I’m stil not convinced 5 at the back works for us, I mentioned it a couple of games ago, look at all the best teams in the world (not saying we’re anywhere near that of course) hardly any of them play 5 at the back. It’s all 4-3-3 and you have to ask why is that?
Why are Man City and Liverpool and Arsenal and Barcelona and Bayern etc etc all playing with 4 at the back with one central striker? Maybe the best managers have figured out that if you have more defenders than attackers it’s hard to score goals.
I think Robins is a good manager but when it’s not working he never changes it up, that team sheet has been the same old shit every week (bar injuries) and every week it becomes clearer and clearer that it’s not working. The two striker thing isn’t working, the wingbacks can’t ever seem to put a decent cross in, the midfield is slow as fuck, the defenders still can’t defend when there’s 3 of them there. It’s getting beyond a joke now, there’s only so many weeks you can go on saying “give it time to gel” before it sounds like you’ve ran out of ideas.
The team sheet needs starting again and we need to seriously look at what our play style is because atm it’s score one weird, dodgy goal, try to hang on to a lead and then inevitably concede. Really really pissed off with that whole performance, even if we would have won 1-0 it wouldn’t have been anything to cheer about, it’s frankly embarrassing.