kenzie115 said:
Didn’t see the match but watched a 5 minute highlight video last night, usually you get a bit of the match in 5 minutes but this was just goal, replay, goal, replay and so on. Could anyone that did watch the match tell me, did we set up, particularly in the first half, 4-2-2-2 with Silva left and Jovetic just behind Dzeko or 4-2-3-1 with Silva central and Jovetic left?
---------- Fernandinho --------- Yaya -----------------
Navas ------------------------------------------- Silva –
-------------------------------- Jovetic ------------------
---------------- Dzeko -----------------------------------
Or....No, it was AND, because we did BOTH of these in the first half, and more!!
---------- Fernandinho --------- Yaya -----------------
Navas ------------------- Silva ----------------- Jovetic
-------------------------- Dzeko --------------------------
We set up as a loose 4-4-2 when Silva and Navas were outside, transitioning to more of a 4-2-1-3 and even a 4-1-1-4 at times. Silva was all over the place in the first half, and when he came inside, Jovetic drifted out to the left, as you saw from Kolarov's goal he set up, and his positioning for Silva's goal, which he also set up!
Assists were from Jovetic (Silva), Fernandinho (Richards), Jovetic (Kolarov), Navas (Dzeko) and Yaya (Dzeko)!
Not bad, eh! 3 new signings = 4 assists, and other new signing hit the crossbar with a rasping shot from the edge of the bow, all with a disjointed "B" team on the pitch and the game dying a slow death.
However, when we lose the ball, THAT is where the BIG difference comes in, because we go to a 4-6, where all 6 players are hunting the ball down to force a mistake and transition back to attack.