Yep if you're inverted wingers are in form, you've suddenly got 3 potential 'strikers' for want of a better word. We don't really a single player knocking them in reliably.
Inverted wingers
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jay_mcfc
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Sterling’s best scoring form has always come from cutting in off the left, Mahrez too. But they’ve both lost the ability to beat a man regularly and their final ball/shot is appalling unless they’re up against cannon fodder.
Don’t worry though, big bad Pep and his new found toughness will definitely drop them for a few games and call them out in the press.
Eric Hitchmough
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Fed up with the inverted wingers. Time to try something else. Foden and Torres in for Sterling (hugely out of form) and Mahrez (flat track bully) please.
blueyorkie
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I’ve been banging on about this for a long time, at a time when we need width against teams that sit deep I don’t understand why we would narrow the space by the wide men cutting inside all the time. Natural sides and we stretch the opposition and gaps appear. The only time inversion works is with two overlapping full backs. I had the chance to ask one if our wingers a question and I chose this. I asked him which side he preferred to play in, he said he liked cutting in but playing natural sided is better for the team
Nuff said, end of, that's it.
Yep. Second arrow a cut back or low driven cross to opposite winger running in for a tap in. Remember that?Exactly. Two inverted wide players on the same side makes it incredibly narrow and predictable.
But he also scored taps when coming in from the right to meet Sane's low centre. It's about the team.
Blue and still suffering
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Agree entirely
Been saying this for weeks
My theory is that the inverted wingers is a result of losing David Silva.
Pep doesn't think Foden can operate in this role because he's too dynamic, and doesn't control the tempo well enough in the final third.
So his "work around" is to give KdB freedom to play higher and do damage in the final third, instead of his RCM role where he was typically deeper, and to use inverted wingers to rotationally play the "David Silva role", with Jesus doing the same he always does.
There is merit to the idea, if he believes David Silva is so necessary to his 433 style, then he picked a formation that "in theory" suits the forwards play styles, Mahrez, Bernardo, Sterling and Foden all like to play "inside" and not wide.
The problem is that
1) Sterling doesn't have any creativity for this role on the left, unlike Mahrez or Foden, and doesn't release (or pass) the ball quick enough.
2) Mahrez looks good in some games and not in others (need consistency), at the very least he is passing more and his creativity is top notch. I don't consider the current Mahrez much of a problem tbh.
3) KdB isn't scoring any of the chances he's getting.
2 Solutions from my perspective:
1) Play Foden in KdB's role as the 10, he can create and finish fairly well. Perhaps Mahrez here also. Then drop KdB into one of the 2 holding midfield positions, he can still create from deep better than anybody in the world.
Then play Ferran LW and Sterling ST (to rotate Jesus).
2) Just play Foden in the LCM 433 role and let him master it with game time. That way KdB is also playing deeper (perhaps better than as the 10 imo), and the wingers stay wide. The wingers may not prefer that, perhaps why the 4231 is being used, but if it works it works.
Pep doesn't think Foden can operate in this role because he's too dynamic, and doesn't control the tempo well enough in the final third.
So his "work around" is to give KdB freedom to play higher and do damage in the final third, instead of his RCM role where he was typically deeper, and to use inverted wingers to rotationally play the "David Silva role", with Jesus doing the same he always does.
There is merit to the idea, if he believes David Silva is so necessary to his 433 style, then he picked a formation that "in theory" suits the forwards play styles, Mahrez, Bernardo, Sterling and Foden all like to play "inside" and not wide.
The problem is that
1) Sterling doesn't have any creativity for this role on the left, unlike Mahrez or Foden, and doesn't release (or pass) the ball quick enough.
2) Mahrez looks good in some games and not in others (need consistency), at the very least he is passing more and his creativity is top notch. I don't consider the current Mahrez much of a problem tbh.
3) KdB isn't scoring any of the chances he's getting.
2 Solutions from my perspective:
1) Play Foden in KdB's role as the 10, he can create and finish fairly well. Perhaps Mahrez here also. Then drop KdB into one of the 2 holding midfield positions, he can still create from deep better than anybody in the world.
Then play Ferran LW and Sterling ST (to rotate Jesus).
2) Just play Foden in the LCM 433 role and let him master it with game time. That way KdB is also playing deeper (perhaps better than as the 10 imo), and the wingers stay wide. The wingers may not prefer that, perhaps why the 4231 is being used, but if it works it works.