27-11-2022, 02:47 PM
(27-11-2022, 01:34 PM)DeepBlue Wrote: He could easily have played 442 with the players available yesterday with Reeco & Curtis (or Koroma) as the wide men, so don't think you can say the change was forced on him.
What worried me was that our defence was so easy to split open on the first half, and only better in the backs to the wall second half becasue of the numbers back there, so I'd think I'd rather see 352 kept as a plan b rather than a plan a, like it was last season.
If we are changing away from 442 I'd rather see a return to 4231 because that gives us the opportunity to play Jacobs effectively if he really is returning to fitness.
I don't know why it has taken so long for him to show a little more flexibility. It's one thing keeping faith in a system or player (e.g. Scarlett) but I think he has a stubborn streak when it comes to decisions. And why wait for Jacobs when we have a fully fit Pigott?