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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Oct 28, 2020 10:07:52 GMT
I could see what he was trying to do last night - it wasn't a million miles away from the kind of team that got results against Wolves and Villa. On paper, it had the legs to do something on the break. I think (hope) he'll have learned a lot from last night - he probably didn't do Tymon and TOB any favours by starting them together in midfield, though it's commendable that he wanted to look at it at least. Likewise I think he'll know now that his 'second string' front three isn't it and that he can't really leave out all of Tyrese, Powell and Fletcher and hope to cause teams problems. In any given season you'll get games like last night where the players aren't at it and the manager gambles and it doesn't pay off.
I'm more worried about our approach to winnable games at home. I'm hoping Saturday was the start of things starting to click and that it wasn't just the Rowetty false dawn of us looking better against teams who attack us and let us counter. Hopefully we'll include players who can make things happen in the final third and can unpick locks (I really hope Powell isn't being phased out ahead of his contract running down) and we can have the same energy and verve that we showed against Brentford. Fail to create much, in the same way we struggled against Barnsley, Birmingham and Bristol City at home, and the evidence against the system will really start to look compelling.
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