1 up front

I think we should try Brendan Rodgers tactics he has used in his last two matches.



----------Gordon---------
-Denayer Van Dijk Mulgrew-
-------Brown Biton--------
Lustig-----------------Izzy
----Commons Johansen----
---------Guidetti--------------

 

We're talking about domestically, no ones daft enough to think we can play 2 strikers up top in Europe..

 

It works if you have the right players.

For us I hate it in the league and the managers stubbornness to change is also annoying

 

And a very good supporting attacking midfield probably the strongest part of real madrid, bayern and chelsea teams. The three best examples of 1 up front.

 

Aye and look at those 3 teams attacking options supporting the lone striker,you cannot even attempt to use them as examples for us :smiley-laughing002:

 

I agree in Europe mate but I don't see the need domestically,we have always played 2 up and if one striker wasn't scoring the other one was,it helps take the burden off a little

 

There examples of the 1 upfront working because of there supporting attacking options.

It doesn't work for us because our supporting attacking options are an injury prone winger thats form changes every single game,Johansen who isnt made out for playing that role yet and a converted striker playing as the other.

If we could get forrest playing a consistent good standard of football ,instead of neymar one game,then not bothering to even move the next.
Johansen to develop further into the new role which he will in time and become a better all round attacker . Then we sign an actual LAM ,like Ibraimi for maribor we should be abke to play the 4-2-3-1 effectively and fluently when going forward.

 

And that's why I said you couldn't use that as an example to us,we simply don't have the players to work with 1 up,therefore we should revert back to 2 strikers especially at home domestically

 

I think people need to get away from the 4-2-3-1 label. Really its not 1 up front but more than often not 3 up top with 1 sitting just behind. Thats not even when you include the over lapping full backs. I think we are just a DM and a proper winger away from getting real good results with this system.

 

2 upfront would help us in the scottish scene no doubts but would do nothing for us except confuse us for the european games

lets hope we gets some good attackers for the 2nd half of the season and maybe a centre half or 2

 

it is the players that are the problem . When you have tonev , forrest , mcgregor or wakaso to choose from on the wings you have major problems , none of them boys can deliver consistent performances . Two are loan players , one is a crock and the other is a youngster . Then the fact we do not have a proven CM to partner scott brown; people have genuinely forgotten how bad the squad has become , shipped out bags of talent and never replaced it .

We need Guidetti , johansen , brown , commons and izzaguirre to have blinders in order for us to look convincing . When them boys do not perform we are a shambles .

 

It's a * excellent formation if done properly. We are nowhere near doing it properly though, we need two up top for me.

 

The past month or so, we have been creating more than enough chances in games, and Sunday was no different. We had enough chances to win the game comfortably. The formation isn't the problem, our inability to convert our chances was always going to come back and bite us at some point, and it did so on Sunday. We could have been punished in the midweek game against Partick, and also Motherwell after we failed to kill the game off.

 

I hope we stick with it even though it is frustrating at times. I think the whole idea of playing the formation domestically is to breed a style of play that brings us success in Europe. We need to stick with it. Can't ask the players to change their entire game every time a European night rolls around. Hopefully we will be much better prepared for the qualifiers by sticking to this formation year round.

 

Man United under Alex Ferguson.

I think any team that can't adapt their formation to certain games, especially when it's us going from teams we are so much better than to teams that are so much better than us, are doomed to failure.

You need a bit of flexibility, imagine if we got into the Champions League and got Real, keeping Van Dijk sprinting up the field so he's on the edge of the box? It would be absolute suicide. You need to adapt to teams you are playing.