Which team to do the job against cov?

[Rebel]

No Guly and no De Ridder - keep them on the bench.

 

Davis

 

Fraser. Fonte. Hooiveld. Fox.

 

Cork. Morgan. Hammond. Lallana.

 

Sharp. Lambert.

 

 

 

With Butterfield, Guly, De Ridder, Harding and Barnard on the bench.

 

The defence needs protecting at the moment - both the full backs and the centre backs. We should play the diamond with Lallana in the whole and Hammond at the base. Hammond can protect the centre backs and Cork and Morgan the full backs. If Fraser and Fox get froward and overlap, giving us some width both Cork and Morgan will have to drop back and cover the wholes.

 

Lambert can drift left leaving space for Lallana to run at them.

 

De Ridder has pace but no end product and seems to run out of steam after 10 minutes so he's much better from the bench. Guly fails to track back or close down so can really only play upfront - so we should only bring him on to replace one of the front two - and make use of his height. Although Barnard would be ahead of him in the queue for me.

 

Butterfield and Harding can both play in midfield if needed.

 

I hope we don't bring Guly on in midfield or Harding on at left back as that always seems to turn a victory into a draw or loss.

 

We really lack strength in depth with Chaplow and Tandanari injured - And apart from De Ridder we have no real pace in the team. We are short of 2 if not 3 wingers and a big centre forward to lead the line and/or provide cover for Lambert. If the opposition defence get the measure of Lambert in the air we seembto run out of ideas - and when under pressure we have no out ball as we dont really have any other players up front who are good in the air or wingers who hug the touchline.

Edited 24 April, 2012 by Rebel