I agree to an extent , obviously they don’t follow him around, however it does affect the oppositions positioning on the pitch, and phase two of play etc
I don't really understand the move from inverted wide forwards to more conventional wide ones against Brentford. I hope it's something Lage thought he could take advantage of in that game rather than something more permanent. Both Adama and Trincao looked more effective coming from the other side
The answer both yourself and PK, our squad personel isn’t currently set up to play with an out and out winger. It worked 2 years a go with Raul and Traore linking up well, but when that partnership isn’t working well we don’t have much else. For that to work, you’d want the left winger to be able to attack the box and to have a box to box midfielder arriving into the box. If we’re playing neves and mout neither of them do that, and on the left trincao and Podence most certainly don’t. Not seen enough of hwang.
That's not the only game we've done it in, though, I'm sure we did the same against Spurs and Watford. Started with Trincao right and Adama left, then flipped them at halftime.
We didn't flip them against Brentford though started there and stayed there until Bruno went all Keagan in the last 15 mins and Trincao played wherever he was supposed to be on the left
More likely me...I'm older
Must be my memory as I thought we started with Trincao on the right.
I'm not sure they're obsessed with crossing, just that they're both struggling to create the overloads in wide areas needed to work the ball into a shooting opportunity so we revert to crossing when our options run out.
When everyone’s fit we will have
Missed Neto out for the left side....
Sorry, meant to include him on the right as he’s left footed, but yes.
