Our current best 11 and formation is the one we’ve played of late up until the Leverkusen game where it was different.
Donna, Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Nico G, Bernardo, Foden, a right winger, Doku, Haaland.
Our issues stem from the right wing imo. All our play is via Doku on the left. Doku can’t play every three days at the same level, when he drops out we need Marmoush to be bang on it.
On the right, Cherki plays well in certain games where Nunes can provide the width, but this doesn’t work against every team hence Savinho, but Savinho is naff.
Priorities for me:
We need a pacey right winger who can score and beat a man and beat packed defences.
We need a Bernardo type player, who for me has gone under the radar as one of our most important players this season, and towards the end of last season once the system changed. When he plays, he drops deep to receive the ball, allowing the fullbacks to bomb on, he can take the ball in any situation or nook and cranny and keep it, which Reinjders can’t do.
If you look at the heatmap of Bernardo vs Reinjders you start to see why we win when Bernardo plays.
Other than that I think we need a centre half to replace at least Ake, and a right back to rotate with Nunes.
Don’t have to do it all at once but one or two in January, with Rodri returning and we’ll be in a much strong position.
