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I know people hate data but it’s showing we’re performing as bad as we have all season in the last 3 games Really need to get the performances back on track

Only problem with this is only two in the middle. We’ll get completely overrun in midfield.

There must be a part of Frank that is thinking the more he plays the quicker he can get rid of his rustiness, as he’s a top 5 championship player when he’s on it Unfortunately in the proceeding games he’s woeful - was the same at the start of last season

Really concerned about LB now. Don’t think either look capable defensively in a 4. Although the system we’re playing asks a lot of our defenders to win 1-on-1 battles, which they aren’t. Think we need to make games more of a dogfight, like we did at the start of this run. We’re not a team who...

5-3-2 needed away from home

How Wright is still on the pitch is quite wild

Was awful against Oxford as well. We’re fucked if his legs have gone

This is what I’d do too except BTA for Wright as he’s been well off it since coming back. He can stay as impact sub until after the international break when he’s better prepared. Also people forget BTA was good at the start of this run in the 5-3-2 and can definitely do a job for this game

Gonna be interesting to see what Frank does without MvE (and maybe EMC??) - a high line with Lati instead worries me

Lampards system is to play with inverted wingers that come inside to create overloads out wide. The RW also drops into RM without the ball to make it a 4-4-2 shape. Put Wright or EMC on the right wing and you no longer have the natural inversion or the defensive solidity. Not saying it will not...

Has the potential to do so but only if Frank starts shoehorning players out of position to accommodate him (e.g. EMC on the right), which i don't think he will

https://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/dean-austin-position-untenable.165450/page-8#post-3260277 Stand by what I said in this thread while others were throwing toys out the pram. We had to churn an entire squad in 2 years and had only one outfield experienced pro (Bidwell), they were never bad...

He should’ve put Saka on and gone 5-4-1 Lampard recognised this and then used it to close out following games

They were. And look at their form - you really don’t need to be that good in this league.

Will he play for them next season? They’ve new owners who will make a much better fist of trying to stay up, and if you ask their fans he’s not being pulling up trees and they need a replacement whether they’re promoted or not. Smacks of little to no minutes first half of the season followed...

Bloomfield showed at Wycombe that he needs 12 months to get going. Was not a good appointment for a dogfight

For every game to be a “must” win it would mean we’d need 13 wins just to reach the play offs. We lost to Stoke 4-0 in 22/23 leaving us 4 points off play offs with 7 games to go. It was more significant than our game tomorrow but wasn’t a must win

Think that just dispels the myth that getting to the Premier League makes you a profitable business. Every team in the league is still losing money, even the more measured ones.

Now is the time to go to a back 4 then. Perfect timing with a week on the training ground. Need to keep trying to hit the channels and overload them out-wide

Brentford only spent around £30 million on 4 players the first year after promotion, so it can be done. They already had Raya, Pinnock, Norgaard, Janelt, Mbuemo, and Toney in their squad though. Crazy good squad-building in the Championship