- Aug 30, 2010
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Firstly, I expect Eriksen to be off, either now, January or at the end of the season. We'll find it extremely difficult to replace him with a similar player and I think the acquisitions of Ndombele and LoCelso are trying to address this by adopting a different style of play. This was alluded to by some ITK during the transfer window. I think we might adopt a 433 formation or possibly a CM2 in certain games. Ndombele and LoCelso are both much more progressive midfielders than we're used to so I think a CM3 (probably with Winks or Dier in the middle) will give them freedom to get forward.
Our creativity would then be coming from deeper, but also from 2 sources instead of everything being funnelled through the traditional 10 position. This will encourage more width with both TN and GLC also being very adept at finding pinpoint passes between the lines which Son, Dele, Moura and Kane will lap up. I'm also hopeful this might lead to the binning of the narrow diamond formation which just seems to be an experiment that has never really worked.
Our creativity would then be coming from deeper, but also from 2 sources instead of everything being funnelled through the traditional 10 position. This will encourage more width with both TN and GLC also being very adept at finding pinpoint passes between the lines which Son, Dele, Moura and Kane will lap up. I'm also hopeful this might lead to the binning of the narrow diamond formation which just seems to be an experiment that has never really worked.