defensi is doing it's job, 1 per game is pretty good...its at the attacking part we need to secure, this for begins in the midfield - we currently rely on Brown and lia to drive the middle - one goes missing far too regularly the other has the touch of an elephant, how can Sanchez, Ifill, greenie be expected to score goals when the likes of Bertos, broan and Lia can't keep the ball long enough to get it into the attacking areas. Satsistcally we also get a lot of balls intot he penalty box, but we only ever have 1 on no players there to receive them. The likes of Brown should be in there regularly.
Well, I think since we have signed Sanchez and Manny has been playing at RB, Brown has been playing deeper than the past couple of seasons and might not have as much freedom to get into the box. We also rely on him more as midfielder to link defence to attack, which I think there are others in the squad more adept at this.
I thought Lia had a really good first half, I don't think he turned over possession once and passed the ball really well. Miller and Hughes were starting to put more pressure on him as the game went on, basically take Lia out of the game and our defence can only go long or down the line.
If we are going to rely on Brown getting into the box, IMHO, we will need to have someone next to Lia to allow Brown to stay further forward. Or, what I would like to see, a better distributor of the ball than Brown alongside Lia.
