by DiamondGooner » Fri May 03, 2019 9:45 am
My one criticism is he needs to drive forward more with the ball then lay it off.
A number of times yesterday he had the ball, panned the horizon and both Laca and Auba (for some reason) were static with a defender on their back so no good passes were on.
Firstly if this happens he should go forward with the ball like Kolasinac does because that then draws defenders and you can flick the ball off when the attackers get open, 2nd as I mentioned in the Unai thread in those situations when there's no movement up front he could really use a Ramsey running in from behind from Midfield as the extra man to lay the ball off to.
Other than that its another example of AOL plus the 3-4-1-2 is the thing that's working for us as when it is static for us up front the Wing backs are running the overlap as an out ball, even if we lost with it once it doesn't change the fact that we can't even win playing 4-4-2 or even the 4-3-3 at the moment.
Mkhi was also a decent sub to inject some fresh pace and change the look of the CAM position for the last 15mins.