Amato Turn
Well-Known Member
Yeah I know, I'm a dinosaur.
But this is Scottish Football. It's a league where caveman stuff is still the prevalent norm over fancy foreign notions of tiki-taka and gegenpressing.
For whatever reason it feels like we've been wedded to 4-3-3 for a while now. Going back to 2015 and Mark Warburton really - we're 4 managerial spells down the line since then (Murty, Pedro, Murty again, Gerrard) yet on days like today when it doesn't work, when we huff and puff and can't break down a packed defense it all looks a bit samey.
We're a team who sling in a lot of crosses. Having 2 strikers in the box instead of one might help. It's been years since we've had a strike partnership of note - probably going back to Boyd & Miller first time round or Dado & Novo before that. There's something to be said for having a fully functioning strike partnership, they can push each other, combine with each other and create chances for each other through good link up play.
Right now it feels like we rely too much on our wide players (Tav, Candeias, Middleton) to create chances for one striker (Morelos) to score. Two strikers might share the required goals between them reducing our reliance on Morelos and might change the pattern of play in most of our games. We're quite predictable in how we play.
Any time we've won League titles in recent years (and I acknowledge we had better players then) under Walter, Eck and Dick 4-4-2 was generally our regular formation against the diddies and it was only really in Old Firm/European games where we sometimes felt the need to change that.
But this is Scottish Football. It's a league where caveman stuff is still the prevalent norm over fancy foreign notions of tiki-taka and gegenpressing.
For whatever reason it feels like we've been wedded to 4-3-3 for a while now. Going back to 2015 and Mark Warburton really - we're 4 managerial spells down the line since then (Murty, Pedro, Murty again, Gerrard) yet on days like today when it doesn't work, when we huff and puff and can't break down a packed defense it all looks a bit samey.
We're a team who sling in a lot of crosses. Having 2 strikers in the box instead of one might help. It's been years since we've had a strike partnership of note - probably going back to Boyd & Miller first time round or Dado & Novo before that. There's something to be said for having a fully functioning strike partnership, they can push each other, combine with each other and create chances for each other through good link up play.
Right now it feels like we rely too much on our wide players (Tav, Candeias, Middleton) to create chances for one striker (Morelos) to score. Two strikers might share the required goals between them reducing our reliance on Morelos and might change the pattern of play in most of our games. We're quite predictable in how we play.
Any time we've won League titles in recent years (and I acknowledge we had better players then) under Walter, Eck and Dick 4-4-2 was generally our regular formation against the diddies and it was only really in Old Firm/European games where we sometimes felt the need to change that.