Still waiting for my 442 tbh. Understand why the first 2 games went for safe and solid, but we won’t stay up bungling in corners. If we aren’t playing with wide players that bomb forward, then a narrow 4 man midfield should be able to shuffle across the pitch to the side the ball is on, and squeeze together to clog the middle. Hard yards obviously for those 4, but thought that was the whole point of this new dawn? Doesn’t need to mean we have gaps if they work across.
We have 2 fit strikers, neither of whom have either the quality or physical attributes to play up top alone. Both together would help each of them.
Expecting Doucoure to arrive in the box and score like peak Lampard is a sad embarrassing joke, particularly when he shows no interest in sprinting back when we lose it, so may as well have 4 anyway. Onana is wildly inconsistent and never looks like scoring either. Goals aren’t coming from midfielders joining the attack.
I think the stereotyped Dyche formation/style scores goals today, and we do (sort of) have the players to play it. Scraping a couple of wins in a 451 seems to have frightened them into sticking with it.