Tactics for next year and the sacrifice of David Silva

franksinatra said:
One of the main reasons we have fallen behind in the race for the championship is our inability to score resulting in defeats to the like of Everton, Sunderland and draws at places like QPR, West Ham, and Chelsea.

Consistently these teams have defended deep, with the lack of width in the side resulting in continual failed attempts to play through the middle of these sides particularly away from home rather than the wide open spaces of Eastland’s.

By playing Silva and two strikers we seem straight jacketed in the way we play as he will never be the type of player to hog the touchline, continually moving inside resulting in even less spaces in central areas and even less width in the side.

Arsenal and Chelsea generally operate with one striker a player of David Silva's ilk in the space behind and the width operated by the Hazards and Walcott’s of this world. My concern is if we employed this formation Silva would not contribute the goals of a Mata or Cazorla and so the problem of failing to score would be exacerbated.

Therefore my question would be should we gamble in the transfer window on losing a fantastic player like David Silva next year, whose form has admittedly dipped over the past year and recoup a decent fee enabling us to buy one or two top class player and play two wingers to provide the width, operate one striker with David Silva in the space behind or purchase one winger and lose a Nasri or Milner?

The context of the thread is not to criticise David Silva but to debate the way we play as it seems consistently we struggle to score away from home and the tactics and personnel seem a large part of this.
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Have you noticed Arsenal and Chelsea are behind us?
 
geoff hammond said:
David Silva is a world class player.



Ha ha Silva world class u r havin a laugh tell me which games u think he as played well in this season
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Have to feel for Silva. He is our only true play maker. Yes he should score more goals so should our strikers. But when you look at the mentality of our manager. We are on a good run so he changes to a back 3. We are losing a game so he puts another defender on. He should have invested in another Silva style player & a striker last summer. But look what he bought an injury prone lad & a 2nd rated winger. Let Silva go & we are taking a step back like we already have this season. 1 or 2 injuries & we are lost. Silva is class bring in support for him not get rid.
 
inbetween said:
Might as well sack Mancini as well, get Joe Royle in and go back to being shite, there is a recurring theme with teams that play the 'winger' mentality.

Barcelona, Real Madrid, Chelsea, PSG, Juventus, Napoli, Malaga, Athletico, Milan all manage without wingers.
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Whatever you are smoking hand some over.
 
franksinatra said:
One of the main reasons we have fallen behind in the race for the championship is our inability to score resulting in defeats to the like of Everton, Sunderland and draws at places like QPR, West Ham, and Chelsea.

Consistently these teams have defended deep, with the lack of width in the side resulting in continual failed attempts to play through the middle of these sides particularly away from home rather than the wide open spaces of Eastland’s.

By playing Silva and two strikers we seem straight jacketed in the way we play as he will never be the type of player to hog the touchline, continually moving inside resulting in even less spaces in central areas and even less width in the side.

Arsenal and Chelsea generally operate with one striker a player of David Silva's ilk in the space behind and the width operated by the Hazards and Walcott’s of this world. My concern is if we employed this formation Silva would not contribute the goals of a Mata or Cazorla and so the problem of failing to score would be exacerbated.

Therefore my question would be should we gamble in the transfer window on losing a fantastic player like David Silva next year, whose form has admittedly dipped over the past year and recoup a decent fee enabling us to buy one or two top class player and play two wingers to provide the width, operate one striker with David Silva in the space behind or purchase one winger and lose a Nasri or Milner?

The context of the thread is not to criticise David Silva but to debate the way we play as it seems consistently we struggle to score away from home and the tactics and personnel seem a large part of this.
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persinally showing some balls hunger desire and working as hard as Everton today would suffice eveything else follows
 
Jack74 said:
geoff hammond said:
David Silva is a world class player.



Ha ha Silva world class u r havin a laugh tell me which games u think he as played well in this season
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Ok jack. You have your opinion.

the 80000 Real Madrid fans who gave him a standing ovation have theirs.
 
The op mentions the wide open spaces of Eastlands compared to certain away grounds but the little publicised fact is that this season all Prem pitches are the same size. This is probably due to the obvious disgraceful manipulation by Stoke last season.
 
No way should we ever sacrifice silva, if anything we need the adjust the play style of the whole team. The few games where we employed the 4-5-1 with just one central striker and Rodwell/Yaya as the CAM, we played some of our best football, which can be seen by the dominance of the Chelsea match.
 
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