He is playing 1 up front and persisting with it, week after week.
Almost every week now we play well first half and take the foot off the gas in the 2nd half - what does he say to them at half time? Whatever it is, it's not having the desired effect unless it's "sit back and hope you don't concede, don't worry too much about scoring again".
He's certainly not blamelss. Far too cautious in his set up.
So we take a creative player off and put another striker on (or push Ifill fully forward and lose his work rate in the middle of the pitch) and we should start scoring in droves??? You are looking at the same group of players who can't put away the bucket load of chances they are getting now... Start Chen, who do you drop? Bar McKain, that team is the strongest Phoenix team we have.
Until its tried its hard to speculate on how it would go but my gut feeling is that you could play 4-4-2 and get more of the same.
This is the point though, Herbert doesn't try anything different, it's the same every week and so far it's gotten us 1 win in 7 games.
Greenacre is getting nowhere up front on his own, he has nobody to play off and spends most of his day chasing lost causes into the channels which lead to nothing 99 times out of 100. He needs some help up there.
First half today, yes we were better at getting bodies forward and should have scored a couple more, second half, very little happening up front at all forthe most part.
Someone mentioned 3-5-2 on a another thread, perhaps that is worth a go as well?
