Power n Glory wrote:Power n Glory wrote:Highbury Hillbilly wrote:Power n Glory wrote:Not sure what we do with this guy. Awful performance.
The club is full of kids, he has no senior creative midfielders to learn from.
Lacazette is probably a better playmaker than Odegaard at the moment. He could learn a few tricks from him.
Ode needs to learn quickly. I'm just glad we didn't pay a high fee for him.
After seeing how we looked in a 4-4-2/ 4-4-1-1, then seeing how we lost some a bit of our rhythm and conceded once Odegaard was on and playing a 4-2-3-1....I'm not sure where we go with this kid. He definitely needs to hold a bench for a while. Needs to develop physically and be brave enough to find those spaces in the final third and play closer to the attackers, not dropping deep in line with the CM's to pick the ball up from the semi circle.
This is my worry, I think Arteta ideally wants to play 4-2-3-1 with Ode in the 10.
I'd rather we played a flat 4-3-3 with Ode as CM flanked by Partey and Lokonga so he can look up and see 3x attackers in front of him like what Liverpool do with Mane, Jota & Salah.
Then he'll have attacking options, right now he looks up and just see's a marked Auba, that's why he goes sideways and backwards.
The thing is when Laca is in the 10, when he looks up and see's Auba marked he just takes the ball up front himself because he's also a striker, hence why for me its a better balance unless we play 4-3-3 then Ode can fit into midfield.
The whole issue is Arteta favoring a 4-2-3-1 like a tw*t when he doesn't have a sizable target man CF in the team, hence why it doesn't work for the strikers we have.