A vital two games in 5 days starts tomorrow, 6 points are a must if we really fancy our chances of competing right at the top of the table.
Ordinarily, and with the talent we have at our disposal, you would expect nothing less than two comprehensive victories against Villa and Blackpool; recently though it appears that we perform much better away from home.
I know there is the "teams parking the bus" theory however that doesn't come in the slightest of surprises, and nor should it to Bob, so it is down to us to counteract this and come up with different ideas.
Our home games this season:
Liverpool 3-0 Good dominant display.
Blackburn 1-1 Should have had sackful, mistake gifts them a point.
Chelsea 1-0 Good solid display although didn't create much.
Newcastle 2-1 Pretty lucky to come away with 3 points, average.
Arsenal 0-3 No chance after sending off, battled well.
Scum 0-0 Played for point, got point, solid display.
Birmingham 0-0 Loads of chances, should have won.
Bolton 1-0 Loads of chances, should have had sackful.
Everton 1-2 Poor start costs us, loads of chances, shit result.
Not the best set of results/performances when you consider where we are at in our development.
Personally, if Bob is to stick with his 4-2-3-1 formation, then I can only perceive that the main option open to us at home is to play Silva in the hole behind Carlos so that we can accomodate AJ.
Of course it would mean that one of the midfield trio of NDJ, Barry or Yaya has to sit out but surely 2 of these 3 (or Milner plus one of them) is all we require at home?
I have aired my views on us playing 4-4-2 at home previously but wondered what everyone else out there thinks we could do in order to step up the home form?
