Inverted wingers

The inverted wingers isn’t so much the problem, it’s the full backs we play. Cancelo and Mendy work well with inverted wingers because of the overlaps creating space etc. No coincidence Mahrez has played well when cancelo is overlapping.

I can’t understand how Pep doesn’t change this round. If Walker is playing he needs to put a right footer wide right, or make Walker do those overlapping runs rather than the weird thing where he asks Walker to move into the midfield. If we play cancelo at left back, he needs to play Foden/Bernardo.

I honestly think these small changes will make a huge difference to our attacking
 
GAZZA said:
I find it strange that a manager that likes to use the full width of the pitch would use inverted wingers that narrow the pitch by coming back inside. But having said that I think he knows more than me about football and I would take him as our manager over anyone on this forum.
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There will be a really good reason why he is doing it.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
Agreed. There's nothing wrong with inverted wingers if you've got full backs to provide the width. When we were successful using traditional wingers, we had Delph at left back, so we switched them to get width without needing the full backs.
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Yeah same exact reason as to why Mendy never played in the same lineup as Sane as well.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
Criminal isn’t it, one of the first things in junior football you do is practise with your other foot. Mahrez could create so many opportunities trying to make it look like he’s going inside then switch it back the other way. What does he do all week in training, Pep should be going mental at him letting him know that his right foot isn’t just there for standing on.

Inverted wingers works when you do it with speed, hate to say it but Liverpool do it better than us. Then they have the full backs that can go on the outside and deliver a ball. One of our full backs has to stop take a touch and then go at the space the winger was in or take the easy option and pass it to Rodri.
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Yes, I am amazed at how many professionals are so one footed. I used to get guffaws when I was one footed playing park football. I learned after a fashion to use my left, not too difficult. A pro has all week to get his weaker foot up to speed.
 
We won a domestic treble with mainly inverted wingers, so don't think that's the issue.Think it is more of a left back problem.
 
The reverse pass to the overlapping Full Back has been one of our most potent attacking options for almost 10 years (think of the goals at Spurs and United in 2011-12)
The problem now is that despite being faster than Richards, and arguably twice as fast as Zabaleta, we just don't get the same impact when Walker overlaps Mahrez, and the latter actually combines better with De Bruyne.
Similarly, but for different reasons, we can't get the balance right on the other flank, regardless of whether we play Mendy, Zinchenko, or Cancelo, behind Sterling.
We look better defensively with Cancelo, but our attacking moves are too eye-of-a-needle, and complicated
Mendy should be the obvious answer, but I don't think he's ever been right since his first injury, either mentally or physically. He chickened- out of a couple of admittedly hospital passes from a team mate v Fulham, and I honestly think he's scared of getting injured.
Shame, because it was his crosses that destroyed us in Monaco
 
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