Originally Posted by
pgbluebird
The Betis friendly and system makes you think we might go 5-2-3 vs Bournemouth, another team who will attack and keep the ball. Thats a dangerous way to play but you'd think it might work against lower quality opposition - we cant afford to play it vs lfc, man city tho imo.
I really think we can beat Bournemouth, but defensively obviously we must improve. In the first half it seems Sol was playing a role similar to Dier for Spurs and Medel for Chile, moving into midfield on the ball, but we really struggled to play that way as he was being pushed deeper due to our man marking. In the second half he seemed to stay deep.
We should start with a back five of peltier(not really fussed who starts there, expect him to trust Pelts though) Moz, Sol, Bruno, Bennett. Really excited to see Manga step up, looked brilliant yesterday, hasn't had the easiest of times in the Champ really.
Even if we do sign a midfielder, it seems that Pato n Ralls will start. Pato will do what he does, and he'll beef up the midfield. Desperate for a proper midfielder to play alongside Ralls, as Pato isn't as effective in a deeper role.
Will be interesting to see who starts up top. I'd really like to see Zohore start but if we play 5 at the back its quite difficult to see how he starts really. Think Ken could really bully Ake, but one things for sure, our front three looked brilliant yesterday, we'll hurt teams with that much pace up top.
Can't wait.