Quote Originally Posted by TheDeeDon View Post
I've constantly said most of our faults stem from our midfield and attacking play being poor, which puts pressure on our defence and usually leads to mistakes, which results in cheap goals against us.


If our players work as hard as they did last night, we will soon start climbing the league. Having an outlet up front (Lazetic) who can actually hold up the ball and harass defences should also help us. If he can keep up that standard of play he will soon become an asset.

It was nice seeing a bit of aggression from one of our attackers. It's been a while since we have had that.

If we do play five at the back, we need better wing backs. Devlin can't put in that level of shift every game and not sure Jensen is an option either. You need the bravery of a Devlin to push forward. I couldn't see Jensen scoring Devlins goal last night.
Topi did a power of work last night, but he is never going to be a wing back. Is Gyfami or even Frame capable of playing wing back?

I really don't think we are far away from being a good side and I realise I am writing that whilst we are rooted to the bottom of the league.
To me thats the problem with Devlin, he doesnt put in that level of shift every game because if he did then he would never be out of the team.

I think Thelin is basically telling our fullbacks to play as wingbacks in his 4231 system anyway so if we play with 3 centre backs then we have extra security when the fullbacks/wingbacks are so far up the pitch.

I think if we have 3 midfielders instead of the 2 holding midfielders that also stops us being overran in midfield.

One of the issues we have with last nights formation is there is no room for 2 wingers so you are going to have 2 or 3 wingers sitting on the bench unless they get played as wingbacks.