martinb wrote:coochiee wrote:I look at how we’ve played in the last two years. And in this warm up period.imanixsupporter wrote:Libby did play a lot of his final season at Empoli up front. He might have better ‘final product’ on average than Old
Much too late for us to try this but I'd like to see Cacace LW and Old LB. Don't think any of our attacking midfielders have really convinced, and I think Cacace could do a really good job further forward.
But the time to try that left field idea was the March window when Cacace was unfortunately still injured. Too late this close to the WC to start a game that way, though Libby could yes push forward maybe when Old is subbed on
If we simply play as we have been we might challenge these teams more than they were expecting, but we won’t get out of the group or win a game. Likely we won’t even score a goal.
Why not cook up a tactical surprise or two? Worst case scenario we lose 4-0 instead of 2-0. Best case we get early scoreboard pressure and who knows?
As well it’s a distraction for the opposition. They expect us to use the left we go right through Payne or through the middle with Bell, Stamenic, McCowatt, Singh…it might give us room to do some of the things we have done well too.
Roll the dice I say. If it pancakes, go conventional for the last two games.
No way do you roll the dice in game 1, after 4 years of working to this moment. It looks on paper the most winnable game
We struggle to bed in established combinations as it is, with our far flung squad getting for 2-3 training sessions max each FIFA window. It’s not the game to risk some of that continuity by Libby’s left wing AWs debut
Yipe we have been struggling to score but we have also very rarely if ever had our best run on 11 all together with a 3 week lead in to build off
I’m optimistic we can find a goal, and it may just take one to get a win or draw. Apparently Iran ain’t really a free scoring side either in big games
I think the tactical surprises could be a late 15 minute FDV left wing cameo or Boxall hurling some long throws into the pen box. Boxy did that very successfully at Minnesota last MLS season
We struggle to bed in established combinations as it is, with our far flung squad getting for 2-3 training sessions max each FIFA window. It’s not the game to risk some of that continuity by Libby’s left wing AWs debut
Yipe we have been struggling to score but we have also very rarely if ever had our best run on 11 all together with a 3 week lead in to build off
I’m optimistic we can find a goal, and it may just take one to get a win or draw. Apparently Iran ain’t really a free scoring side either in big games
I think the tactical surprises could be a late 15 minute FDV left wing cameo or Boxall hurling some long throws into the pen box. Boxy did that very successfully at Minnesota last MLS season