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Originally Posted by
zahedika
As a whole BHA defends too deep and too passive (falls back into defensive shape as a whole with not even one player pressuring at the opponents point of attack).
A lot of teams do a great to fairly decent job of controlling the midfield with 3 players. In many of those, there is a forward that drops to help the middle and then move up to the middle of the front line. Murray is not that and I do not know who in BHA is. The 4-3-3 that CH has a fetish for would do great with a forward like that. In other systems, the wings drop back and 2 of the middle 3 drop to a more defensive positions with CAM staying up in a 3 man midfield line. So CH has options but he needs to be a bit more of a manager and less of a trainer.
The balls played through the center if not long, are usually stuck in the midfield and take the speed out of the attack. This is because Bissouma gets the ball and takes a long time to figure out what is going on, and by then he is closed down and loses the ball (may be he is not Gross). The other two midfielders really seem like D-mids w/o much vision or creativity (clones of each other), at least from what I have seen. I love to see Kayal replace Stephens or Proper. In couple of games that I have seen him, he seems to bring more energy and movement to the midfield.
The center backs are usually left hanging and forward line is not served because of terrible midfield play.
The overlap/exchange play between the wings and their side's full backs (Bernardo and Montoya) are good when the ball is moved up the flanks, which is much quicker than centrally played balls. I am not sure what happened to Solly March but he has been regressing, but AC and AR seem to do and adequate job given their defensive duties and lack of MF support.
The games I saw Bong play, he really scared me because of his lack of soccer common sense. Bruno is good if you want a stay at home back, where he does not have to do a lot of recovery work.
On crosses, there is very little movement to the ball, to open space or to space by the center forward, opposite side winger or trailing MF. It is like playing Irish style, find the tall guy, have him stand in the middle of the box and try to bounce the ball off his head and hope for the best.
I am not as familiar with Pascal Gross as with the current midfield line up, but I think Bissouma is supposed to be the replacement creative midfielder. Problem with Bissouma is as I said above. I truly wished BHA had bought Thomas Delaney as opposed to Bissouma and AJ if they were looking for quick results; however, I am sure that if not both at least AJ will pan out in the long term (much better next season and very solid from there).
Lets just hope BHA does not drop.
I'm not about to disagree wholeheartedly, just fill in a few gaps:
Pascal Groß has immense stamina and covers a lot of ground. Outside of the top six clubs he was involved in more goals than any other PL player last season. And covers the most ground as well.
Bruno can read the game better, does not go AWOL and shows more composure on the ball than anyone else.
Kayal has a a little burst of speed but he goes not get involved in hardly any goals.
Knockaert and March are very left footed making it easier for defenders as they are reluctant to use their weaker foot with good reason. They are overachieving this season. Bissouma is more promising.
I'm not against Bong as he can at least spot the runs of opposing forwards.
Dale Stephens and Davy Pröpper are identical in style slowish defensive midfielders. (Thomas Delaney wanted to go to Germany.)
Montoya is good at interceptions and not big enough for a far post crosses.
On form and fully fit, I would tend to play just the one winger:
Ryan
Bruno Duffy Dunk Bong
Groß Stephens Pröpper Izquierdo
Locadia Andone
but against the top 6 and away, I would tend to leave Izquierdo on the bench with Bissouma, Montoya and Bernardo all in contention.
i would go for a left-sided midfielder as a big money purchase, in the unlikely event one wold become available.
