1 up front at home

[72bus]

why is sparky playing only one up front at home , lets face it we were playing swansea. this bloke takes no blame what so ever for his poor tactics . swans just knocked the ball about with ease at the back. couldnt he see that and put on johnson or BZ to help the woeful cisse . playing mediocre teams pre season obviously didnt show him how bad we are in defence, whats he doing all week on the training field we had 3 or 4 good chances in the 1st half but hoilett and diakete didnt even hit the target and mackies shot was tame to say the least, but worst of all was taarbt

[SammyKojoe]

Feel sorry for Cisse. He is not a lone frontman. You cannot play the ball into him with his back to goal. That is a Zamora role. He needs the ball in front of him to run onto which in that formation he will not get. Plus he gets no service from Mackie. He needs to play upfront with Zamora and feed off him.

[72bus]

some fair points but cisse is a premiership player and must learn to play in whatever formation sparky puts out , his ball control today was off and he ran into trouble every time but i dont blame him , the fault lies with hughes for not having enough about him to change it

[paulmason]

He was playing one up front to allow Adel to play behind Cisse. After today, I think we wont see that again for a while.

[Rich]

Taarabt played behind park and diakite not cisse

[QprSinceBirth]

Personally if taraabt can learn the role he was meant to play today well yeah we would have been better off. Instead Tarbs was everywhere lol

[w12dave]

ah well let face it we tend to win games we expect to lose and when we think we gonna win, we end up losing .

bring on the top teams

[paulmason]

Taarabt played behind park and diakite not cisse

Wow, how many beers did you have ?

[Ric-Roc]

Tbf I think he was hoping with the attacking threat of Cisse, Taarabt, Hoilett & Mackie would be enough but as it turned out it didn't work.

Why wait until 60 mins to make a sub though? And then put swp right back?!

Swansea defence had the easiest day they'll ever have. Needed a Zamora presence in there to bully them a little bit.

[NW9_RANGER]

Wow, how many beers did you have ?

funny thing was a lot of the time he picked the ball up he was behind park and diakite. totally dont understand who's fault that was. Hughes bad tactics or Taarabt misunderstanding of where he should have been playing. way too deep

[QprSinceBirth]

funny thing was a lot of the time he picked the ball up he was behind park and diakite. totally dont understand who's fault that was. Hughes bad tactics or Taarabt misunderstanding of where he should have been playing. way too deep

Taraabt misunderstanding I think his role would have been literally just behind the striker. To many times cisse was left alone when I feel taraabt should have been up there with him.

[QPRDave]

Tbf I think he was hoping with the attacking threat of Cisse, Taarabt, Hoilett & Mackie would be enough but as it turned out it didn't work.

Why wait until 60 mins to make a sub though? And then put swp right back?!

Swansea defence had the easiest day they'll ever have. Needed a Zamora presence in there to bully them a little bit.

Agree let's hope this Mbia or another CB is coming

[Fez]

Zamora must have still be feeling his injury otherwise no reason why he wouldn't have brought him on today! I thought bringing SWP and going to 3 at the back when we went 3-0 down when Andy Johnson was on the bench was absolutely mental!

[Hitman34]

why is sparky playing only one up front at home , lets face it we were playing swansea. this bloke takes no blame what so ever for his poor tactics . swans just knocked the ball about with ease at the back. couldnt he see that and put on johnson or BZ to help the woeful cisse . playing mediocre teams pre season obviously didnt show him how bad we are in defence, whats he doing all week on the training field we had 3 or 4 good chances in the 1st half but hoilett and diakete didnt even hit the target and mackies shot was tame to say the least, but worst of all was taarbt

to be honest mate, alot of us before kick off chose the 4-2-3-1 as the best formation as swansea love to flood the midfield. what cost us the game was a lack of effort from some players and a lack of ability from the keeper.

[Hitman34]

but as people say obove. best player for a 1 up front would be big bobby z. he is a beast at holding up the ball and laying it off to on coming midfielders. (just have to look at the aresnal-tottenham-stoke games)

just a shame that he was carrying an injury.

pretty obvious though that we have all wittnesed two mark hughes mistakes.

those being signing green and sellin HH.