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For our team to really turn a corner our midfield should be Close, Rowe & Galbraith.
He is playing in a deep lying role linking play, so he is going to look unspectacular. He can’t give the ball to people further forward if they don’t make runs.He is used to playing with higher standard players, they need to adapt to him not him to them, to get the best from him.He could do a bit more off the ball though.
He is playing in a deep lying role linking play, so he is going to look unspectacular. He can%u2019t give the ball to people further forward if they don%u2019t make runs.He is used to playing with higher standard players, they need to adapt to him not him to them, to get the best from him.He could do a bit more off the ball though.
Quote from: Sammy Chung was King on November 22, 2021, 10:05:10 amHe is playing in a deep lying role linking play, so he is going to look unspectacular. He can%u2019t give the ball to people further forward if they don%u2019t make runs.He is used to playing with higher standard players, they need to adapt to him not him to them, to get the best from him.He could do a bit more off the ball though.He cannot give them the ball because to do so he needs to play a 30yd pass. He needs to get further forward to be able to feed the front players. From where he plays he is not going to effect the game unless he makes those long ball passes. That is not possible very often. The opposition must love it seeing him stay so deep. Nothing for them to worry about there and it makes our wide players easy to mark because he is not drawing any one out of their defensive positions by making a run further forward and interchanging passes with our other midfielders further up the pitch. I know i keep mentioning Whiteman but that is what he did without compromising his defensive duties. I just do not think Bostock has either the legs to do it or the inclination to do it. One or the other possibly it is both. Just my take on it, others may disagree with me. To me it is as clear as daylight.
I think it depends what we wanna do as to wether have Bozzie on the pitch. If we wanna try control the possession & tempo & nullify the opposition,yes great. When we wanna press on & force the game, then we need more energy in the team. The amount of times on Saturday we had basically a back six (with Galbraith also flanking the centre halves) in possession was ridiculous. Maybe Ethan needs educating or maybe this is where we miss Close but anyone who could play actual centre mid would have been lonely tbf.
We just can’t get a break can we, but at least we’ll see if the midfield improves or gets worse without him
It won’t improve it will get by. The only way to improve the midfield is to sign a good Defensive midfield player at the beginning of January.