so here is what I propose.......
3-5-2 ....lining up like this ...
>>>>>>Howard>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>Jagielka>>>>>Neville>>>>>>>Distin>>>>>>>>
>>>>>Coleman>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Baines>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Fellaini>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Arteta>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Pienaar>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Beckford>>>>>>>>Saha>>>>>>>
Subs:
Rodwell, Osman,Bily,Victor,Hibbo,Heitinga,Mucha
That line up based on Yak being sold and Timmy being in Oz....
It would give us 2 strikers on the pitch, our 2 wingbacks are perfect for the role and allows us to have enough players in the middle of the park.I think it would allow us to be attacking without leaving us short at the back. The line up can be tinkered with but I certainly think its one we need to look at instead of being crippled by a 451 negative formation...
Discuss ...
THT....
