We are missing him badly, there's no creativity whatsoever in midfield. When Diakite and Park collect the ball they have no options so what do they do? Try to charge forward and do a Mackie and 'run into walls' as some of you say. When Ale is on the ball he can control the tempo of the game and can pick out a pass from anywhere! He also plays it simple, and waits for link up play and does it well (Usually with Taarabt I've noticed). He can defend, attack and score a goal from time to time. Also, when he comes back I am certain that Mackie will be dropped to the bench and Park will replace him on the right side of midfield for...well the rest of the season! We will play 4-2-3-1 with Taarabt behind Cisse... Now alot of you will probably go on about how this clearly didn't work last week against Swansea. The reason for this was that Taarabt kept coming back into the centre of midfield too often because (I think) he was trying to play Ale Faurlin's role by slowing down play and looking for openings in their defence. However this made Cisse isolated...but when Faurlin returns, Taarabt will be able to push up a lot more with Cisse and then it should work.
Our season begins when Ale Faurlin returns, and I think this will be our main starting lineup throughout the season.
-----------------Green--------------
Boswinga--Ferdinand--Nelsen--Fabio
-------------Diakite--Faurlin-----------
---Park---------Taarabt-----Hoilett---
-----------------Cisse----------------
Our season begins when Ale Faurlin returns, and I think this will be our main starting lineup throughout the season.
-----------------Green--------------
Boswinga--Ferdinand--Nelsen--Fabio
-------------Diakite--Faurlin-----------
---Park---------Taarabt-----Hoilett---
-----------------Cisse----------------
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