Quote Originally Posted by whitestomper45 View Post
A mixed bag, agree mostly with Hopey and Norfolk.

I felt we looked more like a PL team (albeit with not much bite) but better defensively., always a good sign of a good manager's early impact. Rutter's header was brilliant as was a run in penalty box, It's not his fault re price tag or the fact we bought someone who isnt an out and out CF (Orta?). Yes midfield hit and miss. with poor distribution, something Firpo suffers with too (although he is starting to improve slowly)
We missed Wober, who looks a good CB.

Not sure what the coach can do upfront apart from playing 2 upfront or 4-4-1-1 Bamford has looked a spent force.
Working alongside folks from all over Europe most are avid followers of PL as well as teams from their own country & views are uttered often on tactics in operation of the better teams who seem to use 2 up front - which I've often stated we need before.

Maybe it's time to stop playing with lone striker up front malarkey.

Been doing it since circa Chris Woods - nobody been really dynamic in the role & Bamford up top ain't the answer now. Possibly why a lot of Leeds youth number 9's have struggled to adapt to the lone striker role as they've become separated from others in the team whilst struggling in playing that role.

I've recently watched Nantes playing in their French Ligue 1 games & also against Juventus & all teams I've seen basically play a 4-4-2 variant of the 4-2-3-1 by utilising the second striker slightly behind his partner to great effect.

Biggest drawback to using 'one up front' is you always need the right personnel as goals are hard to come by & teams now can easily mark the lone-striker out leaving the attack responsibility up to the rest of the creative players which at Leeds has been the issue for a while goal wise big time without Rodrigo.

Most top teams now play 2 up top, players at PSG are now playing 3 up top & hopefully JG can find the right combo to fit his obviously implemented improvements so far seen to get a 2 up top attack.

Given that in our last 4 matches we've scored 1 goal by Firpo I'd suspect JG will be implementing for more bodies in the box & getting more shots on goal like Fulham, who are encouraged & prepared to shoot while running into the box areas, as did Firpo against the Saints for us.