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First half we had no width though. Silva isn't a winger & Sterling cuts inside more often than not. I'd argue Navas coming on had a bigger effect in that match than KdB going out wide. For example the Everton match (0-0) we had him out wide first half & were poor; 2nd half we switched him to...

Some sort of review system should be implicated IMO. Too many poor decisions directly affecting matches. Leicester & Everton penalty decisions have arguably (if we scored) cost us 4 points which puts us from 3rd to 1st if given - seems a no brainer to get something sorted given the standard of...

Much prefer him on the left taking people on than through the middle trying to link passes personally. Also prefer KdB/Silva centrally, so seems win win to leave him left & put one of those guys centrally. We looked far better in the 2nd half when we made the change. Not for the first time this...

Against Sunderland Sterling got taken out in the box, booked for diving. Against Leicester a stonewall on Aguero not given. Against Everton in the cup a stonewall on Navas not given. Again today a complete stonewaller not given. 4 in the last 6 matches, 3 of which would have changed the result...

To be fair we played Fernando & Toure in front of Demichelis once before this season... ..Against Liverpool. Spurs beating, Fernando in a 2 in front of MDM, Liverpool Fernando in a 2 in front of MDM, Stoke Fernando in a 2 in front of MDM. Don't want to claim there's a pattern but.. They're the...

Toure in a midfield 2 with no one in front of him? Silva & KdB as wingers? Seems horrible to me, we've tried it recently & it's been awful. No width, no tracking back & no cover for CB's or FB's. Doesn't work for me - surprised people would want this after recent showings with similar formations...

Seen a few people say this. Not trying to shoot you down but I'm curious as to what 4-4-2 starting 11 either of you would go for that fits with our squad?

I'd agree, if we were to play a 442 or 4411 as you wrote it that would be way to go (Navas only though, not KdB). Won't happen though, roughly 0% chance of us having a starting 11 without Toure, let alone one without Toure, Silva & KdB!

Still doesn't fit Yaya, KdB, Silva & Sterling into the team :-P. Personally don't like Silva on the wing, even less so than KdB so would prefer them switched; but agree with the general concept of trying Sterling on the right, if he could do a Navas-esque job but with more end product then he'd...

Yeah that was my point, it's tough, or almost impossible to fit our best players into a 4-4-2 without it being a mess. If we play 4-4-2 for me it has to be: Aguero Iheanacho Sterling Delph Dinho Navas Which then means Yaya, Silva & KdB don't play. Not exactly going to happen.

Don't think that solves much for me, we know Toure can play that role well, why swap him to KdB? Would have the exact same problems as Yaya does in that position but without the physicality bonus. It's tough to fit Sterling, Silva, KdB & Toure into a team without it being unbalanced in the...

Unfortunately this is true. He'd be a great asset off the bench, or playing just 60 minutes at full throttle before being replaced - sadly there's no chance of him accepting this role; pretty sure he threw a strop when being removed in the 89th minute not long back. He's not a twice a week 90...

Problem is we need width. Often Pellers is playing Silva LW & KdB RW, neither are naturally wide players. Sterling also cuts in from the left. Our only player who provides width is Navas. For me to fit them both in you'd have to go KdB left, Silva central & Navas right; unless Sterling is...

Name the first 11 you'd want to see? Not being funny, just curious as to how you'd sort us out into a 4-4-2. Don't see how we'd do it myself.

Whilst I'm in agreement with you about conspiracy theories being nonsense & those stats certainly show the pattern you'd expect to see given how we play - I'm sure on one of the paranoid threads there were stats banging around that we were & have been for a while one of, if not the least fouled...

Or outside the box.

I've complained about us using 442, and the complaints weren't to do with us playing 442. It's to do with when we play 442 with our usual players it ends up with Sterling as a 2nd striker (better on the wing for me), Silva as a LW (clearly best at CAM), KdB as a RW (best at CAM for me) & Yaya in...

You mean playing wingers on the wing is a good idea?!? Line up today was great, almost everyone in their natural positions. We have a good squad, we don't need to shoehorn our "star" players into every starting 11, it's clear we're better off with a balanced 11 (unsurprisingly).

Can't say I saw any of it but sounds like we were very good. Been banging on the past few days about playing players in the right position, and starting Navas - saw the lineup & was very pleased to see just that. Be interesting to see if we immediately switch back to playing everyone out of...

Haha I read earlier that Aubameyang had won & my first thought was that Yaya would probably have a nice rant about that. Low and behold I get back & he's done just that in what appears a fairly ungracious way. I think you need a level of arrogance to be one of the best in the world...