Quote Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn View Post
I think his physical presence in the box would help us immensely but I think that would be a short term fix rather than needing to adapt how we play.

We need to be far more direct, given the absolute pace merchants we have on the wing I don’t get why we are so reticent to use the long ball…it works for Liverpool.
Not the long ball, except on occasion to mix things up, but the high temp, direct ball which we already know these players are capable of delivering. Right now the passes to the wide men seem to be deliberately played short and to feet (or even behind them) so they always have to start from standing when they want to take on a defender. It pretty much eliminates any pace advantage they might have and gives the defence the time it needs to shut down the routes forward. And Jesus, or Eddie, the supposed strikers, end up square to the wide men rather than trying to make space ahead of tme. A lot of this is also down to Odegard thinking he's some sort of orchestral maestro when in fact he's a bung that guarantees every move breaks down unless one of his 1% moments happens and the highlights reel can sing his praises once more. If this team robbed a bank they'd throw away the safe key and try to pick the lock instead - making sure they spent enough time doing it to guarantee being caught.